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• Fronde loss 'extremely disappointing', says chairman.

  13-07-2015 23:57 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Cloud desktop alliance with Google, AWS and Citrix to target mid-market customers.
  
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• Updated: Buying Guide: 6 best mobile workstations 2015: ideal laptops for business

  13-07-2015 23:35
  
  Best mobile workstation 2015Few productivity decisions are more important and, in turn, nerve-racking than selecting the right mobile workstation for your employees.Making the wrong choice could mean saddling your employees with a bad computer. So what do business owners look for?A great display, computing power and exceptional battery life without breaking the bank. There are few mobile workstations that can do this and we've rounded them up here.Update: Even though it's technically not a mobil
  
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• Backed the Pebble Time Steel? You'll get it later this month

  13-07-2015 23:02
  
  Most Pebble Time Kickstarter backers have received their smartwatches and now it looks like those who ordered the Pebble Time Steel will be getting their fancier watch by the end of July.The Pebble blog notes that production of the watch will start this week but the delivery timeframe has been pushed back a little bit.Still, that shouldn't stop people from receiving the Steel by August at the latest. The Pebble Time is priced at $199 (£179, AU$199.99) while the more premium Steel costs $299 (ab
  
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• Review: Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga 15

  13-07-2015 21:56
  
  IntroductionThese days, if you're in the market for a home-use laptop, you're more than likely to purchase a convertible laptop-tablet hybrid. However, business users have been given very few solid convertible options from which to choose. Lenovo, the pioneer of the convertible space, has sought to remedy that with its ThinkPad Yoga line. The newest edition to the lineup, the Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga 15 (starting at $929/£598/AU$1250), offers the sturdiness and performance of a mobile workstation w
  
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• Is Comcast's Stream a sign that the cable industry is tired of swimming upstream?

  13-07-2015 21:52 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  For $15 a month the web-based add-on will feature the major broadcast networks and PBS and HBO – and might signal the end of the old-fashioned cable landscapeWill traditional cable die the death of a thousand cuts? Comcast said late on Sunday it would begin selling a web-based service called Stream, with content from the major broadcast networks and PBS and HBO. The programming will be available as a $15 add-on to Comcast’s internet-only package.
  Comcast’s offering is just the latest in a
  
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• Caspar Bowden obituary

  13-07-2015 19:21 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Anti-surveillance campaigner and former Microsoft privacy chief who warned of online state snooping many years before Edward SnowdenCaspar Bowden, who has died of cancer aged 53, warned of online state snooping many years before Edward Snowden, and ran a successful campaign to stop surveillance laws becoming even worse than they are. He entered the fray in 1997, when Tony Blair went back on a pre-election promise not to demand government access to cryptographic keys. At a Scrambling for Safety c
  
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• Apple Pay to begin tapping into UK contactless market

  13-07-2015 19:13 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  The US company is to launch its contactless payment system, which will be accepted at more than 250,000 locations, on TuesdayApple Pay is set to launch in the UK on Tuesday, allowing iPhone users to tap and pay with their phones.It is the first time it has been launched outside the US, and will be available to users with an iPhone 6 or 6 Plus. It is also compatible with the Apple Watch. Continue reading...
  
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• ​Cloud firm Rackspace ramps up Microsoft Azure support

  13-07-2015 17:30 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  It's already been offering support in its datacenters for private Azure clouds but now Rackspace is extending services to public and hybrid Microsoft environments.
  
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• Hands-on with the Polar V650 and V800 GPS sports gear: Coaching you to go further

  13-07-2015 16:46 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Polar makes high quality sports tracking gear and the multi-sport watch and bike computer provide all the data you want while helping coach you to improve your performance.
  
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• Review: Audio-Technica ATH-MSR7

  13-07-2015 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Wireless headphones are all the rage, and for good reason. Listening to music wire-free is simply more convenient, as you don't even need to touch your music player to change songs. That said, there will always be a loyal crowd of headphone enthusiasts that refuse to snip the cable. Why? Sound quality.At its current state, wireless technology can't stream true audiophile-level sound without costing a fortune. Going wired is the cheapest way to get anything close to that level of audio quality, b
  
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• Review: Garmin NuviCam LMT-D

  13-07-2015 15:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Dash cam sales grew by an astonishing 918% last year and UK insurers are now giving discounts to dash-cam-packing drivers and accepting dash-cam footage in disputed claims. In the anarchic Wild West of Russia's highways, anyone with a sense of mortality and a jot of common sense fits a dash cam to their car, capturing some amazing footage along the way, to show a future police officer, judge or St Peter. With standalone sat navs under threat from smartphone apps, Garmin's decision to bolt a dash
  
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• Review: Dell Inspiron 13 7000

  13-07-2015 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Introduction and designThe first time I used a convertible laptop-tablet hybrid was almost a decade ago, when I toyed around with a ThinkPad X-series tablet in my college years. While it was a cool idea, it was very much a novelty with too many compromises. The device was heavy compared to its non-tablet ThinkPad counterparts, and its screen wasn't particularly attractive. And despite Microsoft's added stylus support to Windows XP, the user experience was clumsy at best. Today's convertible lapt
  
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• Diary of a Microsoft Band user: Here's what I've found out so far

  13-07-2015 14:58 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  After a couple of months with the Microsoft Band, I know it's useful but I'm still figuring out why.
  
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• The reinvention of Reddit

  13-07-2015 14:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  What do changes at the top mean for the news site's future?
  
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• F1 2015: fast, complex and dead inside, just like the real thing

  13-07-2015 14:33
  
      F1 2015 is the most accurate Formula One simulation yet; exhilarating and tense, devoid of personality, lacking in substantial entertainment-enriching innovation, overly-complex and with an overall sense of lost heart and soul permeating its every pixel.By: Michael Rundle, Continue reading...
  
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• Google asked to remove one million links under 'right to be forgotten'

  13-07-2015 14:05 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Google has removed 58 percent of one million URLs that Europeans have asked it to scrub from search results.
  
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• Lock bug prompts Range Rover recall

  13-07-2015 14:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Land Rover is recalling more than 65,000 cars to fix a software bug that can unlock the vehicles' doors.
  
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• Apple gives Greek users free iCloud for 30 days

  13-07-2015 13:27 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Greek users unable to pay for their online storage due to financial restrictions have been given a little breathing space.
  
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• Saudi supercomputer enters top list

  13-07-2015 12:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  For the first time a supercomputer based in the Middle East has entered the top rank of the most powerful computers on the planet.
  
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• ​Huawei snaps up SDN software assets from Ireland's Amartus

  13-07-2015 12:32 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Huawei is taking on software and staff from Irish software defined network vendor Amartus.
  
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• PM urges bigger spend on drones

  13-07-2015 12:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The prime minister asks military chiefs to look at increasing funding for the SAS and drones to combat the threat of Islamic State extremists.
  
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• Big data's big problem: How to make it work in the real world

  13-07-2015 12:30 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  There aren't enough big data success stories to justify the hype. Here's what companies need to rethink, according to the experts.
  
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• Hands-on review: AstroPi SenseHAT

  13-07-2015 12:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Raspberry Pi has travelled across the sea, powered robots, taught entire classes and is now set to reach into space with the AstroPi project. This is a science project where schools from across the United Kingdom are being asked to devise experiments which, if chosen, will be run on the International Space Station (ISS) by ESA astronaut Tim Peake.AstroPi is also the name for the hardware platform designed for use with the A+, B+ and Raspberry Pi 2 boards (although it can work on all Pi model
  
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• ​China's Tianhe-2 still king supercomputer, but US has more systems in top 500

  13-07-2015 11:48 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  China's Intel-based Tianhe-2 or 'Milky Way 2' remains the top dog in the world of supercomputers.
  
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• The New IT, book review: Business advice with a cutting edge

  13-07-2015 11:04 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Part self-help guide, part serious business advice, this realistic look at why the IT team is often the last to get new technologies will have you alternately grinning and groaning...and then taking notes.
  
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• VIDEO: Painting objects with touch

  13-07-2015 11:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scientists develop a way to interactively label objects.
  
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• VIDEO: Going high-tech at your conference

  13-07-2015 11:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The technology making conferences more interactive and memorable
  
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• Hands-on review: EE Rook

  13-07-2015 10:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Some people just want cheap and cheerful. EE gets that, so that's why the company has just released the cheapest 4G handset currently available on the market.In the UK only you can currently buy the EE Rook for £39 (with £10 credit) if you're an EE customer or £49 (with £10 credit) if you're new to the network. But what does that money really get you, and is it a useable device for that little expense?DesignUpon first look the Rook from EE isn't going to drop any jaws, but after a little fid
  
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• Nintendo's beloved gamer CEO

  13-07-2015 09:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Satoru Iwata's achievements and legacy
  
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• Samurai Warriors: Chronicles 3 review – stylised history, little to wow

  13-07-2015 09:00 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  (PS Vita, Nintendo 3DS, Tecmo Koei, cert: 12)Take up your katana in this hand-held hack-and-slasher as a samurai in the service of legendary warlord Nobunaga Oda. Samurai Warriors: Chronicles 3 is a highly stylised version of real events, moving between breezy gameplay and dry retellings of the Warring States period of Japanese history with a few “what-if” scenarios mixed in. There are multiple game modes and plenty to uncover, if you have the patience.The actual moment-to-moment combat is f
  
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• Nintendo's Satoru Iwata dies at 55

  13-07-2015 08:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Japanese video game maker Nintendo says its chief executive Satoru Iwata has died of cancer at the age of 55.
  
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• Fallout Shelter review – a rare and winning combination

  13-07-2015 08:30 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  (iOS, Bethesda, cert 12)Too many freemium games are a cheap cash grab. But Bethesda’s mobile spin-off from its famous post-apocalyptic series is that rare beast: free and not constantly squeezing you for cash.Sharing a scorched-earth setting with the role-playing titles from which it takes its name, a cartoon aesthetic is put to good use in this building game, where players are tasked with creating a vault to protect and attract survivors. Resource collection and management are key – with fo
  
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• Uncharted’s Nolan North: ‘I’m the best kind of actor – the working kind’

  13-07-2015 08:30 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  His work providing the voice of Nathan Drake on PlayStation’s Uncharted series has made him one of the biggest stars of the video games industryAs Nathan Drake in PlayStation’s Uncharted series, Nolan North pioneered a new standard in video game performance while establishing himself as a leading voice actor in both games and animation. But the trick, he says, is not to compartmentalise yourself …Is there a secret to becoming a voice actor? Continue reading...
  
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• Amazon Fire HD Kids Edition tablet - review

  13-07-2015 08:00 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Decent performance for its low price, but the real draw is its eat-all-you-want catalogue of apps, games, ebooks and videosWhen Apple launched its first iPad in 2010, the thought of handing a £429 device over to a child seemed like crazy talk. Yet that’s exactly what happened with that and subsequent tablets.Fast forward to May 2015, when the UK’s communications regulator Ofcom reported that 71% of British 5-15 year-olds had access to a tablet at home, including 34% who had their own o
  
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• Xeodrifter review – 2D side-scrolling at its best

  13-07-2015 08:00 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  3DS, Renegade Kid, cert: 7, out nowDeveloper Renegade Kid delivers a very satisfying trip down memory lane with Xeodrifter, in the form of a 2D side-scrolling platformer with lovely, retro, pixel graphics. They know their reference points too and cleverly have based it on classic Metroid staples such as exploration, a slow rediscovery of powers and challenging boss encounters.Being stranded in space after a meteor strike the small protagonist must investigate the planets still within reach to fi
  
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• User interfaces: why are microwave ovens all so difficult to use?

  13-07-2015 08:00 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  The first ‘science oven’, launched in 1967, was simple to use but then digital interfaces came along and made things worse. The real problem, however, is that microwave ovens live too longVisited anyone recently and tried to use their microwave oven? Of all the familiar devices in a house, the microwave has long been the laggard in usability. The “science oven”, as it is so wonderfully described in the 1970s-set film American Hustle, pre-dates the digital era (the first came out in 1967)
  
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• Living dolls: sci-fi’s fascination with artificial women

  13-07-2015 08:00 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  From Pygmalion to Ex Machina, the idea – and the ideal – of building a ‘perfect woman’ has come down through history. A new book explores whyFrom mechanical dolls to the eponymous Coppélia, the Jetsons’ Rosie to Ex Machina’s beguiling Ava, the lure of technology to create a manifestation of “the perfect woman” has long proved seductive.But just why are automatons so attractive? And just what is this “perfect woman” anyway? Rounding up a veritable sorority of artificial
  
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• Traditionalist Abbott keeps BlackBerry as PM's department prefers iPhone

  13-07-2015 06:24 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Prime Minister Tony Abbott is one of just a few ministers in the Australian government reportedly still using a BlackBerry phone, while his department has said it only issues iPhones now.
  
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• Queensland government to give startups a AU$24m boost

  13-07-2015 05:54 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk today announced plans to give the state's startup industry a AU$24 million funding injection as part of the government's AU$180 million Advance Queensland initiative.
  
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• BigAir to acquire Applaud IT for AU$1.2m in cash

  13-07-2015 05:11 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Wireless broadband provider BigAir has agreed to purchase managed services and cloud solutions provider Applaud IT in a deal to bolster its managed technology solutions.
  
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• Two further critical Flash zero-days appear from Hacking Team breach

  13-07-2015 03:55 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Security firms FireEye and Trend Micro have found two more zero-day vulnerabilities in Flash, thanks to the data leaked from Italian security company Hacking Team.
  
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• Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata dies of cancer aged 55

  13-07-2015 03:24 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Japanese company confirms its chief executive died on SaturdayNintendo said Monday that its chief executive Satoru Iwata has died of bile duct cancer at the age of 55, several months after he abandoned the Japanese gaming giant’s consoles-only policy.
  In a brief statement, the Kyoto-based company said Iwata died on Saturday. Continue reading...
  
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• Nintendo President Satoru Iwata has died at age 55

  13-07-2015 02:48
  
  In unfortunate news that is bound to shock the gaming world, Nintendo has announced that its President, Satoru Iwata, passed away on July 11, 2015 due to a bile duct growth.Iwata underwent surgery to remove a bile duct growth last year, after which he issued a statement saying that "it is said that a bile duct growth can be difficult-to-treat, partly because of the difficulty of detecting it early. In my case, luckily, it was detected very early and I had no symptoms," making today's n
  
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• SDCC 15: The best Comic-Con 2015 cosplay and more

  13-07-2015 02:45
  
  From the Con's endless floorIf you weren't able to make it to Comic-Con this year, we've gathered up a gallery of some of the sights you can't miss from the show floor. From Furbacca to Walking Dead zombies and Captain Planet, you won't be disappointed!Here's every Comic-Con 2015 trailer you need to seeFurbacca
  Star Wars seemed to be the biggest craze at this year's Comic-Con, and we think this Furbacca display pretty much says it all. Beyond the massive Star Wars booth, the Star Wars panel beca
  
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• How to upgrade your car's subwoofers & amplifiers

  13-07-2015 02:20
  
  Howtoupgradeyourcar'ssubwoofersandamplifiersWe've previously spoken about how to upgrade your car's head unit and speakers. In this article We'll go deeper and set you up with a next-level audio system, complete with separate amplifier and a subwoofer.What we can't do is guide you step-by-step on how to install it all – there is a lot of work involved, including removing interior panels and carpet, wiring up fuses and grounds, running new power and speaker cables, mounting the amp and sub, and
  
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• Password manager Mitro shutting down in August

  13-07-2015 01:51 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  Over the next six weeks, Mitro will gradually turn off its infrastructure, as costs have forced its hand to close the password managing service.
  
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• Ultrasound may heal chronic wounds

  13-07-2015 01:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A blast of ultrasound may help stubborn chronic wounds heal more quickly, a study suggests.
  
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• ​1 in 5 ANZ businesses continue to run on Windows Server 2003: Dell

  13-07-2015 00:00 via zdnet.com.feedsportal.com
  
  A study by Dell has uncovered that 20 percent of Australian and New Zealand businesses are still running Windows Server 2003 or older.
  
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