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• Ministry prepares platform for NZ Business Number rollout

  22-06-2015 23:59 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  The Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment is looking for technology to deliver a register of New Zealand businesses.
  
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• Ministry prepares platform for NZ Business Number roll-out

  22-06-2015 23:59 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment is looking for technology to deliver a register of New Zealand businesses.
  
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• Review: Acer UT220HQL

  22-06-2015 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Introduction and designAcer's UT220HQL ($199, £125, AU$255) is an excellent option for PC owners who want a larger display than what's available on a laptop, but also require a touchscreen. It's an easy way to add touch to an older PC or laptop to take advantage of all the gestures enabled on Windows 8, 8.1, and 10. For modern laptop owners, the built-in touch support on the UT220HQL is also a convenient way to gain the benefits of working on a larger panel without losing the touchscreen.With a
  
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• Apple and Salesforce CEOs call on South Carolina to take down Confederate flag

  22-06-2015 20:47
  
  Tech industry leaders join clamor after Charleston church shootingTim Cook: Honor victims’ lives by eradicating racism and ‘symbols that feed it’ Related: Romney wants Confederate flag taken down but other Republicans hedge bets Tech industry leaders including the Salesforce chief executive, Marc Benioff, and the Apple CEO, Tim Cook, have called on South Carolina to remove the Confederate flag from the grounds of its state house in Columbia.Continue reading...
  
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• ​Docker powers up software-defined networking to boost container portability

  22-06-2015 19:00 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Along with a new architecture for third-party software to plug into Docker, the container platform has stepped up its game in software-defined networking.
  
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• Open Container Project: How cloud giants are joining forces against lock-in and fragmentation

  22-06-2015 19:00 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Announced today under the Linux Foundation banner, the Open Container Project has the backing of the major forces in cloud and containers, including Docker and appc.
  
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• Review: Updated: HP Spectre x360

  22-06-2015 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Introduction and designUpdate: HP has informed us a bios can be installed to fix a number of issues with the track pad and keyboard backlight on the Spectre x360. TechRadar will re-test the laptop and update this review accordingly.If it transforms, it'll probably look ugly. This is basically the precedent that has been set by anything that can change from one form to another from Transformers realized as toys to even real-life amphibious and flying cars. This hasn't been more true than with 2-i
  
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• Uber faces FTC complaint over plan to track customers’ locations and contacts

  22-06-2015 18:43
  
  Taxi app wants access to customers’ data even when they’re not using the app so it can ‘launch new promotional features,’ but a group says it’s a threat to privacyRegulators are being urged to investigate Uber over the taxi app company’s controversial plan to track its customers’ locations – even when they’re not using the service – and harvest details of their contacts.Campaigners at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (Epic) on Monday filed a complaint with the The Fe
  
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• Human Charger aims to reduce jetlag and improve your mood

  22-06-2015 18:39 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  If you need an energy boost during the day, try a quick pick-me-up with the Human Charger by Valkee.
  
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• Hands-on review: Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (2015)

  22-06-2015 18:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Introduction and key featuresEditor's note: We've spent time with the new Kindle Paperwhite running early build software, which is why this is a hands-on review. Once our unit receives the final software update we'll put it through its paces again and give it a star rating.Amazon's most popular ereader, the Kindle Paperwhite, has evolved yet again with the 2015 version (or the "All-New" version as Amazon's calling it) offering an improved 300ppi display, a new Bookerly font and a new typ
  
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• ConnectUp fixes weak social media connections to extend your network

  22-06-2015 17:47 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  ConnectUp aims to fix the problem of poor social media connections to give you a way to unify, search, filter, and utilise all of your contacts.
  
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• Twitter to co-founder Jack Dorsey: 'We don't want you'

  22-06-2015 17:12
  
  Committee to only consider candidates who will make a full-time commitment to Twitter, the social network’s board says in statementTwitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is currently set to stand in as the interim chief executive of the company once current boss Dick Costolo steps down at the end of June. But don’t expect Dorsey to get the top job permanently: Twitter’s board of directors has made it quite clear today that they don’t want him.The company announced on Monday that it had hired hea
  
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• Review: Panasonic TX-40CX680B

  22-06-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Introduction and features4K versus Full HD; can you tell the difference? 4K is all about huge TVs, it's about sitting closer to the TV and it's about coming face-to-face with an eight megapixel TV image instead of two megapixels. That's the maths behind the 3840x2160 pixels of 4K material, but what happens if everything – including the price – is shrunk down to 40-inches? That's a conundrum tackled head-on by the Panasonic TX-40CX680B, comfortably the smallest 4K TV to be reviewed so far. At
  
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• Major internet providers slowing traffic speeds for thousands across US

  22-06-2015 16:58
  
  Study finds significant degradations of networks for five largest ISPs, including AT&T and Time Warner, representing 75% of all wireline households in USMajor internet providers, including AT&T, Time Warner and Verizon, are slowing data from popular websites to thousands of US businesses and residential customers in dozens of cities across the country, according to a study released on Monday.
  The study, conducted by internet activists BattlefortheNet, looked at the results from 300,000 i
  
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• Dapper Laughs continues his journey to the bottom with copycat website

  22-06-2015 16:44
  
  The comedian infamous for rape jokes and other hilarity has established DappsDaily.com – which appears to be lifting content wholesaleDapper Laughs’ listicle website, DappsDaily.com, has had the briefest stint online after a Guardian investigation revealed it to be rife with content copied word-for-word from a number of different websites, including Metro.co.uk and PopSugar. The comedian, aka Daniel O’Reilly, is most famous for releasing a single called “Proper Moist”, making jokes abo
  
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• Apple's dad-dancing problem-solver

  22-06-2015 15:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A profile of Apple's problem-solving executive, Eddy Cue
  
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• Snapchat boss makes 'don't be creepy' pledge

  22-06-2015 14:55
  
  Evan Spiegel extolls the vitrues of advertising that ‘fits the context of the story’ rather than pre-rolls or banner adsGoogle’s motto, lest we forget, is “Don’t be evil”. It seems that Snapchat’s catchphrase might now be summed up as “Don’t be creepy”.Evan Spiegel, the 24-year-old chief executive of the messaging app, has told a gathering of advertising types that he and his colleagues “really care about not being creepy”. Continue reading...
  
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• BuzzFeed UK hires Sunday Times journalist Michael Gillard

  22-06-2015 14:36
  
  Reporter who exposed criminal boss David Hunt is second high-profile journalist from paper to join website Sunday Times journalist Michael Gillard is joining BuzzFeed UK, becoming the second high-profile journalist from the paper to join its investigations team, which is run by former colleague Heidi Blake. Gillard won journalist of the year and investigation of the year at the 2013 British Journalism Awards for his work exposing criminal boss David Hunt. The Sunday Times subsequently fought off
  
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• E3 2015: our 13 favourite games

  22-06-2015 14:28
  
  From the epic Star Wars Battlefront to the intimate Beyond Eyes, here are our most memorable moments from this year’s rather fantastic eventLast week, E3 – the Cannes film festival of the video game industry – attracted more than 50,000 game makers, journalists and retailers to the LA convention centre for three days of frenzied hype, promise and speculation. 300 exhibitors were there, showing off more than 1,600 products, from cutting-edge augmented reality headsets to farming simulators.
  
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• Jide Remix Ultra tablet: Paying homage to Microsoft Surface (hands on)

  22-06-2015 14:02 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and the Jide Remix Ultra is certainly flattering the Microsoft Surface tablets.
  
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• Printing in the cloud: How to get started

  22-06-2015 11:30 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Printing via the cloud can make life easier for workers on the move. Here are some of the issues you need to consider.
  
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• Whatever happened to green IT?

  22-06-2015 11:30 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Sustainability and eco-awereness were a high priority for tech chiefs a few years ago, but it's rarely raised as an issue anymore.
  
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• VIDEO: Holographic pyramid on your table

  22-06-2015 10:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Will this interactive holographic display help people interact with technology in groups more naturally?
  
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• Labor waves piracy site-blocking Bill through Australian Senate, despite concerns

  22-06-2015 09:54 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Labor has ensured the government's website-blocking Bill has passed both houses of the Australian parliament.
  
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• Singapore and Australia top the region for mobile and app infrastructure: Ericsson

  22-06-2015 09:21 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Singapore has come out on top for the fastest download speeds, and second to Australia for the best app infrastructure across its region, according to an Ericsson report.
  
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• VIDEO: Europe launches anti-IS web taskforce

  22-06-2015 08:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A Europe-wide police team is being formed to track and block social media accounts linked to Islamic State (IS).
  
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• Apple Music in Taylor Swift backdown

  22-06-2015 07:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Apple Music reverses its payment policy, a day after Taylor Swift said she was refusing to allow the company to stream her album 1989.
  
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• 3D Medical implants 3D-printed titanium jaw joint

  22-06-2015 06:58 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  3D Medical and Oral and Maxillofacial have successfully implanted a 3D-printable titanium jaw into a patient who was suffering from a rare jaw deformity.
  
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• TAFE NSW IT upgrade issues to bring Seek results down

  22-06-2015 05:46 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  One-off issues from an IT systems upgrade undertaken by TAFE NSW is expected to impact on Seek Group's financial results for the second-half of the 2015 financial year.
  
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• Service NSW to receive AU$362m digital transaction boost

  22-06-2015 04:02 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Ahead of the New South Wales Budget to be handed down on Tuesday, the state's one-stop shop for many government services will receive a funding injection to enhance its digital delivery.
  
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• UK's NBN model falls short on advertised speeds

  22-06-2015 03:27 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Only 3 percent of fibre-to-the-cabinet users in the UK can get the average download speed advertised on the service.
  
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• Apple Watch: Now the hard work really begins

  22-06-2015 00:00 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  It's the second version of the Apple Watch which will really tell us if the smartwatch is the device of the future: here's why.
  
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