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Top programming languages, 5G worries, cloud computing, and more: Research round-up

All the facts and figures that matter to you and your business from the past month in technology news.

March 6, 2020 by Mark Samuels

IT spending, cloud computing, big data, virtual reality, and more: Research round-up

All the data that matters to you from the past month in technology news.

November 7, 2019 by Mark Samuels

Provision a WordPress site in 30 minutes or less using Amazon AWS Lightsail

Amazon's AWS can be daunting in terms of its almost overwhelming complexity. But Lightsail makes it easy. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to create a full WordPress install in about five minutes.

October 28, 2019 by David Gewirtz

Julia programming language, cloud computing, cybersecurity worries: Research round-up

All the facts and figures that matter to you and your business from the past month in technology news.

September 6, 2019 by Mark Samuels

The biggest events in Linux's history

A year by year summary of the most significant events in Linux's history to date.

August 27, 2019 by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

How Microsoft lost its monopoly in web browsers

At the dawn of the Internet age, Microsoft used every trick it knew to dominate the World Wide Web. That strategy worked for a few years, but aggressive antitrust enforcement and equally aggressive competitors crushed the company's onetime dominance. Here's a quarter-century of history that explains just what happened.

August 23, 2019 by Ed Bott

Cloud services: 24 lesser-known web services your business needs 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.

April 19, 2019 by David Gewirtz

Windows 10 May 2019 Update: The new features that matter most

Windows 10 version 1903, which will be officially dubbed the May 2019 Update, begins rolling out soon. Here are some of the new capabilities you can expect in yet another feature-packed semi-annual release. (This gallery is based on a near-final Insider Preview release.)

April 4, 2019 by Ed Bott

Cloud computing trends, where developers want to live, AI skills, and 5G: Research round-up

All the data that matters to you from the past month in technology news.

March 11, 2019 by Mark Samuels

Create your own free Adobe Creative Cloud with free and open source software

While Creative Cloud has its strong benefits, it's also costly. If you want to accomplish most of what you can with Creative Cloud, but pay absolutely nothing, these products can help.

December 5, 2018 by David Gewirtz

Data center automation, IT skills, IoT and digital transformation: Research round-up

Our analysis of the data that matters from the past month.

December 5, 2018 by Mark Samuels

These rooms full of TVs are how Amazon gets Prime Video to look sharp on every device

Photos: Amazon needs to test its video service across lots and lots (and lots) of TVs. Here's an inside look.

December 3, 2018 by Steve Ranger

IT spending, smartwatches, AI and the cloud: Research round-up

We tell the story of key technology trends from the past month.

October 3, 2018 by Mark Samuels

How to turn your iPhone into a business workhorse: Add these apps and accessories, and tweak these settings

Here's how, with a few tweaks and accessories, you can transform your iPhone into a business workhorse that will allow you to get serious work done.

August 28, 2018 by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

The dumbest passwords people still use

Everybody knows that 12345 is a bad password. But what they're using instead isn't much stronger

June 20, 2018 by Leslie Gornstein

HPE CEO Antonio Neri on growth, as-a-service, edge, and returning to offices

In a wide-ranging chat, HPE CEO Antonio Neri talks with ZDNet's Larry Dignan about what the IT demand picture looks like since the company reported earnings in May 2020 and the company's Discover virtual conference. Read more: https://zd.net/3fiXrnc

3 days ago by Larry Dignan

Google and Box to offer new cloud services integrations

The companies announced new and expanded integrations between Box, G Suite environments and Google Cloud services.

July 28, 2020 by ZDNet Editors

What do serverless computing users like and dislike about the technology

The current Serverless Community Survey​ reveals serverless developers are a prolific and busy bunch.

July 27, 2020 by ZDNet Editors

G Suite: 9 features you definitely need to know about

G Suite has grown into a very powerful productivity and collaboration offering. We were curious about what features Google loves that many of us haven't noticed.

July 27, 2020 by ZDNet Editors

IBM's financial services cloud: New in-built dashboard and a stronger ecosystem

The new dashboard will allow companies to monitor security and enforce compliance across their workloads.

July 27, 2020 by ZDNet Editors

Microsoft releases tool to calculate cloud-based carbon emissions

The company has also made further commitments to its goal to be carbon negative by 2030.

July 26, 2020

When the COVID-19 outbreak hit, the city of Seattle was digitally ready

Seattle began overhauling its IT operations in 2016, so when the pandemic hit, the city was ready to ramp up digital services for city staff and residents.

July 23, 2020 by ZDNet Editors

Ransomware nightmare: When you stop the attack but you have to pay the hackers anyway

BlackBaud said it had to pay a ransom demand to ensure hackers would delete data they stole from its network.

July 23, 2020 by ZDNet Editors

Woolworths inks cloud partnership with Microsoft

Part of the retailer's future plans to upgrade to SAP S/4HANA.

July 21, 2020

Vault Cloud signs whole-of-NSW government cloud deal

The Australian cloud provider has also announced a new Western Sydney cloud region.

July 15, 2020

Should you use your browser’s built-in password manager?

Ed Bott explains the pros and cons of allowing your web browser to save passwords for you and how you can manage this feature. Read more: https://zd.net/38HE3i6

July 10, 2020 by Karen Roby

What do we know about Microsoft's Project Freta?

The new Microsoft Research project hopes to automate virtual-machine forensics in the cloud.

July 10, 2020 by ZDNet Editors

Rackspace CEO Kevin Jones on multicloud deployment demand

Larry Dignan talks to Rackspace CEO Kevin Jones who highlights key trends in managed services and multicloud deployments and how the COVID-19 pandemic has sped up the transition to leverage multiple public clouds.

July 8, 2020 by Larry Dignan

Reserve Bank of Australia helping agencies access new payment features

Using the RBA's API gateway, government agencies can improve their own payment functions.

July 6, 2020

Cbus overhauls infrastructure bringing digital assets in-house

Having control over its digital platforms allows the company to deliver tailored experiences to customers.

July 6, 2020

Linksys Cloud Manager, First Take: Affordable wi-fi administration for multi-location businesses

October 29, 2018 by Cliff Joseph

Hands-on with the Thinkware F800 Pro: A dash cam that does everything you need

May 14, 2018 by Eileen Brown

Densify review: Take control of your public cloud spending

February 1, 2018 by Alan Stevens

Visio Online, First Take: Web-based diagramming with basic options

November 10, 2017 by Mary Branscombe

Lima Ultra: Tiny, personal cloud storage that just misses the mark

August 16, 2017 by Charlie Osborne

Amazon Echo review: Alexa is the first digital assistant that is actually helpful

October 21, 2016 by Steve Ranger

Smartway2 review: BYOD put to use for room-booking and hot-desking

March 4, 2015 by Alan Stevens

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.

November 26, 2014 by Alan Stevens

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.

May 12, 2014 by Simon Bisson

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.

March 5, 2014 by Alan Stevens

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.

July 16, 2012 by Simon Bisson

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.

July 12, 2012 by Simon Bisson

Xero

Xero is an affordable online accounting service that delivers key bookkeeping functionality for small businesses in an admirably straightforward way.

May 2, 2012 by Alan Stevens

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.

March 6, 2012 by Alan Stevens

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.

November 14, 2011 by Terry Relph-Knight