With 4G smartphones able to offer vastly faster upload and download speeds than all NBN connections in existence today, and while the NBN says it does offer gigabit connections, when NBN Co wants you to ask "how much speed do you need?", it doesn't expect gigabit will be your answer.

Google's move to strip out the www in domains typed into the address bar, beginning with version 69 of its Chrome browser, has drawn an enormous amount of criticism from developers who see the move as a bid to cement the company's dominance of the Web.

A well-known security researcher claims that, between 20 July and 20 August, British Airways changed the third-party JavaScript code it loads on its website as a result of a privacy complaint he had made. The British Airways website breach appears to have been done through a cross-site scripting flaw.

App developer Elegant Media, the only Australian app development company with an ISO 9001 accreditation, has secured a deal to supply an app for the Australian Taxation Office to use in staff induction.

Do you wish you could broadcast messages to the Amazon Alexa speakers you own in the same way Google Home users can broadcast such messages? Now you can with Alexa Announcements.

Local broadband provider Aussie Broadband has had to remove the words "congestion-free" from its advertising after the competition watchdog raised concerns about the use of these words with the company.

Global research firm Forrester has said, “Machine learning is an elemental core competency that every enterprise must have” and released its findings around the 13 top companies in this space.

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