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Is it reasonable to occasionally inspect a 13- or 14-year-old’s device, or does this undermine a new sense of privacy at this stage?
Chinese technology advancements cannot be contained, and the country is increasingly an education and research powerhouse.
Children are not equipped to deal with the information overload that comes from using digital devices
Have conversations with your child about online safety – and reassure them you will help them with any problems they encounter online.
Optus says the unprecedented outage last week was caused by a ‘routine software upgrade’. An expert explains why this points to more serious problems with the network.
Optus suffered one of the largest telecommunications outages in Australian history today. Here are the factors that can cause such events.
Digitalisation offers a way to preserve indigenous knowledge of agricultural practices and connect new generations of farmers to knowledge and wisdom from the past.
Plus 8 tips for maximising your battery’s lifespan.
The National Party wants a blanket ban on cellphones in school. But international research suggests improving student engagement is complex, and such a policy might even be counterproductive.
A new report from UNESCO analyzes the many challenges of the growing presence of technology in education and notes 14 per cent of countries have policies that ban mobile phones.
The 2023 Global Education Monitoring Report proposed restrictions on the use of technology in the classroom.
Lingering on the tarmac once you get off a plane through the rear door is unadvisable for many reasons – here’s why the staff want your phone in your pocket.
Your mobile phone is 10 times dirtier than a toilet seat. Here’s what to do about it.
Emergency alerts system: a lifesaving service or a threat to privacy?
The new conditions that have been heaped onto Rogers as a result of the Rogers-Shaw merger could end up benefiting Canadian consumers and the economy at large.
Your phone doesn’t even need to ping for you to be distracted. Here’s how to reclaim your focus.
The deployment of 5G networks depends on the compatibility of the instruments and protocols of a handful of industry players.
Some contracts are set to rise by more than inflation, here’s how to reduce the cost of living impact of such bills.
Some US law enforcement agencies are using a commercial app that tracks people all day long via their phones – without a court order or oversight.
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Associate Professor, School of Engineering, RMIT University
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Professor of Strategy, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
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Professor, Computer Networking and Telecommunications, University of Salford
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Professor of Health Psychology, University of Wollongong
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Associate Professor in Telecommunications Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology
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Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Researcher, Digital Wellbeing, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Applied Cognitive Psychology, The Open University
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Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bayes Business School, City St George's, University of London
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