| Hi John, The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has issued a discussion paper proposing to take over the collection of Internet activity data, a task which the Australian Bureau of Statistics said that it would be stopping.
Chinese telecommunications equipment maker Huawei is likely to be allowed to play a role in the rollout of 5G networks in Australia, but will face curbs on provision of equipment for what are deemed sensitive parts of the networks.
Facebook has seen a massive decrease in the number of monthly page visits in the US, falling from 8.5 billion to 4.7 billion in the last two years, according to a study by market research company SimilarWeb.
New Zealand’s competition regulator The Commerce Commission is weighing up whether to approve the proposed acquisition of data encryption hardware and software provider Gemalto in that country by the e-security division of Thales.
Open source software developers in the motion picture and broader media industry now have a natural forum in the Academy Software Foundation, a joint creation of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and The Linux Foundation. And of course, there's plenty more so for all the news visit www.itwire.com.
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