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• Indian minister holds out hope for Apple stores

  30-05-2016 18:53
  
  Apple may still get to set up wholly-owned stores in India, with the country’s Commerce Ministry promising to discuss the matter with the Finance Ministry that had objected to the proposal.Indian government rules require that foreign-owned, single-brand retailers source 30 percent of their products locally, but the Indian government had indicated that it could provide a waiver of that requirement for branded stores of retailers of high-tech products. Apple had hoped for such an exemption f
  
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• Move over Skylake: An Asus PC with Intel's Kaby Lake chip is coming in Q3

  30-05-2016 16:40
  
  The wait for Intel's Kaby Lake chip will end in the third quarter this year, as the first PC with the 7th Generation Core chip was announced at Computex.
  Kaby Lake, the successor to Intel's Skylake Core processor chips, will be in the Asus Transformer 3 tablet. The device is much like Microsoft's Surface Pro 4, and will ship in the third quarter starting at US$799, according to a blog entry on Microsoft's website.
  The Transformer 3 was among a gaggle of PC and phone products announced by Asus a
  
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• Nvidia chief downplays challenge from Google’s AI chip

  30-05-2016 15:21
  
  Nvidia has staked a big chunk of its future on supplying powerful graphics chips used for artificial intelligence, so it wasn't a great day for the company when Google announced two weeks ago that it had built its own AI chip for use in its data centers.Google's Tensor Processing Unit, or TPU, was built specifically for deep learning, a branch of AI through which software trains itself to get better at deciphering the world around it, so it can recognize objects or understand spoken languag
  
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• Office machine mania: The paradox that limits productivity

  30-05-2016 15:03
  
  In the Roaring Twenties, standardization and mass production were the disruptive business models. Automation transformed the production of cars, sewing machines and bicycles. It was implemented with a revolutionary approach — industrialization — that seems ridiculously obvious today: First simplify, then standardize and only then automate the work. Industrialization succeeded wildly in manufacturing and distribution, delivering the greatest surge in productivity and economic wealth t
  
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• Flaw in popular WordPress plug-in Jetpack puts over a million websites at risk

  30-05-2016 15:00
  
  Owners of WordPress-based websites should update the Jetpack plug-in as soon as possible because of a serious flaw that could expose their users to attacks.
  Jetpack is a popular plug-in that offers free website optimization, management and security features. It was developed by Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and the WordPress open-source project, and has over 1 million active installations.
  Researchers from Web security firm Sucuri have found a stored cross-site scripting (XS
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Why remote project teams work

  30-05-2016 14:00
  
  I have long been a proponent of virtual teams and remote project management. It has always worked well for me however it does not come easy or with out some adjustment period.At first it was easy to push remote project management and virtual teams under the guise of "green IT", "green project management", and "environmental sustainability." From what I've seen many of these types of catch phrase terms have gone the way of the the latest personal empowerment video or corporate continuous improvem
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: The race to monetize artificial intelligence is on

  30-05-2016 14:00
  
  The battle in the artificial intelligence (AI) market has been heating up. IBM, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are all continuously releasing impressive technologies in the space that are capturing the minds of developers and customers. From a market perspective, AI is positioned to become a pillar of the next generation of software technologies. Without a doubt, we can expect all those software giants to capture segments of the AI space. However, the most interesting question is
  
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• What are phone jammers trying to tell us?

  30-05-2016 12:30
  
  Cellphone jammers prevent phones from working. They're being used in cars, public places and exam halls.
  Jammers aren't new -- they've been around for years -- and they're illegal in many countries, including in the U.S., but use of jammers is growing fast.
  But are phones really the problem? And are jammers really the solution?
  I think cellphone jammers are being used as a Band-Aid, as the wrong solution to solve three societal problems that should be solved by much better technology.
  Here are
  
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• What's really new in SharePoint 2016?

  30-05-2016 12:23
  
  The SharePoint community has reacted with enthusiasm to Microsoft’s roadmap for SharePoint 2016, even though much of it is familiar to anyone who’s been using SharePoint for a while. It’s so confusingly familiar, in fact, that you may find yourself asking whether that wasn’t what SharePoint already did or wondering what else SharePoint was trying to do.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• Philips en SURFsara samen in big data-onderzoeksdiensten

  30-05-2016 11:15
  Het cloud-platform voor de gezondheidszorg van Philips wordt gekoppeld aan de nationale ict-infrastructuur voor onderzoek van SURF. Doel is een veilige onderzoeksomgeving met geavanceerde analyse-mogelijkheden waar zorginstituten kunnen samenwerken. Dat laten Philips en SURFsara, dochter van SURF, aanbieder van... lees meer
  
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• Asus unveils Zenbo, a cute robot for the home priced at $599

  30-05-2016 11:14
  
  Asus has just unveiled what’s likely to be the most talked about product at this week’s Computex trade show in Taipei, a cute talking robot for the home priced at US$599.Called Zenbo, Asus pitched it as a personal assistant that can help look after elderly relatives or read stories to the kids, but that might be selling it a bit short.The robot is about two feet high and rolls around on wheels, with a display that can show its animated face or be used for other things like making vid
  
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• Blockchain kan identificatie luchtreizigers ondersteunen

  30-05-2016 10:44
  Blockchain-technologie kan een uitkomst bieden bij het creëren van een consistente en veilige methode om reizigers te identificeren. SITA, aanbieder van ICT-oplossingen voor de luchttransportsector, onderzoekt momenteel het potentieel van blockchain-technologie voor een dergelijke aanpak.Als je reizigers kan... lees meer
  
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• Iran orders messaging apps to store data of local users in the country

  30-05-2016 08:34
  Iran has ordered foreign messaging apps to transfer data and activity records of Iranian users to local servers within a year, a move that will give the country a greater ability to monitor and censor the online activity of its people.The country’s Supreme Council of Cyberspace has issued instructions to foreign messaging companies active in the country, requiring them “to transfer all data and activity linked to Iranian citizens into the country in order to ensure their continued ac
  
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• Staring at your phone? The next ARM chips are just for you

  30-05-2016 05:00
  
  You’re probably spending more time with your smartphone, and ARM’s noticed.The company behind the architecture of most mobile processors has created its next-generation chip designs for sustained high performance and longer battery life.ARM is announcing the Cortex-A73 CPU at Computex in Taipei on Monday. Chips based on the design will be a little faster than their predecessors, but this generation is more about efficiency, ARM says.That fits what’s happening in phones now, acc
  
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• Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella follows Apple’s Tim Cook to India

  30-05-2016 04:50
  
  Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella is visiting India, reflecting the growing importance of the country as a market for multinational technology companies.Nadella’s visit follows the first visit to India by Apple CEO Tim Cook, who visited the country this month to drum up support for the company’s plans to offer refurbished iPhones in the price-sensitive market as well as to get permission to set up its wholly-owned stores in the country. Both deals appear to have been blocked by reg
  
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