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Report: Amazon Plans to Bring Alexa, Cloud-Based Deep Learning Tools to Call Centers (GeekWire)

Amazon is gearing up to disrupt another industry, and this time it’s call centers. Amazon Web Services developing a suite of cloud-based tools to sell to enterprises that would h... More

PwC Study: Business Leaders are Losing Ground in ‘Digital IQ’ (Forbes)

A decade into their efforts, businesses nationwide are struggling with their transitions to a digital focus. Just 52% of businesses would rate their "digital IQ" as strong in 2017,... More

15 Unfilled Tech Jobs that Cost the U.S. Billions (CI0)

With IT industry unemployment hovering at around 2.8 percent (as of Q3 2016) and organizations struggling to land talent, many companies find themselves with unfilled jobs. That's ... More

IBM Watson’s Internet of Things HQ: Where the Office is an Ecosystem and AI is ‘Augmented Intelligence’ (The Drum)

In the pipeline for almost two years, the German HQ – IBM’s first ever outside of the US – didn’t come cheap, and the brand wants you to know it. “The biggest investment ... More

AWS Launches I3 VM Instances Starting at 15 Cents Per Hour (VB)

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced that its six types of I3 virtual machine (VM) instances are now available in 15 out of AWS’ 16 data center regions around the world. AWS... More

Oracle, Tech Mahindra Partner on Managed VoLTE Service (Light Reading)

Oracle today announced that Tech Mahindra, a leading system integrator for network infrastructure services, and Oracle Communications have partnered to deliver an end-to-end VoLTE-... More

Wipro Offers Big Data as a Service (IT-Online)

Wipro is delivering analytics-based insights for specific industries with the Data Discovery Platform, its newest big data analytics-as-a-service solution. Built with IBM BigInsig... More

Reltio Cloud 2017.1 Delivers Operational Excellence for Fortune 500 Companies (HITS)

Reltio today announced the upcoming release of Reltio Cloud 2017.1, the newest iteration of the market-leading platform that enables enterprise data-driven applications with reliab... More

IT Budgeting: The Smart Person’s Guide (TechRepublic)

IT budgeting can range from a painful annual process to the actualization of a carefully crafted IT strategy and roadmap. For an IT executive who is uncomfortable with numbers or l... More

Cognizant Recognized for Digital Marketing Operations (HITS)

Cognizant has been named to the "Winner's Circle" in the new HfS Research Blueprint Report: Digital Marketing Operations 2016. According to the Blueprint Report, Cognizant's use of... More

PwC Launches Shanghai Innovation Center (MI)

PwC China has launched its Shanghai Innovation Centre located in Xintiandi Shanghai, marking the official start of the Alliance of Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation (ASSTI... More

Dell EMC Beefs Up Cloud Service Provider Track (Channel Partners)

Just weeks after launching the unified Dell EMC Partner Program, the vendor Thursday homed in on and expanded the Cloud Service Provider (CSP) partner track. Dell EMC announced tha... More

Workers Welcome AI But Remain Skeptical About its Benefits (IW)

With business managers and IT striving to incorporate machine learning and artificial intelligence into how a company does business, how many employees believe it's necessary to ad... More

Technicolor’s Peter Doyle Offers Insight on How HDR Brings New Creative Options for Moviemakers (HITS)

High Dynamic Range technology enables movies to be projected — in cinemas and in the home — with a much greater brightness range than with current technologies, but, says Peter... More

Hollywood Has No Idea What to Do with VR (MIT Tech Review)

Would you watch a virtual-reality Casablanca? The question is ridiculous, but usefully so. VR will never be like the movies, culturally or aesthetically, and the best way to unders... More

Alternative Realities Still Suffer from Technical Constraints (The Economist)

The problem with the technology of alternative realities—virtual and augmented—is that their science-fiction versions have been too impressive. Popular culture has fostered fan... More

Emerging Technologies Fill Oracle’s Smart UX Toolbox (Forbes)

As companies talk seriously about the workplace role of adaptive intelligence, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and natural language understanding, it’s time to talk ab... More

Cognizant Opens ‘Digital Business Collaboratory’ in Melbourne to Facilitate Innovation (ZDNet)

The doors of Cognizant's new innovation hub in Melbourne, Australia, are now open. Like its facilities in Amsterdam and New York, Melbourne's "digital business collaboratory" will ... More

Companies Will Soon be Valued by Their Data Assets (Information Management)

How should Wall Street fairly value a business? Conventional assets like sales, earnings and brand recognition are routinely considered. Now Gartner is suggesting that a company’... More

Microsoft Azure Links with India E-Commerce Giant Flipkart (SiliconUK)

Microsoft has formed what it called a long-term strategic partnership with Flipkart, the most prominent domestic e-commerce company operating in the Indian market, that is to see F... More

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