2021-04-22 21:20:23 www.zdnet.com Image: Getty Images The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) in December kicked off an inquiry into extremist movements and radicalism in Australia, considering, among other things, the role of social media, encrypted communications…
2021-04-22 19:44:22 www.zdnet.com The future Australian telcos dream of Image: Optus Australian carriers revealed on Friday how much they had paid in the recent 26GHz spectrum auction. First cab off the rank was Telstra, which announced it would be…
2021-04-22 08:28:00 www.zdnet.com Yes, Apple's M1 processor is amazing. Blazingly fast, runs cool, and it sips rather than gulps power. The Macs built around this processor are tempting -- really tempting -- but these Macs also highlight everything that's…
2021-04-22 14:11:00 www.zdnet.com If you use a Windows PC, do you really need third-party antivirus software? For that matter, do you need to pay for the protection? The answer to that question was easy a decade ago. Today, the…
2021-04-22 13:09:18 www.zdnet.com Credit: Microsoft Microsoft is making available today, April 22, the first preview releases of a couple of its promised next-generation "perpetual" (non-subscription) Office client products.Microsoft is delivering a first public preview of its Office Long Term…
2021-04-22 09:00:05 www.zdnet.com ServiceNow is rolling out a unified platform to collect diagnostic information across enterprise applications, cloud and on-premises infrastructure to better automate incidents and prevent disruptions. The company is launching Agent Client Collector, or ACC, to deliver…
2021-04-22 09:00:05 www.zdnet.com HP on Thursday announced Provisioning Connect, a new service within its device provisioning suite that aims to make it easier for organizations to issue employee devices remotely. According to HP, IT teams can use Provisioning Connect…
2021-04-22 01:48:10 www.zdnet.com SAP has reported first-quarter earnings results showing continued strength in the cloud sector and the adoption of S/4HANA "RISE with SAP." SAP's Q1 2021 earnings (statement) (.PDF) reveal revenues of €6.35 billion IFRS, down 3% year-over-year…
2021-04-21 15:54:00 www.zdnet.com Screenshot by Jason Cipriani/ZDNet Google on Wednesday released the third Android 12 developer preview for its Pixel phone lineup. As with the previous Android 12 previews, this update focuses solely on developer-facing features and improvements. It should be…
2021-04-21 17:08:29 www.zdnet.com Venerable Big Data company Teradata this afternoon pre-announced for its Q1 results, raising its outlook for profit above its prior outlook, and above what analysts have been modeling, and indicating its revenue will be higher than…
2021-04-21 16:12:00 www.zdnet.com Qualtrics, the "experience management" company that is majority owned by SAP, this afternoon reported Q1 revenue that topped Wall Street's expectations, and a suprise profit where a loss had been expected, and an outlook for this…
2021-04-21 13:33:57 www.zdnet.com Credit: Micrsosoft On April 21, Microsoft released a new Windows 10 test build, 21364, to the Dev Channel. This build includes a few new notworthy features including the ability to run Linux graphical user interface (GUI)…
2021-04-21 12:00:04 www.zdnet.com Google Workspace is rolling out a more streamlined user interface with improvements to pinning, presenting, customization and controls in an effort to address "collaboration equity."The general idea from Google Workplace is that features can enable remote…
2021-04-21 10:36:00 www.zdnet.com With Apple's unveiling of the new M1 Apple Silicon-powered iPad Pro and iMac, it might be time for an upgrade. And what better time to get some new accessories than when you're already spending big money…
2021-04-21 09:12:39 www.zdnet.com Instagram's appeal lies in the ability to share images; indeed, some users known as "influencers" have been able to build businesses purely on these types of posts -- but the popular platform, and its users, are…
2021-04-20 14:10:37 www.zdnet.com Credit: Discord The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Microsoft acquisition talks with Discord have ended and no buy is imminent. Discord has halted talks with all potential suitors, The Journal said in an April 20…
2021-04-20 19:30:30 www.zdnet.com Image: Getty Images Google on Wednesday released version 90.0.4430.85 of the Chrome browser for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The release contains seven security fixes, including one for a zero-day vulnerability that was exploited in the wild.The zero-day,…
2021-04-20 14:34:00 www.zdnet.com Apple is transitioning to its own silicon in a hurry as the M1 system on a chip moves to the iPad Pro as well as the iMac.Also: Apple's Spring Loaded event: The five biggest announcementsAfter the M1…
2021-04-20 15:12:03 www.zdnet.com Head over to Apple's website to take in the specs of the new M1-powered iPad Pro and you might notice something interesting. Buried in the tech specs is a line about the M1 chip that made…
2021-04-20 13:35:00 www.zdnet.com Apple is launching a new set of iMacs with a wide range of colors, a smaller footprint, and the company's M1 processor. With the move, Apple is taking the next step in overhauling its Mac lineup…
2021-04-20 11:47:00 www.zdnet.com Credit: Microsoft ZDNet Recommends The best cloud storage services Free and cheap personal and small business cloud storage services are everywhere. But, which one is best for you? Let's look at the top cloud storage options.…
2021-04-20 09:02:13 www.zdnet.com Credit: Microsoft A year ago, Microsoft reported that server component shortages had limited how much it could invest in its datacenter business. It looks like those limitations are over, as company officials are predicting that Microsoft…
2021-04-20 06:00:00 www.zdnet.com PayPal announced Tuesday that it's extending its crypto support to the Venmo platform, allowing users to buy, hold and sell cryptocurrency through the Venmo app. In October, PayPal received a conditional license from the New York…
2021-04-19 20:33:21 www.zdnet.com The UK Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Oliver Dowden issued an intervention notice on Monday that will see the nation's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) conduct a phase one investigation into the…
2021-04-19 21:59:43 www.zdnet.com Kuala Lumpur cityscape with Petronas Towers at sunset, Malaysia Image: Getty Images Microsoft has announced plans to establish a data centre region in Malaysia.The country's first region will be located in the Greater Kuala Lumpur area…
2021-04-19 20:59:27 www.zdnet.com How window.name persists between sites Image: Mozilla Firefox 88 was released on Monday, and among the changes is a shift in how the browser will handle the window.name property. Previously, this property persisted across the life…
2021-04-19 16:13:00 www.zdnet.com Decades ago when mobile phones started appearing in the hands of average consumers, a dominant form factor was the flip phone. It was handy to close your phone to end a call and also shut the…
2021-04-19 09:52:55 www.zdnet.com Mastercard said it will acquire Ekata for $850 million in a deal that will bolster its identity verification technology. Ekata's application programming interfaces (APIs) and tools are used by merchants, marketplaces and financial firms across multiple…
2021-04-19 12:00:00 www.zdnet.com The GoodData.CloudNative architecture diagram illustrates the company's approach of BI as a service, rather than a monolithic app. Credit: GoodData GoodData has been in the modern analytics ecosystem for some time. While it started out with…
2021-04-19 10:30:58 www.zdnet.com Ocado is investing £10 million in Oxford-based start-up Oxbotica, which develops autonomy software for vehicles. Image: Ocado Online retailer Ocado is exploring the possibility of having robots packing, transporting and delivering groceries all the way to…
2021-04-19 00:09:13 www.zdnet.com Image: Getty Images The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) wants to ensure businesses can receive all email correspondences and notifications from various government agencies in a single inbox, as part of the federal government's plans to modernise…
2021-04-18 19:56:40 www.zdnet.com The backlash against Google's Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) has continued, with a proposal raised in WordPress Core to block the controversial alternative identifier to third-party cookies by default. The WordPress proposal would see the blogging…
2021-04-18 18:00:04 www.zdnet.com OnePlus 9 and OnePlus 9 Pro are strong devices hitting good price points, but to emerge as more than just a challenger brand and niche player it's going to need more distribution and carrier support.I've been…