Taiwan company Foxconn Technology has recorded a 39% drop in profit for the quarter ending September compared to the corresponding period a year ago, a fall that appears to be attributable in part to production difficulties with the iPhone.

New research says Aussies 'have over 30 million spare, unused mobile phones sitting idle in our drawers,' with the number set to soar as 8 million new phones will sell during 2017.

Fake news is fake news wherever it appears. A story published in The Atlantic on Monday afternoon (US time) used selectively edited tweets from WikiLeaks in order to paint the organisation as being pro-Trump and pro-Russia.

Data centre and cloud services provider, iseek Communications, is partnership with Schneider Electric and Optus to build a new energy-efficient Tier 3 managed data centre in Townsville.

Foreign exchange specialist Travelex is deploying an experience management platform from US software company Qualtrics as part of a drive to enhance its customer experience agenda across retail and online stores.

Six years after it acquired the popular communications software Skype, Microsoft appears to be unable to produce a version that works properly on Linux. In fact, it’s questionable as to whether any of the Microsoft Skype clients are as good the pre-Microsoft versions.

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