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With modern flagship smartphones now hitting crazy prices you might think your chances for an affordable brand new phone are slim. Well, Aspera has you covered with its new Aspera Nitro 2 that's only $179. Now that's crazy, but for all the right reasons this time.

Global smartphone shipments will rise by 4% this year to a total of 1.21 billion units, the technology analyst firm IDC predicts.

Three software engineers from CIQ, a Linux company, have found that the kernels shipped by commercial firms have more unpatched flaws than the upstream stable kernel which is maintained by Linux developer Greg Kroah-Hartman.

It's not often that you find someone writing about open source software and not bothering to make mention of the licences being used. But that's precisely what Albert Zhang of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, a lobby group for big tech and foreign agencies, has done.

Tech giant Samsung has unveiled the Galaxy A55 5G and A35 5G, two smartphones focusing on security and design upgrades.

Singaporean telecommunications company Singtel has tapped the capabilities of tech giant Google to offer rich communication services (RCS) with rich business messaging, a move it claimed is a first in Singapore.

Motorola has announced some great deals on new mobile phones that pack features in but won't break the bank, ready for the new year at work or school.

Google has started testing out the killing of third-party cookies which are used to track users from site to site and build profiles of them for the purpose of targeting advertising.

Google has agreed to pay US$700 million (A$1 billion) to settle an anti-trust case brought against the company by US states and consumers in a San Francisco court.

The Aspera range of low-budget smartphones have one characteristic in common: each model emphasises certain features. The rest of the features common to smartphones these days are also present – but at an acceptable level.

Fortnite creator Epic Games has won an anti-trust case against Google which it filed three years ago, claiming that the app store policies of the latter violated anti-trust laws both at the US federal level and in California state.

COMPANY NEWS: Keeper's latest update gives Android users the ability to choose their preferred theme, continuing the company's push to provide the best possible user experience without compromising security or performance.

Over half (54%) of the global population—an estimated 4.3 billion people—now owns a smartphone, according to GSMA’s annual State of Mobile Internet Connectivity Report 2023 (Somic).

Industrial rugged tablets, notebooks, and handheld mobile operator manufacturer Werock adds two rugged tablets with Android OS to its product portfolio namely the Rocktab S508 (8-inch) and S510 (10-inch), which are available with either Windows 11 or Android 12.

COMPANY NEWS: Groundbreaking protections detect accessibility malware without impacting real mobile end users

COMPANY NEWS: Keeper Security, the leading provider of zero-trust and zero-knowledge cybersecurity software protecting credentials, privileged access, secrets and remote connections, today announces a brand new, modern User Interface (UI) for the Keeper Password Manager app for Android.

The Semiconductor Industry Association, an American lobby group for the sector, has leaked claims that Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies is trying to get around US sanctions by acquiring chip factories and also constructing them.

A number of factors appear to have influenced Chinese smartphone maker Oppo's decision as to which model of its mid-range Reno line it would launch in Australia this year. Consumers are pressed for funds, and additionally Oppo is not top dog in this market, but only the third in the queue.

COMPANY NEWS: Appdome, the one-stop shop for mobile app defence, today announced a unique collaboration with NetSPI, the global leader in offensive security as part of its launch of Appdome's new Mobile App Defense Project, a community program aimed at improving mobile DevSecOps for everyone. This collaboration aims to create a more secure mobile app economy, raise the bar on mobile app defence and provide rapid, validated, continuous cyber and anti-fraud solutions for all mobile applications globally.

COMPANY NEWS: Appdome, the one-stop shop for mobile app defence, announced that Bugcrowd, the only multi-solution crowdsourced cybersecurity platform, joined its new Mobile App Defense Project, a community program aimed at improving mobile DevSecOps for everyone. This collaboration aims to create a more secure mobile app economy, raise the bar on mobile app defence, and provide rapid, validated, continuous cyber and anti-fraud solutions for all mobile applications globally.