China as a market, China as a competitor, and rising US-China tensions will all remain the South Korean tech giant's biggest challenge yet in the coming years.

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A new report claims Apple engineers are testing the smart home device outside of Apple's secretive campus.

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Autonomous mobile robots can accomplish a variety of tasks.

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Consumers have complained that exchanged Galaxy Note 7 handsets are overheating and quickly losing battery life.

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The same four chemical building blocks behind almost all life on earth could one day be used replace traditional computer storage.

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Google's Show and Tell open-sourced imaging caption system doesn't just repeat pre-learned descriptions of images.

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New research suggests that the average cost of data breaches is lower than many estimates and too low to drive greater investment in cybersecurity.

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New government scheme designed to help protect the UK from cyberattacks

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An analysis of hijacked websites suggests Google's Safe Browsing technology is only warning users about a small proportion of them.

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The Australian Bureau of Statistics has said IBM should have been able to handle the denial-of-service attack that hit Census systems on the night of August 9.

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NBN is kicking off another round of CVC pricing consultations with industry, with a new model to be implemented during the second half of the financial year.

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Leveraging Palo Alto Networks' cybersecurity platform, Optus and Singtel will now provide enterprise and government customers with detection and prevention mechanisms against cyber attacks.

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71 percent of devices and services used by Australians did not provide a privacy policy nor a notice explaining how personal information is collected, used, and stored.

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The ASX has laid out the series of events that led to the late opening and early closure of the market on Monday.

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Samsung has extended the refund deadline for the Galaxy Note 7 to the end of the month in South Korea as the government has ordered the company to do X-ray testing for the newly produced batteries.

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Instant funds transfer between competing banks will be a reality for Australians next year, the Reserve Bank has said.

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The wholesale internet provider has been fined almost NZ$400,000 for a misleading advertising campaign on a low-cost bundled service with hidden costs.

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The telco regulator has recommended that Spark's wholesale fixed-line voice services be deregulated, as there is enough competition from Chorus, other fibre companies, and the UFB.

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In a bid to improve fault repair and installation timeframes, Telstra has added 1,000 communications technician roles across Australia.

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The executive allegedly violated South Korea's industrial technology protection laws.

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Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has used the Census fiasco to call for new ways of talking about cybersecurity during a speech in Washington DC.

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Telstra's acquisitions of Kloud and Readify, along with its new cloud-management dashboard and gateway, have provided the basis for a push into global cloud provisioning.

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Companies are trying to answer the question: if you're not driving, what are you actually going to do?

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If you have $200,000 in spare cash you could take a gamble on Apple's stock, or you could buy Steve Jobs' certificate of his first stock in the company.

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Now Microsoft's pushy Windows 10 upgrade offer is over, a consumer rights group has called on Microsoft to compensate users for the issues it caused.

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Hackers are taking advantage of lax security attitudes around connected devices to hijack them for malicious means, warn Symantec researchers

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Google has come under fire again for the privacy choices its made for its new smart chat app, Allo.

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Relentless cuts to the ABS and an uncertain funding future spelt doom for the Australian 2016 Census, the Community and Public Sector Union has said.

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A WA parliamentary committee is concerned for the future of state health IT contracts, pointing to the establishment of a government chief information officer as an opportunity to prevent history repeating itself.

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Telstra's efforts to blockchain IoT are being augmented by identity verification using voice, fingerprint, and facial biometrics.

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Th analyst consensus for Samsung's third quarter operating profits has fallen, with the firm facing a drop of up to 8 percent from its two-year-high previous quarter after the Note 7 recall.

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Sharing economy platforms such as Uber and Airbnb will be probed by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission as it moves to assess the online review and endorsement process of the players in the local market.

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Consumers see smartwatches as expensive and useless, according to Kantar, with Apple taking more than 80 percent of the market.

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Finding Nextgen Networks and Vocus services to be 'largely complementary' with limited impact on competition, the ACCC has said it will not oppose the acquisition.

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The revenue lost from the NBN, and the contracts that can be made with the company rolling it out, is a 'gift of certainty and urgency', former Nokia CEO and now head of Telstra Innovation Stephen Elop has said.

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Apple is reportedly preparing to open its iconic namesake store in South Korea for the first time.

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Friday is the deadline to complete the Census and there's just a small group of Australians who've yet to finish the job.

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National Australia Bank has formed an 'international banking innovation alliance' with Israel's Bank Leumi and the CIBC.

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Samsung said it received 'at least' 26 false reports of the Galaxy Note 7 exploding in 15 countries.

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Telstra is offering two versions of its LANES service to emergency services: A SIM that provides access to the dedicated emergency 4G spectrum, and a tailored solution involving customer-owned dedicated spectrum.

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Telstra and Cisco are collaborating on innovating in three main areas, with the overarching aim of digitisation.

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One of the premier features currently missing from Apple's latest smartphone is now available in beta.

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Checkpoint report suggests organisations haven't kept up with security to meet a nine times rise in malicious software

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New German datacenters aim to provide additional protections for customer data by giving control to an independent data trustee.

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New shining direction beam will point you in the right direction

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Amid a disinclination to provide global services for large corporations, Telstra said it is instead leveraging its Asia-Pacific acquisitions and joint ventures to provide network services there.

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Police in Victoria have issued a warning to residents following recent reports of malicious USB drives left in letterboxes.

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North Korea's top-level DNS data has leaked, showing that the Stalanist state only has 28 websites that use the .kp domain name.

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Korean semiconductor giant touts 3,500MBps performance of 960 Pro lineup, while 960 Evo alternative only offers three years warranty.

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A partnership between Telstra and Microsoft will see the two provide managed voice to enterprises through Office 365 cloud services.

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The federal government has officially launched its AU$23 million support program for Australian startup incubators, focusing on innovation in regional and rural parts of the country.

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Hailing the operating performance of NBN over the 2015-16 financial year, the company has paid over AU$3 million in short-term bonuses to its senior executives.

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LG Electronics has set the highest price for a flagship phone in two years with the V20, which will begin sales in South Korea on September 29, a day after Samsung's Note 7 resumes sales.

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Airlines have been advised to check the battery indicators on the Note 7s to make sure they're one of the new handsets.

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​The unannounced device appears to be a bigger, better equipped version of the BlackBerry DTEK50 released by the company earlier this year.

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The update adds the ability to quickly see if a Note 7 is part of the recall or a device that has been deemed safe.

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What handful of mobile apps are essential to your daily work life? We asked our writers and editors to name the iOS or Android productivity tools they can't live without. These are Ed Bott's favorites.

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Small and nimble, rather than bold and bulky, could be a good way to get the right results, according to analytics company Tectonic.

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Sophisticated malware has been discovered, capable of tricking users into giving away admin rights to their entire system, as well as stealing their bank details.

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With a design legacy that includes the Mac, iPhone and iPad, Apple has filed a patent for its paper bag. But as it explains, this is no ordinary shopping bag.

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Transparency Center will allow governments to check the security of products and services -- but not alter what is delivered to customers.

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CIOs looked like they were going out of fashion a few years back, but now they're bouncing back.

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A bevy of speakers at Structure Security will outline the promise and perils of security in the age of the Internet of things.

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Google has created a smart travel app that makes it easier to plan trips and search for information when on the go.

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​Microsoft has revealed its involvement in several collaborations with scientists to help fight or, as it puts it, "solve" cancer using artificial intelligence.

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TPG's net profit of AU$361 million and EBITDA of AU$775.3 million on revenue of AU$2.388 billion was not enough for the market, with the telco falling by AU$2 billion in value by the close of the ASX.

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Australia's first live 5G demo has been conducted by Telstra and Ericsson in Melbourne, with speeds of between 18Gbps and 22Gbps achieved.

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Tencent's Keen Security Lab has demonstrated the ability to remotely hijack a Tesla vehicle once it is using a malicious Wi-Fi connection.

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South Korean telco KT will cooperate with the UN to build a big data-based contagion prevention system under a memorandum of understanding (MOU).

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Samsung SDS will connect its FIDO-based biometric solution with Oracle's Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution.

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South Korean telco KT has demonstrated the Internet of Small Things using NB-IoT services on an LTE network using Nokia base stations and Intel's IoT modules.

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SK Telecom, South Korea's largest mobile carrier, and Samsung Electronics have successfully tested handover between outdoor 5G base stations at 28GHz.

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Grab has raised $750 million in equity financing in a funding round led by SoftBank, increasing its total capital position to over $1 billion.

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TPG has attributed its revenue of AU$2.4 billion and profit of AU$361 million to growth in consumer broadband, as well as strong corporate sales.

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The search giant could owe more than $400 million in back taxes and fines for 2015, according to reports.

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Reported Galaxy Note 7 fires in China were caused by outside heating, not batteries, Samsung has said.

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The federal government has launched its 2016 Digital Literacy School Grants program to find projects that demonstrate new methods for enhancing digital literacy in schools.

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The market believes Apple's stringent new approach for returning and exchanging in Hong Kong targets scalpers who resell products in China for profit.

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Moving from the smaller iPhone 6S to the larger iPhone 7 Plus is a learning experience full of excitement and frustration. Here are my thoughts after a weekend with the bigger iPhone.

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Cybersecurity researchers have demonstrated how vulnerabilities in everyday connected devices can allow hackers to hold whole areas of your life to ransom.

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Europe's competition boss signals more major US companies could face scrutiny after a US group calls for Apple decision to be overturned.

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Samsung is also sending out a software upgrade to limit battery charging in pre-ordered handsets.

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There's a new ProDOS update available for the Apple II, almost a quarter of a century after Apple's last official software release for the machine.

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London is still ahead of Berlin and other European cities on investment, but the Brexit vote casts a cloud of uncertainty over the future.

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Microsoft's keyboard for iOS will no longer filter your cursing from messages.

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The Australian Securities Exchange has said a hardware failure in the main database used by the system was behind Monday's series of trading glitches.

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The Australian Securities exchange has ended trading early after technical faults affected the management of individual shares.

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The Australian public cloud services market will by the end of this year grow by 14 percent to reach US$4.18 billion and 17.2 percent to US$208.6 billion globally, while the Asian market showed 41.9 percent year-on-year growth.

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A Note 7 owner in China has uploaded pictures of their burnt handset to local portal Baidu, alleging that it exploded. If confirmed, it will be the first case of the phone catching fire in the country.

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iPhone 7 orders have surged thanks to competitor Samsung's recall of the Galaxy Note 7, and Apple may sell up to 100 million units by the end of the year, according to South Korean analysts, which will be huge boon for Korean component makers.

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A hiss-like sound is reported to have come from one of the sold-out iPhone 7 Plus devices, with Apple immediately offering up a replacement.

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The marketplace will enable Optus SMB customers to tailor their own cloud app solution, along with access to 24/7 IT support.

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Fibre installation design employees across regional Australia are being targeted in the next possible wave of Telstra's job cuts, with 53 roles potentially going and nine being created.

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Optus' next wave of redundancies will hit its Networks business, with the union reporting 90 roles getting the axe.

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Kakao, the operator of South Korea's KakaoTalk chat app, has launched a new map service that supports 3D sky view and uses a 'vector system' for more accurate mapping.

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After being rejected from local banks, crowdfunding platform Chuffed.org has experienced 100 percent-year-on-year growth after implementing an online payment process from Stripe.

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Samsung Electronics has begun exchanging the Galaxy Note 7 in South Korea, with official sales restarting on September 28. The exchange in the US will start this Wednesday, September 21.

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Samsung has sold its stakes of ASML, Seagate, Rambus, and Sharp, the company announced, to focus on its 'core businesses'.

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If the PC wants to survive, maybe it's time to embrace new types of communication.

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Can artificial intelligence and automation help close the security skills gap? Security execs want to know.

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