MNF Group subsidiary Pennytel has begun selling handsets rather than just SIMs and plans. Its first two handsets are the Nokia 3.2 and Nokia 4.2 with both models aggressively priced at an introductory offer until mid-August.

The NBN Co's efforts to make it possible to get gigabit speeds on HFC will help alleviate the scaling problem that exists due to the pricing model for CVC, according to the head of a small ISP.

German integration software provider Software AG has teamed up with Microsoft to help businesses speed up and simplify migration to the Azure cloud service provided by the latter firm while ensuring business continuity.

With the sentencing of former NSA contractor Harold Martin to nine years in prison for taking huge amounts of company data home, the identity of the Shadow Brokers, the group which leaked numerous NSA exploits on the Web three years ago, still remains unknown.

Cyber security solutions provider Bitdefender has released an updated product line which it claims will give consumers complete privacy.

Singtel-owned telco Optus has begun offering new and re-contracting mobile customers on "selected" plans a six or 12 month trial of Apple Music.

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