Chinese brands are continuing to dominate the Indian smartphone market, with first-quarter 2019 figures from analyst firm Counterpoint Research showing that their share of the market grew 20% year-on-year, to reach a record 66%.

Google's mobile operating system Android has increased its share of the Australian market in the first three months of 2019, growing from 61% in March 2018 to 63.5% in March 2019, the global research agency Kantar Worldpanel ComTech says.

A vulnerability in Guard Provider, a pre-installed app on mobile devices made by Xiaomi, allowed unsecured network traffic in both directions and could have allowed a threat actor to connect to the same Wi-Fi network and carry out a man-in-the-middle attack, the security firm Check Point says.