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Flight Centre re-architects its online booking engine

Flight Centre re-architects its online booking engine

Embraces microservices, reforms internal structures.
Ry Crozier Dec 4 2019 7:09AM Strategy
How Dan Murphy's personalisation engine bottles up your preference data

How Dan Murphy's personalisation engine bottles up your preference data

And triple proofs EDM yield.
Matt Johnston Dec 4 2019 7:07AM Strategy
Russia blocks Shutterstock domain for 'insulting state symbols'

Russia blocks Shutterstock domain for 'insulting state symbols'

Offensive stock photography sin-binned over inappropriate flag planting.
Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber Dec 4 2019 6:46AM Strategy
Fund managers deploy machines to decipher British election riddle

Fund managers deploy machines to decipher British election riddle

With so many polls, so wrong, markets turn to technology over pollsters.
Saikat Chatterjee, Sujata Rao and Tommy Wilkes Dec 4 2019 6:46AM Strategy
Huawei faces online storm in China over employee treatment

Huawei faces online storm in China over employee treatment

Public backlash after details of dismissal and wrongful detention of former employee go viral.
David Kirton Dec 4 2019 6:46AM Security
Loyalty schemes on runway for data harvesting reset: ACCC

Loyalty schemes on runway for data harvesting reset: ACCC

Automatic profile linking to payment cards under threat.
Justin Hendry Dec 3 2019 1:55PM Strategy
Putin signs law making Russian apps mandatory on smartphones, computers

Putin signs law making Russian apps mandatory on smartphones, computers

... and smart TV sets that will now come pre-installed with Russian software.
Staff Writer Dec 3 2019 1:51PM Networking
Border Force IT outage knocks airport smartgates offline

Border Force IT outage knocks airport smartgates offline

'Intermittent' issues impacting only arriving passengers.
Justin Hendry Dec 3 2019 1:44PM Hardware
Apple fails to end MacBook 'butterfly' keyboard class action

Apple fails to end MacBook 'butterfly' keyboard class action

Must face claims its troubleshooting program did not provide an "effective fix".
Jonathan Stempel Dec 3 2019 1:44PM Benchmarking Change
FBI says Russian FaceApp is 'potential counterintelligence threat'

FBI says Russian FaceApp is 'potential counterintelligence threat'

Responding to a US lawmaker's query about face-editing photo app FaceApp.
Staff Writer Dec 3 2019 1:33PM Security
Amazon pulls Auschwitz Christmas decorations from site

Amazon pulls Auschwitz Christmas decorations from site

Museum drew attention to the products on its Twitter.
Staff Writer Dec 3 2019 1:33PM Cloud
AWS seeks to make legacy Windows apps immortal

AWS seeks to make legacy Windows apps immortal

Alternative Server 2008 upgrade path.
Simon Sharwood Dec 3 2019 1:29PM Cloud
NZ gun registry privacy breach spilt owners' addresses

NZ gun registry privacy breach spilt owners' addresses

SAP audit found sensitive details of hundreds of people accessed.
Juha Saarinen Dec 3 2019 1:26PM Security
AWS opens access to quantum computing systems

AWS opens access to quantum computing systems

Experimental previews of Rigetti, IonQ and D-Wave in the cloud.
Juha Saarinen Dec 3 2019 7:17AM Cloud
China's facial recognition rollout reaches into mobile phones, shops and homes

China's facial recognition rollout reaches into mobile phones, shops and homes

New regulations require telcos to scan faces of users registering new mobile services.
Brenda Goh Dec 3 2019 7:10AM Cloud
Twitter makes global changes to comply with privacy laws

Twitter makes global changes to comply with privacy laws

To give users more information about what data advertisers might receive.
Elizabeth Culliford Dec 3 2019 7:00AM Cloud
Russia to upgrade homegrown encyclopaedia after Putin pans Wikipedia

Russia to upgrade homegrown encyclopaedia after Putin pans Wikipedia

"Reliable information that is constantly updated on the basis of scientifically verified sources."
Staff Writer Dec 3 2019 7:00AM Cloud
SAP apologises after NZ firearms registry upgrade privacy breach

SAP apologises after NZ firearms registry upgrade privacy breach

Gun buyback site shut down.
Juha Saarinen Dec 3 2019 6:59AM Software
ACCC to steer clear of eSIM regulations for now

ACCC to steer clear of eSIM regulations for now

But will keep a close watch on when MVNOs gain access.
Ry Crozier Dec 2 2019 5:46PM Telco/ISP
Aussie Broadband pauses IPv6 trial due to Cisco bug

Aussie Broadband pauses IPv6 trial due to Cisco bug

Latest patch solved one problem but caused another.
Ry Crozier Dec 2 2019 5:17PM Networking

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