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Snowden fingers Russia for NSA hack

By The Editors / August 19, 2016 / 0 Comment

Tags: Fuschia, Locky, Shadow Brokers

The U.S. government’s electronic spy agency lost some secret files and Google puts its own online. China is putting quantum physics up in space, and Uber wants to put drivers out of work. And this week’s dingbat of the week is a doozie.

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Airline in hot seat after IT systems grounded

By The Editors / August 12, 2016 / 0 Comment

Tags: messenger bot, QuadRooter

Delta’s IT makes a crash landing, phones and cars are all apparently broken and journalists are misusing hookup apps. But it’s all going to be OK, because Obama now has a Facebook chatbot. Read all about it in this week’s tech roundup.

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Bitcoin belly flops as Bitfinex braves burgalry

By The Editors / August 5, 2016 / 0 Comment

Tags: Bitfinex, Black Hat, Rocket Kitten

It’s been a hacky kind of a week in tech. Bitcoins were stolen, and allegedly Yahoo accounts too. Cars were controlled by people who weren’t driving them, and government spooks used trawled messaging networks. Read on to find out why you should be paranoid.

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Verizon snaps up Yahoo for a bargain

By The Editors / July 29, 2016 / 0 Comment

Tags: IsoHunt, Wikileaks

This week saw wireless hackery, Pokemon idiocy, a new $9B pantomime horse, and just outright pantomime. Read all about it in our tech roundup.

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SoftBank snarfs ARM in US$32B deal

By The Editors / July 22, 2016 / 0 Comment

Tags: ARM, Elon Musk, Softbank

One acquisition, one world domination plan, one alleged cybercriminal and one premium-grade dingbat. We’ve got them all in our tech roundup this week.

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EU to Google: ‘Hands off our ads’

By The Editors / July 15, 2016 / 0 Comment

Tags: antitrust, Pokemon Go

Battles between governments and search engines, secret phone-control messages in your radio programme and rampaging robots. It may be the summer season, but that’s no reason for the tech world to take a holiday.

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(Pass)thoughts on the evolution of passwords

By The Editors / July 8, 2016 / 0 Comment

Tags: passwords, Tesla, Twist BioScience

Battling companies, DNA video storage, telepathic logins and arrogant CEOs, all in seven days. Tech never gets boring, does it? Read what happened in the industry in our weekly roundup.

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Doh! DAO downed by debilitating defect

By The Editors / June 24, 2016 / 0 Comment

Tags: cryptocurrency, DAO

Smart contracts that aren’t looking so smart, AI we don’t want to see come to life and ghosting gone digital. Read all about it in our weekly tech roundup.

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Why did Microsoft pay top dollar for LinkedIn?

By The Editors / June 17, 2016 / 0 Comment

Tags: Guccifer 2.0, Score Assured

Microsoft buys LinkedIn, Facebook prepares to kill the written word and hackers find Donald Trump’s darkest secrets. Read all about it in this week’s tech roundup.

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Flying drones to invade Nevada

By The Editors / June 10, 2016 / 0 Comment

Tags: artificial intelligence, EHang

Cars that need rebooting, artificial intelligence with a built-in reset switch, and the most anti-social technology we’ve ever heard of. Come and read about the latest wild week in tech.

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Smartphone market is cooling, says net guru

By The Editors / June 3, 2016 / 0 Comment

Tags: smartphones

The smartphone market is saturated, which is creating a big problem for the Internet’s big brands. Read about that, and some other crazy stories from the weird world of tech, in this week’s roundup.

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Microsoft hangs up on phone business

By The Editors / May 27, 2016 / 0 Comment

Tags: ransomware, robocop

The software giant throws in the towel on smartphone hardware, nuclear weapons systems get an upgrade — from the 1970s — and robotic security guards patrol malls. This was one of technology’s weirder weeks. Read all about it in our tech roundup.

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Zayo connects with customers at Cisco Connect

By The Editors / May 24, 2016 / 0 Comment

Tags: Cisco Connect 2016, Zayo HCS

More than 1,500 IT pros made their way to the Toronto Congress Centre last week for Cisco Connect — Cisco Canada’s flagship ICT event that offers in-depth education and training sessions, insight into the latest technologies and industry networking opportunities.

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Tech turns the creepy dial to 11

By The Editors / May 20, 2016 / 0 Comment

Tags: privacy, wearable tech

This week in tech saw a distinctly creepy set of news stories. From messaging apps that talk on your behalf through to the Internet of Stings, it’s all in our tech roundup this week.

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A censorious seven days in IT

By The Editors / May 13, 2016 / 0 Comment

Tags: email policy, SDSec

Everyone seems to want to hide or ban something this week. Read on for three examples from the news in our weekly roundup of the most interesting stories in IT.

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Allstream scoops up prestigious partner award

By The Editors / May 9, 2016 / 0 Comment

Tags: awards, MiCloud

Mitel honoured its top-performing channel partners at a recent awards gala, naming Allstream its Canadian partner of the year. That partnership continues to grow, as Allstream is the first to bring MiCloud — a cloud-based collaboration solution — to the Canadian mid-market.

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Satoshi Nakamot-oh-no he isn’t

By The Editors / May 6, 2016 / 0 Comment

Tags: big data, bitcoin, bitcoin, quantum computing

Those unable to decide if the self-proclaimed inventor of bitcoin is legit might need IBM’s quantum computer. Google has been quietly slurping up U.K. patient data, and a Finnish schoolkid collected a cool $10K. It’s all happening in our tech roundup this week.

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Misconfigured database breaches most of Mexico

By The Editors / April 29, 2016 / 0 Comment

Tags: data breach, Windows 10

Windows rains all over the TV and MongoDB gives up millions of personal details. What a weird, whacky world it’s been in tech this week.

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UC Davis tries to rewrite (search) history

By The Editors / April 22, 2016 / 0 Comment

Tags: drones, drones

Some astoundingly bad PR decisions and some amazingly cool suggestions for drone technology. It doesn’t get any better than the expertIP tech roundup this week.

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Will bots kill the mobile app?

By The Editors / April 15, 2016 / 0 Comment

Tags: e-commerce, Wi-Fi Aware

You may soon buy flowers from a bot, if Facebook gets its way. You may not be able to escape annoying texts and selfies, even in the cinema, if millennials get theirs. And find out who hacked that FBI smartphone in our tech roundup for the week.

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How Google bricked the Internet of Things

By The Editors / April 8, 2016 / 0 Comment

Tags: cybercrime, IoT

Eye-based computer monitors, Microsoft in bed with its former enemy and the Internet of Things with an expiry date. Did April Fool’s Day come a week late to the tech industry? Find out in our tech roundup this week.

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Issues with NPM causing massive headaches

By The Editors / April 1, 2016 / 0 Comment

Tags: AI, AI, chatbots, NPM

The digital world is full of dangers. Self-replicating worms, druggie chatbots and cellphones that are out to get you. Will you ever be safe? Read our weekly roundup and be aware …

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Allstream awarded for zero outage strategy

By The Editors / March 29, 2016 / 0 Comment

Tags: T-Systems, Zero Outage

T-Systems presented the Zero Outage Partner Awards to its top five partners at CeBIT in Hanover, Germany, recognizing best-in-class quality practices around the globe.

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A lesson in AI: Robot teen trolls entire Internet

By The Editors / March 24, 2016 / 0 Comment

Tags: smart cars, Tay, women in IT

A bot experiment that goes horribly wrong, hookups with Donald Trump and the security pitfalls of smart vehicles — it’s been quite a week in technology. Read all about it in our weekly roundup of the most interesting tech stories online.

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Tech report cards miss the mark

By The Editors / March 18, 2016 / 0 Comment

Tags: AR, AR, robots, VR, VR

This week saw U.S. politicians flounder when it comes to technology, Microsoft allegedly forcing Windows 10 on unsuspecting users and robot concierges that you don’t have to tip. Read all about it in our tech roundup this week.

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Airline in hot seat after IT systems grounded

Bitcoin belly flops as Bitfinex braves burgalry

Verizon snaps up Yahoo for a bargain

SoftBank snarfs ARM in US$32B deal

EU to Google: ‘Hands off our ads’

(Pass)thoughts on the evolution of passwords

Doh! DAO downed by debilitating defect

Why did Microsoft pay top dollar for LinkedIn?

Flying drones to invade Nevada

Smartphone market is cooling, says net guru

Microsoft hangs up on phone business

Zayo connects with customers at Cisco Connect

Tech turns the creepy dial to 11

A censorious seven days in IT

Allstream scoops up prestigious partner award

Satoshi Nakamot-oh-no he isn’t

Misconfigured database breaches most of Mexico

UC Davis tries to rewrite (search) history

Will bots kill the mobile app?

How Google bricked the Internet of Things

Issues with NPM causing massive headaches

Allstream awarded for zero outage strategy

A lesson in AI: Robot teen trolls entire Internet

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