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There’s been a great deal of noise made about Ai PCs recently, but not all of it has been good. 

GUEST REVIEW: Venom is a Melbourne-based laptop manufacturer that sells to the world. Its laptops (and even its company policies) have attracted a loyal following since being established in 2008 and the company’s latest model, the Venom BlackBook Zero 14 Phantom, seeks to be the choice of businesses, MSPs and consumers seeking a high-quality, reliable laptop that suits mission-critical, high-productivity computing tasks.

Dell’s Latitude range is for its bona fide business laptops but the 9450 2-in-1 is a souped-up version for particular pack of power users, being a 2-in-1 convertible tablet with a high-concept keyboard and trackpad.

Telecommunications company Optus will conduct a series of workshops called FutureFit to help small businesses plan digital initiatives, identify and respond to risks, and implement strategies.

COMPANY NEWS: Qualys, a cloud-based IT, security and compliance solutions leader, unveiled its forward-looking vision of the Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform on Nov. 8. The announcement was made by president and CEO, Sumedh Thakar at the company’s annual Qualys Security Conference in Orlando, Florida. The Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform centres around helping customers holistically measure, effectively communicate, and proactively eliminate cyber risk, with a hyper focus on the impact of cyber risk on business risk.

GUEST OPINION: Local operators have a golden opportunity to drive efficiency and super charge the quality of their customer service.

New Kyndryl Consult-led AI-readiness program launched to help customers explore the use of generative AI in their enterprises

Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), the world’s largest technology infrastructure services provider, and Microsoft today announced a joint effort to enable the adoption of enterprise-grade generative AI solutions for businesses on The Microsoft Cloud.

Over the past year we’ve witnessed dramatic strides in AI development and huge shifts in public perceptions of the technology.

Chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and LLMs like GPT-4 have demonstrated remarkable abilities to communicate fluently and perform at or near the highest level on a broad range of cognitive assessments.

Cybercriminals will continue to innovate, finding new ways to attack businesses and critical infrastructure as a way of making money, according to security firm Darktrace in response to a new advisory warning posted by the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC).

Many IT security decision-makers think the leadership of businesses overlook the role of cybersecurity in business success, according to a new global survey of security professionals which also revealed a disconnect between security and business goals.

New research by global enterprise software company Oracle and New York Times bestselling author Seth Stephens-Davidowitz finds people all around the world are struggling to make decisions in both their business and personal lives, at a time when we are all being forced to make more decisions than ever before.

Only 37% of IT pros are concerned about phishing or say they know what to do following a data breach 

A quarter of Australian office workers admit to using the same password for more than one account 

Data breaches have seemingly had little or no impact on how IT decision makers view the risks to their organisations, according to new research from security awareness training and human resources platform provider KnowBe4.

GUEST OPINION  by Carl Warwick, Regional Sales Director, Asia Pacific & Japan for BillingPlatform:  Digitisation has upended scores of traditional occupations and industries but pivoting to a new business model in 2023 will be easier if you have the right billing technology in place.

Hyland Software recently held its the Australian leg of its 2022 Hyland Summit tour in Sydney. iTWire spoke to Bill Kavanaugh, Senior Vice President of Global Sales, who brought us up to speed with how the company was faring, what it was working on, what the local and global market conditions were plus, its plans for the future.

We learned about how it had navigated the pandemic, its latest cloud-native applications and how its content management and automation software was enhancing and digitally transforming every industry.

With a $30,000 monthly cost reduction and the deployment of a new SAP environment foundation in two weeks - a year ahead of schedule - it’s no surprise Tambla Workforce Solutions was awarded the 2022 Red Hat APAC Innovation award in digital transformation and automation.

Australian professionals are more positive towards the use of software in business compared to their US and UK counterparts, with over one-third extremely satisfied with the capability of their tools to maximise efficiency, according to new resesrch from work operating system (Work OS) provider monday.com.

CIBIS International has launched a new enterprise cloud platform, Xpect, which is designed to fill a gap in the business management software market giving a viable alternative for SMEs to global ERP systems.

In this day of hybrid working it's vital to have a headset that is comfortable, durable, and has excellent audio pickup and presentation. Here comes the incredible Jabra Evolve2 75, and Jabra regional product marketing manager Agnes Koh takes us through it.

GUEST OPINION by Paul Weingarth co-founder, CEO of fintech Slyp: The government has the opportunity in this revised Federal budget to prioritise the uptake of technology in the business and retail sector to support the transition to a circular, net-zero-driven economy.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Co-working spaces have been around for decades, with WeWork notoriously disrupting the industry so much its founder disrupted himself out of the company, so what is the antidote that delivers the highest level of quality for all business sizes while fostering an incredible community - and how did CreativeCubes.co come into being? Co-founders Tobi Skovron and George Garth join iTWireTV in conversation!