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A senior level manager from an Apple supplier stole thousands of iPhone handsets from the testing line, prosecutors said.
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Virtual reality developer Liminal's 'Joy' experience will alleviate loneliness and isolation for long-stay hospital patients across Australia.
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How the cloud and managed services will work together
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Interested in knowing what information a website has access to about you as soon as you visit a page? Here are a couple of websites that will show you what information you are leaking as you browse the internet.
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Amazon's re:Invent drove a Big Data news cycle this week, including items emanating from outside the conference. Here's a roll-up of the announcements, and a theme to connect them.
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The idea of an app equating to a TV channel is breaking down as broadband video aggregators are recreating the cable experience over broadband. That's putting companies like Apple in conflict with video providers.
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AppFormix's software platform leverages streaming analytics and machine learning in a distributed architecture for use in cloud environments.
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Do you have a problem where your iPhone 6s randomly and unexpectedly shuts down for no reason? Apple is blaming air for the issue.
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Windows 10's Home Hub feature set could be a step along Microsoft's long-term goal of making households, and not just workplaces, more productive and connected.
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After the launch of DirecTV Now earlier this week, the FCC is following up with AT&T and Verizon on their "zero rating" practices.
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Neural networks may be the hot topic these days, but they're far from infallible.
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Company veteran Alex Inglês becomes the company's new general director.
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A new report shows that vehicle makers need to change the way they think about producing products to survive the coming transformation.
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This premium-priced headset offers a comprehensive set of features, including adaptive active noise cancellation.
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Microsoft Ventures has made 14 publicly disclosed investments in startups since its founding in May. Here's who is on the list.
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On-demand IT provides a strong base from which the business can test, develop and roll out creative solutions
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Dropbox, Google's G Suite, Microsoft's OneDrive, and Apple's iCloud each have pricing and service policies that close the door on tiny businesses. Here's why that's bad for customers and the storage providers, too.
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Cloud software has allowed accountants to focus on why they joined the industry in the first place. We examine how leaving large-scale calculations and mundane tasks to machines has allowed accountants morph into more than bean-counters.
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Apple doom-mongering has kicked up a few notches over the course of 2016.
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Amazon Web Services is following in competitor's footsteps by announcing analytic and AI services. However, in the face of Amazon's scale, head starts won't matter.
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The new findings appear to have captured the "human" element missing from current machine learning systems.
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A concerted effort between law enforcement and cybersecurity firms has resulted in the destruction of a major botnet platform.
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In December, taxi and limo license holders in Queensland will receive a letter from the government detailing how they can be compensated for the legalisation of ride-sharing in the state.
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With clients and new digital markets slow to scale up, activist investor pushes vision of more profits from legacy IT, may kill the golden goose
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The Korean central bank will begin a pilot program next year where convenience stores will give change in the form of prepaid cards rather than coins, as part of its plan to make the country a coinless society by 2020.
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Software played a part in taking away the human component of communications, but now it's bringing it back and businesses should get on board, according to Patrick Malatack, VP of Product Management at Twilio.
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The Australian government has selected Telstra, TPG Network, Macquarie Telecom, Verizon Australia, Nextgen Networks, and Sliced Tech to be the first members of its Whole-of-Australian-Government Telecommunications Services Panel.
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The Seagate Duet is available for $99, with one free year of Amazon Drive Unlimited Storage valued at $59.
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Labor lashes out at Coalition for failing to pass a bill that it failed to pass in 2013.
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Lenovo's Moto unit doesn't see enough 'pull in the market' to warrant a new smartwatch.
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The Australian government claims to have kept its promise to speed up the rollout of the National Broadband Network.
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Southeast Asian e-commerce operator seems unfazed over Amazon's reported plans to enter the Singapore market, pointing to its focus on customer engagement and logistics network.
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Frightened of your site getting blown off the internet with a distributed denial of service attack? Amazon can protect you with AWS Shield.
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Further to Apple's commitment to replace battery for certain iPhone models, the government-backed China Consumers Association said a wider range of iPhones have also encountered shutdown issues and has demanded Apple to solve them.
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It's never been easier to equip your Raspberry Pi with a hard drive.
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The streaming giant has set a goal to hand AWS all of the infrastructure work that is not Netflix-specific.
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In terms of guidance, Workday's outlook for the year is on the light side compared to expectations.
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Visa acquired partner CardinalCommerce so it can ease transactions and security.
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Google's well-reviewed VR headset is now available in new colors.
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Apple is planning several updates to Apple Maps in its pursuit to topple Google Maps.
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If you're having issues with your iPhone 6S randomly shutting off, Apple may replace it for free.
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The Avalanche family of malware has cost users more than $6 million in damages.
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Dev and testing is key to agility, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels stressed at re:Invent.
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Ahead of next week's WinHEC China event, Microsoft has released a new Windows 10 Mobile test build for Fast Ring phone Insiders, 14977.
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Businesses in all sectors have gone from making tentative steps into the cloud to a complete push for on-demand IT
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An AI future: Technology could do the spotting and sorting for humans.
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Linux power Canonical will support Docker Engine, as well as Kubernetes, for cloud container management.
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Artificial intelligence algorithms are increasingly influential in peoples' lives, but their inner workings are often opaque. We examine why, and explore what's being done about it.
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Despite lacking experience and skills, many respondents to a recent Tech Pro Research survey said they'd find a way to pull off the implementation in-house.
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Are you looking for ways to harness the power of machine learning and AI for your business? Here are five tips for beginners who want to gain meaningful insights and predictions from their data.
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Is your business exploring AI and machine learning? Here's how to integrate new technologies into your digital transformation plans to drive value and profits.
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No one knows exactly what this product is but a patent filing last year and an analysis of the company's investors throws up some tantalising possibilities.
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Organizations that have adopted the technology are still a minority - but most tech decision makers recognize they must start planning for it.
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CA Technologies buys automation company Automic in a deal that gives it more of a cloud footprint, scale in Europe and expansion into business processes.
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Nokia fans can expect a new Nokia-branded smartphone by the first half of 2017, according to HMD, the company now behind the handsets.
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Dysfunctional Android patching comes back to bite Google via two million fraudulent installs from Google Play in three months.
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ODG has typically focused on government and enterprise customers with its high-powered augmented reality glasses, but plans to expand at CES 2017.
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Enterprises that are embracing the cloud also do not want the cloud to become the new silo. How far will Amazon go to accommodate its customers in a hybrid world?
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How can Infinidat promise storage that's both highly available and low cost? Its CEO explains.
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The shape of the storage market will change beyond recognition over the next five years, according to vendor.
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As technology evolves, Just Eat is working on new and interesting ways to help you order takeaway.
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The Windows 10 Start menu includes a handy scrolling list of all the apps and desktop programs you've installed. It also offers a hidden alphabetical index. Here's how to make that index visible.
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If the government created this Firefox and Tor Browser exploit, it just endangered all web users, argues Mozilla.
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Politicians talk about problems and engineers talk about solutions, according to NSW Minister for Innovation and Better Regulation Victor Dominello, who thinks Australian governments would be healthier if they had more engineers.
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LG Electronics' home appliance boss has been promoted to vice chairman and will become CEO, while its mobile division has been given a second chance to rebound the faltering business.
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Korean department chain Shinsegae, which offers its own payment solution SSG Pay, will allow Samsung Pay to be used in its stores after initially resisting it.
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Whether it be rugby, fibre networks, or preventing handsets prone to spontaneous combustion from connecting to mobile networks, New Zealand has beaten Australia to the punch once again.
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After missing out on the first round of funding, Optus is set to build over 100 new mobile sites as part of the Australian government's mobile blackspot program.
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Fitbit will reportedly shutter the Pebble brand, as both fitness band companies have seen a decline in sales. The Apple Watch and Android Wear effect is beginning to kick in.
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GoPro's media aspirations are over, as it looks to turn to profitability.
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The New Zealand broadband provider's Ultra Fast Broadband service now offers users download connection speeds of between 700Mbps and 900Mbps.
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The bank has officially launched BladePay, offering Australian businesses an Android Marshmallow-based customisable mobile payments solution.
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Amazon is going after hosting and virtual private server companies with its latest low-end cloud offering.
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At re:Invent, Amazon illustrated how the Alexa ecosystem is flourishing, make voice the next commonplace user interface.
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One leading senator called the expansion in powers "one of the biggest mistakes in surveillance policy in years."
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AWS CEO Andy Jassy has said his company will continue to focus on getting services out, even if that comes at the cost of global availability.
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The enterprise cloud company also marked a corporate milestone in terms of quarterly revenue.
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OnePlus 3 owners who can't with a willingness to test out early software can install an early version of Android 7.0 right now.
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Want to move petabytes of data to AWS? The cloud provider has a tractor trailer for that. The move is a bit nutty, but highlights how far AWS will go to gain workloads.
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The company is investing in biometric payment capabilities to eliminate the need to remember passwords and improve security.
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At re:Invent, CEO Andy Jassy characterized his company's services as "super powers" that free customers from the shackles of "old guard" companies like Oracle.
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Amazon Web Services has launched AWS Greengrass to combat the challenges faced by devices at the edge in the new Internet of Things world.
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Blink launched its wireless, battery-powered security camera system in the UK yesterday, and I've been testing the system for a week that included a holiday in Italy.
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The HR software firm has selected AWS as it preferred provider for public cloud customer workloads.
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The moves are designed to expand Google Cloud's ecosystem for G Suite, which is the primary cross-selling vehicle for infrastructure as a service.
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SUSE has become not only HPE's Linux of choice, but it's now its chief cloud developer as well.
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An email exchange between Apple CEO Tim Cook and an eager customer may shed some light on a release date for the company's wireless earbuds.
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Three new AWS AI tools unveiled at re:Invent take advantage of the technology driving Alexa and Amazon's sophisticated logistics capabilities.
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At $379, reMarkable's new tablet offers a screen surface with the same friction as pen against paper.
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Microsoft has designated the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, initially released in early August, as ready for business users to deploy en masse.
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Each image in Google's new Timelapse frame contains a whopping 3.95 trillion pixels.
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IDC's forecast for PC shipments in 2016 isn't as bad as expected. You can thank commercial sales.
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Jolla's uncertain future as a would-be rival to Android may be a little clearer with official support from Russia.
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After I wrote about 16 GB MacBook Pros, a reader asked how they could run a 26GB digital audio workstation file on a 16GB MacBook Pro. Answer: easy! The secret is virtual memory. Here's how it works.
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iFixit's teardown of the new all-in-one device shows just what Microsoft has managed to fit into its high-end all-in-one desktop.
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What happens when the industrial Internet and machine-to-machine connections meets energy trading. GE Power and its Predix platform is about to find out.
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Exercise, mindfulness, and more: tech leaders explain how they take some of the pressure off.
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After spending a school year observing and interacting with a class of teenagers, two LSE researchers emerge with useful insights on growing up in the digital age.
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Unknown attackers are exploiting a Firefox zero-day vulnerability to grab details about Tor Browser users.
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ISIS, among others, are using complex schemes to clean up funds - and it's up to us to find solutions to the problem.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise is doubling down on platforms to enable Internet of things services as well as manage deployments.
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The New South Wales government has unveiled its innovation strategy with a number of key initiatives around streamlining innovation proposals, collaborating within and across government, and experimenting with ideas within regulatory sandboxes.
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The web page library is looking to duplicate its database under a domain outside of the US following the election of Donald Trump.
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Without taking into account recurring or indirect costs, Australia's data retention scheme will cost nearly AU$200 million by the end of this financial year.
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The long-range, wide-area network being trialled with Ergon Energy can transmit at distances of up to 30km, Australian narrowband company NNN Co has announced.
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Telstra's network designed specifically for narrowband IoT applications will be enabled at the beginning of next year, with its IoT software platform also ready.
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The Australian Digital Transformation Agency has announced the resignation of its chief digital officer Paul Shetler after only a month in the role.
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Samsung has launched a new low-end smartphone in South Korea amid a profit drought from ending the Galaxy Note 7.
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Apps like Snapchat are exploding the front-facing camera's use.
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Despite copyright concerns and the improbability of President-elect Donald Trump allowing the trade agreement to pass into law, Australia should still ratify the TPP, the Treaties Committee has said.
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Adopting a digital mindset is fundamental to being a successful modern CIO. Martha Heller, a top author and CIO influencer offers valuable and practical advice for every Chief Information Officer.
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Security, privacy, governance, analytics all part of story for next wave of identity and access management
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Under the draft legislation proposed for Australia's Diverted Profits Tax, most of the OECD would be regarded as low-tax and thus companies would incur a 40 percent penalty if profit is transferred to those jurisdictions.
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After detailing an autonomous future in the US earlier this year, Ford is ready to begin testing in Europe.
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At first glance, it looks like just another internet streaming service. A deeper look shows that it breaks net neutrality.
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Amazon says it sold a record number of Amazon-branded devices from Black Friday through Cyber Monday.
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Splunk was the headliner among tech earnings as Autodesk continues to transition to the cloud. Nutanix's sales were up more than 90 percent from a year ago.
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At Discover in London, HPE aims to court more companies chasing hybrid cloud deployments.
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Tom Lantzsch will lead Intel's Internet of things unit with the aim of boosting the chip giant's footprint vs. his old employer.
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According to the security firm, many Australian businesses fail to conduct frequent security testing despite considering threat protection to be a critical practice within an organisation.
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CIOs who want to provide a high level of assurance in regards to data integrity should work with external experts
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The storage giant's CEO has told partners AWS will be sending customers straight to the doors of partners who prove they are 100 percent committed to AWS.
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At the Re:Invent conference, Amazon Web Services' Terry Wise said there's a "deep desire to integrate Alexa and voice capabilities" into services offered through the partner network,
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A 'technology agnostic' USO, fairer access to NBN's satellite service, and a long-term mobile coverage program will improve rural connectivity, a coalition including ACCAN has said.
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Instant Games are part of a recent update to Messenger, and let you challenge your friends through the mobile app.
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At the AWS Re:Invent conference, AWS announced ways it's making its already fast-growing partner ecosystem more robust.
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Top analyst Ming-Chi Kuo predicts that the iPhone 8 could break sales records set by the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus in 2015.
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With increased competition from Google and soon others, Amazon is looking to differentiate its line of Alexa-connected speakers with the Fire tablet and Echo speaker in one.
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What IoT visionaries need to do to help create entire new categories of opportunities for their enterprises.
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It only takes 10 lines of law to kill the controversial rule change. But after six months of Congressional inaction, time is running out.
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There's a nasty new kind of spam hitting Apple users across the Internet. In this article, we show you what's happening, point you to some fixes, and call on Apple to make fixing this loophole a top priority.
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After a couple of months of hesitation, I finally purchased a used Google Pixel XL. It's a fabulous device, but using it also showed me the LG V20 may be one of the most underrated phones of 2016.
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This deep-learning system can look at an image and show you what it thinks will happen in the next second.
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Birst is one of the poster children of self-service analytics. Convergence and democratization are the key themes underlying Birst's new release out today, as Birst is trying to balance self-service with enterprise requirements, and making a case for some of the industry's defining trends while at it.
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Ofcom wants BT Openreach to be a distinct company with its own board, and is taking the next step towards making it happen.
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It seems there's no relief in sight for iPhone owners struggling with prematurely dying batteries and seemingly false battery-level readouts.
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Thomas Wieberneit takes on customer experience management and the differences between delighting the customer all the time (not) and making sure things work for that customer (yes).
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Online frenzy for Lego, iPads, and Playstations saw $3.39bn spent, while shoppers using iOS devices outspent Android users.
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Finnish airline Finnair starts with iPhone apps for engineers and supervisors, with more to follow from the Apple-IBM tie-up.
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Wi-Fi and Bluetooth-enabled SBricks Plus building blocks from Hungarian startup Vengit open up Lego to a far wider range of apps, coded in much more complex languages.
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The Pinebook is a low-cost Linux laptop with an ARM CPU that undercuts the cheapest Chromebooks.
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American Airlines is planning to move some of its internal applications to IBM's infrastructure- and platform-as-a-service offerings.
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Germany's federal security office confirmed that almost a million customers in the country were affected by internet outages as a result of the attack.
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Vocus will 'highly automate' its business by investing in data analytics in order to improve customer experience and take advantage of the 'rich data' being collected.
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Utilities must use IoT to augment human intelligence, eliminate labour, and embrace predictive analytics, Cisco Australia CTO Kevin Bloch has said, as there's a 'massive divergence' between what humans and computers can do.
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HPE has successfully demonstrated that its memory-driven computing prototype works, taking it one step closer to redefining the future of computing architecture.
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If cold calling, fake alerts, and screen lockers aren't enough, potential victims now face a new threat born from ransomware.
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Country's three mobile operators--M1, Singtel, and StarHub--will adopt the Mobile Connect global standard that will enable their users to access online services with their mobile number.
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Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes has shared his long-standing views of the Australian banking industry and reminded fintech entrepreneurs to take advantage of regulatory changes and shifts in the financial environment.
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The European initiative aims to close the "mobile digital skills gap" and encourage technology startups.
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If we have the algorithm, we also have the key to true artificial intelligence.
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The rifle-style DroneGun enables a controlled landing of drones up to 2km away by signal jamming their pilot communications.
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Samsung Electronics will allocate 50 percent of free cash flow to shareholders in 2016 and 2017 and commence a six-month corporate structure review.
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The Australian regulator has issued a draft proposal to deny authorisation for banks to collectively bargain with and boycott Apple Pay.
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Insurance firm Police Health adopted Interactive Intelligence's PureCloud solution to bring its contact centre out of the 1930s and into the digital age.
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Want to save online streaming shows to watch later? Sling has your back.
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New Zealand providers Spark and Chorus will be offering 400 premises in Whakatane an accelerated fibre connection process as part of a pilot program to speed up installations.
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Will telephone exchanges eventually evolve into highly distributed data centres supporting close proximity traffic steering, VNF deployment and application platform access, taking complexity away from the branch and making the core even more damn sexy than it is already?
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Sloan Mana, project manager for the scaffolding business AT-PAC, talks about how she motivates her company's employees to adopt new software.
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Buying a used smartphone usually means you have to forgo any sort of insurance plan, unless you buy it from Swappa.
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The company wants ideas for products that can be produced on a large scale.
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Inmarsat, Deutsche Telekom, Nokia, and Thales have completed test flights of high-speed internet for air passengers.
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A recount is important, not because of politics, but to demonstrate to our citizens, allies, and enemies that we're diligent and on-guard against any cyber breach of the integrity and security of our voting process.
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Worried about the days long rebuild times of 6, 8, or even 10TB drives? Don't be. Object storage is getting rid of that relic of the 25 year old RAID architecture. Here's how it works.
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The laws of physics - coupled with the desire for phones less than 8 mm thick - limit improvements in camera optics. The current trend is towards using more than one camera lens on the rear to provide interesting results.
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The ABCI supercomputer will be used for artificial intelligence and machine learning research.
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Matson, a shipping company, shelved its data centers for AWS. Here's a look at the psychology behind the decision, why an open architecture is everything and how to view lock-in when it comes to the cloud.
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OLED displays will give Apple the opportunity to bring to market an iPhone with a curved display.
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Cloud accounting firm Xero has reached the end of its two-year migration to Amazon Web Services.
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SAP still has some work ahead when it comes to targeting small and medium-sized enterprises, but the company appears to have enough ducks in a row to make a run at the market.
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It's not all doom and gloom for the Australian PC market, with IDC reporting a year-on-year growth of 3.5 percent in PC shipments.
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Documents confiscated during AFP's NBN raids on Jason Clare in August will remain confidential and under parliamentary privilege, and will be returned to the former shadow communications minister.
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Following launches in Germany, Japan, and the UAE, Alibaba Cloud has opened its fourth datacentre this month, in Sydney.
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The problem of fake news isn't just limited to election campaigns. Legitimate tech reporters have been tearing their hair out over bogus stories for years. The latest example is a report that Microsoft is giving telemetry information to a well-known security company. It's not true, but Google and Bing don't seem to care.
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Digital X has announced raising AU$1.62 million amid a focus to deliver its AirPocket product, with the fintech company's co-founders departing at the same time.
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Want the latest and greatest tools for programming on Red Hat Enterprise Linux? They're here.
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Like everything in enterprise technology pricing can be a bit complicated. Here's an analysis from RightScale looking at how discounts alter the cloud pricing equation. Google comes out cheapest in most scenarios.
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The sales might not be as exciting as those on Black Friday, but you can still grab 15 percent off the iPad Air 2 at Target, $150 off the Apple MacBook at Best Buy, or a $129 laptop from Dell.
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Multinational companies directly drive the major part of global businesses. Often the business of subsidiaries, dedicated Line of business, acquisitions or divestitures are run with the ERP system of the headquarters, but there are cases where it is advantageous to run the subsidiary with their own independent ERP system.
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