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Illinois man sues Logitech over Alert video security system
An Illinois resident has sued Logitech over its Alert home video security system that the company sold between 2010 and 2014, claiming the Swiss-based company indulged in false advertising, discouraged...
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Facebook 'struggling' to cope with spam, hate speech
Social media behemoth Facebook has admitted that it struggles to control the avalanche of hate speech, spam and fraud on its two billion accounts, turning off more than a million accounts every day....
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NYPD to junk obsolete Windows phones for iPhones
The police force in one of the world's best-known cities is being forced to junk the 36,000 Windows smartphones distributed to the force over the last two years because they are obsolete and cannot be...
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Data breaches can hit share prices, survey claims
Data breaches tend to result in a fall in company share prices when the news leaks, often by as much as 5%, the identity access management company Centrify claims. A study entitled The impact of a data...
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Android now ‘most popular’ smartphone OS in Aussie market: IDC
Australia’s mobile phone market — including feature phones and smartphones — is growing by leaps and bounds, with a new report revealing that it has exceeded growth expectations, shipping 2.16 million...
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Freshworks acquires start-up Zarget
Cloud-based business software provider Freshworks has completed the acquisition of marketing software start-up Zarget. The acquisition is Freshwork’s ninth in the last two years and the company says it...
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Apple and Accenture accentuate iOS business solutions partnership
Apple will co-locate experts in Accenture’s new dedicated iOS practice team within select Accenture Digital Studios. Apple and Accenture have reported a new partnership “to help businesses transform...
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What VMware Integrated OpenStack v4 is and why it matters
VMware provides its own integrated release of OpenStack, the open-source cloud operating system. It’s a product you may not realise VMware packages up. iTWire spoke to VMware’s Mahesh Kumar to learn...
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Logitech in 'sweet spot' to sell to both big and small firms
Logitech is growing because it occupies a "sweet spot" in the hierarchy of tech companies, a senior official of the company claims. Scott Wharton, vice-president and general manager for video...
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Google bows to EU search demands, offers no detail
Search behemoth Google has bowed to the demands of the European Union that it make changes to ensure that its search engine dominance does not give illegal advantage to its own comparison shopping...
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NZ firm Vector to offer more energy storage options
New Zealand company Vector Energy Solutions has announced that it will offer additional energy storage options for residential, industrial and commercial customers, beginning with battery storage...
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More than 700m email addresses found on Dutch server
A researcher known as Benkow, based in Paris, has discovered a list of 711 million email addresses, servers and passwords on a Web server in the Netherlands, all used to send spam. The list was...
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Investing app Acorns reaches $100m in funds under management
Micro-investing app Acorns Australia has reached $100 million in funds under management, the company behind the app claims. A statement said the app now had more than 300,000 users in Australia...
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Optus, 7 Network extend satellite contract
Optus Satellite has extended its services contract for a further four years with the Seven television network for transponder capacity on the Optus D1 satellite. Under the extension the contract will...
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Ericsson’s three new small cell solutions launch
Ericsson’s three new scalable small cells are part of the solution to meet the growing demand for better mobile coverage and capacity, while laying the groundwork for 5G and IoT. The small cell...
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Dell EMC delivers first data protection solution for VMware Cloud on AWS
Dell EMC has announced its data protection suite, including back-up and recovery for workloads running in VMware Cloud on AWS, the first to market. Following hot after VMware’s announcement this week...
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Samsung promotes technology delivering life’s ‘new normal’ at IFA 2017
When technology becomes so ubiquitous and advanced that it melts into the background of life and even becomes invisible, that’s the ultimate “new normal”, but before we get there, Samsung’s “new...
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Braintree lets Aussie merchants add Apple Pay and Android Pay to payment options
With Mexican eatery “Guzman y Gomez” one of the first Braintree merchants to integrate Apple Pay in Australia, it surely won’t be the last. Olé! Paypal-owned service, Braintree, has announced it is...
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Google-funded think-tank sacks critic of... Google
The New America Foundation, a think-tank which received large infusions of funds from Google, sacked the head of its Open Markets group after he cheered the European Union for hitting the search firm...
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Kaspersky Lab has patent troll on the run
Kaspersky Lab has put paid to the claims of a patent troll by going on the offensive and ultimately managing to force the troll to pay to end a lawsuit. In a typically robust blog post, the company's...
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