Hard drive manufacturer Seagate and iconic IT colossus IBM say they are working together to reduce the incidence of hard drive counterfeiting by using blockchain technology and security technologies. But both are invoking secrecy when questioned about their effort.

One of the new iPhone models, even the so-called "budget" one, the XR, may cost as much as thrice what a phone like the OPPO F9 does – even though the features are comparable. However, Sam Varghese would choose an iPhone every time and says why.

One of Australia’s big four banks, the National Australia Bank, is backing a US$100 million capital raising by US-based ecommerce platform Poynt.

Chinese attackers have been targeting an engineering company based in Britain re-using tactics, techniques and procedures from the Russian threat groups Dragonfly and APT28, the threat intelligence firm Recorded Future claims.

Queensland’s Office of State Revenue (OSR), part of Queensland Treasury, has launched Nuance Communications’ virtual assistant ‘Sam’ across all OSR revenue lines, marking the first Australian state government implementation of the conversational virtual assistant.

Australian-listed enterprise applications company TechnologyOne has been selected by the UK’s group of science museums, The Science Museum Group (SMG) to modernise and transform its existing financial business system.

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