Google has thrown down the gauntlet to Apple launching its two new Pixel phones, replacing the Nexus line, with some super high-end features to tempt as many iOS and other Android users as possible. Telstra and JB Hi-Fi are the Australian launch partners.

The consumer watchdog, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, has blamed the telecommunications industry’s own advertising for contributing to the unrealistic expectations of Internet speeds by consumers.

VoIP and cloud telecommunications services provider MNF Group has inked a virtual mobile network deal with Telstra Wholesale to begin offering mobile services across 3G and 4G networks on its Symbio platform.

All major phone carriers on the east coast of the United States experienced outages of up to 45 minutes beginning at 11am local time on Tuesday (1am AEST Wednesday, according to information from the outage monitoring site, DownDetector.

With gaming console-based VR headsets and technology to account for more than 50% of hardware revenues - more than US$50 billion, they’ll interestingly make up only 27% of shipments as smartphone VR will also grow.

Telstra and Cohda Wireless have "successfully trialled Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) technology over Telstra’s 4G network in South Australia" on the way to V2X tech.

Apparently our garbage bins of data are overflowing because we’re too scared to empty them. At the recent Veritas information management conference, it was revealed that perhaps as much of 60% of unstructured data was redundant, obsolete, and trivial (ROT).

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