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The Internet is slowly creeping into every part of our lives, so much so that it’s becoming easier to look around the house and find objects that can be connected to the Internet.

ARN's Community Manager, Hafizah Osman, has disappeared under a flood of community picture stories and reports of company events, so we thought what better to do than put them all in a slideshow summing up the week in the channel. This week features company awards and partner events amongst others. Are you pictured?

Microsoft has confirmed that smaller Windows 8 tablets will come to market in the near future. These will fill a gap in the Windows ecosystem and boost demand for Windows 8 by addressing key downsides to the early Surface tablets.

Australian enterprise content management (ECM) solutions provider, StoneBridge Systems, has signed an agreement to offer UK-based EngageSciences’ social media marketing platform in Asia-Pacific (APAC).

Sometimes you build it, and they end up not coming

The Samsung Galaxy S4 promises to be another impressive high-end smartphone from Samsung, and it's being released just 10 months after its hugely-popular predecessor, the Galaxy SIII.

Seeing the race in a different way is fundamental to successfully innovating and renovating a business, according to Minds at Work founder, Jason Clarke.

EganTeamBoard has named Ingram Micro Australia as its new distribution partner - and only authorised distributor - for the full range of TeamBoard products in Australia.

Microsoft Excel may be the household name when it comes to spreadsheets, but it is simply not cut out for collaboration, according to Adaptive Planning A/NZ managing director, Jeremy Bolton, who said Excel has a tendency to run into “a myriad of problems” when it is used collaboratively.

Huawei has unveiled the Huawei Ascend Mate, the company’s flagship phablet device, to the Australian market.

Siemens' Smart Grid division has announced a global strategic cooperation in big data with Teradata, through which it will further optimise its solutions' portfolio to provide energy utilities with more transparency on the status and activities in their networks.

Rugged laptop, the Getac B300, has been upgraded with twice the graphics capabilities of the previous generation B300.

Google has revealed the specifications for its Google Glass smart glasses and released an Android app.

If Microsoft ever releases the smartwatch that the Wall Street Journal reports is in development, the gadget won't just be entering a wearable computing market that has yet to be proven out. The watch would also extend a family of Surface hardware devices that no one is clamoring to buy.

Cloud hosting provider Rackspace Hosting is striking back against patent holder Rotatable Technologies, a Texas company that has filed patent infringement cases against more than a dozen companies in the past year.

The Victorian Government has handed out Technology Implementation Vouchers, worth up to $250,000 each, to seven businesses.

Nationwide recycling service for old computer and accessories, printers and TVs, TechCollect, is urging Australians to participate in a recycling initiative that could potentially set a new world record for the most e-waste collected.

Businesses in the Australian market look for quality instead of cheap printing, according to Oki Data Australia managing director, Dennie Kawahara.

Networking vendor, D-Link Australia, has appointed former vice-president of South Asia, Jacky Chang, as A/NZ managing director, replacing Domenic Torre.

A new stabilization system for the Phantom remote-controlled flying drone helps it capture stunning landscapes and maneuver in tight spaces.