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Close on the heels of the announcement of a truce in the Apple-Qualcomm patent war, Intel has said it will be exiting the 5G smartphone modem business and not even launching the products it had planned for 2020.

Chip manufacturer Qualcomm and Apple have announced an end to all litigation between the two companies, in a surprising development on a day which was expected to mark the beginning of a long and brutal fight over Qualcomm's patent-licensing practices.

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.