Another Free Win7 Life Extension

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By now, everybody knows that Windows 7 End of Life (EOL) comes January 14, 2020. Afterward, organizations and companies need extended security updates to keep the old OS alive. Until now, that’s been an expensive proposition. But in the past few days, Microsoft has let slip information about a possi…READ MORE

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Microsoft partner training offers self-assessment tool

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An important part of education is determining what you need to learn. Microsoft partner training aims to help service providers in that regard, launching a self-assessment tool Feb. 15.

The tool, dubbed the Transformation Readiness Assessment, lets partners figure out the “next steps to increase …READ MORE

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An IoT DIYer's story of managing Type 1 diabetes

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In February 2018, my family of four — wife, 6-year-old boy and 3-year-old girl — were thrust quite suddenly into the world of Type 1 diabetes. We spent about five days in the hospital trying to stabilize my daughter and learning a whole lot about how to manage the life-threatening disease that wou…READ MORE

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DH2i’s New DxOdyssey to Ensure Security for Remote User Access

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DH2i’s New DxOdyssey, Software-Defined Perimeter (SDP) Software, Promises to Ensure Security for Remote User Access to Cloud Services

An Alternative to VPNs, Which Present Management Headaches and Security Vulnerabilities

From the IT department to the C-suite, data security has become a key …READ MORE

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The Future of Work

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In the days of the industrial revolution, work was a place. A coal mine, an oil well, a train yard, and a factory.The goal was to get the factory to run itself, as efficiently as possible. With the work stable, predictable, and repeatable under scientific management, the owners can walk away and col…READ MORE

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Fintech reveals that Brexit induced fall in pound’s value hits migrant workers in UK

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It is not just EU citizens in the UK and UK citizens that are suffering from the uncertainty of Brexit, as non EU immigrants in the UK are sending less to families in home countries as the value of the pound falls.

Research carried out by cross border payments fintech InstaRem, which I recently i…READ MORE

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Live from Singapore - can two AI bots fall in love?

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In the run-up to Valentine’s Day, toothpaste brand Closeup has teamed up with MullenLowe, a Singapore creative agency, to discover if love can overcome all boundaries (even firewalls), with a unique experiment to discover whether two AI bots can fall in love.

The two bots, Sol and Num, were devel…READ MORE

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NHS takes a small digital step into the 21st century - with bigger ones to come

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Here is our quote of the week: “We spend £8m a year on paper. We spend £2m a year on envelopes. We can save lives, save staff time and cut costs by using an extraordinary piece of technology that has the ability to allow two people to communicate instantaneously, and to allow groups of people to…READ MORE

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Google cloud head Kurian tips off future Google cloud plans

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Thomas Kurian has kept a low profile since he replaced Diane Greene as CEO of Google’s cloud division — until now.

The longtime former Oracle executive spoke publicly for the first time as Google’s top cloud exec on Feb. 12 at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet conference in San Francisco…READ MORE

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Bow to your Sensu

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As all self-respecting geeks now, it’s important to bow to your sensei.

When it comes to open source cloud-native user-centric monitoring, it may soon be important to bow to your Sensu.

Sensu Go is a described as a scalable and user-centric monitoring event pipeline, designed to improve (inf…READ MORE

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Don't struggle to learn new programming languages

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Modern applications developers are often tasked to learn new programming languages and patterns to improve their skills. The classic do-it-yourself approach with books or tutorial videos is great, but it still requires the developer to set up a programming environment to out that newfound knowledge …READ MORE

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The package no one ordered

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Tech gossip doesn’t get steamier than the richest person in the world, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, being blackmailed with his own dick pics by The National Enquirer.
But why would he mind who has to look at his Prime member? It seems like a natural next step on this steaming rock of dystopian inequali…READ MORE

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PowerShell v6 experimental features

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The ability to have PowerShell v6 experimental features surfaced in the PowerShell v6.2 previews. In preview 4 there are two experimental features.

PSImplicitRemotingBatching   – Batch implicit remoting proxy commands to improve performance

PSUseAbbreviationExpansion   – Allow tab completi…READ MORE

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What Happens to Your Bitcoin When You Die?

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We’ve written before about the challenges in storing bitcoin, and how if you’re not careful, you can lose access to $7.5 million by accidentally throwing the hard drive containing the cryptographic key away. We’ve also written about how people can lose access to data when someone dies without …READ MORE

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GE Digital addendum

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The term “digital” is only referenced twice, in the 87 minutes of GE’s Q4 2018 earnings call that took place at the end of January. In a transcript of the call, posted on the Seeking Alpha financial blogging site, none of the financial analysts who participated, asked about the company’s dig…READ MORE

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RPA bots vs. case management -- both have value, one is transformative

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Robotic process automation is not a transformative technology — so says a guy whose company has been recognized as a leader in the field. Robotic process automation (RPA), software that automates repetitive, rules-based tasks performed by humans, can save costs, boost productivity and improve a cus…READ MORE

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Scoop! Symantec Acquisition Makes Sense Of Software Defined Perimeter Security...

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OK – so that’s probably not the perfect headline to be announced by anyone who whistles through their teeth…

Been having some interesting conversations recently around the idea of zero trust security; primarily why there was ever anything but zero trust in the first place?

An obvious answer …READ MORE

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February 2019 Activity Contest

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Valentine’s Day Image via Adobe
 

Happy February, ITKE users! Love may be in the air this week, but guess what else I smell… Another ITKE activity contest! Before we finish up those reservations and last minute candy heart runs, let’s take a look at who our winners were for January:

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Diversity and inclusion – getting the balance right

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GUEST BLOG: In this contributed post, Patricia DuChene, GM EMEA and VP of Sales at Wrike, discusses the fine line between diversity and inclusion, as well as lessons she’s learnt during her career 

Companies are now spending millions to get their diversity initiatives up to speed. Considering …READ MORE

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Should you build (software)... or should you buy?

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Senior director of platform strategy at ‘mass customisation’ specialist company Cimpress is Eugene Hsu.

Hsu argues the point that modern software architectures have changed the nature of the build vs. buy question — he says that the build vs. buy tradeoff used to be more of an either/or prop…READ MORE

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