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Teaching teachers: the new Google for Education Certified Trainer Programme

Mon, 5th Sep 2016
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For the last few years Google has provided a programme for people who wanted to earn an official training certification from Google for Education.
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Tech-hungry businesses need to find their inner child

Mon, 5th Sep 2016
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is enough innovation coming out of our big companies? The world loves emerging technologies, but have businesses lost their sense of play?.
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Measuring the high costs of web malware protection

Mon, 5th Sep 2016
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The costs of recovering from a ransomware or other cyberattack are well understood…but how much should an organization spend to prevent one?.
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What to do? A little ERP? A little IOT? A little big data? Who Know...Who Cares?

Mon, 5th Sep 2016
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Amid a tech investment muddle, is IT truly firing up productivity or just a shot in the dark? Let's disentangle the ROI riddle.
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Dell + EMC = $80B+ IT product behemoth

Mon, 5th Sep 2016
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Dell's landmark $67 billion acquisition of EMC would create the world's largest IT product company, knitting together a broad range of IT assets.
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Blackboard provides a roadmap to the cloud for higher education

Mon, 5th Sep 2016
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Blackboard has announced a transition plan at its recent Teaching and Learning Conference in Sydney to help institutions move to cloud-based services.
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New Zealand is a leader in IoT but is not leading the way

Mon, 5th Sep 2016
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Reports and statistics about the Internet of Things (IoT) would lead many to believe New Zealand is a global leader in IoT. But is it really?.
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It isn't easy being a RAN vendor these days, and that probably won't change

Mon, 5th Sep 2016
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As mobile operators consolidate and grapple with revenue growth, RAN vendors have had to struggle with increasingly limited market opportunities.
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What is this so called 'Age of the Customer?'

Thu, 1st Sep 2016
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CEOs aim for better customer experience, but poor technology management continues to disappoint, says journalist.
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Microsoft: 10 great ways to rock back-to-school

Tue, 30th Aug 2016
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Below are some new and favourite technology features we offer educators to help make teaching easier and spark student learning.
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Gartner on the five steps crucial to closing SaaS security gaps

Tue, 30th Aug 2016
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Business goals can be achieved only when the same security principles and governance being applied in-house are also applied to the public cloud.
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Check Point says beware of the Trident Exploits on iOS

Tue, 30th Aug 2016
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UAE activist targeted by 'Trident' - a trio of zero-day iOS exploits enabling total device control, discovered by Toronto researchers.
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WhatsApp shares data with Facebook ahead of monetisation

Mon, 29th Aug 2016
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More than two years after its acquisition by Facebook, WhatsApp has seemingly succumbed to the inevitable pressure from its parent company.
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Gartner: Why CIOs should care about the connected home

Mon, 29th Aug 2016
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In addition to the direct IT team, CIOs will need to educate executives on the current and potential difficulties of the smart home.
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The BIG question: Is tech making us all dumb?

Fri, 26th Aug 2016
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Are we entering an age of idiocracy? Is technology making us stupid? These questions are being raised as online culture continues to evolve.
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The drivers and benefits of Edge Computing

Wed, 24th Aug 2016
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The data revolution has arrived – and it's big. Almost 90 per cent of all the data in the world has been created in the last two years.
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The Internet of Sh*t - the opinions of a tech afficionado

Wed, 24th Aug 2016
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cloud services
The reality of the Internet of Things is more akin to an Internet of Shit, with many gadgets failing to live up to the hype.
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How broadband can be used for critical WAN tasks

Tue, 23rd Aug 2016
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An SD-WAN abstracts multiple, completely different forms of transport connectivity and combines them into manageable software components.
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Lenovo begins its new fiscal year with a difficult quarter

Tue, 23rd Aug 2016
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After acquiring Motorola and IBM's System x server business, Lenovo's fiscal 1Q17/calendar 2Q16 earnings revealed lingering growing pains.
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Why you're better at digital marketing than you think

Tue, 23rd Aug 2016
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marketing
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digital age
As a marketer, if you believe you're falling behind & others are more adept, you may be giving them credit for your own knowledge.