In further evidence of a growing backlash against multinationals shifting taxable income offshore, Facebook and accounting firm Ernst & Young have been accused of providing figures lower by billions of dollars when transferring intangible assets to the social giant's Ireland subsidiary.

Motorola has burst back onto the scene with its new G4 Plus Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow smartphone, packed with higher-end features at great mid-range pricing.

More than 120 D-Link devices, including cameras, are vulnerable to a remote exploit which can lead to takeover by a malicious individual. The initial report about this flaw was made in June by researchers who noticed it in the firmware of the D-Link DCS-930L Network Cloud Camera.

It has been years coming, but Microsoft is finally preparing to release a 64-bit version of Office for Mac. OS X has supported 64-bit executables since 10.5 Leopard (or 10.4 Tiger for command line applications), and has had a 64-bit kernel since 10.6 Snow Leopard.

We have long known that Google collects information on its search and Android users. It is a longstanding joke that Android is a thinly disguised advertising delivery mechanism – why else would Google give it away? Ray Shaw treats us to a weekend tin foil hat read.

According to Oracle, cloud adoption – be it public, private or a hybrid of both – has almost reached the halfway mark in Australia with most major enterprises having a cloud strategy. But too many small to medium enterprises and governments are a long way from even thinking about it.

Hospitality point of sale provider Impos has partnered with Australia’s independent EFTPOS banking provider Tyro to give venues a low-cost, all-in-one solution for sales and payments.

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