Hotel booking meta-comparison site Trivago breached the Australian Consumer Law by misleading consumers into it would help them find the cheapest rates available for a given hotel, the Federal Court has found.

Australians are spending less time talking on their mobile phones and downloading substantially more data than they were even a year ago, according to Australia’s competition regulator, the ACCC.

Western Australia’s Edith Cowan University’s (ECU) has successfully completed the first phase of a digital transformation that has seen the migration of almost 400 workloads to Microsoft Azure - enhancing organisational agility and halving IT operational costs.

Telecommunications service provider Next Telecom has ramped up its business with the acquisition of four Melbourne-based telcos - Next Business Telecommunications, Business Class Telecom, Nextalk and WireNetworks.

Multiple industrial robots can be simultaneously managed via new software from Epson, which uses PCs and tablets connected to an intranet.

Circles.life, the Singapore-based telco that promises a “more likeable than hateable experience” - and which launched in the Australian market in August - is donating all data boost proceeds to the the Red Cross for bushfire disaster relief and recovery.

Standalone 5G is coming in 2020 as a fully virtualised, cloud-native architecture that will enable ultra-low latency services and faster data speeds, opening up genuine avenues for differentiation, according to a new report.

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