Apple has announced the winners of its global 2021 iPhone Photography Awards on Friday and Australian photographers have taken out awards in multiple categories. Winners in the awards span across 17 countries, with the selected photos all taken on Apple’s popular iPhone series. The winners were the best shots from thousands of submitted photos from...
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More money chases Indian tech start-ups as investors shun Chinese names
At a time when investors are selling Chinese technology stocks, more money is chasing Indian start-ups. Shares of food delivery app Zomato soared as much as 82% in their debut Friday on the National Stock Exchange of India. The initial public offering was priced at 76 rupees per share, or a little more than $1...
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Zoom bets billions on home working continuing in Five9 deal
Video conferencing firm Zoom has struck a multibillion dollar deal to buy a cloud-based call centre operator in a bet on the future of hybrid working. The firm announced the $14.7bn (£10.7bn) acquisition of Five9 in a blog post on Sunday. Zoom boss Eric Yuan said the deal would allow its customers to “reimagine the...
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Australia joins international community in blaming China for large scale Microsoft hack
Australia has joined the United States and other allies in accusing China of engaging in “malicious cyber activities”, including a massive global hack on the Microsoft Exchange software that compromised tens of thousands of computers earlier this year. In a joint statement, the Ministers for Home Affairs Karen Andrews, Foreign Affairs Marise Payne and Defence...
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China accused of cyber-attack on Microsoft Exchange servers
The UK and EU have accused China of carrying out a major cyber-attack earlier this year. The attack targeted Microsoft Exchange servers, affecting over a quarter of a million servers around the world. The EU was the first to put out a statement saying the attack came from “the territory of China”, while the UK...
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Australia ‘soft target’ for cyber attacks
A policy vacuum has exposed Australian businesses and government departments to a tsunami of cyber crime. Ransomware attacks have caused global losses totalling more than $1.3 trillion and Australia is not immune. Logistics company Toll Holdings has twice been targeted while Nine Entertainment was brought to its knees by an attack that saw the company...
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Super Mario 64 game sells for record-breaking $1.5m at auction
A sealed copy of video game Super Mario 64 has sold at auction for more than $1.5m (£1.1m), shattering records. The 1996 cartridge was a launch title for the Nintendo 64 console, and was one of the most influential early 3D platformers. The auction house said there were “fewer than five” copies in such good...
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China bans Didi, its biggest ride-hailing service, from app stores
Didi, China’s largest ride-hailing service, continues to fall into deeper trouble with Chinese regulators. The Cyberspace Administration of China on Sunday banned Didi from app stores after saying it posed a cybersecurity risk for customers. “Didi Chuxing app is found to have severely violated the laws by illegally collecting and using personal information,” the regulator...
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Spotify could start hosting live concerts to stand out from the hi-res music price war
In the past few months, Apple Music added support for hi-res audio and Dolby Atmos at no extra cost to its subscribers, Amazon Music made its HD hi-res audio tier free to all Amazon Music users and Tidal gained a new owner in Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter and founder and CEO of Square. Where...
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Amazon and Google are being investigated for failing to remove fake product reviews
British regulators are investigating whether Amazon and Google have broken consumer protection law by not doing enough to protect shoppers from fake product reviews. The probe is the latest in a string of investigations piling up against tech giants around the world, as officials and policymakers scrutinize claims of anti-competitive behavior. The investigations could result...