Ok, so the iPhone XR didn't see the much larger queues seen at the Xs and Xs Max launch, but as the more affordable model, and in an age of online ordering, this was to be expected.

The Australian Information Industry Association has warned that the Federal Government's encryption bill would lead to overseas vendors withdrawing from the Australian market as they would not want their products to be caught in the government's dragnet.

The ACCC has approved Telstra’s proposed variation to the NBN migration plan for special services which set out the steps Australia’s biggest telco will take to progressively migrate voice and broadband services from its copper and HFC networks to the broadband network as it is rolled out.

Global telecommunications giant Ericsson has been selected to supply United Nations peacekeeping missions around the globe with their own LTE networks, providing mission-critical communications capabilities.

New Zealand’s competition enforcement agency, The Commerce Commission, has added two more telcos – Voyager and MyRepublic – to the list of companies liable to contribute to the country’s $50 million Telecommunications Development Levy (TDL).

Google paid Andy Rubin, the creator of the Android mobile operating system, US$90 million when he left the company in 2014 over a sexual misconduct allegation, with a woman at the company having accused him of forcing her to perform oral sex.

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