British Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has been sacked for leaking information about the UK's policy on Huawei which was decided at a meeting of the country's National Security Council on 23 April.

The American news agency Bloomberg has been caught on the hop again with a technically inaccurate report, this time claiming that Vodafone had found what it called "hidden backdoors" in software that "could have given Huawei unauthorised access to the carrier’s (Vodafone's) fixed-line network in Italy".

The Australian Taxation Office plans to use data matching to crack down on Australians trading in cryptocurrencies and not paying the correct amount of tax.

The Australian arm of Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies has appointed a new chief executive on the same day that it announced it had sales revenue of $735 million in 2018, a 18% increase year-on-year.

The Commonwealth Bank has extended Apple Pay to its business card holders, with the bank saying it had seen a 400% increase in the use of mobile payments after Apple Pay was introduced in January.

Australian businesses were hit by more than 5800 scams in 2018 with scammers taking in excess of $7.2 million from unsuspecting companies through email attacks.

Dell has "completely redesigned" its Lattitude family of notebook computers, Dell vice-president and general manager of commercial mobility products Rahul Tikoo announced at Dell Technologies World on Tuesday.

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