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• Three companies win $550.8 million deal to supply McAfee software to Pentagon

  09-05-2018 23:38
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three companies have been awarded a $550.8 million blanket purchase agreement to supply McAfee hardware, software and related services to the U.S. Defense Department, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.
  
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• China's ZTE says main business operations cease due to U.S. ban

  09-05-2018 23:06
  HONG KONG (Reuters) - ZTE Corp's main business operations have ceased due to a ban imposed by the U.S. government, but China's second biggest telecom equipment maker is trying to have the ban modified or reversed, it said on Wednesday.
  
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• Qualcomm sets new $10 billion buyback plan

  09-05-2018 22:51
  (Reuters) - Chipmaker Qualcomm Incsaid on Wednesday its board hasapproved a new $10 billion buyback program that replaces the previous $15 billion stock repurchase program announced in March 2015.
  
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• Amazon rolls out model 'smart' homes for U.S. shoppers to try out Alexa

  09-05-2018 22:29
  VALLEJO, Ca (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc on Wednesday said it has set up model "smart" homes across the United States for shoppers to experience what it's like for voice aide Alexa to dim the lights, turn on the TV or order more laundry detergent.
  
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• Microsoft's Snip Insights puts AI technology into a screenshot-taking tool - TechCrunch

  09-05-2018 22:16
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  Microsoft's Snip Insights puts AI technology into a screenshot-taking tool
  TechCrunch
  A team of Microsoft interns have thought up a new way to put A.I. technology to work – in a screenshot snipping tool. Microsoft today is launching their project, Snip Insights, a Windows desktop app that lets you retrieve intelligent insights – or even ...and more »
  
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• TPG unveils mobile play: Free access, unlimited data

  09-05-2018 10:03
  TPG will offer six months’ free access to its mobile network as it begins customer trials later this year. It said today it expects to switch on the network in Q3 or Q4.
  
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• Microsoft takes step towards delivering FPGAs as a service

  09-05-2018 07:12
  Microsoft has taken another step towards allowing its Azure customers to leverage the capabilities of the field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) that the company has installed in its cloud data centres.
  
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• Hydro Tasmania searches for new CIO

  09-05-2018 06:26
  Hydro Tasmania has appointed Omera Partners to lead its search for a new chief information officer, following the departure in August of its previous IT chief, Luke Stow.
  
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• NBN prepares to decommission temporary POIs

  09-05-2018 04:34
  NBN has committed to decommissioning its temporary Points of Interconnect (POIs) by the end of 2018.
  
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• BlueChiip (ASX:BCT) wireless temperature tracking technology - Finance News Network

  09-05-2018 04:09
  Finance News Network
  BlueChiip (ASX:BCT) wireless temperature tracking technology
  Finance News Network
  BlueChiip Limited (ASX:BCT), Managing Director, Andrew McLellan provides an update on its MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical) based tracking tags, range of applications and sales. Rachael Jones: Hello, I'm Rachel Jones for the Finance News Network.
  
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• How technology helped foil the rhino poachers - Computerworld Australia

  09-05-2018 03:52
  How technology helped foil the rhino poachers
  Computerworld Australia
  Dimension Data and Cisco have helped cut rhinoceros poaching down to zero at a 62,000-hectare private game park in South Africa, and now governments and other reserves with threatened species are starting to take notice. By 2014 rhino poaching had hit ...and more »
  
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• How technology helped foil the rhino poachers

  09-05-2018 03:43
  Dimension Data and Cisco have helped cut rhinoceros poaching down to zero at a 62,000-hectare private game park in South Africa, and now governments and other reserves with threatened species are starting to take notice.
  
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• DTA to scrutinise blockchain’s potential for government payments

  09-05-2018 01:42
  Budget documents reveal that the government’s Digital Transformation Agency will “investigate areas where blockchain technology could offer the most value for Government services”.
  
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• Budget 2018: Government to upgrade key Veterans’ Affairs ICT systems

  09-05-2018 00:53
  The Department of Veterans’ Affairs will receive an additional $111.9 million over four years beginning in 2018-19 “to continue to transform and improve veterans’ services to more effectively and efficiently meet the current and future needs of veterans and their dependants,” budget papers reveal.
  
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