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New digital marketplace to trade in renewable energy
A digital marketplace for trading in energy generated by solar panels and stored in battery storage units has been launched, with green tech start-up GreenSync in the lead. The Decentralised Energy...
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More than 50% of Web traffic is encrypted: EFF
More than half of the traffic on the Web is now protected by encryption, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an organisation dedicated to protecting civil liberties online. The milestone...
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Jailed Samsung heir questioned again as probe deadline nears
Jailed Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong has been questioned for a third time since his arrest over bribery allegations related to a corruption scandal that has seen the South Korean parliament vote to impeach...
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Veritas, Microsoft sign multi-year cloud deal
Information management vendor Veritas Technologies and Microsoft have signed a multi-year deal to promote the use of the Azure cloud platform for hosting Veritas Enterprise Vault.cloud management and...
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Telstra completes divestment of Autohome stake
Telstra has sold its remaining 6.5% stake in the Chinese car website Autohome to Ping An Insurance Group for US$127 million (A$282 million). The telco said in a statement that following the sale, its...
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HTC wants U to buy U
HTC’s new U series (Ultra and Play) launched today in Australia may just outsmart everything else available now. Before we get into the specifications of the U Ultra and U Play smartphones understand...
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Kogan beats revenue and earnings forecasts with strong growth (CORRECTED)
Online retailer Kogan has outstripped profit predictions for the first half of its first year of trading as a public company. (We have republished this story as we had made an unfortunate error in a...
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Survey: most hackers break in within six hours
A survey of 70 professional hackers and penetration testers has found that 60% of them take a maximum of just six hours to compromise a target. And 17% among them took just two hours to gain entry....
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Debian issues fixes for kernel vulnerabilities in Jessie
The Debian GNU/Linux project has advised users of its stable release Jessie to update their systems as soon as possible to fix several bugs in the kernel. Debian developer Salvatore Bonaccorso said...
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NextDC hits a high note with big rises in revenue, profits
Data centre provider NextDC has achieved significant growth in its business, with revenue jumping 39% to $58.7 million for the six months to the end of December. The company recorded a $18.7 million...
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Samsung Exynos 9 first 10nm system on a chip
Samsung has launched its new Exynos 9 system on a chip (SoC) that is expected to power the new Samsung Galaxy S8 series. It is the world’s first commercially available processor built on a 10-nanometre...
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D-Link launches Homekit-enabled camera
Networking company D-Link has launched the first of its Omna family of Apple HomeKit-enabled devices, the new Omna 180 Cam HD. The Omna 180 Cam HD allows monitoring of a home. It includes end-to-end...
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Some will be able to vote online in WA state poll
Voters in Western Australia who have poor literacy skills, are blind or sight impaired or are otherwise incapacitated will be able to vote online in the forthcoming state elections. The state will use...
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Gartner again positions Yellowfin in Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence...
For the fourth consecutive year, Business Intelligence vendor Yellowfin places in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms. (*1) report. For the fourth consecutive year,...
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Australian pentester finds remote flaws in industrial switches
An Australian penetration tester has discovered remotely exploitable flaws in switches made by the American companies Red Lion Controls and AutmationDirect that could be exploited even by hackers with...
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Women & Diversity in Data
The lack of diversity in data and analytics roles is still a major challenge for most organisations, with a recent study on women in technology highlighting the gender gap amongst executive roles. The...
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Danny’s Moto’ing along nicely (interview)
A pioneer, and once the major force in mobile communications, Motorola has been through some interesting times. Back in 2011 Google bought Motorola Mobility, its smartphone, and home division, and in...
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Sheridan takes up NetComm CEO post as company reports loss
NetComm Wireless acting chief executive Ken Sheridan has moved into the top post permanently as the telecommunications hardware manufacturer announced its financials for the first half of FY 2017,...
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Spirit Telecom connects ‘superfast’ Internet to Eureka
Telecommunications and Internet services provider Spirit Telecom has deployed its claimed “superfast” Internet network in Melbourne’s iconic 297.3-metre high Eureka Tower building to service 575...
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Square launches virtual terminal for payments
Payments technology company Square has launched a virtual terminal that allows businesses to accept payments directly from a Web browser on the Square dashboard. According to Square, if a seller is...
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