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: Written by: J D; Category: News; Published: 30 July 2018; Hits: 1426

Image: Supplied Environment Protection Authority Victoria (EPA) has kicked off a large-scale project it hopes will completely transform the way it manages data and consequently the environment.

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The digital transformation follows an inquiry

: Written by: J D; Category: News; Published: 30 July 2018; Hits: 899

News briefs for June 30, 2018.

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Dell's XPS 13 Developer Edition laptop with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS preinstalled is now available. According to Canonical's blog post ^[1], this launch marks the "the first availability of

: Written by: J D; Category: News; Published: 29 July 2018; Hits: 723

The rate of smartphone sales has flattened as the market has become saturated with smartphones. This has led to less excitement for new phones, but I personally cannot wait to see what Samsung announces with the Galaxy...

: Written by: J D; Category: News; Published: 29 July 2018; Hits: 829

Edward Craven Walker lived to see his greatest invention, the lava lamp ^[1], make its late-’90s cultural comeback. But the British tinkerer (and famed nudist, incidentally) died before he could witness the 21st-century digital potential...

: Written by: J D; Category: News; Published: 28 July 2018; Hits: 721

Microsoft bangs the 'devices as a service' drum ahead of Windows 7's end-of-support deadline

A few days ago I published a post analyzing the growth in revenue for Microsoft's Surface division: "Surface by the numbers: How Microsoft reinvented the PC."^[1]

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To get those numbers, I went through

: Written by: J D; Category: News; Published: 28 July 2018; Hits: 599

Until yesterday, unless you had a family member or friend in prison ^[1], you most likely had never heard of JPay. That’s because all of its services are directed toward inmates and their families.

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: Written by: J D; Category: News; Published: 27 July 2018; Hits: 691

Keeping up with the latest SEO practices ^[1] can be overwhelming for someone who has just started out as a new website owner. Furthermore, making sure that the existing SEO implementations are regularly...

: Written by: J D; Category: News; Published: 27 July 2018; Hits: 659

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Modern computers are ever increasing in performance and capacity. This matters little if that increasing capacity is not well utilized. Following is a description of the motivation and...

: Written by: J D; Category: News; Published: 27 July 2018; Hits: 877

Video: Samsung opens pre-orders for 'The Wall' MicroLED TV
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The surprise success of the Alexa-powered Echo ^[2] and its latest variant, the Fire TV Cube, has spurred renewed interest in consumer

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Victoria's environmental regulator goes cloud-first to capitalise on IoT

Dell's XPS 13 Developer Edition with Ubuntu 18.04 Preinstalled Now Available, GCC Conversion to Git Update, Lubuntu Shifts Focus, OpenMW Team Releases Version 0.44.0 and Serverless Inc Announces New Framework and Gateway

Samsung S Pen reflections: A differentiator in a saturated smartphone market

How Cloudflare Uses Lava Lamps to Guard Against Hackers

How Microsoft buries key numbers in its financial reports (and how to dig them out)

How A Group of Imprisoned Hackers Introduced JPay to the World

Checklist for performing a basic SEO audit

How to analyze your system with perf and Python

Home theater audio becomes an unlikely new entertainment battleground