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• With Spark Assistant, Cisco adds voice-activated A.I. to videoconferencing

  03-11-2017 21:31
  Cisco envisions a phased rollout of Spark Assistant, a new service designed to end some of the pain out of setting up office meetings.
  
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• Twitter employee briefly shuts Trump account, putting controls in question

  03-11-2017 16:49
  (Reuters) - Twitter Inc faced questions on Friday about its approach to internal security after a company employee briefly deactivated U.S. President Donald Trump's account.
  
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• Long lines for iPhone X help push Apple shares to record high

  03-11-2017 16:35
  SYDNEY/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Lines formed outside Apple Inc stores across the world on Friday as fans flocked to buy the new iPhone X, signaling stronger demand for the 10th anniversary version of the premium smartphone than the last two iterations.
  
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• Apple firmly on course for $1 trillion valuation: analysts

  03-11-2017 16:00
  (Reuters) - Apple Inc's shares hit a record-high on Friday after the tech giant reported a blowout fourth quarter and shrugged off concerns related to the iPhone X, prompting more analysts to put a trillion-dollar valuation on the company.
  
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• Apple sees strong holiday sales, smooth sailing for iPhone X

  03-11-2017 15:58
  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Incon Thursday reported better-than-expected earnings and offered a rosy forecast for the holiday shopping season, allaying investor concerns about production delays on the new iPhone X and demonstrating remarkable strength across its growing line of products and services.
  
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• Hard work, big prize: Bristol is shaping what it means to be a smart city

  03-11-2017 15:00 via computerweekly.com
  Two and a half years after the ambitious Bristol is Open smart city project launched, we return to the West Country to explore how things are progressing, and find out what has been learned
  
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• Cryptocurrencies' market cap hits record $200 billion as bitcoin soars

  03-11-2017 14:57
  LONDON (Reuters) - The aggregate value of all cryptocurrencies hit a record high of over $200 billion on Wednesday, according to industry website Coinmarketcap, putting their reported market value at more than that of U.S. banking giant Citigroup .
  
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• Equifax committee clears executive stock sales made after data breach

  03-11-2017 14:29
  (Reuters) - Equifax Incsaid on Friday that executives who sold shares before the credit-reporting service disclosed a massive data breach were not aware of the incident when their trades were made.
  
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• Frankfurt-Listed Apple shares up 4 percent on third quarter, iPhone X prospects

  03-11-2017 12:15
  LONDON (Reuters) - Frankfurt-listed shares inApple Inc rose 4 percent on Friday, after the iPhone maker published better-than-expected earnings and reassured investors over production delays of its latest iPhone X model.
  
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• Estonia orders online ID lock-down to fix security flaw

  03-11-2017 12:09
  TALLINN (Reuters) - Estonia plans to block access to the country's vaunted online services for 760,000 people from midnight on Friday to fix a security flaw in some of the Baltic country's identity smartcards that was identified earlier this year.
  
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• Carmakers plan 400 Europe car charging stations by 2020

  03-11-2017 11:28
  FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A group of mainly German carmakers will open ultra-fast electric vehicle charging stations this year and plans a pan-European network of 400 by 2020, hoping to narrow Tesla's lead.
  
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• WhatsApp messenger hit by temporary outage; Facebook investigating

  03-11-2017 11:14
  MUMBAI/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Facebook Inc's WhatsApp messenger suffered a temporary outage in India and many other countries, according to reports from multiple users on Facebook and Twitter on Friday.
  
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• Commonwealth Bank adds Face ID functionality on iPhone X launch day

  03-11-2017 07:49
  ​Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has announced customers will be able to log-in to its app with Face ID, the facial recognition technology built into Apple’s new iPhone X.
  
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• As a human, I don't do technology. I am technology - The Conversation AU

  03-11-2017 03:05 via theconversation.com
  The Conversation AU
  As a human, I don't do technology. I am technology
  The Conversation AU
  Jose Ramos is founder and director of Action Foresight, a Melbourne based business. He has received funding from the P2P Foundation and the Victorian Eco Innovation Lab for research projects, as well as from businesses and government departments for ...
  
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• Quantum start-up Q-Ctrl “unmixing the soup” of qubit decoherence

  03-11-2017 02:24
  An Australian start-up launched this week is working to address the issue with a suite of controls that can stabilise fragile quantum systems, and “effectively turn back the clock” on decoherence.
  
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• Superloop boosts wireless business with GX2 acquisition

  03-11-2017 02:17
  Superloop will acquire GX2, a provider of Wi-Fi and managed network services.
  
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• TPG pays price for faulty ‘unsubscribe’ function

  03-11-2017 00:23
  Internet service provider TPG has forked over $360,000 for breaches of the Spam Act 2003.
  
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