There are lies, damned lies and statistics according to former British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. Alcatel’s Australian boss Sam Skontos has called out recent smartphone market share reports – especially about how the data is collected.

Australia is ripe for a switch to electronic voting and the technology available today could provide safe, secure and reliable voting capability, according to the vice-president of the ANZ division of an electronic signature technology and digital transaction management company.

In the wake of the tragic events in Nice, Optus has offered its customers free calls to France.

Google has done it again. An American writer, Dennis Cooper, who lives in France, has seen 14 years of artistic work disappear from Google's Blogger platform due to a violation of the company's terms of service.

First, there were smart wearables – watches, clothes, undergarments, chest straps, shoes, and even in golf clubs and tennis racquets. But these wearables both sound good and track fitness. They have gone where no cotton bud should go before – in your ears.

Microsoft has won a landmark victory in a case where it argued that personal data held in a subsidiary overseas was not accessible using a warrant issued in the US.

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