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Consumers storm Alibaba with US$7 billion in purchases in 2 hours
Giant Chinese online retailer, Alibaba, says consumers in China purchased goods to the value of US$7 billion in the first two hours of this year’s 11.11 Global Shopping Festival held on Friday,...
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Licence optimisation: $2 billion could be saved
Australia has a $2 billion shelfware problem, according to Flexera Software CEO Jim Ryan. Software licensing is one of those Goldilocks issues. Buy too few licences and you're out of compliance. That's...
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Google gets tough with Android fragmentation
Ever since Androids release in 2007 it has suffered horribly from growing fragmentation – different versions on tens of thousands of different devices – and gained an unintended reputation as a...
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Deja-VRu? Qantas makes Virtual Australia app for actual future visitors
Australia’s major airline, Qantas has launched a new app – Qantas VR - giving customers an interactive new way to discover and explore destinations before physically travelling there. Available for...
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Fake shopping apps emptying Apple Wallets this season
Fake shopping apps have surfaced in Apple’s App Store. These apps look legitimate and even use legitimate payment systems to empty your e-wallet. As BrandingBrand.com (BB) stated, “Apple we have a...
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Google Android Nougat updates – who, what, and when.
LG was the first to ship a phone with Android Nougat – its amazing new V20. It even beat Google’s Pixel to the punch. Now it is hell bent to deliver Nougat to its excellent LG G5. The USA gets it first...
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Samsung’s S8 must be better than excellent
We all know the trouble Samsung has seen over its short-lived but incredible Note7 with an optional cigarette lighter. When will it learn, smoking, especially on planes, is no longer publicly...
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SUSE first enterprise Linux to be ported to 64-bit ARM
Five years ago, four developers at SUSE Linux sat down to discuss an idea they thought had considerable merit: porting SUSE Linux to the ARM platform. Nobody else had an inkling that Alex Graf, Dirk...
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openSUSE community Linux moves ahead of Fedora
openSUSE, the community Linux distribution of the SUSE Linux company, has about 600,000 users judging by the number who access repositories each month for downloads, according to Richard Brown, the...
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SUSE's Asia focus grows under new owners
With the acquisition of SUSE Linux in 2014 by the British mainframe group Micro Focus, a great deal of attention has been focused on the Asian region, with the company now having a vice-president for...
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Keeping the live-patching process going
The spirit of co-operation that exists at SUSE Linux, as opposed to that of competition, is what has kept Libor Pecháček plugging away for a decade. "I like the freedom we have," the affable Czech told...
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Michael Page recruitment data leak lists millions of jobseeker details
Global recruitment firm Michael Page leaked 30Gb of job seeker private contact, employment and salary information, in a repeat of the very same circumstances that saw blood donor data leaked a...
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ATO scam – fake emails again
Cyber criminals always search for the motherload – phishing emails that get through. This time they have targeted small to medium businesses that that lodge Business Activity Statements (BAS) online....
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MyState Bank, CUA sign up for Apple Pay
MyState Bank, part of the ASX-listed banking and wealth management group MyState Limited, has become the second Australian bank to offer Apple Pay to its customers. The bank announced this morning...
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Eugene Kaspersky slams Microsoft’s anti-competitive anti-virus Win 10 actions
Russian Internet security supremo, Eugene Kaspersky, has ‘had enough’ of Microsoft’s wily ways in working to wipe out anti-virus competitors in Windows 10. Eugene Kaspersky is the man who created...
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Internet freedoms being curbed, says new study
A report on Internet freedom in 65 countries by a pro-democracy think tank has found that it declined in 2016 in most of these countries for the sixth consecutive year. However, the report by Freedom...
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Accenture - new breed of clients for its new breed of services
Agility in the computer world is more than just quickly rolling out new software. It is a highly valued state of mind that Accenture, the world’s largest consulting firm, wants its customers to know it...
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MSL expands into UK market with Verteda acquisition
Brisbane-based software solutions company MSL Solutions has acquired UK hospitality software products vendor Verteda. MSL says the acquisition gives the company a foothold in the lucrative UK...
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IBM adds Nvidia GPUs to Power8 server for enterprise AI applications
The IBM Server for AI Enterprise combines the benefits of IBM's Power8 CPU with Nvidia's Tesla P100 GPUs. IBM Server for AI Enterprise is designed for "tens of thousands of enterprise workloads,"...
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Nvidia and Microsoft put Tesla GPUs in Azure cloud
Microsoft and Nvidia have teamed up to push AI on premises and in the cloud. A deal between Microsoft and Nvidia has resulted in Microsoft's Cognitive Toolkit being optimised for Nvidia's DGX-1...
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