Telstra, Optus, Vodafone. That's the normal market share order for mobile service providers in most Australian capital cities. But Sydney is an exception: Vodafone is in the lead. Should Telstra shareholders be worried?

The CSIRO and Victoria’s Deakin University say they have joined just a handful of companies around the world that can create carbon fibre from scratch, leading to what could be the next generation of carbon fibre that is stronger and of a higher quality.

Google is on the lookout for Australian hackers – not to admonish them for a hacking exploit, but to employ them for hard-to-fill cyber security positions at the search giant’s own business.

Nano-satellite company Sky and Space Global has signed an agreement with SocialEco, the company behind a $1 smartphone initiative for developing countries, to explore potential for to bring together the $1 smartphone and its own satellite network coverage in under-served and remote locations.

New Zealand’s largest telco Spark has teamed up with professional services firm Enable in a Christchurch trial of its "street in a week" programme which is upgrading customers to broadband networks from old copper networks across the country.

Social media security and digital risk monitoring SaaS company ZeroFOX’s analysis of 40,000 fake social media brand profiles has found that about half the fraudsters impersonated a brand and delivered fake coupons or invited “customers” to participate in bogus giveaways.

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