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• Google in talks to buy Nokia's airplane broadband business: Bloomberg

  10-04-2018 22:31
  (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google is in talks to buy Nokia Oyj's airplane broadband business, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
  
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• Microsoft shows IT how to get bigger bang from Windows Analytics

  10-04-2018 18:19
  New documentation, still in draft form, details how companies can craft specialized reports andcustom alerts from Windows Analytics' data and integrate the data with other info.
  
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• IBM tweaks its z14 mainframe to make it a better physical fit for the data center

  10-04-2018 12:00
  IBM is making rack-mounted versions - ZR1 and Rockhopper II - of its latest z14t mainframe, that are able to securely run containerized software.
  
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• Indirect access: SAP offers a new way to pay

  10-04-2018 11:05
  SAP is inviting customers to pay for its software per record created when they access it indirectly through third-party apps and services, and not per named user as it does today.
  
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• Proposed rule would stop NBN retailers charging for speeds they can’t deliver

  10-04-2018 10:00
  The Australian Communications and Media Authority has unveiled its latest tranche of proposed regulations designed to protect consumers during the migration to the National Broadband Network.
  
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• Katherine High wins cutting edge technology - Katherine Times

  10-04-2018 09:13 via katherinetimes.com.au
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  Katherine High wins cutting edge technology
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  In Mr Harrison's class, students are challenged to design and 3D print a sled that interacts with spherical robot Sphero and carry Easter eggs around an obstacle course. Students at Katherine High School are reaping the benefits of a $50,000 digital ...
  
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• Virtual technology helps select better bulls2 days, 5 hours ago - North Queensland Register

  10-04-2018 08:28 via northqueenslandregister.com.au
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  Virtual technology helps select better bulls2 days, 5 hours ago
  North Queensland Register
  VIRTUAL REALITY: Ascot stud principal Jim Wedge (right) takes a new look at his sale bulls with Paul Holm and Andrew Meara from Elders. Share · Tweet. Aa. Jim and Jackie Wedge's Ascot stud at Warwick is using virtual reality to promote the annual on ...
  
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• Apple says all its facilities now powered by clean energy

  10-04-2018 06:57
  Apple says it has achieved its goal of powering all of the company's facilities with renewable energy, a milestone that includes all of its data centers, offices and retail stores in 43 countries.
  
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• Breach report confirms: People suck

  10-04-2018 06:01
  Even in the wake of high-profile malware campaigns such as the WannaCry and NotPetya ransomware waves, businesses are still failing to get the security basics right when it comes to employee awareness training and patching vulnerabilities.
  
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• Labor opposes call to break up NBN

  10-04-2018 03:56
  Shadow communications minister Michelle Rowland says that although the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s recent telecommunications market study was “certainly useful in parts”, Labor did not agree with the ACCC’s recommendation that NBN should be prepared for being broken up into separate businesses.
  
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• Facebook's Zuckerberg says sorry

  10-04-2018 02:42
  ​Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg swapped his trademark T-shirt and jeans for a dark suit and a purple tie as he met U.S. lawmakers to apologise for the social network's misuse of its members' data and to head off possible regulation.
  
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• NBN stages 5G wireless tests

  10-04-2018 01:27
  NBN will this week begin its first tests of 5G wireless technology.
  
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• NBN: More households to get FTTC instead of FTTN, HFC

  10-04-2018 01:27
  More households and businesses that were previously earmarked for connection to the National Broadband Network with fibre to the node (FTTN) or hybrid fibre-coaxial (HFC) will now be hooked up using fibre to the curb (FTTC).
  
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