Global tablet shipments for the first quarter of 2022 fell by 3% year-on-year to 38.6 million units, the technology analyst firm Canalys says, adding that Chromebooks suffered a much bigger fall, dropping 60% to 4.9 million units.



CSIRO and Microsoft Australia have collaborated to launch a STEM education initiative that will see students witness the future of farming, exposing them to concepts like cloud computing and data and artificial intelligence.

Apple's biggest supplier, Foxconn Technology, has been forced to halt recruitment at its complex in the central city of Zhengzhou, raising fears over the extent to which this would upset Apple's production schedules.

Security vendor Netskope has promoted David Fairman to the newly created role of APJ CIO.

Australian technology services and solutions provider Data#3 has appointed Mike Hobson to the role of general manager of its ACT branch.

The Telecom Infra Project has launched learning platform TIP Academy to upskill the telecoms industry in collaboration with information technology company Accenture.

And as always there's plenty more today, so for all the news please visit www.itwire.com.

Stephen Withers, newsletter editor, iTWire



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