Remember when AT&T was broken up in the US? Whether you do, or don’t, AT&T is on the verge of becoming the most powerful telco and media organisation in the world thanks to a massive $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner Inc.

You would not have believed it could happen. IBM invented the forerunner of today’s Wintel PCs. Now one of IBM's vice-presidents, Fletcher Previn, has made the claim that Macs are three times cheaper to own than Windows PCs.

Digital video recorders and security cameras in the main have been used in a gigantic distributed denial of service to disrupt a number of high-profile websites, across the US and other countries around the world.

Horse racing fans who follow links on Google looking for Melbourne Cup news on Fairfax websites this year will be directed to the site of the Sydney Morning Herald, and not The Age, despite the fact that the race is arguably Melbourne's biggest sporting event.

Last week, Channel 7 News reported an iPhone 7 burst into flames in a car under clothes at a beach in Australia. It’s still early days but hopefully Apple is not going to have its own Samsung Note7 moment.

Although 5G is what many are banking on, tough competition from Huawei and Nokia and a post-4G and pre-5G world sees Ericsson making a loss - for now.

The union that represents postal workers has asked Australia Post what steps it has taken to ensure that workers who handle packages containing returned Samsung Galaxy Note7 devices will not be put in harm's way.

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