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• US Park Service tweets were result of old Twitter passwords

  25-01-2017 21:02
  
  Two instances of tweets from National Park Service accounts that became political hot potatoes in the last few days were the result of bad password management, according to officials.
  
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• Apple takes patent battle with Qualcomm to China

  25-01-2017 20:39
  
  Apple has filed another two lawsuits against Qualcomm, this time in China, that allege the mobile chip maker abused its market dominance and patents to charge excessively high licensing fees.
  
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• Survey: IT workers worried about US net neutrality repeal

  25-01-2017 16:33
  
  More than eight in 10 U.S. IT workers support the nation's net neutrality regulations, and many are worried that President Donald Trump administration's likely repeal of the rules will hurt their industry.
  
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• How technology can help disaster response - The Guardian

  25-01-2017 16:13 via theguardian.com
  
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  How technology can help disaster response
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  A young girl charges a mobile phone at the former first reception centre near to the port of Chios, where refugees and migrants were camping out. Photograph: Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images. Supported by Crown Agents About this content.
  
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• Kaspersky Lab employee reportedly arrested in Russia on treason charges

  25-01-2017 16:10
  
  One of the leading cybercrime investigators at antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab was reportedly arrested in Russia as part of a probe into activities that could represent high treason.
  
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• Emergency Services Network will not be ready in time, says PAC

  25-01-2017 15:44 via computerweekly.com
  A Public Accounts Committee examination of the Emergency Services Network concludes that the controversial project may need more testing and assurance than its delivery date allows for
  
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• Apple plans for manufacturing in India gain momentum

  25-01-2017 15:01
  
  Apple’s plans to manufacture in India made headway on Wednesday with executives of the company presenting their detailed plans to the country's federal government.
  
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• Cisco scrambling to fix a remote-code-execution problem in WebEx

  25-01-2017 14:01
  
  Cisco’s Webex Browser Extension contain a critical bug that can open up customers’ entire computers to remote code execution attacks if the browsers visit websites containing specially crafted malicious code.
  
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• Norfolk pub becomes first Vodafone Ciss programme hub

  25-01-2017 13:30 via computerweekly.com
  The Wortwell Bell in Harlestone, Norfolk, becomes the first “community hub” to receive indoor 3G mobile coverage through Vodafone’s Community Indoor Sure Signal scheme
  
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• Project promises packaging panacea for Python

  25-01-2017 12:00
  
  Pipenv combines PipFile, Pip, and Virtualenv into a single toolchain
  
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• US safety agency wants improved safety standards for batteries

  25-01-2017 09:07
  
  The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said Tuesday that industry needs to learn from the Galaxy Note7 experience and put more safeguards in place during the design and manufacturing stages of lithium-ion batteries.
  
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• TechnologyOne disputes Brisbane City Council blowout claims

  25-01-2017 06:59
  
  TechnologyOne has said it welcomes a review of an IT systems replacement program at Brisbane City Council but has denied it is to blame for delays to the project.
  
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• Brisbane City Council's technology upgrades to cost extra $60m, already delayed 18 months - ABC Online

  25-01-2017 06:31 via abc.net.au
  
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  Brisbane City Council's technology upgrades to cost extra $60m, already delayed 18 months
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  A blowout costing up to $60 million to Brisbane City Council's technology upgrades will result in more money being spent on a new system than it is projected to save over 10 years. Lord Mayor Graham Quirk today revealed that a $122-million IT contract ...and more »
  
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• ATO CIO sees more cloud in agency’s future after outage

  25-01-2017 04:54
  
  The Australian Taxation Officer’s chief information officer, Ramez Katf, says that the 12 December storage failure that took down some of the agency’s core systems is unlikely to happen again.
  
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• IBM, Optus and Australia Post join blockchain group

  25-01-2017 04:29
  
  IBM, Optus and Australia Post have joined the Australian Digital Currency Commerce Association (ADCCA).
  
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• Cisco's Spark Board looks like an iPad -- and acts like one

  25-01-2017 04:01
  
  The Spark Board meeting device that Cisco Systems introduced on Tuesday is not so much a whiteboard or a videoconferencing screen as a giant tablet that everyone in the room can share.
  
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• Cisco snatches AppDynamics from IPO market for US$3.7b

  25-01-2017 02:29
  
  Cisco has agreed to acquire AppDynamics for $3.7 billion in cash and assumed equity awards, scooping up the application performance management company just days before its expected initial public offering.
  
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• Cisco snatches AppDynamics from IPO market for $3.7B

  25-01-2017 02:29
  
  Cisco has agreed to acquire AppDynamics for $3.7 billion in cash and assumed equity awards, scooping up the application performance management company just days before its expected initial public offering.
  
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• Microsoft's OneDrive for Business gets Mac client, shared folder sync

  25-01-2017 01:22
  
  Microsoft gave users and administrators of OneDrive for Business some new features on Tuesday that they’ve requested for a while.
  
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• Cyber criminals avoid fraud within their own ranks with new site

  25-01-2017 01:12
  
  Ironically, cyber criminals have to battle fraudsters too. To help them, a new web service is warning the hacker community who among them can’t be trusted.
  
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• Internet Australia appoints new chair

  25-01-2017 00:45
  
  Anne Hurley has replaced George Fong as chair of Internet Australia, the not-for-profit organisation has announced.
  
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• Law firm Maddocks appoints new CIO

  25-01-2017 00:10
  
  Bradley Kay has been appointed chief information officer at corporate law firm Maddocks.
  
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