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Senior executives from Intel and Biogen explain the unique opportunities and challenges of Chief Information Officers. Ground truths from two powerful women.
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California regulators want Uber to obtain proper permits for its self-driving car service. Uber isn't budging. For defying the order, Consumer Watchdog is calling for Uber executives to be arrested.
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Joining existing Windows and Android Yoga Book editions, this might be the most interesting Chromebook released when it arrives in 2017.
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Solid examples of IoT applicability are sometimes hard to articulate. But agriculture provides a use case that is quite concrete, even if in rural environments.
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A new generation of streaming devices give cord-cutters a wider away of good choices than ever. Here are the best of the best.
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Internet platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk let companies break jobs into smaller tasks and offer them to people across the globe. But, do they democratize work or exploit the disempowered?
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Where do you draw the line on personal privacy? The right options are different for everyone. In this guide, I show you which privacy settings help you create the right balance of privacy and convenience in Windows 10.
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While MapR's open core strategy is no longer an outlier in the Hadoop ecosystem, its converged platform remains unique. While there remain gaps with regard to data governance, MapR could have a strong TCO story to tell.
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Paul Leary, president of the wine and lifestyle brand Bespoke Collection, talks about the tools his business uses to build long-term customer loyalty.
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Microsoft, HERE, TomTom, and Esri are collaborating on building a world graph of geographic data that's integrated with Microsoft's Azure cloud.
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An internet-connected backup drive exposed social security, bank account, and financial planning data.
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Digital video is a major driver of storage growth, but it has yet to fully replace film - an analog medium - in many feature films. The holdup? We're replacing human expertise with metadata - which means defining the digital process much more exactly than we ever did with film.
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While Agile and design thinking come from two different places, the similarities are striking.
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Acer's TravelMate X349-M is an affordable 14-inch ultraportable, with specs and performance to match. It could well earn its keep if you need a basic business laptop that doesn't cost a fortune.
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Sales are predicted to decrease by 10 percent, says study
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There are some fantastic options in the $400 range this year, with three devices making their way onto Matthew Miller's top 10 list.
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It's taken Apple three months, but iOS 10.2 now brings back the performance and stability that iOS 10 previously took away.
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Everyone's talking about digital transformation, but what do they really mean?
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Human error blamed for customers details sent to an incorrect email recipient.
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The Australian Taxation Office will call in an expert to investigate the two-day hardware outage.
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South Korea's IT export recovered in November after a 14-month decline thanks to a rise in demand for semiconductors and OLED.
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Australia's research computing facility has purchased IBM Power servers for high performance computing to propel research via artificial intelligence, deep learning, and advanced analytics.
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Malcolm Turnbull planned to launch Australia into a continuous innovation boom. Instead, a string of IT disasters have shown, yet again, that you can't skip the fundamentals.
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Users didn't want machines -- and Evernote staff -- to read their notes without express permission.
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The payment giants have teamed up to accelerate the adoption of both company's tokenisation offerings, Visa Checkout and MasterPass.
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Victorian tolling company Transburban will start trialling autonomous vehicles on state roads next year to better understand how the technology interacts with real world traffic.
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The federal government's new digital roadmap will see it carry over its digital transformation agenda into the coming year.
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Optus has inked a AU$20 million deal with Townsville City Council that will see it improve the council's internal processes as well as the service experience for community members.
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BlackBerry has handed over its hardware business entirely, licensing the brand to TCL Communication for the development and release of all future BlackBerry-branded mobile devices.
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South Korea will begin drawing regulations to create a data exchange and data-free zone for intellectual property rights over data, in preparation for the spread of AI tech.
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Verizon Wireless is doing the right thing and will release Samsung's impending software update that disables the Note 7 phone.
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The company continues to push an aggressive cloud strategy toward record-setting revenue growth.
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The software reports mixed Q2 2017 results but continued growth of its cloud business.
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It's time to seriously consider deleting your Yahoo account. Can't? OK, here's what you can do to protect it.
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The next time a connected device owner is running low on kombucha, she might be looking for an ad for more on her smart fridge.
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Windows 10 Insiders can take the rest of the year off, with Microsoft deciding that no new Insider Preview builds will ship until after New Year's. And still exclusive club of Microsoft Edge extensions now has a new member, the popular uBlock Origin ad blocker.
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If you've been looking for an added incentive to switch from AT&T to T-Mobile, how does a free year of DirecTV Now sound?
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Bitdefender, Check Point, Emsisoft and Trend Micro have joined the No More Ransom scheme - allowing more victims of ransomware to get their files back without paying criminals.
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A comprehensive study on the state of the technology in the country will be carried out ahead of the launch of a national strategy next year.
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Wheeler was appointed to the top position at the FCC more three years ago by the President Barack Obama.
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Fitbit's acquisition of Pebble's software platform revolved around talent and intellectual property. But don't forget the goodwill related to engaging Pebble's third party developer community.
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IBM Watson partnership with BMW looks to explore the potential of cognitive computing in vehicles.
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Half of Asia-Pacific respondents will buy or use a driverless car when available, but lack of safety standards and being targeted by hackers are top concerns, reveals survey.
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The Krux platform brings key innovations to the Salesforce Marketing Cloud, such as allowing marketers to tap into any Salesforce data.
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The Apotti project aims to unify the country's healthcare and social systems.
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The deal marks Nokia's evolution from traditional handsets into the world of networking and data analytics.
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The automaker is betting big on new technologies to put old scandals to rest.
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Staying in a luxurious hotel room means enjoying special perks and amenties you may not have at home. In 2017, guest of the Wynn in Las Vegas will be able to control their room via voice control thanks to the Amazon Echo deployment.
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With refugees from Syria flooding into its far smaller neighbour, Lebanon, local technologists are working to help respond to the humanitarian crisis.
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The Australian telco says it is not aware of any concerns specific to its operations in Singapore, where it has a local entity and will have an employee base of some 450.
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Government asks ACCC to only declare domestic mobile roaming if there is an overwhelming case.
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The Australian Securities Exchange has started the search for a new chief information officer, with Tim Thurman to head back to Canada early next year.
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The Australian Federal Court has ordered ISPs to block piracy websites, with content owners having to pay for the privilege.
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Judge D Arnott will be handing down his decision on former CBA employee Keith Hunter, who pleaded guilty to acts of bribery.
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Australian fintech startups looking to test their solutions in the market will have less trouble doing so from a regulatory standpoint, thanks to new class waiver released on Thursday by ASIC.
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Trump will fill the Federal Communications Commission with net neutrality opponents.
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Do you miss the old Windows 7 backup tool? It's still there, well hidden in Windows 10, and its most impressive trick is the option to create a complete image-based backup.
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Pip Marlow will join the bank as its new innovation-focused chief executive officer early next year.
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The bank will kick off closed beta trials of its new API developer portal before opening the platform up next year.
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Motorola Solutions has inked a AU$30 million deal with the NSW Telco Authority that will see it provide a network upgrade to improve safety and communications for first responders in the state.
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RocketSpace is expanding into Australia, with plans to launch three coworking spaces in Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane in 2017 in partnership with Dexus Property Group.
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Under the "scenes a faire" doctrine, the jury found that Arista does not owe the $335 million in copyright damages that Cisco sought.
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Now that Evernote will allow humans to sift through your data, it might be time to jump to a different provider.
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After raising $40 million in January, online lender BlueVine has closed an additional $49 million to expand its team and develop additional finance solutions.
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The company said the attack was 'likely distinct' from a separate hack in September.
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Following in the footsteps of other major browser makers, Microsoft announced plans to enable Click-to-Run functionality for Flash-based content in the next public release of its default web browser for Windows 10.
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As Silicon Valley's importance to the world economy continues to grow there are questions about its homogeneity and its exclusivity.
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A recent study from IBM Security suggests nearly 70 percent of business victims paid hackers to recover data compromised in a ransomware attack.
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The Toronto-based company will pay $1.6 million to settle FTC and state charges.
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Docker, with allies, Alibaba, AWS, Google, IBM and Microsoft are working on a new container runtime open-source project.
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The e-commerce giant's drone delivery program hit a big milestone in the UK, where it's running a private drone trial with two customers.
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Microsoft's newest release of its R Server product adds new ready-to-run algorithms and flexible deployment options. The result: even non-experts can build predictive models and integrate them into their apps and databases.
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Rather than fix the time remaining estimate in its Battery menu bar widget, Apple removed it in the macOS 10.12.2 update. Here's how to get it back.
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It's no secret that AMD has had a tough decade or so, and that the brand has begun to wither in Intel's shadow. But all that could change with Ryzen.
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Cortana isn't the only new feature coming to Microsoft's Windows 10 for IoT variants with the Creators Update release. Here's what else is on the feature list.
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The note-taking app will let humans (and not just machines) sift through your private data.
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A new report examines how companies are using machine data analytics. Among other findings, nearly all of the respondents use machine data analytics in support of their IoT projects.
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Microsoft is making available to its partners, like audio specialist Harman/Kardon, a new software development kit to help them build Cortana-capable devices.
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Snapchat-like FimFun brings privacy to video, and encourages instant feedback, without sending large files over the internet.
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The financial services domain, where real-time is measured in milliseconds, holds particular interest for big data applications and vendors for a number of reasons: architecture, regulation, transparency, decision-making, and the need for speed.
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HP said it will add more BIOS protection to its EliteBook 800 series of laptops.
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Filmmakers and photojournalists have their cameras and footage seized "at a rate that is literally too high to count," according to the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
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It's time to rethink the home and small office router. In an age of constant exploits and vulnerabilities, perhaps Google has the answer.
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Conversational AI company Conversica, which has an annual recurring revenue of $18 million, has raised $34 million from a consortium of investors to increase its sales and marketing efforts and expand globally.
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Australia is doing better than ever/about the same/much worse -- delete as appropriate to fit your world view -- according to the latest Akamai State of the Internet Connectivity report.
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Australia's TPG Telecom submits winning bid of S$105 million to secure 60MHz of spectrum, beating local provider MyRepublic in a "surprise" result that puts the spotlight on the former's ability to win customers.
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A new Microsoft voice-to-text application allows speakers of 60 different languages to communicate in real time, thanks to neural network-powered technology.
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Cybersecurity firms are using AI and machine learning to prevent attacks -- but what's to stop criminals using these technologies for ill?
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One US university is planning on teaching the next generation of medics with the next generation of virtual reality technology.
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Microsoft has issued a patch to resolve problems caused by a Windows update last week, which had stopped some Windows 10 users getting online.
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The launch of the AWS Europe London region means Amazon's suite of cloud services is now available in 16 regions across the globe.
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Microsoft's new 'Slack competitor' actually takes a very different approach. It's still a work in progress, but where it shines is threaded chat and superb integration with other Office 365 tools.
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The fast sprawl of live streaming platforms in China has raised the attention of regulators for their sometimes vulgar and violent content.
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The telco's new Business Technology Services academy will see 29 recruits exit the three-year program as security or network specialists and fill a role within Telstra.
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Cost of interest on government securities to pay for equity in NBN is set to more than triple this year's AU$580m cost by 2026-27.
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Thousands of sensors will be installed in the Amazon jungle to help scientists track biodiversity.
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As the ATO systems are undergoing restoration, the agency has said no data was lost during its two-day outage.
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Apple pulled watchOS 3.1.1 after bricking some Series 2 smartwatches. The update was intended to fix bugs.
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Australia's incumbent telco continues to fill missing executive holes, appointing an Ericsson CSO to the role of CTO.
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Restraining Telstra from acquiring additional 700MHz spectrum would help competition, the ACCC has advised the Australian government.
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The latest version of Nextcloud adds business security and scalability improvements to its small business cloud.
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More than 100 experts in artificial intelligence and ethics are attempting to advance public discussion surrounding the ethical considerations of AI.
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This year was a big one for Microsoft, across the company, in expanding its AI footprint. Today, Microsoft is rolling out new bot -, translation and tools that all have an AI tie-in.
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The new CentOS 7 release, based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3, has arrived.
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Slack is also rolling out a emoji response feature, so colleagues can throw out a virtual high-five or thumbs up during a meeting.
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Waymo, which stands for "a new way forward in mobility," launches after nearly eight years as part of the Google X research unit.
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Next year Qualcomm's Snapdragon processors will have hooks into Google's Android Things OS, which is now in a developer preview. Will the IoT OS race matter though?
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Attacks using the two of the most prolific forms of ransomware spiked in November as one continues to be amongst the top global threats.
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Docker for Azure is now available for public beta testing. Here's what's new since the private beta launched in June.
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This week sees the release of Linux 4.9, a mammoth release spanning 22 million lines of code.
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The move is also part of Intuit's strategy to make TurboTax a year-round financial services product and ultimately a more steady source of corporate revenues.
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After a rare delay and uncertainty surrounding the launch, Apple's wireless earbuds will arrive in time for the holidays.
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The Peak Design Everyday Backpack checks all the boxes for a multi-purpose backpack while offering an optimal experience for the photographer.
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The gist of LiveMessage is that companies should be able to connect to customers and service them as a friend-to-friend interaction would occur via an app like Facebook Messenger.
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Should you be able to demand that personal information on the internet be deleted, hidden or anonymised? This book provides a much-needed measured analysis of the 'right to be forgotten'.
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The insights gained from combining IBM's cognitive technologies and Delos' data should be useful for building healthier living and work environments.
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Early next year, Estonia rolls out its new Smart-ID digital identity system, which is not dependent on a SIM card and can be used around the world.
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If we don't change our "closed network thinking," the situation could become very serious in the future.
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Security experts say that the country is the main threat actor threatening the safety of our airports and flights.
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The security company took six months to patch the set of security vulnerabilities.
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The startup originally created by Google employees is coming home.
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Consumers are screenaholics and are checking their smartphones 1 billion times a day more than a year ago, said Deloitte & Touche. Here's a look at some industries that benefit.
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The federal government has published draft funding rules for round one of its Smart Cities and Suburbs Program.
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SoftBank's upcoming $100 billion 'Vision Fund' was touted alongside President-elect Donald Trump at a meeting earlier this month.
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The Sydney-headquartered freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace has announced that it has acquired Nubelo and Prolancer, the company's top competitors in Spanish and Portuguese-speaking markets.
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The Australian Taxation Office has called in service provider Hewlett Packard Enterprise to investigate its two-day outage.
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Google's mobile payment system has taken its first step into the Japanese market.
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Melbourne-based BMY Group is eyeing high net worth Chinese investors interested in Australian startups to back its first venture capital fund.
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According to a recent study, little value addition in electronic manufacturing and unemployable graduates will cause a 150 million jobless youth in a decade or so -- in other words, social armageddon -- if the Indian government fails to up the education and skills quotient in the country.
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ASX-listed enterprise software company TechnologyOne has called the Australian Taxation Office's corporate tax transparency report 'confusing and misleading', even after the ATO said the report didn't tell the full story of a company's tax affairs.
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The tax office is still suffering technical issues after hardware failure brought its online services down on Monday.
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The deal won't expand internet access in the communist country, but it will give Cubans who already have internet access faster connections to Google-branded content.
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FBI, Apple set tone for year that saw progress in on-going attempt to devise better access controls
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Square has added new features to its point of sale application in Australia to help businesses manage employees and oversee multiple branches from within one account.
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In the new Tectonic, CoreOS will make it possible to automatically update Kubernetes, the popular cloud container management program.
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The university has opened a centre that will be dedicated to the development of the software and information processing infrastructure required to run quantum-scale applications.
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The researchers disclosed details of the flaw, despite receiving two written legal threats.
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Now replacing Google Keyboard, Gboard for Android is available months after its release on iOS.
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Leav succeeds Bob Beauchamp, who will continue to serve as chairman of the Board of Directors for BMC.
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Microsoft officials say they've sold Surface Hub conferencing systems to more than 2,000 customers since March, and that they've now got their supply situation under control.
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Overall, the Report Junk feature is more of a whack-a-mole solution than a actual fix.
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Fire up your iPhones and iPads because it's time for the long-awaited iOS 10.2 update.
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With its docking options and Windows 10 Mobile's Continuum functionality, HP's Elite x3 aims to provide all the computing that some mobile professionals require. It won't be for every organisation though.
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It's surprisingly easy to create and print replacement parts. In this hands on, David Gewirtz shows how he created a remote control cover replacement. The big picture: 3D printing enables virtual spare parts inventories.
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Microsoft's Windows 10 Creators Update, coming next year, will include the ability for Cortana to work from across the room with certain IoT devices -- but only those with screens.
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Samsung has big plans for artificial intelligence and acquired a digital assistant named Viv. But a partnership with Google means Google Assistant leads on the smartphone. Samsung, however, sees more AI touch points ahead.
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Microsoft has added Skype Translator support for mobile and landline phone calls to the latest version of Skype Preview for Windows 10 PC Insider testers.
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Two successful senior executives -- both former CIOs -- offer practical and helpful advice to companies, men, and women on improving gender diversity in technology.
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Since May, Microsoft Ventures has made investments in 18 companies/entities. It also now has a dedicated AI fund.
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Coordinated global operation targets teens using DDoS tools, as part of an effort to discourage youngsters from starting out in cybercrime.
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And 2017 seems set to be an even tougher year for the Cupertino giant.
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The Google-backed link is now expected to be ready by Q2 2017
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It may seem that there's no room for a company in the crowded headphone category for newcomers, but entrants are finding a place by banking on quality materials, comfort and, of course, great sound.
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The latest version of the three-year-old firm's cloud infrastructure software takes it from the private cloud to hybrid.
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With the release of the iCE40 UltraPlus, Lattice adds key enhancements to its FPGA family that will drive innovation in IoT and mobile.
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'Don't scrimp on change management', says CIO who is rolling out Windows 10 at law firm Linklaters.
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Recent debate in Spain focusing on using the cloud to increase citizen participation in political processes has found the technology itself is only part of the issue.
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NBN's internal cross-subsidy between fixed-line, and wireless and satellite technologies is set to disappear under draft legislation released by the government on Monday.
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The NSW Division of Resources and Energy has assigned Singapore-based startup Latize the task of finding ways to improve mining safety processes using data analytics technology.
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The Federal Court of Australia has approved the impending takeover of ASG Group by Nomura Research Institute.
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Australian-based non-profit Pet Rescue turned to AWS to help re-home the thousands of animals surrendered each year.
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This year made consumer virtual reality headsets, well, a reality. Major hardware players now have affordable offerings on the market, just in time for the holiday shopping season.
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Acting CTO for Australia's third mobile network will take on the role in a permanent capacity.
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Cook will likely be speaking to a few future employees during his speech.
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South Korean startup Nare IoT Lab has developed an arc fault fire prevention system based on IoT technology that will allow farmers to protect livestock.
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The financial institution is banking on shared services to change the way mutual banks do business and boost 'operational collaboration' in the sector.
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Australia's Department of Immigration will spend AU$7 million over five years for satellite connectivity.
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Queensland-based Y Combinator alumnus GO1 has raised AU$4m in a pre-Series A funding round from a range of investors including Shark Tank's Steve Baxter.
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The still exclusive club of Microsoft Edge extensions now has a new member, the popular uBlock Origin ad blocker.
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For the cost of a brand new Google Pixel XL or iPhone 7 Plus, you can buy a pair of Huawei Mate 8s and still treat yourself to a decent dinner.
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It doesn't look like Apple AirPods will be available before Christmas.
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This week's technology roundtable at Trump Tower includes high profile leaders of Apple, Facebook, Google, Oracle and others, according to Recode.
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The ransomware will lock your files, unless you pay up. But it also contains a far more sinister method of decrypting your files.
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