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Chinese smartphone maker Huawei has unveiled what it calls the world's first tri-fold smartphone, launching the device just hours after archrival Apple introduced the iPhone 16.

A Vodafone survey has uncovered almost one in five Australians (19.1%) would rather live with smashed screens than fork out cash to fix them.

Nvidia today announced major advancements to Universal Scene Description, or OpenUSD, that will expand adoption of the universal 3D data interchange framework to robotics, industrial design and engineering, and accelerate developers’ abilities to build highly accurate virtual worlds for the next evolution of AI.

Semiconductor company Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 4s Gen 2 Mobile Platform, a chip, which the company claims, will make 5G more accessible and reliable.

Telecommunications company Telstra opened its Public Safety Experience Centre, a space at the Telstra Innovation Centre on Queensland’s Gold Coast.

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

Google has been forced to patch another zero-day in its Chrome browser, the third exploited flaw in a week.

Apple lovers and users — I mean the computer company, not the fruit — are prone to occasional emotional outbursts about the hardware and software that emerge from the compnay's portals in Cupertino. It never fails to amuse me when grown adults get their knickers in a knot over any digital device. One would think that there are far more important things in life over which one should get agitated.

Global tablet shipments grew by 1% year-on-year in the first three months of 2024, the technology analyst firm Canalys says, with another tech analyst company, IDC, reporting a rise of 0.5%.

Apple has unveiled new iPad Pro and iPad Air models, with both 11-inch and 13-inch devices on offer.

Apple and Samsung have dominated the top 10 smartphone list during the first quarter of 2024, with the iPhone 15 Pro Max coming out on top, accounting for 4.4% of total sales for the three months.

Apple has reported revenue of US$90.8 billion (A$137.34 billion) for its fiscal 2024 second quarter which ended on 30 March, down 4% year-on-year.

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.

After the first personal computers were built in the last quarter of the last century, it was the commoditisation of the industry that enabled Bill Gates and his Microsoft Windows operating system — terrible as it was — to get ahead. PCs built by the bigger American companies were just too expensive for the rest of the world, but the fact that one could put together a box by buying grey-market parts led to the spread of Windows.

After 13 quarters, smartphone vendor Huawei has returned to the top of the list for the mainland China market, shipping 11.7 million units in the first three months of 2024 and capturing a 17% market share, the technology analyst firm Canalys says, attributing this to the performance of its Mate and nova series.

India's smartphone market, the second biggest in the world after China, has reached 35.3 million units, the technology analyst firm Canalys says, adding that this was because vendors entered the year with "an improved inventory situation, which allowed channels to embrace multiple new offerings launched during the quarter".

iPhone sales in China, the world's biggest smartphone market, fell 19.1% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2024, the technology analyst firm Counterpoint Research says.

China has ordered Apple to remove WhatsApp and Threads, both owned by Meta, from its app store in the country, the New York Times reports.

About 11% of the smartphones sold during calendar year 2024 will be capable of using GenAI, the technology analyst firm Counterpoint Research says. adding that this estimate was higher than an earlier one made in December 2023. The figure was predicted to rise to 43% by 2027.

RMIT University has unveiled a new dedicated space for learners participating in the Apple Foundation Program at the university.