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• SAP Leonardo adoption progressing despite user group apathy

  15-11-2018 23:00
  In June 2017 SAP relaunched a nascent product named after Leonardo Da Vinci to reflect its changing position from an IoT platform to a "digital innovation system".
  
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• Marketing startup Playground XYZ makes Deloitte's rising technology star list - MuMbrella

  15-11-2018 22:12
  MuMbrella
  Marketing startup Playground XYZ makes Deloitte's rising technology star list
  MuMbrella
  Sydney based marketing startup Playground XYZ has been named as one of Australia's rising stars in Deloitte's 2018 Technology Fast 50 awards. The mobile advertising startup previously won Marketing Technology Company of the Year prize at the 2017 ...
  
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• Slack beefs up security with enterprise key management

  15-11-2018 19:35
  Slack has announced the rollout of Enterprise Key Management to tighten up security and compliance for its enterprise customers.
  
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• Goals-based technology to shift industry - InvestorDaily

  15-11-2018 19:08
  InvestorDaily
  Goals-based technology to shift industry
  InvestorDaily
  Goals-based advice is not a new phenomenon. The Hayne Royal Commission has suggested that advisers inadequately demonstrate how their advice links to their client's goals. However, financial planners have long been talking to clients about their goals.
  
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• In poor countries technology can make big improvements to education - The Economist

  15-11-2018 16:49
  The Economist
  In poor countries technology can make big improvements to education
  The Economist
  AT KICOSHEP SCHOOL in Kibera, a vast Nairobi slum, Grade 3 is learning English. The teacher, Jacinter Atieno, asks questions about a story on the exploitation of children as domestic servants. At the back of the class, a coach logs information about ...
  
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• How technology can make up for bad, absent teachers in poor-country schools - The Economist

  15-11-2018 16:49
  The Economist
  How technology can make up for bad, absent teachers in poor-country schools
  The Economist
  “BOOKS WILL soon be obsolete in schools,” Thomas Edison announced in 1913: they would, he believed, soon be replaced by silent films. Each new wave of information technology—radio, television, computers—has led to similar predictions. And each time ...
  
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• Vulnerabilities to hit 19,000 this year — time for Australia to get smart on security

  15-11-2018 15:00
  What do storms, volcanoes and cyber attacks have in common? All can have a devastating impact on society and all have claimed a spot on the World Economic Forum’s top global risks of 2018 list. Last year, the global cost of cybercrime was estimated to exceed $600 billion, equating to around 0.8 per cent of global GDP. An eye-watering amount.
  
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• The winners of the 2018 Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Australia Awards - Business Insider Australia

  15-11-2018 13:05
  Business Insider Australia
  The winners of the 2018 Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Australia Awards
  Business Insider Australia
  Buy-now-pay-later fintech Afterpay Touch Group has topped the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Australia list for 2018 with average revenue growth of 8134% over the last three years. Afterpay, founded by Nick Molner and Anthony Eisen, also won the ...
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• Google investigates faster, more-private webpage transitions

  15-11-2018 12:00
  The Chrome team works on specs for fast loading and multipage sites
  
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• Being bionic: how technology transformed my life - The Guardian

  15-11-2018 07:01
  The Guardian
  Being bionic: how technology transformed my life
  The Guardian
  Prosthetics have made amazing advances in recent years – and are slowly changing people's attitudes to disability. By Patrick Kane. Main image: Patrick Kane at Pace rehabilitation centre in Stockport. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian.and more »
  
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• Vanadium critical for renewable energy storage, hears Technology and Low Emission Minerals Conference - Proactive Investors Australia

  15-11-2018 06:59
  Proactive Investors Australia
  Vanadium critical for renewable energy storage, hears Technology and Low Emission Minerals Conference
  Proactive Investors Australia
  The battery mineral is still largely being used in steel production, but its demand is expected to explode as vanadium redox flow batteries are used to store renewable energy. Conference attendees. The conference was held at the Westin Hotel in Perth.and more »
  
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• Macquarie Uni coupler enables super-fast fibre, a potential antidote to 'capacity crunch'

  15-11-2018 05:06
  ​A coupler developed by researchers at Macquarie University Photonics Research Centre has enabled transmission of more than a petabit of data per second down an optical fibre as fine as a human hair.
  
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• Salter Brothers challenges MyNetFone over Inabox takeover

  15-11-2018 04:52
  A subsidiary of SB&G Group has made an all-cash $21.4 million offer for Inabox, ahead of a 19 November Inabox ​shareholder meeting due to vote on a takeover bid by MyNetFone.
  
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• Workday CEO outlines plans to take on ERP giants, Oracle and SAP

  15-11-2018 04:30
  Workday is transitioning from an HR and business finance software suite into a full ERP platform as it aims to compete with Oracle and SAP.
  
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• Blazing saddles and pencils give way to technology - www.miningmonthly.com

  15-11-2018 02:41
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  Blazing saddles and pencils give way to technology
  www.miningmonthly.com
  Fast track to 2018, 130-years later, and the tools of the trade have been transformed by drones and sophisticated GPS tracking systems. In its 130-year life the Geological Survey of WA has produced more than 12,000 publications through proactive, ...and more »
  
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• Telco group concerned over push for ACMA to oversee TIO

  15-11-2018 02:33
  Telco industry group Communications Alliance says it is concerned over a government proposal for the Australian Communications and Media Authority to oversee the complaints body Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman.
  
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• Greens call for digital rights commissioner

  15-11-2018 01:24
  The Australian Greens have called for the establishment of a “digital rights commissioner” as part of a suite of new policies unveiled yesterday by the party.
  
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• KPMG Australia launches cryptocurrency tax estimator API

  15-11-2018 00:50
  ​KPMG today launched a tool to help traders of cryptocurrencies better understand their tax liabilities.
  
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• Digital Realty opens new Sydney data centre, plans to build more

  15-11-2018 00:45
  Digital Realty has boosted its investment portfolio in Australia to more than $1 billion after opening its new data centre facility, Digital Erskine Park II.
  
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