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• Telstra and Optus want mobile blackspot program to consider indoor coverage

  21-10-2020 23:00 via zdnet.com
  As pharmacists in New England have to head to the front door with a payment terminal in hand to complete transactions.
  
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• Netgear's Q3 surges as home office, SMB Wifi upgrade cycle booms

  21-10-2020 22:49 via zdnet.com
  Netgear is seeing booming demand for its networking gear as home offices and SMBs are upgrading Wifi at a rapid clip.
  
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• NBN details COVID-19 CVC boost tapering across December and January 2021

  21-10-2020 22:30 via zdnet.com
  
  Free 40% boost in capacity to retailers set to dialled down over two months.
  
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• Xilinx Q2 revenue beats expectations on strength in data center, rebound in Europe

  21-10-2020 22:22 via zdnet.com
  Programmable chip maker cites economic recovery, and health in markets including automotive and wireless.
  
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• Chip industry is going to need a lot more software to catch Nvidia’s lead in AI

  21-10-2020 22:17 via zdnet.com
  An annual gathering of chip designers took place in the shadow of Nvidia’s continued dominance.
  
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• Best iPhones to buy now: Four iPhone 12 models are not your only great choices

  21-10-2020 22:08 via zdnet.com
  Apple recently revealed four new iPhone 12 models, but last-generation models are also worth considering at a more affordable price in 2020.
  
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• GoDaddy's partner business president on building a lucrative career designing and developing WordPress sites

  21-10-2020 21:00 via zdnet.com
  As digital transformation becomes more mission critical in our new normal, the world's most popular content management system is seeing even more use.
  
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• iOS 14.1 rolling out to iPhones, but no sign of a battery fix

  21-10-2020 19:33 via zdnet.com
  iOS 14.1 has been rolling out to iPhones over the past 24 hours, but there's no indication of a battery fix.
  
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• PayPal allows Bitcoin and crypto spending

  21-10-2020 19:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Cryptocurrencies are being added to one of the world's biggest online payment networks.
  
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• Nvidia makes a clean sweep of MLPerf predictions benchmark for artificial intelligence

  21-10-2020 19:15 via zdnet.com
  The annual MLPerf benchmark tests are an opportunity for chip vendors, and system builders, to show how much performance they can achieve on a representative set of machine learning tasks. Nvidia capture top marks against Intel in all the tests.
  
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• WordPress deploys forced security update for dangerous bug in popular plugin

  21-10-2020 18:31 via zdnet.com
  More than one million WordPress sites were running a vulnerable version of the Loginizer plugin.
  
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• The alliances between public cloud and EHR providers will totally upend your digital transformation Plans

  21-10-2020 18:00 via zdnet.com
  Public cloud providers are establishing health IT vendor alliances as the race to win the enterprise healthcare market intensifies.
  
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• LG Wing first look: An interesting twist on the dual screen smartphone trend

  21-10-2020 15:21 via zdnet.com
  LG continues to offer unique smartphone form factors and the new LG Wing is one of the more interesting approaches to dual screen smartphones with a flip T-shaped form factor. We need to spend more time to buy into the various use cases, but content creation is definitely an easy one to apply.
  
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• Kata Containers rewritten in Rust gets a major speed boost

  21-10-2020 15:14 via zdnet.com
  The Open Infrastructure Foundation's Kata Containers 2.0 is both much smaller and faster than its earlier version.
  
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• Cloud computing will power pandemic recovery in 2021

  21-10-2020 15:03 via zdnet.com
  In the coming year, cloud will power how companies adapt to the “new, unstable normal.” It’s still uncertain how far into 2021 we’ll continue to work from home, shop primarily online, or avoid air travel -- it’s clear though that becoming more agile, responsive, and adaptive than ever before is inevitable for every enterprise.
  
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• iPad Air (2020) review: A tablet designed for work and play

  21-10-2020 15:00 via zdnet.com
  Apple's latest tablet answers some lingering questions while also giving users a valid option for power and affordability.
  
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• Raspberry Pi 4: Higher-quality, faster graphics edge closer with Vulkan support via Mesa

  21-10-2020 14:58 via zdnet.com
  Vulkan V3DV graphics are now part of the latest Mesa graphic stack for Raspberry Pi 4's Broadcom VideoCore GPU.
  
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• Prep for IT cert exams: AWS, Google Cloud, and CompTIA with this $99 bundle

  21-10-2020 14:30 via zdnet.com
  REPLACE THIS WITH YOUR DEK. Deks should be less than 155 charactersDeks should use longer tail keywords to describe the story and entice users to continue reading.
  
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• Mobile by Peak Design: Cases, mounts, and tripods secure your phone everywhere

  21-10-2020 14:21 via zdnet.com
  Peak Designs is known for making outstanding products for photographers and just launched a new Kickstarter campaign focused on helping you secure and use your smartphone in various situations. The trial products are well built, hold your phone in place, and look great.
  
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• Verizon increases outlook with strong Q3 2020 financial results

  21-10-2020 14:03 via zdnet.com
  However, Verizon has not met analyst expectations.
  
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• Save your posture for just $255 with this electric height-adjustable standing desk

  21-10-2020 14:00 via zdnet.com
  We come in all shapes and sizes, so a desk that may be the perfect height for one user can be too small for another. That means that the perfect desk must fall within your Goldilocks zone, or just right. That’s why we recommend investing in a height-adjustable standing desk such as this $255 option from Flexispot.
  
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• How to build a sustainable, future-proof agile delivery organization

  21-10-2020 14:00 via zdnet.com
  To adapt to the new normal, most firms are on a journey toward end-to-end agility. But how can we make “Agility” stick and be more sustainable, knowing that business change will only occur faster, not slower?
  
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• Best face masks for work: Pandemic protection for businesses and professionals

  21-10-2020 14:00 via zdnet.com
  Here are some non-medical face masks you can wear back to work.
  
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• New in Microsoft Teams: Now you can make notes with Zoho's Notebook note-taking app

  21-10-2020 13:52 via zdnet.com
  As part of its new Notebooks integration with Microsoft Teams, Zoho offers $500 in credits to buy its apps or upgrades.
  
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• World's fastest charging power bank: Real Graphene G-Lite 60W 5,000mAh

  21-10-2020 13:15 via zdnet.com
  This is a power bank that you can fully recharge while you got for a shower or have a cup of coffee.
  
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• Cybersecurity: Do these things to keep your business safe from hackers, retailers told

  21-10-2020 13:05 via zdnet.com
  'Plain English' guide written with input from the NCSC advises retailers what they need to do to keep their business - and customers - safe from cyberattacks.
  
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• Digital fortress: 5G is a weapon in national defense

  21-10-2020 13:00 via zdnet.com
  A new generation of warfighting will occur (and be enabled by) low-latency 5G networks.
  
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• Exponential Progress, book review: A patchy overview of today's emerging technologies

  21-10-2020 12:42 via zdnet.com
  This wide-ranging look at the imminent possibilities of technology raises interesting questions, but is undermined by basic mistakes.
  
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• Programming language popularity: JavaScript leads – 5 million new developers since 2017

  21-10-2020 12:37 via zdnet.com
  But Python has also gained 2.2 million developers over the past year while Java adds 1.7 million since 2017.
  
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• What is an IT project manager? Everything you need to know about project management and where it goes next

  21-10-2020 12:21 via zdnet.com
  Project managers play a crucial role in successful IT organisations, but the project management profession is set for big changes due to automation and new working practices.
  
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• Adobe releases another out-of-band patch, squashing critical bugs across creative software

  21-10-2020 11:25 via zdnet.com
  10 products are impacted, including Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and InDesign.
  
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• A little known feature of your iPhone is about to completely change how your doctor talks to you

  21-10-2020 11:21 via zdnet.com
  Apple's Health Records feature could lay the foundations for big changes to how doctors and their patients communicate.
  
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• Domestic abuse: ‘Tech allowed him to track my location’

  21-10-2020 10:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Two survivors of domestic abuse explain how technology was used by an abusive partner against them.
  
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• Australian government to review domestic payments system regulation

  21-10-2020 08:38 via zdnet.com
  Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said the governance around the system has remained largely unchanged for over two decades.
  
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• Mozilla worried it could be collateral damage in Google anti-trust suit

  21-10-2020 08:19 via zdnet.com
  Any potential enforcement action should not cause unintended harm to smaller players, the Firefox-maker states.
  
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• ACCC on digital platforms: It's not a case of Schumpeterian creative destruction

  21-10-2020 07:17 via zdnet.com
  Senators, meanwhile, are concerned with the Media Bargaining Code becoming a 'handbrake on diversity'.
  
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• The UK’s post-Brexit space dream has turned into a nightmare

  21-10-2020 07:00
  
  The government’s first post-Brexit move was to invest £385 million in a bankrupt satellite company. No one is quite sure what comes next
  
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• The end of free bank accounts is bad news for Monzo and its rivals

  21-10-2020 07:00
  
  Banks might be forced to charge millions of people to keep their bank accounts open. For fintechs fighting to break even, it could be fatal
  
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• MobileIron enterprise MDM servers under attack from DDoS gangs, nation-states

  21-10-2020 07:00 via zdnet.com
  Threat actors range from DDoS botnets to Chinese state-sponsored hacking groups.
  
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• MediaTek is hiding in all your tech. So why haven’t you heard of it?

  21-10-2020 07:00
  
  MediaTek’s chips power everything from Echo speakers to Peloton bikes, 5G phones and even smart ovens. And that gives it huge influence over the tech industry
  
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• Google, FinTech group Unifiedpost team up on AI data capture

  21-10-2020 07:00 via zdnet.com
  Google’s AI solution may be utilized to handle document processing linked to over 400,000 European businesses.
  
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• From Echo to 5G, MediaTek is the brains hiding in all your devices

  21-10-2020 07:00
  
  MediaTek’s chips power everything from Echo speakers to Peloton bikes, 5G phones and even smart ovens. And that gives it huge influence over the tech industry
  
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• Labor latches onto AU$57 billion figure as NBN cost

  21-10-2020 06:29 via zdnet.com
  Cost of network financing plus new debt facility thrown together creates AU$57 billion.
  
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• Dell Technologies launches cloud console, eyes everything-as-a-service via Project Apex

  21-10-2020 06:01 via zdnet.com
  Dell Technologies outlined its strategy to offer everything as a service for on-premises and multi-cloud deployments under Project Apex.
  
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• Dell Technologies' Cloud Console control layer to manage the future of hybrid cloud

  21-10-2020 06:01 via zdnet.com
  
  Touted by the company as a 'unified and seamless experience' that can manage the cloud and as-a-service 'journey'.
  
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• ANZ moves internet banking to Red Hat OpenShift

  21-10-2020 04:20 via zdnet.com
  The platform processed around AU$2.9 billion worth of payments in the first hour.
  
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• WaterNSW tapping into real-time IoT data to improve water availability

  21-10-2020 02:28 via zdnet.com
  As part of the state-owned entity's plan to build a holistic picture of the quantity and quality of water in NSW.
  
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• Sweden bans Huawei and ZTE equipment from 5G rollout

  21-10-2020 01:38 via zdnet.com
  The decision comes a few weeks ahead of the country's 5G auction.
  
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• Australian government to expand electronic prescriptions to metro Sydney

  21-10-2020 01:31 via zdnet.com
  As part of plans to roll out the solution in stages nationwide.
  
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• Adobe previews content attribution tool in Photoshop to fight deep fakes

  21-10-2020 00:00 via zdnet.com
  Adobe said a group of beta testers have access to a new feature of Photoshop that lets content creators attach cryptographically secure authorship data to photos.
  
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