Rivals Microsoft and Oracle are to team up on their cloud-based platforms as they face growing competition from new agile internet-based tech firms that sell cheaper services. For years Microsoft and Oracle had been competing for the same ...
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Big data has the potential to transform how travel companies - including airlines, airports, rail operators and hotels - operate, and make the experience better for both businesses and customers alike. That's according to a global study ...
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Tim Berners-Lee, the engineer who invented HTML, has warned that the internet must be safeguarded against attempts to control it by governments and major organisations. Berners-Lee was speaking as he and five other internet engineers were ...
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The complexity of existing IT systems is acting as a major barrier to the adoption of cloud, with many CIOs unsure as to how to adapt to the technology, warns a report by ICT services provider NTT Europe. Based on the views of 300 CIOs ...
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Law firm DWF is to extend its use of mobile device management (MDM) solution MobileIron, to support the widespread use of apps in the enterprise. Richard Hodkinson, CTO of DWF, explained that the law firm has 1,000 mobile workers, who use ...
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MICROSOFT has debuted a "re-blended" version of the overhauled Windows 8 operating system released late last year. also previewed new office apps for its Windows Metro interface, but said they would not be released until next year. ...
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THE online advertising industry directly contributed $3.4 billion of Australia's economy last year and may indirectly be responsible for another $13.7bn. That was the finding of a PwC study on the sector released by the Interactive ...
THE highly anticipated crowd-funded Ouya Android videogame console yesterday hit the market in the US and almost instantly sold out. Ouya is a gaming console project on crowd-funding site Kickstarter that raised $US8.5 million and ...
LOOKING for a safe password? You can give HQbgbiZVu9AWcqoSZmChwgtMYTrM7HE3ObVWGepMeOsJf4iHMyNXMT1BrySA4d7 a try. Good luck memorising it. Sixty-three random alpha-numeric characters - in this case, generated by an online password ...
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SONY has upgraded its landmark SmartWatch giving it longer battery life, NFC communications, and making it water resistant. In a statement released overnight, Sony hailed its new SmartWatch 2 as being "a multi-functional message ...
THEY?RE highly successful as consumer devices, but is Apple?s iPad cutting the mustard in the business world? Yesterday two restaurants in inner Sydney were spruiking the benefits of using Apple's iPad to manage everything from the taking ...
Viewpoint Construction Software has announced that ConEst Software Systems has joined the Viewpoint Development Partner Program, enabling customers of both parties to take advantage of solutions that cover all aspects of the construction ...
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Earlier this year, I wrote about how I considered the ICO's meagre £250,000 fine handed out to Sony for losing control of its servers and risking the theft of every man, woman and child's data on there as "a slap on the wrist". ...
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Google is not obligated to delete sensitive data from its search index, despite being subject to EU privacy legislation. That's the view of a top adviser to the European Court of Justice about a case concerning whether individuals can ...
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TWELVE hours, 15 minutes. That's the video playback time the new MacBook Air delivered in our tests - conducted at 75 per cent screen brightness on a 13-inch model. Last week, we pitted the 2013 MacBook Air against its predecessor, the ...
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