iTWire Thursday, 01 April 2021 11:55 NZ Commerce Commission completes consumer mobile phone bills review Featured
New Zealand’s competition enforcement agency, The Commerce Commission, has completed its review of consumer mobile phone bills following feedback from the telecommunications industry on their plans for providing customers with more “meaningful product and service comparisons” and to guard against overspending.
Completion of the review comes after the Commission published an open letter in September 2020, asking telcos Spark, Vodafone and 2degrees to share their customer service plans. This was accompanied by a report from Schiff Consulting, aspects of which were later contested by the industry.
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COMPANY NEWS from Synology: Traditional HDD storage arrays are quickly giving way to all-flash arrays (AFA) as businesses need the low latency and high IOPS provided by solid-state drives to store growing pools and new types of data for increasingly demanding applications. However, choosing suitable servers is not always easy.
All-flash storage is designed for high-performance applications, placing high demands on product innovation and stability. For many businesses and teams, that often translates to prices that stretch their IT budget. However, AFA arrays provide tangible benefits that can boost your operational efficiency and competitiveness.
Cost is a major obstacle to purchasing their first AFA solution for many companies. Will new IT infrastructure bring enough value to your company? And how fast will your investment repay itself? Luckily, with more vendors entering the market, prices and total cost of ownership for flash arrays are on a downward trend.
iTWire Thursday, 01 April 2021 16:00 Sisense named No.1 in Two G2 Reports, for Embedded BI & The Momentum Grid Report for Embedded BI
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Company News: Sisense, the leading AI-driven platform for infusing analytics everywhere, has been recognised as the leader in embedded business intelligence by G2, the world’s leading business solutions review website.
The ratings are based on high levels of customer satisfaction and likeliness to recommend ratings from real users on G2.
“I believe the highest honour a company can earn is real-world users recognising your product as the top solution to their pain points,” said Ashley Kramer, Chief Product and Marketing Officer. “We’ve seen a significant increase in organisations coming to us to embed analytics in their customer and employee-facing apps and workflows. It’s incredible to see the impact of innovation from these organisations that differentiate their products by adding deeply embedded AI-driven
Lay s creates Chrome plugin that turns on subtitles when you munch Details 17 March 2021
If you have ever eaten chips while watching a YouTube video, you would know that it is tough to hear the audio while munching on the snack. Taking matters into its own hands, Lay s Vietnam trained an AI on 178 hours of crispy chip crunch sounds gathered from worldwide to create a plugin that is able to detect and activate subtitles from the second it hears a crunch. This allows viewers to snack without missing a single thing from the YouTube video.
The Crispy Subtitles were done in partnership with Happiness Saigon, an FCB alliance and production agency Bliss Innovative Maker Studio. The idea stemmed from the knowledge that consumers enjoyed snacking while watching their favourite YouTube videos.
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Updated Google s effort at building a privacy-first future for web advertising already looks like it will require some privacy retrofitting.
The internet titan s interest-based ad-targeting technology, Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC), ostensibly intended to provide a more privacy-friendly alternative to third-party tracking cookies, has a privacy flaw, according to Dr Lukasz Olejnik, an independent privacy researcher and consultant. Unfortunately, it seems that FLoC contains a privacy design bug that leaks the information about whether the user is browsing in private mode (Incognito) or not, Olejnik wrote in a blog post on Monday, noting that he d spotted a similar Incognito detection bug in another API.