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• How Technology Liberates Human Capital - Wall Street Journal (subscription)

  11-04-2017 23:40 via wsj.com
  
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  How Technology Liberates Human Capital
  Wall Street Journal (subscription)
  New technologies tend to disrupt old businesses, but also to create more jobs than they destroy. That's little solace, though, to the workers who lack either the skills or flexibility to find better opportunities. From the factory floor to the Wall ...
  
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• Hacked Dallas sirens get extra encryption to fend off future attacks

  11-04-2017 23:37
  
  Dallas city officials have added extra encryption to bolster the security of outdoor warning sirens hacked early Saturday.
  
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• Fortinet upgrades for better cloud, SD-WAN protection

  11-04-2017 23:30
  
  Fortinet has rolled out a new version of its FortiOS operating system that gives customers the ability to manage security capabilities across their cloud assets and software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) environments.
  
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• HP rises again to be the world's top PC maker as Lenovo slips

  11-04-2017 22:54
  
  Worldwide PC shipments totaled 60.3 million units in the first quarter of 2017, growing by just 0.6 percent compared to the same quarter the previous year, according to IDC.
  
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• FAQ: Enterprises face another Windows 10 upgrade

  11-04-2017 22:30
  
  Microsoft today began pushing out its latest Windows upgrade, nicknamed "Creators Update." Here's what companies should know before making the jump.
  
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• Facebook's PHP dialect makes inroads among popular programming languages

  11-04-2017 21:48
  
  The Hack language has made its first appearance in the top 50 of Tiobe's index of language popularity, while the D language is poised for a big leap
  
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• Orange Pi takes on Raspberry Pi with new computer boards

  11-04-2017 21:32
  
  Raspberry Pi may be the most well-known board computer, but rival Orange Pi is rolling out a much larger range of boards at a dizzying pace, and at cheaper prices.
  
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• Lawsuits claims Yahoo squandered trust fund for Chinese dissidents

  11-04-2017 21:24
  
  A pledge Yahoo made 10 years ago to help Chinese political dissidents has resulted in millions of dollars squandered, according to a new lawsuit filed on Tuesday.
  
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• How technology will be used in the US-Mexico border wall - CNBC

  11-04-2017 20:38 via cnbc.com
  
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  How technology will be used in the US-Mexico border wall
  CNBC
  Today Attorney General Jeff Sessions is touring the U.S.-Mexico border in Nogales, Arizona where he is speaking with law enforcement and military personnel. Known for his hardline position against illegal immigration — as well as restricting legal ...
  Attorney General Jeff Sessions Delivers Remarks Announcing the Department of Justice's Renewed Commitment to ...US Department of Justiceall 234 news articles »
  
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• New guidelines point to an augmented future

  11-04-2017 19:23
  
  The augmented reality guidelines will promote interoperability, their creators said.
  
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• It's time to dump Moore's Law to advance computing, researcher says

  11-04-2017 19:17
  
  Dumping Moore's Law is perhaps the best thing that could happen to computers, as it'll hasten the move away from an aging architecture holding back hardware innovation.
  
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• Slack apps can now use drop-down menus

  11-04-2017 19:00
  
  Apps that integrate with Slack can now include drop-down menus in the messages that they post to the service, as part of a push to improve the interactivity of third-party integrations.
  
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• DNS record will help prevent unauthorized SSL certificates

  11-04-2017 17:58
  
  Starting in September, publicly trusted certificate authorities will have to honor a special Domain Name System (DNS) record that allows domain owners to specify who is allowed to issue SSL certificates for their domains.
  
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• Positioning technology trials for spatial industry - iTWire

  11-04-2017 17:21 via itwire.com
  
  Positioning technology trials for spatial industry
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  Geoscience Australia and the Co-operative Research Centre for Spatial Information (CRCSI) are jointly investing around $400,000 on a user trial and testing of a Satellite-Based Augmentation System (SBAS) for the spatial industry in Australia. The two ...
  
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• Going mobile in Moscow: city digitisation the Russian way

  11-04-2017 17:00 via computerweekly.com
  Computer Weekly meets with Andrey Belozerov, strategy and innovations advisor to the CIO of Moscow, to learn how the city government is taking a joined-up approach to digitisation and smart city technology
  
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• Dridex gang uses unpatched Microsoft Word exploit to target millions

  11-04-2017 15:37
  
  The gang behind the Dridex computer trojan has adopted an unpatched Microsoft Word exploit used in attacks for months and used it to target millions of users.
  
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• Cisco fortifies storage throughput, analytics

  11-04-2017 15:34
  
  Cisco this week took the wraps off several products aimed at helping existing fibre channel customers grow the speed, capacity and management of their storage environments.
  
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• Pure adds more NVMe with an eye to the next storage speed bump

  11-04-2017 15:00
  
  The NVMe interconnect should allow for bigger and denser flash modules and faster application performance. Pure Storage is tapping into this potential with its new FlashArray//X.
  
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• Apple is developing its own power management chips, says analyst

  11-04-2017 14:43
  
  Apple could be developing its own power management chips, according to a report from German private bank Bankhaus Lampe. The release of the report led to a sharp drop in the shares of Dialog Semiconductors, the current supplier of these chips to the iPhone maker.
  
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• Video will become ‘cash cow’ for telecoms providers, says Huawei

  11-04-2017 12:00 via computerweekly.com
  Video services have the potential to generate a lot of money for telcos, according to Huawei president of products and solutions Ryan Ding
  
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• Data centers decline as users turn to rented servers

  11-04-2017 12:00
  
  Data centers are declining worldwide both in numbers and square footage, a surprising change given the recent boom.
  
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• Qualcomm says Apple using its power to pay less for a patent license

  11-04-2017 10:23
  
  Qualcomm is seeking damages from Apple, alleging that the iPhone maker interfered with long-term agreements between the chip company and licensees that manufacture the iPhone and iPad, and encouraged actions by regulators against the company by giving government agencies "false and misleading information."
  
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• Transforming learning through technology - EducationHQ Australia

  11-04-2017 07:39 via au.educationhq.com
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  Transforming learning through technology
  EducationHQ Australia
  Sam Gibson firmly believes when technology is used correctly, and innovatively, learning can be transformed for all students. The Tarawera High School e-learning leader will have the chance to look at transformative ways to use technology after being ...
  
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• NAB's flagship branch to be test-bed for new tech

  11-04-2017 07:31
  
  ​NAB has launched a Sydney flagship branch to serve as a test-bed to trial new customer-facing and staff focused innovations.
  
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• Dashing Launches Global Shopper Marketing Technology In Australia - B&T

  11-04-2017 04:37 via bandt.com.au
  
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  Dashing Launches Global Shopper Marketing Technology In Australia
  B&T
  Dashing Group has announced it has struck two exclusive partnerships with global retail specialists to launch innovative shopper technology designed to better engage customers, deliver enhanced in-store experiences and analyse the consumers' path to ...and more »
  
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• Miner South32 partners with GE, rolls out industrial IoT platform

  11-04-2017 04:16
  
  ​Miner South32 has signed a three-year digital transformation deal with General Electric which will include the roll-out of Industrial Internet of Things platform, Predix.
  
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• Doltone House acquires Australia Technology Park - SpiceNews

  11-04-2017 04:06 via spicenews.com.au
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  Doltone House acquires Australia Technology Park
  SpiceNews
  The venue, launched this week, will now be known as Doltone House Australian Technology Park. Paul Signorelli, Doltone House's executive chairman, said the recent acquisition was an “exciting development for the Doltone House Group”. “We are thrilled ...and more »
  
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• Technology stocks starting to pay dividends - InvestorDaily

  11-04-2017 03:44 via investordaily.com.au
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  Technology stocks starting to pay dividends
  InvestorDaily
  Technology may not be a 'traditional' income sector, but a number of technology companies are providing good yields and dividend growth prospects, writes Henderson Global Investors' Ben Lofthouse. By Ben Lofthouse: Tuesday, 11 April 2017 ...
  
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• Australian nanosatellite start-up prepares for launch

  11-04-2017 02:45
  
  An Australian space start-up, which plans to launch the first of 100 satellites next year, today announced the completion of a $5m Series A funding round.
  
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• NBN considers roll-out of NG-PON2

  11-04-2017 01:18
  
  NBN sees potential in NG-PON2 (Next-Generation Passive Optical Network 2) as means to deliver on its future bandwidth and capacity requirements, the company’s CTO said today.
  
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• Disputed Sociedad goal highlights lack of goal-line technology in La Liga - SBS - The World Game

  11-04-2017 00:56 via theworldgame.sbs.com.au
  
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  Disputed Sociedad goal highlights lack of goal-line technology in La Liga
  SBS - The World Game
  Sporting Gijon goalkeeper Ivan Cuellar dove to block Real Sociedad star Willian Jose's third-minute header, managing to knock the ball out as it appeared to cross the goal-line. Even in televised repetitions, it's still tough to tell. Source: AAP. 11 ...and more »
  
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• Tech Timeline: The iPad first goes on sale

  11-04-2017 00:44
  
  In April 2010, Apple introduced the first-generation iPad, which came with automatic orientation, web browsing, and access to email.
  
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• US dismantles Kelihos botnet after Russian hacker's arrest

  11-04-2017 00:33
  
  The arrest last week of a Russian man in Spain was apparently for his role in a massive spam botnet and not related to an ongoing investigation into foreign tampering with last year's U.S. election.
  
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• Bank deploys Dell Boomi to deliver omnichannel customer service

  11-04-2017 00:11
  
  ​Teachers Mutual Bank has deployed the Dell Boomi cloud based integration platform to help it achieve its goal of delivering an omnichannel customer experience, where customer service operators have a completely integrated view of all information relating to a customer.
  
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