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• New Year honour for TV tech campaigner Maggie Philbin

  30-12-2016 23:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  TV presenter Maggie Philbin has been appointed OBE in the New Year Honours list for helping to get children interested in science and tech.
  
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• Video: Leveraging mobile to drive SMB sales in an Amazon world

  30-12-2016 23:02 via zdnet.com
  
  Aiming to meet consumer expectations set by enterprise giants, Paul Leary of Bespoke Collection explains how his wine business uses mobile to motivate sales teams an connect with customers.
  
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• Who controls the marketing tech stack in 2017: The CIO or CMO?

  30-12-2016 22:49 via zdnet.com
  
  A funny thing happened along the way to using technology to better connect with the marketplace: The CIO and CMO both decided to have a hand in it. How will they agree and align in 2017 as digital becomes central to the end-to-end customer experience?
  
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• 2017: Here's what you should be paying attention to

  30-12-2016 20:04 via zdnet.com
  
  A year is an incredibly long time in tech, but here are a few things you should be keeping an eye out for as the year progresses.
  
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• eBay builds its own tool to integrate Kubernetes and OpenStack

  30-12-2016 18:03 via zdnet.com
  
  Intent on keeping its developers happy, the e-commerce company has developed a framework for deploying containers on its large-scale OpenStack cloud.
  
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• Would you live in a wooden flatpack skyscraper?

  30-12-2016 17:00
  
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• Star Wars card firm Topps hit by 'unforgiveable' hack

  30-12-2016 16:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Credit and debit card verification details among the data that may have been accessed, the firm behind the Star Wars trading cards has said.
  
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• 2016 in transport: Rocket misery, EV traction, and supercomputers

  30-12-2016 16:00 via zdnet.com
  
  This year has changed the transport space with research movers, company shakers, and more than one high-profile failure.
  
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• Lenovo updates ThinkPad laptops with Windows 10 Signature Edition, Intel Optane storage tech

  30-12-2016 15:52 via zdnet.com
  
  The company's flagship notebooks will also feature Intel's latest Kaby Lake processors, support for Microsoft's Precision TouchPad drivers, and even a silver color option.
  
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• Self-driving tractors could be key to solving the looming food crisis

  30-12-2016 15:00
  
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• Storage in 2017: Big improvements are on the way

  30-12-2016 14:30 via zdnet.com
  
  If 2016 wasn't tumultuous enough for you - the world's largest storage company sold itself to Dell - you ain't seen nothin' yet. The pace of change in the storage industry is accelerating - and that's good for us.
  
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• Microsoft's 2016: Windows 10 foibles and futures are the big stories

  30-12-2016 14:08 via zdnet.com
  
  Here's a quick look back on what the audience for ZDNet's 'All About Microsoft' was clicking -- and what it means for Microsoft in 2016 and the year ahead.
  
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• Viva la digital revolution: high-speed internet will be key to tackling poverty in 2017

  30-12-2016 13:00
  
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• IBM and Credit Mutuel Arkea beat banking legacy with blockchain

  30-12-2016 12:11 via computerweekly.com
  
  French bank explains what working with IBM on blockchain ledger technology means for customer identification
  
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• This is the man who decides what your next Netflix obsession will be

  30-12-2016 11:00
  
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• Top 10 virtualisation and storage stories of 2016

  30-12-2016 10:00 via computerweekly.com
  Flash storage has held onto the headlines in 2016, but hyper-converged infrastructure, containerisation, software-defined storage and VMware’s plans for the hybrid cloud are rising themes
  
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• Top 10 financial services stories of 2016

  30-12-2016 10:00 via computerweekly.com
  Here are 10 of the most popular fintech articles on Computer Weekly in 2016
  
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• Is Microsoft's Surface Studio a $300 million business - and does it matter?

  30-12-2016 09:30 via zdnet.com
  
  The Surface Studio is selling better than expected, according to Digitimes, but it's still very far from being a mass-market product. However, it could have other benefits for both Microsoft and the PC industry...
  
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• WIRED Awake: 10 must-read articles for December 30

  30-12-2016 08:39
  
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• Singapore startups must now grow up, think bigger

  30-12-2016 02:08 via zdnet.com
  
  Country's government has helped get things started, but Singapore entrepreneurs need to embrace risks and look beyond local shores to expand their products and services.
  
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• Tech 2016: BBC News Online's biggest technology stories

  30-12-2016 01:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Apple, Microsoft and Google all feature in our most popular stories of 2016 - but for reasons they want you to forget.
  
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• ​Samsung QLED TV applied 'metal coating' to improve colour volume

  30-12-2016 00:48 via zdnet.com
  
  Internally called the "Q Project," Samsung achieved higher color volume, wider view angle, and deeper blacks for their QLED TVs by applying metal coating to the quantum dot nanocrystals, company insiders say.
  
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• WeChat daily active users top 768 million

  30-12-2016 00:21 via zdnet.com
  
  The popular messaging app has increased its daily users number by 35 percent in the last twelve months.
  
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• Amazon awarded patent for flying warehouse

  30-12-2016 00:01 via zdnet.com
  
  As the e-commerce giant gets closer to establishing a drone delivery system, it may one day keep its inventory airborne.
  
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