The Department of Immigration and Border Protection has knocked back an FOIA request from an IT workers' lobby group about the extent to which 457 visas are used for entry level workers in the IT industry because "the data doesn’t exist, we can’t find it or it’s all too hard".

Email security vendor MailGuard has warned Australians to beware of an email scam that uses fake bills that appear to be coming from energy company Origin Energy.

According to reputable leaks, Nokia is planning to release the Nokia 8 – its high end, high specified, dual camera, smartphone to finish the Finnish company’s line-up.

A 19-year-old law student from The University of Western Australia claims to have invented a drone that can stay in the air five times as long as many drones on the market.

Cyber security accelerator programme CyRise has invited early-stage entrepreneurs in the field to apply for its six-month programme.

Tasmania's largest financial institution MyState Bank has started offering Samsung Pay to more than 100,000 customers.

The verdicts for Microsoft’s crippled Windows 10 S operating system continue coming in, with yet another strongly advising to upgrade 10 S to 10 Pro.

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