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GUEST OPINION:  “Traveling for business or leisure?”This is a question commonly heard in the hospitality industry. People either travel for work-related purposes – to meet with remote collaborators in person, attend conferences, visit suppliers, sign deals, and conduct other professional activities – or they do it to explore the world's many wonders, relax, and have fun. At least, that’s how travel was once categorised. 

Vodafone, semiconductor company Qualcomm, and Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi have tested a new 5G technology in Germany and Spain capable of download speeds close to 1.8 gigabits-per-second (Gbps) using a new smartphone.

Transport solutions company Scania has announced that it has formed Erinion, a new company specialising in private and semi-public charging solutions, to help customers’ transition to electric transport.

There has been an increase in AI-driven phishing attacks in Australia with research revealing that Australia is within the top 10 countries alongside US, UK, India and Germany targeted by phishing scams.

Germany-based open source vendor SUSE has appointed technology and marketing veteran Pilar Santamaria as its new vice-president of AI.

When will the Federal Government start telling the public the truth about the situation it faces with Facebook, after the social media giant declared, on 29 February, that it would not be renewing deals it had struck in 2021 with Australian media companies, and then followed up by shutting its news tab in Australia?

In some ways, Andreas Tille is an unusual person to take over as leader of the Debian GNU/Linux project. Unusual because of his age, unusual because of the fact that he acknowledged the negatives about the position.

The German state of Schleswig-Holstein has decided to move 30,000 local government PCs from Windows and Office to Linux and LibreOffice, according to a blog post from the Document Foundation, the organisation that oversees the development of LibreOffice.

Open-source file syncing and sharing software company Nextcloud has gone the way of all flesh with the release version 2.0 of its Assistant: it is now pushing AI-as-a-service.

Chinese smartphone vendor Oppo has signed a 5G patent cross-licensing agreement with Finnish phone firm Nokia and says all legal issues between the two companies will be sorted out.

Open-source file syncing and sharing software company Nextcloud has announced the launch of Nextcloud Hub 7 which will feature unified search and phone integration.

German open-source vendor SUSE has released enhancements to its enterprise offerings, with the release of Rancher Prime 2.0, an application that it acquired back in July 2020.

Amazon plans to introduce advertisements to its Prime Video streaming service in 2024 in order to churn more content and create more TV shows and movies.

Social media giant Facebook will cut back on the provision of news in the UK, Germany and France from December onwards, the company says in a blog post.

Victims of the ransomware group Cl0p, attacked using vulnerabilities in the secure managed file transfer software MOVEit Transfer, now number 730, according to a count kept by the New Zealand-headquartered security firm Emsisoft.

German open source vendor SUSE has announced that its majority shareholder Marcel intends to take the company private by delisting it from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange through a merger into an unlisted Luxembourg entity.

Global electronics firm Panasonic Holdings has begun a lawsuit against Chinese smartphone companies Oppo and Xiaomi over some 4G patents which it refers to as "standard-essential patents for cellular communications".

The globe's biggest semiconductor fab, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, has committed €3.5 billion (A$5.88 billion) towards setting up a chip factory in Dresden, Germany.

Processor manufacturer Intel has reported second-quarter revenue of US$12.9 billion (A$19.41 billion), a fall of 15% year-on-year, in what is being interpreted as a good three months for the company given it is the smallest year-on-year drop in five quarters.

The French competition authority has accused Apple of abusing its dominant position in the market to implement "discriminatory, non-objective and non-transparent conditions" to mine user data for advertising purposes.