Four ways IoT will change the way we work in 2020

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Did you ever think you’d be talking to your phone like it was a friend, asking it where to find good tapas? Or that your refrigerator would be able to talk to you and let you know you’re low on milk? We used to use watches to tell time. Now, we rely on them track our heart condition, get directi…READ MORE

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Google focuses more on steering the Android ship than righting it

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Google has been a frequent target of criticism over security and privacy issues and how Android security updates filter out to users, butthe scale of its products has led Google to focus more on steering the ship rather than righting it.

Consider Android: an ecosystem of 2.5 billion active device…READ MORE

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NearForm clocks in with hackable open source JavaScript AI smartwatch

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The Irish county town of Kilkenny is known for its medieval buildings and castle, its rich history of brewing, its distinctive black marble and as the home of White House architect James Hoban.

In more recent times, Kilkenny has become known as the home of the NodeConf EU conference, a coming tog…READ MORE

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How regular secure code reviews can benefit an organization

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While end-users will see the versatile features that come from an application as appealing, developers, developers will find value in the robust code behind them. However, due to intense code sharing and feature-driven development, there has been an increase in potential security threats. In fact, s…READ MORE

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Tanium updates core endpoint visibility platform

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Unified endpoint management and security platform company Tanium has come forward with a set of platform and portfolio enhancements that it says are focused on reinforcing fundamental needs in speed, simplicity and scale.

Where operational software silos grow, the ability to get visibility into e…READ MORE

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When does the state of quantum computing become relevant for CIOs?

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Is there a reason normal CIOs should be thinking about the state of quantum computing? It depends on how one defines normal, was Brian Hopkins’ answer. Hopkins is a Forrester Research analyst who focuses on emerging tech.

“It’s very much dependent on the industry you’re in. We think the first bre…READ MORE

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Calling all data storage products for the 2019 Products of the Year

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Do you have a great data storage product that first shipped or was significantly enhanced this year? If yes, we want to hear about it. There’s just one week left to enter your outstanding product in Storage magazine and SearchStorage’s 2019 Storage Products of the Year competition.

We’ve just ext…READ MORE

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DNS zones

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I’m working through the commonly used DNS server cmdlets to determine if everything works in PowerShell core. First up is the cmdlet to get the DNS zones on your DNS server.

PS> Get-DnsServerZone | Format-List -Property ZoneName, ZoneType, IsAutoCreated, IsDsIntegrated, IsReverseLookupZone, …READ MORE

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Microsoft Teams Jumps to 20M Active Users

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I wasn’t looking for exciting, dramatic news in yesterday’s blog post from CVP for Microsoft 365 Jared Sparato. It’s entitled “5 attributes of successful teams.” May I beg forgiveness for expecting something entirely touchy-feely, cheerfully and respectfully adapted from Stephen Covey? Indeed, there…READ MORE

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(What’s the story) morphing Tory?

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“You dressed up party lines as a fact-check service. That is dystopian,” Emily Maitlis told Conservative Party chairman James Cleverly on Newsnight after the leadership debate. But like a child that’s worked out the worst a teacher can do is hand him a detention, he gawped back at her with the…READ MORE

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Are your message threads tight or Slack?

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Why doesn’t Slack want us to use threaded replies to messages? At least, that’s the impression I come away with from having used at least five Slacks, some for business collaboration and others for consumer-grade discussions. 

Slack’s had the capability to show a message and its replies as…READ MORE

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The seven deadly sins of modern software development

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By Stuart Kennedy

Grappling with legacy systems to being fixated on project completion and budget rather than outcomes are some of the common challenges and pitfalls that software development teams face each day.

Yamen Sader, a platform engineering partner at Deloitte Australia, highlighted th…READ MORE

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Creative Destruction

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For my brother’s birthday party, around age 5, my father rented some horses, kept by a farmer at the end of Route 40, which becomes West Patrick Street. The sides of Route40 were farm fields. During my early childhood I saw creative destruction as the fields were sold to create retail stores and res…READ MORE

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Taking the cloud to the edge of space

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In this guest post, Chris Roberts, head of datacentre and cloud at Goonhilly Earth Station, wonders if enterprises are ready to tap into the business opportunities the explosion in data generated by Earth observation satellites is on course to bring?

During the summer, satellite images of fires b…READ MORE

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Azimo opens doors at Brexit-proof Dutch arm

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UK fintech Azimo has launched its Dutch subsidiary, which was inspired to shield the money transfer company from the damaging effects of Brexit.

All cross border transfers made from outside the UK will now go through Azimo’s Amsterdam based operation.

The cross border money transfer fintech …READ MORE

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StaffConnect Series 3 - Landmark In Employee Engagement SaaS Platform

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StaffConnect Series 3 launch begins a new era of its mobile employee engagement platform. The biggest gap between remote employees of an organization and their corporate or office employees is communication. That is a major gap that never let remote employees feel like an integral part of their orga…READ MORE

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SQL Server 2019 Big Data and Licensing

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One of the big features of SQL Server 2019 is the new feature called Big Data Cluster (BDC for short).  BDC doesn’t have its own licensing per se (it does, but only if you don’t get enough “free” licenses) as you get BDC free when you license what is called the head node.

The first thing to reme…READ MORE

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AWS month in review: Amazon rolls out RDS on VMware, loses JEDI deal

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This month, AWS solidified the next step in its hybrid cloud partnership with VMware, as it faces a more serious cloud market challenge from Microsoft, which won the desirable U.S. government JEDI cloud contract.

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) on VMware is generally available more than …READ MORE

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Has ISOC sold .Org for 30 pieces of silver? - Update 15th November

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Since I posted this there have been many entries on an impassioned ISOC discussion thread. So far I draw three main conclusions:

Democratic accountability is alien to ISOC. It has long been structured as a top down organisation, living off the revenues from .org, , with multiple groups in which…READ MORE

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Labour's broadband plan won't work - but let's have a national debate to find a plan that does

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So, the Labour Party wants free full-fibre broadband for all, and to nationalise Openreach. Cue bedlam on social media as the telecoms industry slams the proposals and the Conservatives scream, “Marxism! State aid! Fantasy economics!”

There was more debate on Twitter alone about the UK’s na…READ MORE

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