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• No roaming fees next year (* as long as you don't roam much)

  05-09-2016 21:04
  There'll be no more roaming fees for European Union mobile phone subscribers next June -- as long as they don't roam for too long.The European Commission announced with great fanfare last year that it would entirely abolish the surcharges for using a mobile phone network outside the subscriber's home country from June 2017. It had been steadily ratcheting down the cost of roaming in recent years.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• OpenOffice coders debate retiring the project

  05-09-2016 18:31
  
  Concerns at the Apache Software Foundation that the Apache OpenOffice project it hosts might be failing have prompted a debate about retiring the project, and triggered the resignation of at least one member of the project's management committee. The office productivity suite was once a key element of efforts to build an open source alternative to Microsoft's dominance of the desktop.Now its remaining developers struggle to keep on top of security issues in the code, and the ASF Board  
  
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• How to use multitasking in Android Nougat

  05-09-2016 16:00
  
  One of the most prominent tweaks that will make a big difference in how you use Android involves multitasking. It’s smarter, better designed, and should move you more quickly from one app to another.
  Of course that means there are a few things to learn. With a couple of tweaks to your muscle memory, however, you’ll be able to zip ever more quickly from one thing to the next.Double tapThe most helpful feature you’ll come across is the ability to quickly switch from one app to a
  
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• Tile Slim tracker is half the thickness of Tile Original

  05-09-2016 15:55
  
  The first generation Tile ($25) has been my preferred Bluetooth Low Energy tracker for a while now. Its main drawback, however, is its thickness. At 5.3 millimeters, it can make wallets bulge.
  The new, 2.4-millimeter Tile Slim ($30) solves the fat wallet problem. You can also adhere the skinny tracker to a laptop, tablet or other possession using optional stickers ($5 for three).
  I like Tile Slim a lot, but it's not going to completely replace what's now called Tile Original, at least not
  
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• New Tile Slim tracker is half the thickness of Tile Original

  05-09-2016 15:55
  
  The first generation Tile ($25) has been my preferred Bluetooth Low Energy tracker for a while now. Its main drawback, however, is its thickness. At 5.3 millimeters, it can make wallets bulge.The new, 2.4-millimeter Tile Slim ($30) solves the fat wallet problem. You can also adhere the skinny tracker to a laptop, tablet or other possession using optional stickers ($5 for three).I like Tile Slim a lot, but it's not going to completely replace what's now called Tile Original, at least not for
  
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• AMD's new Bristol Ridge processor is faster and more power efficient

  05-09-2016 15:00
  
  AMD on Monday said PC OEMs are set to soon ship desktop PCs using its faster Bristol Ridge chip. 
  HP and Lenovo will be among the first to offer desktops using the new Bristol Ridge APU that offers higher computing and graphics performance than previous models.
  Bristol Ridge, the company said, easily outperforms its Intel equivalent by up to 100 percent in game performance. AMD said compared to its own previous gen Carrizo APU, compute is increased by 17 percent and graphics is up 27
  
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• Recruiting elusive unicorn digital talent

  05-09-2016 14:53
  
  You've probably heard of a "unicorn" in relation to the Silicon Valley. That is, the rare instance when a startup company is valued over $1 billion. But what about unicorn talent? They may not be worth $1 billion, but these are the candidates that tech companies fight over, and they seem just as rare as a high-valued startup.But what makes these candidates so special? According to Jacqueline Breslin, director of Human Capital Services at TriNet, they're the type of employees who will lead and ta
  
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• Sophos false positive detection ruins weekend for some Windows users

  05-09-2016 14:15
  
  A bad malware signature caused Sophos antivirus products to detect a critical Windows file as malicious on Sunday, preventing some users from accessing their computers.The false positive detection flagged winlogon.exe, an important component of the Windows Login subsystem, as a Trojan program called Troj/FarFli-CT. Because the file was blocked, some users who attempted to log into their computers were greeted by a black screen.Sophos issued an update to fix the problem within a few hours and sai
  
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• How blockchain will disrupt your business

  05-09-2016 14:00
  
  Like mobile and cloud, blockchain — first implemented in the original source code of bitcoin in 2009 — stands poised to profoundly disrupt business. If it lives up to its promise, it won't just be financial institutions that are disrupted."If you can transfer money or something of value through the internet just like another form of data, what else can you do with it? It provides a way to establish trust in the digital world," says Angus Champion de Crespigny, Financial Services Bloc
  
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• Energy storage capacity spending to increase six-fold by '24

  05-09-2016 12:03
  
  New research from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) forecasts massive growth in the energy storage market, first in utilities and then in corporations seeking to reduce their overhead costs.
  The "Global Energy Storage Forecast, 2016-2024" shows that the annual investment in energy storage systems will increase six-fold to $8.2 billion in 2024.Creative Commons Lic.A 1MW and 4MW containerized vanadium flow battery owned by Avista Utilities and manufactured by UniEnergy Technologies that was ins
  
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• Digitalisering populair bij management, beveiliging en organisatie liggen dwars

  05-09-2016 11:14
  Leidinggevenden committeren zich massaal aan digitale businessmodellen en zien de cloud als belangrijkste middel om dit mogelijk te maken. Zorgen over de veiligheid en een gebrekkige organisatorische uitvoering, veroorzaakt door een gebrek aan wendbaarheid, vormen echter een rem op hun ambitie. Daarop duidt onderzoek... lees meer
  
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• Google, Apple, Twitter in large group backing Microsoft over ‘gag orders’

  05-09-2016 07:13
  
  Many civil rights groups, trade bodies and companies, including Google, Amazon, Cisco Systems, Apple and Twitter, have filed briefs in a federal court to back Microsoft’s move to prevent the indiscriminate use by U.S. law enforcement of orders that force companies not to inform their users about requests for their data.Under the Stored Communications Act, a part of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, companies can be compelled under 18 U.S. Code § 2703 to turn over certain cons
  
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