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A new Windows video (presumably a TV commercial) knocks the iPad over multitasking, its lack of a PowerPoint app and the price of the 64GB configuration.

published 12 minutes ago by Jason D. O'Grady

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Former McAfee Threat Research vice-president Dmitri Alperovitch has called for greater powers for private companies, saying that they should be allowed to make citizens' arrests and limited retaliatory action against hackers.

published 19 minutes ago by Michael Lee

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New survey of 2,000 chief information officers finds widespread inability to innovate; and a lot of concern about finding and retaining skills. Top recruiting target: enterprise architects.

published 34 minutes ago by Joe McKendrick

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Indonesian official says Taiwanese manufacturer will team up with local mobile phone distributor Erajaya Swasembada to offer locally-made handsets, and it will start constructing its factory later this year.

published 1 hour ago by Kevin Kwang

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Central and local-level governments in the country has spent a total of 2.16 billion yuan on legal copies of software in the past three years to combat piracy.

published 1 hour ago by Kevin Kwang

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Telstra will undertake a restructure of its operations division in what is being called the 'most substantive change' to the group in 10 years, which will likely see jobs go.

published 3 hours ago by Josh Taylor

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Highlighting the fact that there are security vulnerabilities in your organisation sounds like common sense, but there is such a thing as doing it too fast, according to Foxtel CISO Kevin Shaw.

published 4 hours ago by Michael Lee

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For those that need a ruggedized smartphone, the Cat B15 may be a decent competitor priced at a reasonable $350 with no carrier contract.

published 4 hours ago by Matthew Miller

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The Microsoft-Google feud continues, with Microsoft meeting some -- but not all -- of Google's terms-of-service demands around the Microsoft's recently developed YouTube app.

published 7 hours ago by Mary Jo Foley

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It's funny to look back on my personal history with Linux and remember how subversive and alternative it once was. These days, it's just another operating system. That original subversive spark is gone.

published 8 hours ago by Ken Hess

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In last week's ZDNet "Great Debate," Robin Harris and I faced off on the question of whether "we need data scientists to make sense of this tidal wave of information." I think data scientists are important, but they're not the solution. What follows is my argument, in essay form.

published 9 hours ago by Andrew Brust

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MS CRM on your Xbox One? Will any and all Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 apps be allowed to run on the just-announced Xbox One?

published 9 hours ago by Mary Jo Foley

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One-size-fits-all computing is an antiquated paradigm. Forrester's J.P. Gownder explains how workforce segmentation drives innovation.

published 9 hours ago by J.P. Gownder

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The virtual desktop is on its way to being spruced up as Nvidia sharpens its focus on the enterprise.

published 10 hours ago by Rachel King

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There's no doubt that the Xbox One is a games console, but it's a games console with a twist -- it's also an entertainment system.

published 10 hours ago by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

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