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MyRepublic not late to Singapore mobile market, but must differentiate with customer service
Some 18 months after losing its bid for the country's fourth telco license, MyRepublic finally launches its mobile services and hopes to gain ground by offering subscribers more control of their service plans.
Red Hat Q1 solid, but currency dings outlook
Red Hat's first quarter was swell, but the company cut its second quarter and fiscal year outlook due to currency fluctuations.
How to backup Gmail: The ultimate guide
Want to make sure you have a local or backup copy of all that mission-critical business and personal history in your Gmail archives? David Gewirtz takes you through an array of options.
How to Google Chrome: Essential tips and tricks to mastering your browser
Speed up your browser, consume less RAM, increase your privacy, and install extensions to help you get more done in your day. These tips work for both Mac and Windows (and many even work for Linux).
Micron says memory demand strong thanks to cloud, mobile, IoT
"Data center trends are also driving momentum for Micron's DRAM and NAND solutions, with combined revenue up 87 percent year-over-year," says CEO.
Hortonworks plays balancing act in the cloud
Among the big elephant platform providers, Hortonworks remains just about the last one not shy of having Hadoop associated with its name. But after this week's DataWorks Summit, it's apparent that Hortonworks and data warehousing providers are aiming to play the same Switzerland of analytics in an increasingly cloud-centric world.
Cloud computing: Five ways to make the most of the move to on-demand
Cloud computing can't fix everything but it can be a key element of business transformation if handled well.
Box, IBM intro new services for building Box Skills with Watson
Box Skills provide a framework for applying machine learning to the Box cloud content management platform.
Rackspace teams with HPE to offer pay-per-use Kubernetes private cloud
Rackspace is also offering a pay-as-you-go service for a VMware-based private cloud.
Oracle chases SME business in Brazil
The company is ploughing resources into increasing local market share in the segment
AI at Trainline: How the rail specialist is using data to help predict the future (Cloud TV)
Trainline CTO Mark Holt explains how his firm is using artificial intelligence and the cloud, and offers advice for other IT chiefs.
Storage, servers and more: We found 24 cloud services for your business
When it comes to cloud services and software-as-a-service (SaaS), we're all familiar with the usual players. But there's a huge world of opportunity and available resources beyond Google, Dropbox, Salesforce, Amazon, Microsoft and even beyond storage and server services.
Salesforce Research creates Swiss Army Knife for natural language processing
Salesforce has created a multi-task model for natural language processing that takes an architecture approach.
EPYC: One year on and AMD has transformed the server landscape
AMD did something that was long overdue -- it upended a stagnant and complacent server market, and all in a year.
Microsoft: This Azure password-banning tool will help kill off bad 'P@$$w0rd' habits
Admins can now significantly reduce the risk of accounts being compromised by password-spraying attacks.
The dumbest passwords people still use
Everybody knows that 12345 is a bad password. But what they're using instead isn't much stronger
Cloud services: 24 lesser-known web services for your business to try
In this guide, we've spotlighted 24 cloud-based services that can take your business to the next level. There's a huge world of opportunity and available resources beyond Google, Dropbox, Salesforce, Amazon, and Microsoft.
Research round-up: Cloud computing, IoT and cybersecurity, iPhone X and more
12 graphs which explain the tech news of the last month.
Photos: Inside vast abandoned mine set to be world's biggest data center
Norway's newest white-space data center has opened in a former mine. Lefdal Mine Datacenter could become the world's largest once of three of its five levels are filled.
Image tools for better online engagement
Make your posts more engaging and encourage more clicks and comments with these image-editing and graphics tools.
Internet of summer things for geeks
Breeze through the hot summer with these IoT-enabled devices and sensors, all controlled from your smartphone.
Azure HDInsight click-by-click guide: Get cloud-based Hadoop up and running today
Click by click, we'll show you how to get Microsoft's Apache Hadoop-based big bata service up and running.
Hands-on with Azure Data Lake: How to get productive fast
Microsoft's Azure Data Lake is now generally available, but what does it do, and how does it work? Here's a tour around the service's tooling and capabilities, to help you understand it and get productive with it, quickly.
The 10 scariest cloud outages (and lessons learned from them)
With more businesses and applications moving data to the cloud, even small outages can be devastating. By studying the worst cloud fails, we can find clues to avoiding future problems.
Photos: Zuckerberg offers glimpse inside Facebook's cavernous Arctic datacenter
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has shared a series of pictures from the social network's datacenter site up near the Arctic Circle in Sweden.
The 25 biggest events in Linux's 25-year history
A year by year summary of the most significant events in Linux's history to date.
Rio Olympics: the technology numbers
The most recent Summer Olympiad staked its place in history as the competition with the highest levels of digital engagement than any previous Olympic Games. We look at some of the key technology numbers behind the Rio events.
These 20 essential applications let you move easily between Windows and a Mac
Many professionals find themselves working on both Macs and PCs. If your work requires you to jump back and forth between Windows and Mac systems, here are some apps that will make your life easier.
Top 10 apps: These boast the most downloads so far this year
Survey Monkey has released its list of the most popular downloaded apps in the US on iOS and Android for the first six months of 2016. Pokemon Go was released in July so did not make it here.
A tour of IBM's cloud brokerage software cloudMatrix
IBM is betting that its cloudMatrix software will enable it to make a pivot from a systems integrator to a services integrator.
Microsoft employees ask the company to stop working with ICE
Concern over harmful applications of AI once again sparks an employee protest -- this time at Microsoft.
Cloud computing: 10 lessons for executives considering a move on-demand
Cloud computing can't fix everything but it can be a key element of business transformation if handled well.
Portland's move from hand-counting cyclists to tracking traffic in the cloud
Dylan Rivera, PIO for the Portland Bureau of Transportation, explains how Portland, Oregon will soon use GE's cloud platform to collect better data about traffic patterns.
Dropbox expands exabyte-scale infrastructure with SMR tech
Dropbox expects to have a quarter of its Magic Pocket infrastructure on SMR drive capacity by 2019.
Microsoft data center: Undersea project to bring cloud servers closer to people
Microsoft drops data center into the sea: 'It will keep working for five years'
Like it or not, Gmail new design will be mandatory in a few months
The new Gmail will just be Gmail soon after it reaches general availability.
Westpac announces offsite hybrid cloud built by IBM
Westpac has announced implementing a new offsite hybrid cloud, built and operated by IBM, that's part of its fully integrated cloud platform strategy.
SAP's new CRM takes aim at the Salesforce cloud
ZDNet's Larry Dignan explains SAP's CRM push, which is aimed squarely at Salesforce and its various clouds.
Using cloud computing to solve Lego robot problems and customer problems
Kyle Brown, the CTO at Cloud Architecture, found commonality between solving Lego robot problems and solving customer problems using cloud computing.
Box to expand workflow automation with Progressly purchase
Box said Progressly will help the company support Box customers looking to digitize and automate business processes.
Windows faces extinction at home, but Microsoft doesn't really care
While Microsoft's desktop operating system continues to be a key fixture of enterprise computing environments, it faces extinction at home. And Redmond seems perfectly fine with that.
Cloud computing is the future, but keep an eye on those monthly bills
Many chief financial officers as well as CIOs are gasping at the unexpected expenses seen in their monthly cloud bills. survey finds.
Can hyperscale data centers run on flash? US startup builds the architecture
Startup Burlywood plans to rearchitect flash SSDs so even hyperscale data centers can go all flash. Here's how.
European airline Ryanair moves all of its data infrastructure to AWS
Machine learning is key to a new Amazon cloud migration project, which will mean Ryanair closing most of its data centers.
Cloud buddies: NetApp's partnership with Google comes with big ambitions
With its latest cloud partner, NetApp says it's becoming "a data authority in a hybrid cloud world"
Hands-on with the Thinkware F800 Pro: A dash cam that does everything you need
I was wowed with the F800 Pro dash cam from Thinkware within minutes of using it.
Densify review: Take control of your public cloud spending
Densify is a capable and affordable cloud optimisation service, suitable for any company struggling to get to grips with its expenditure on public cloud services.
Visio Online, First Take: Web-based diagramming with basic options
Visio Online is useful, but at this stage it's clearly a companion for the desktop software. Power users will want to stick with the full-featured Windows version.
Lima Ultra: Tiny, personal cloud storage that just misses the mark
The Lima Ultra is geared towards consumers who need a file access and backup system, regardless of which device or OS they are using. But is the device worth the investment?
Amazon Echo review: Alexa is the first digital assistant that is actually helpful
You may not think you need a voice-activated speaker and a cloud-powered digital assistant in your home, but Amazon's Echo and Alexa may persuade you otherwise.
Smartway2 review: BYOD put to use for room-booking and hot-desking
Some vendors would have you use calendar software and proprietary room panels to book meeting rooms and hot desks, but Smartway2 mixes the cloud with mobile apps to let you do it all from a tablet or your smartphone.
Xero (2014) review: Cloud-based accounting service for SMEs continues to improve
This cloud-based small-business accounting service provides a well-planned set of tools for staying on top of your finances and streamlining the processes involved.
Azure RemoteApp beta preview: Cloud-hosted desktop apps for multiple platforms
Microsoft is developing a set of cloud-based tools for managing and deploying session virtualisation servers, allowing you to publish and share apps on Windows, iOS, Android, OS X and (soon) Windows Phone devices. We take the beta for a test drive.
Xero Touch for Android, First Take: Much-improved native mobile Xero client
A quicker and slicker new app for the online Xero accounting service adds automatic reconciliation of bank accounts, allowing Android users to stay on top of their finances.
Office 2013: a pleasant surprise
After a week of using Office 2013 we're pleasantly surprised. The changes Microsoft has made to support Windows 8 — and specifically Windows 8 tablets — are logical, and they work well with more traditional ways of using Office.
Windows Intune 3.0: Preview
Version 3.0 of Microsoft's cloud-hosted management platform is now available, adding support for mobile devices — including iPhones, iPads and Android.
Xero
Xero is an affordable online accounting service that delivers key bookkeeping functionality for small businesses in an admirably straightforward way.
Actinic Online
A big step up from Actinic Express, which it replaces, Actinic Online delivers everything an SME requires to build and run an online store via the cloud. It's not perfect, but it is affordable and worth evaluating if you need to start selling online.
Cortado ThinPrint Printer Dashboard
Cortado's ThinPrint Printer Dashboard is a potentially useful cloud application for monitoring the printers on your network. We had a few issues in this review, which hopefully will be addressed in a forthcoming update.
QuickBooks Online
A usable small-business accounting service that's quick to configure and easy to learn, the initial release of QuickBooks Online lacks a number of features important in this market.
