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SuiteWorld recap: How the cloud has revolutionised the way businesses operate
Fintech

SuiteWorld recap: How the cloud has revolutionised the way businesses operate

Opening day of SuiteWorld is a great networking opportunity, with the #Hackathon4Good event taking center stage.

By Matthew Owens • 3 min read • Wed, 2nd May 2018
How Workplace By Facebook helped solve an avocado shortage
Unified Communications

How Workplace By Facebook helped solve an avocado shortage

Many employees in major industries like retail, farming, and transport seldom have their own PC or even a company email address, but they do all have.

By Julia Gabel • 4 min read • Thu, 29th Mar 2018
Qualtrics continues rapid growth across APAC
Data Analytics

Qualtrics continues rapid growth across APAC

Qualtrics has swiftly bolstered its presence in APAC with six new offices and a 100-strong team, serving over 750 clients since 2015.

By Jacques-Pierre (JP) Dumas • 2 min read • Tue, 27th Mar 2018
Microsoft reaches historic AI milestone in Chinese-English language translation
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft reaches historic AI milestone in Chinese-English language translation

Microsoft claims a historic breakthrough in AI, achieving human-level parity in translating Chinese news into English. Yet, challenges remain.

By Julia Gabel • 7 min read • Tue, 20th Mar 2018
Sophos unveils new phishing attack simulation solution
Firewalls

Sophos unveils new phishing attack simulation solution

The new solution from Sophos allows organisations to run trial phishing 'attacks' on employees to see who is most susceptible and offer training.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Thu, 15th Mar 2018
Spotify is letting users fix inaccurate music info
Digital Entertainment

Spotify is letting users fix inaccurate music info

Some of the data categories listeners are invited to make suggestions for include: explicitness, genre, aliases, languages, mood and tags.

By Kai Ping Lew • 2 min read • Tue, 13th Mar 2018
New email spam campaign ditches traditional Office macro infection tactic
Malware

New email spam campaign ditches traditional Office macro infection tactic

A new wave of spam emails use Microsoft Office documents to download password stealers without having to activate Macros.

By Sara Barker • 3 min read • Mon, 19th Feb 2018
GitHub reveals open source project trends for 2018
Marketing Technologies

GitHub reveals open source project trends for 2018

Last year, 24 million people from over 200 different countries worked together on GitHub to code better and build bigger.

By Kai Ping Lew • 3 min read • Mon, 12th Feb 2018
Sony reveals their new VR venture at ISE 2018
AR, VR & Metaverse

Sony reveals their new VR venture at ISE 2018

At ISE 2018, Sony unveiled Sonic Surf VR, an advanced audio technology promising immersive, interactive soundscapes for diverse applications.

By Jacques-Pierre (JP) Dumas • 2 min read • Mon, 12th Feb 2018
Panasonic claims stake in smart energy management with Schneider Electric deal
DataCentre infrastructure

Panasonic claims stake in smart energy management with Schneider Electric deal

The system also features plug and play technology to reduce installation time, or can be installed as a part of a standalone system.

By Julia Gabel • 2 min read • Thu, 8th Feb 2018
Startup uses chatbot to simplify global digital marketing
Unified Communications

Startup uses chatbot to simplify global digital marketing

MemePR's marketing platform uses artificial intelligence to connect working partners from all around the world with those in need of marketing service.

By Kai Ping Lew • 2 min read • Thu, 8th Feb 2018
Flexera releases open source security and compliance platform
Physical Security

Flexera releases open source security and compliance platform

Software suppliers and buyers can identify high-risk code, prioritise accordingly and channel effort to projects.

By Kai Ping Lew • 4 min read • Thu, 11th Jan 2018
Exclusive interview: Polycom on bridging the digital divide & workplaces of the future
Unified Communications

Exclusive interview: Polycom on bridging the digital divide & workplaces of the future

Polycom's Tony Simonsen discusses leveraging IoT, improving rural education and healthcare, and championing diversity to craft the workplaces of the future.

By Julia Gabel • 6 min read • Thu, 14th Dec 2017
Cloudera announces launch of cloud based data warehouses
Cloud Services

Cloudera announces launch of cloud based data warehouses

Cloudera claims this is the first data warehouse cloud service that actually brings the warehouse to the data.

By Julia Gabel • 3 min read • Wed, 6th Dec 2017
IoT, AI, blockchain, biometrics – Hitachi Vantara's 10 key trends for 2018
Storage

IoT, AI, blockchain, biometrics – Hitachi Vantara's 10 key trends for 2018

Smart object storage, analytics and AI, and the extension of agile methodologies across the enterprise will all play key roles during the coming year.

By Kai Ping Lew • 9 min read • Wed, 6th Dec 2017
New availability and recovery capabilities announced for AWS database services
Hyperscale

New availability and recovery capabilities announced for AWS database services

New Multi-Master capability makes Amazon Aurora the first relational database service to scale out both reads and writes across multiple data centers.

By Kai Ping Lew • 7 min read • Thu, 30th Nov 2017

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Microsoft: There's no such thing as a typical 'techie'
Microsoft

Microsoft: There's no such thing as a typical 'techie'

New Zealand is progressive in gender diversity, but still lags in tech industry gender equality. Action is needed.

By Vanessa Sorenson • 5 min read • Mon, 12th Mar 2018