While Australia still waits for an affordable 1Gbps fixed line NBN service, record-breaking 4G speeds of up to 2Gbps have been achieved by Telstra, Ericsson, Netgear and Qualcomm Technologies in laboratory testing using a chipset that was recently released.

China has mocked what it calls the "American sense of insecurity" after the heads of six US intelligence agencies claimed that phones made in China including the huge Huawei and ZTE brands might be used for spying.

Meaningful artificial intelligence deployments are just beginning to take place, according to a new survey revealing that 4% of CIOs have implemented Ai, and, a further 46% have developed plans to do so.

It may shock you to know that wile the rest of the world is speculating about the arrival of 5G, Palestinians in the occupied West Bank were able to start using 3G mobile services just last month after years of wrangling with Israeli authorities.

NBN Co, the company rolling out Australia's national broadband network, has launched what it calls a STEM+X initiative to help educate students so they can achieve skills that will enable them to compete in the workforce.

Global digital trends and industry developments will take centre stage at CeBIT 2018 Australia to be staged in Sydney over three days in May.

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