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Video: Red Dead Redemption 2 announcement trailer
Time for re-redemption, Rockstar Games releases the trailer for a sequel (or for those actually counting, the fourth in the franchise) to one of its biggest selling games. Click through to see the...
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Optus Satellite secures deal with Aeeris
Optus Satellite has inked an agreement with Aeeris, the developer, operator and provider of the Early Warning Network (EWN) that will support remote worker solutions such as tracking of staff, and...
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Samsung resists paying for Note7 fire damages
Some owners of faulty Samsung Galaxy Note7s are furious that the South Korean electronics giant has refused to cover the costs of fire damage, caused when their devices combusted. A report in The...
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ITCRA, APSco Global merge to form new recruitment industry group
The Information Technology Contract & Recruitment Association (ITCRA) has merged with the Association of Professional Staffing Companies Global (APSCo Global) to form a new organisation – APSCo...
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US claims Booz Allen employee stole 50TB of data
An NSA contractor will be charged with violating the US Espionage Act on Friday US time, with federal prosecutors in Baltimore saying he carried away "an astonishing quantity" of classified digital and...
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NBN Co tells world broadband forum of need for faster rollout to meet deadlines
NBN Co chief network and operations officer JB Rousselot has told the Broadband World Forum in London that the company needs to move faster in rolling out the broadband network and activating premises....
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Nadella's trust talk is just so much hot air
Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella appears to have an incredibly short memory. Else he would be the last person who talks about trust being the most pressing issue in tech in our times. Over the...
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Yellowfin top ranked for Usability in Ventana Research’s 2016 Mobile BI Value...
Yellowfin ranked first for product Usability and customer Validation, and third overall, in the 2016 Ventana Research Mobile BI Value Index Global Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics software...
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Union says Note7 returns danger to postal workers
The union that represents postal workers has asked Australia Post what steps it has taken to ensure that workers who handle packages containing returned Samsung Galaxy Note7 devices will not be put in...
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Telstra digital chief now Tyro top man
Former Telstra digital chief Gerd Schenkel is the new boss of payments processing company Tyro, taking over from founder and largest shareholder Jost Stollmann. Schenkel was most recently executive...
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Linux kernel bug being exploited in the wild
A privilege-escalation bug in the Linux kernel, that could allow any application to gain root-level access and take over a device, has been present in the kernel since version 2.6.22 which was released...
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Bioshock: The Collection – a remastered return to classic game-play
Unabashedly we are fans of games with the Bioshock brand, and now we get the opportunity to play through the nightmarish worlds unleashed by 2K and Irrational Games over the years. Bioshock: The...
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VIDEOS: AT&T to acquire Time Warner for US$85 billion in major media/comms...
Remember when AT&T was broken up in the US? Whether you do, or don’t, AT&T is on the verge of becoming the most powerful telco and media organisation in the world. It’s the stuff of Telstra’s...
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Ericsson’s US$26 million quarterly loss in post-4G, pre-5G environment
Although 5G is what many are banking on, tough competition from Huawei and Nokia and a post-4G and pre-5G world sees Ericsson making a loss – for now. With Ericsson recently announcing 3900 jobs to go...
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Report: iPhone 7 burns in car at Australian beach
Last week, Channel 7 News reported an iPhone 7 burst into flames in a car under clothes at a beach in Australia. You can see Channel 7’s video and text report here, while The Guardian has its write-up...
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Google drops ban on personally identifiable Web tracking
Google has quietly dropped the longstanding wall between anonymous tracking of online ads and user's names, according to a report published by ProPublica. What is literally the last privacy line in the...
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Wrong diagnosis of Note7 problem doomed device
After the first reports of Samsung Galaxy Note7 smartphones catching fire came in, company executives decided, based on lab reports that showed a bulge in batteries supplied by Samsung SDI, that it was...
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Pixel XL teardown – a lot of phone
Pixel is designed and made by Google (HTC assembled it) so what is Google’s first smartphone hardware foray like under the skin? According to iFixit’s teardown the Pixel/XL it is reminiscent of some...
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NSW Department of Industry picks Expense8
The NSW Department of Industry has chosen Business Information Services' Expense8 travel and expense management system. Following a tender process, 8common subsidiary Business Information Services will...
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Wi-Fi stuff-up: ABC mum on Catalyst review outcome
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has concluded a review of its main science programme, Catalyst, and is considering the recommendations that have been put forward. But that's as much as the ABC...
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