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Xerox Demonstrating Printed Memory Product w/ Thinfilm Technology (HITS)

In January of 2015, Xerox licensed Thinfilm’s proprietary technology to manufacture Xerox® Printed Memory – the only printed, rewritable memory commercially available today. M... More

Azure Active Directory ID Preview Gets Some Improvements (Redmond Mag)

Microsoft's Identity Protection preview for its Azure Active Directory service got some new capabilities this week. It was updated with two new conditional access capabilities for ... More

Why the Economic Payoff From Technology Is So Elusive (NYT)

Your smartphone allows you to get almost instantaneous answers to the most obscure questions. It also allows you to waste hours scrolling through Facebook or looking for the latest... More

AWS Migration Competency Launches with Dozens of Partners (Talkin’ Cloud)

Amazon Web Services has added five categories related to migration to the AWS Partner Network (APN) to encourage enterprise cloud migration. The AWS Migration Competency was unveil... More

Reltio CMO: Companies Must Shift to More Reliable, Data-Driven Applications (HITS)

Media, entertainment and other companies need to move to more reliable, data-driven applications along the lines of Facebook, Google and LinkedIn, according to Ramon Chen, chief ma... More

Avanade VP: Media Companies Need to Encourage Innovation (HITS)

Media and entertainment executives need to more openly embrace innovation and risk-taking at their companies, according to Matt Joe, VP and chief technology innovation officer in N... More

Tata Communications Launches IZOTM Cloud Storage (Business Standard)

Tata Communications has launched IZOTM Cloud Storage, a simple and scalable storage service portfolio, adding to its game-changing IZO cloud enablement platform. The new storage se... More

How CIOs Shape a Digital Transformation Strategy (CIO Insight)

When IT takes the role of a partner to the business, rather than as a technology consultant or supplier of IT services, the benefits are remarkable. According to a McKinsey survey ... More

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Launches Octane DevOps Platform (ZDNet)

Hewlett Packard Enterprise said its Octane application lifecycle management suite is available as it aims to enable enterprises to speed up and hone DevOps related processes. DevOp... More

How Microsoft Hopes To Kick-Start VR Adoption (TWICE)

Microsoft hopes to jump-start the virtual-reality and mixed-reality marketplace by offering the Windows Holographic software used in its HoloLens headset to other companies to make... More

Salesforce Gains Wistia’s Video Tech (MediaPost)

Salesforce continues to roll out new product integrations to expand its cloud partner ecosystem, unveiling a formal integration with video platform Wistia on Wednesday that leverag... More

Here’s Why IBM Bought This App Discovery Company (Fortune)

IBM said on Wednesday it will acquire EZSource, an Israel-based application discovery company, to help developers modernize mainframe applications for digital business. It noted th... More

Wipro to take Hyper Automation Drive Across All Projects in FY17 (Business Standard)

After piloting with few client projects, Wipro, India’s third largest IT services company is now looking at taking its hyper automation drive within the company to the next level... More

CenturyLink Commits to Data Center Efficiency Targets under Federal Challenge (Data Center Knowledge)

CenturyLink has committed to improving energy efficiency of its entire US data center portfolio by 25 percent by joining a voluntary US Department of Energy program that promotes i... More

U.S. CIO Aims to Cut Legacy Spending, Proposes IT Modernization (CIO)

With the startling new finding that federal agencies spend about three-quarters of their IT budgets on keeping legacy systems running, is it any wonder that the administration is p... More

Salesforce to Use Amazon’s Cloud to Expand in Canada and Australia (NY Times)

Amazon Web Services, the biggest of the cloud-computing providers, has a new line of work: Taking other cloud-computing giants into other countries. On Wednesday, Salesforce.com an... More

Tata Communications: Nurturing Home Grown Leaders (BW Businessworld)

Rather than getting into a race to attract new talent, Tata Communications works on retaining its workforce, tuned as it is to the company’s vision and preparing it to generate a... More

Super Ted – A Day in the Life of an English Editor (Zoo Digital Blog)

What is subtitling? Subtitling is the inclusion of text on video content to convey or translate the dialogue being spoken, and so another question that I am regularly asked is: “... More

The Slack Generation: How Workplace Messaging Could Replace other Missives (The Economist)

Slack’s rise points to three important changes in the workplace. First, people are completing work across different devices from wherever they are, so they need software that can... More

Capgemini to Collaborate with Siemens on IoT Platform (IoT Tech)

The Siemens Building Technologies Division and Capgemini are set to put in place a cloud based services platform comprising asset management and analytics technology. The two entit... More

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