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• Huawei becomes most profitable Android brand: Report

  24-11-2016 23:45 via zdnet.com
  
  Chinese smartphone supplier Huawei has outstripped the trouble-ridden Samsung and gained the most profit among Android phone brands for Q3 2016.
  
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• Black Friday and Cyber Monday: Five tips for spotting a bargain

  24-11-2016 18:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Black Friday is now one of the UK's busiest shopping days, but how can you spot a genuine bargain?
  
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• iPhone 7 vs Samsung Galaxy S8: Will Samsung’s next flagship smartphone best Apple’s?

  24-11-2016 18:49
  
  Wondering what Samsung has up its sleeve after the Note 7? We look at how the Samsung Galaxy S8 could shape up next to Apple's iPhone 7
  
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• Turkey fryer warning given by fire chiefs for Thanksgiving

  24-11-2016 18:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  US fire chiefs have released a turkey fryer danger alert video to coincide with Thanksgiving Day.
  
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• Brazilian organizations advance in digital transformation

  24-11-2016 18:33 via zdnet.com
  
  Companies are making more efforts around digital but board and staff commitment remains a challenge, says study
  
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• Sysomos Gaze gives view of your social imprint across images

  24-11-2016 17:56 via zdnet.com
  
  Every day, more than three billion images are created on social media and nearly one million minutes of video are shared every second. But businesses have little insight into this content, what it means for their brand or their target audiences.
  
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• Convict-spotting algorithm criticised

  24-11-2016 17:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An experiment to see whether computers can identify criminals based on their faces has been conducted in China.
  
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• Beavers are back! The animals are native to Scotland again after 400 years

  24-11-2016 17:15
  
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• You can now play Microsoft's Solitaire on your phone

  24-11-2016 17:07
  
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• Everyone is a role model, says Jacqueline de Rojas

  24-11-2016 17:00 via computerweekly.com
  
  All women in the tech industry are role models for those around us, whether or not we want to be, according to Jacqueline de Rojas
  
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• US Navy sailors' data breached

  24-11-2016 16:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The US Navy is investigating after personal data of more than 130,000 sailors was "compromised".
  
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• Customer data integration a market opportunity, says CXP Group consultant

  24-11-2016 15:46 via computerweekly.com
  Technology and service providers should focus on customer data integration to help businesses improve customer satisfaction, says CXP Group consultant Nicole Dufft
  
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• CERT to Microsoft: Don't kill EMET, Windows 10 will be less secure without it

  24-11-2016 15:44 via zdnet.com
  
  Windows 10 may be Microsoft's most secure OS yet, but that doesn't mean users' interests are served by abandoning a key exploit mitigation toolkit, says CERT.
  
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• Competition authority wants feedback on open banking plan

  24-11-2016 15:30 via computerweekly.com
  The government’s Competition and Markets Authority is asking for feedback on its proposals to introduce competition in the retail banking sector
  
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• The best deals on Apple iPad Air, mini, Pro tablets during Black Friday 2016 [Updated]

  24-11-2016 15:27 via zdnet.com
  
  They aren't as plentiful as in years past, but there are still savings to be had if you're in the market for a new iPad.
  
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• The best deals on Apple iPad Air, mini, Pro tablets during Black Friday 2016

  24-11-2016 15:27 via zdnet.com
  
  They aren't as plentiful as in years past, but there are still savings to be had if you're in the market for a new iPad.
  
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• China breaks patent application record

  24-11-2016 15:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  China-based inventors apply for more patents than any country has ever done before in a single year.
  
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• Bletchley Park will train codebreaking teen hackers

  24-11-2016 15:13
  
  Historic site will house the National College of Cyber Security
  
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• Bletchley Park: 'Codebreakers school' planned for site

  24-11-2016 15:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Historic codebreaking site Bletchley Park could be turned into a cyberdefence training college.
  
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• Black Friday: Amazon Echo gets a tempting price cut

  24-11-2016 15:01
  
  Virtual assistant speaker is the latest in line for Amazon's price cuts
  
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• Systran launches neural machine translation engine in 30 languages

  24-11-2016 14:49 via zdnet.com
  
  Language barriers represent one of the biggest challenges to develop business strategies among global markets. Now, thanks to advances in artificial intelligence and machine translation, these barriers are being broken down.
  
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• Are iPhone owners really less honest than Android users? That's what this study says

  24-11-2016 14:35 via zdnet.com
  
  Researchers claim your phone really does say a lot about who you are as person, and if you're an iPhone owner what it says is not flattering.
  
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• How to breed Pokémon in Pokémon Sun and Moon

  24-11-2016 14:33
  
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• Doom, Tomb Raider and The Witcher among Steam's Autumn sale deals

  24-11-2016 13:34
  
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• Gigya is consumer identify leader, finds KuppingerCole

  24-11-2016 13:30 via computerweekly.com
  Gigya, Ping Identity, Salesforce, ForgeRock are the current leaders in the consumer identity and access management market, according to a report by KuppingerCole
  
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• Bletchley Park: Teen cyberdefence school planned at historic home of codebreaking

  24-11-2016 13:01 via zdnet.com
  
  National College of Cyber Security set to open in 2018 to train 'gifted' teenagers to bolster UK defences against cyberattacks and hackers.
  
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• To the stratosphere and beyond! SolarStratos wants to fly a plane to the edge of space

  24-11-2016 13:00
  
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• How InterContinental Hotels connects with real-time marketing

  24-11-2016 13:00 via computerweekly.com
  
  InterContinental Hotel Group’s European marketing manager, Charlie Aspey, tells Computer Weekly how the firm has deployed dynamic email marketing across all its hotel brands
  
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• US: We need smartphone 'driver mode' to block apps and stem rise in road deaths

  24-11-2016 12:49 via zdnet.com
  
  Alarmed by a spike in road fatalities, US auto safety regulators ask phone makers to automatically block certain content while drivers are behind the wheel.
  
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• Inside the project to rebuild the EDSAC: the world's first general purpose computer

  24-11-2016 12:47 via zdnet.com
  
  Volunteers at the National Museum of Computing and operators who used EDSAC almost 70 years ago have come together to replicate it for future generations to learn from.
  
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• Samsung's Galaxy S7 edge beats the iPhone 7 to best phone of the year award

  24-11-2016 12:37
  
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• CIO Interview: Jim Fowler, GE

  24-11-2016 12:30 via computerweekly.com
  Imagine if your boss was a CEO pioneering a digital revolution in a company over 120 years old, connecting industrial machines to the internet
  
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• Colocation laggards warned about dangers of ignoring needs of hyperscale cloud giants

  24-11-2016 12:28 via computerweekly.com
  
  Steve Wallage, managing director of datacentre-focused analyst house Broadgroup Consulting, says operators that take the time to forge closer ties with customers stand to benefit from the rise in demand for colocation from hyperscale cloud giants
  
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• Bletchley Park to teach teenagers to become cyber experts

  24-11-2016 12:16 via computerweekly.com
  A cyber security college is to be set up at Bletchley Park, home to the men and women who decoded German cyphers during the Second World War
  
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• Your dog knows what you did last summer: canines have 'episodic memories' like primates

  24-11-2016 12:02
  
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• Skyscanner sold to China travel firm Ctrip in £1.4bn deal

  24-11-2016 11:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Travel search business Skyscanner is bought by Ctrip, China's biggest online travel firm, in a deal that values it at £1.4bn ($1.75bn).
  
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• LingLong's DingDong is a Chinese rival to the Amazon Echo

  24-11-2016 11:42
  
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• Whitehall, GDS and town halls must back a digital revolution in local public services

  24-11-2016 11:30 via computerweekly.com
  Some 80% of public services are delivered by local councils - but Whitehall policy, GDS strategy and devolution plans are not giving sufficient focus on local digital needs
  
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• A single, integrated consumer ID system is best, says Martin Kuppinger

  24-11-2016 11:30 via computerweekly.com
  A bi-modal, integrated IAM system will help avoid the pitfalls associated with other approaches to consumer identity, according to Martin Kuppinger
  
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• Reddit chief admits changing offensive posts

  24-11-2016 11:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Steve Huffman says he altered comments made about him on Reddit by Donald Trump supporters.
  
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• Reddit CEO secretly edited critical posts about himself

  24-11-2016 10:37
  
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• AWS challenger Alibaba Cloud opens German datacentre to woo European enterprises

  24-11-2016 10:30 via computerweekly.com
  Chinese cloud services firm Alibaba outlines plans to shake-up the European cloud market with German datacentre launch
  
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• Skyscanner is being bought by China's Ctrip for £1.4 billion

  24-11-2016 10:10
  
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• This might be why peer review is struggling

  24-11-2016 09:57
  
  Peer review has been under scrutiny for years, but it turns out only one in five scientists do the heavy lifting
  
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• This is what Donald Trump said to Tim Cook in their first chat since election day

  24-11-2016 08:54
  
  Trump explains the conversation he had with Apple’s CEO
  
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• WIRED Awake: 10 must-read articles for November 24

  24-11-2016 08:18
  
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• Twitter suspends CEO Jack Dorsey's account

  24-11-2016 08:08
  
  "Internal error" to blame for the co-founder's temporary ban
  
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• Emergency services to use commercial networks

  24-11-2016 07:14 via zdnet.com
  
  Emergency services including fire, police, and ambulance agencies will be forced to use commercial mobile networks, with the government to form a committee to come up with proposals.
  
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• ​Queensland readies for intelligent vehicle trial

  24-11-2016 07:03 via zdnet.com
  
  The Queensland government has announced its intention to conduct trials in the state's southeast on vehicles and infrastructure in preparation for the 'cars of the future'.
  
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• APAC IT heads still using cloud only for basic business tools

  24-11-2016 06:30 via zdnet.com
  
  While most say they are okay with hosting all business applications on the public cloud, more than half of IT leaders in Asia-Pacific are tapping the platform for basic tools such as e-mail and websites.
  
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