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Seagate wants in on Toshiba Memory Corp, will provide 'up to' $1.25b
Seagate has announced its participation in the consortium led by Bain Capital Private Equity to acquire Toshiba Memory Corporation, and commits "up to US $1.25 billion" and "expects to enter into a...
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Amadeus' booking system glitch leads to global delays
Airline technology supplier Amadeus says a failure of its flight bookings system worldwide, which led to flight delays, was caused by a network issue. An Amadeus spokesperson told iTWire in response to...
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Destruction in slow motion: the painful death of a Lenovo ThinkPad
There are two ways of watching a structure crumble and slowly disappear from existence. You can either watch a demolition crew take down a multi-storey building using explosives or buy a Lenovo...
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Comm Bank executives indicted in US over alleged fraud
Two executives of the Commonwealth Bank have been indicted by a US federal grand jury in a case of bribery involving IT services company ServiceMesh which was based in Santa Monica, California. The...
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House panel tells NBN Co to use more fibre for rollout
A parliamentary panel has recommended that the Coalition Government direct and enable the NBN Co, the company rolling out Australia's national broadband network, to complete as much of the remaining...
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Israeli firm revives theory of Chinese link to CCleaner hack
An Israeli security firm has revived the theory that the attackers who compromised the CCleaner Windows utility last month were a Chinese state-sponsored group. Jay Rosenberg, a senior researcher at...
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Researcher finds flaws in top mobile trading apps
A senior consultant at security firm IOActive Labs claims to have found vulnerabilities in the latest versions of 21 of the most used and well-known mobile trading apps on the Google Play Store and...
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HTC Vive's new Fallout 4 VR Bundle, offers deal for current Vive owners
One of the most anticipated VR titles to date is Fallout 4 VR, and though it's due on 12 December, purchasers of an HTC Vive from today will get it free. HTC Vive has announced "a new hardware bundle...
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iPhone stoush: court rules identity of firm that obtained data a secret
A court in the US has ensured that the public will never know whom the FBI contacted to gain access to data on an iPhone 5C belonging to a terrorist or how much the agency paid for the job. The FBI...
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EU may rebuke Ireland for non-collection of Apple fine
The European Union is likely to chastise Ireland for failing to collect a fine of €13 billion (US$17.6 billion) from Apple which was announced on 29 August last year. A Bloomberg report, citing an...
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Game Review: F1 2017 - A formula for success
The current season of Formula 1 has seen yet another raft of dramatic rule changes: everything is wider this season, both cars and tyres, as well as a bit heavier. There are also rules on stockpiling...
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AMCAP implements Dell Boomi integration platform
Australian supply chain management provider AMCAP has implemented the Dell Boomi integration platform as part of an IT transformation of applications and data. Under the integration, the Boomi...
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GE, CSIRO’S Data61 collaborate on Aussie navy fleet project
GE and CSIRO’s Data61 have collaborated to develop a data analytics solution designed to give the Royal Australian Navy greater insights into their fleet engine performance and enhance operational...
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Vocus appoints new chairman, deputy ahead of AGM
The Vocus Group has announced the appointment of a new chairman and deputy chairman ahead of its annual general meeting which is scheduled for 24 October. In a statement this morning, the company,...
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HPE allowed Russian review of source code for military app
The source code of a Hewlett Packard Enterprise's software package known as ArcSight, that is used by the US military for its cyber defence, was made available for inspection to Russian defence agency...
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Optus deploys 'world first' massive MIMO and 3CC CA pairing
Following Vodafone’s announcement this week of a successful Massive MIMO trial, Optus has announced what it claims is a world first pairing of Multiple Input Multiple Output and 3CC Carrier Aggregation...
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Verizon says all 3b Yahoo! accounts breached in Dec 2016
US multinational telecommunications conglomerate Verizon has announced that all three billion accounts which Yahoo! had in December 2013, were affected by a data breach in 2013. Verizon completed its...
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Singapore crowd-funding firm introduces chatbot to answer queries
Singapore-based peer-to-peer crowd-funding platform Funding Societies has launched a chatbot known as Miyu to answer queries about its services. Funding Societies operates across Southeast Asia and the...
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McLagan takes APJ helm at Veeam
Availability vendor Veeam Software has appointed Shaun McLagan to the new role of senior vice-president for APJ. "Shaun brings extensive industry experience and expertise to the Veeam team and will be...
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Dnsmasq vulnerabilities patched after Google found them
The Dnsmasq project has issued patches to fix seven vulnerabilities that were identified by Google's security staff. The Google team found three holes that could be used for remote code execution, one...
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