The Samsung Note7 Games: Catching Fire is not the name of the latest Hollywood blockbuster but an apparent case of actual reality for replacement Note7s from the crisis-hit chaebol. Things continue to look worse for Samsung.

Australia’s federal government will auction 2 x 15 MHz of "unallocated 700 MHz" spectrum after previously knocking back Vodafone’s $594 million offer.

Verizon is trying to get the price it pays for Yahoo! lowered by US$1 billion following the string of bad news that the latter has been hit with in recent weeks. Yahoo! chief executive Marissa Mayer has been sued by a former senior executive of the company who has accused her of orchestrating a campaign to purge the organisation of male employees.

Why let Microsoft or Samsung dictate the creative Windows tablet space when the wunderkinds at Wacom can "re-invent" the stylus experience and create their own top-tier tablet?

Microsoft has informed iTWire editor-in-chief Stan Beer that it has fixed the problems with his Skype account. Hey that’s me! Apparently there was a bit of an outage that even affected some Microsoft staff - or so Microsoft told me.

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