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HCL Sets Partner Deals to Strengthen its Smart Vehicle Offerings (Express Computer)

HCL Technologies has signed partnerships with two leading automotive solution providers to expand its offerings for the fast-growing smart vehicle ecosystem. Working to enhance HCL... More

AI Will ‘Help Humans Make Better Decisions’ says IBM Watson General Manager (The Drum)

David Kenny, general manager, IBM Watson: We’ve been hearing a lot about artificial intelligence and machine learning lately. From the big screen to Netflix, AI is a popular them... More

Inside The Organic UX Design Process At Slack (Co.Design)

Valued at more than $3 billion dollars with more than 600,000 paying customers at the start of 2016, Slack is on a mission to simplify how teams communicate—a philosophy echoed i... More

Qumulo Pockets $32.5M to Fund Data-Aware Storage (TechTarget)

Qumulo, the scale-out data-aware NAS startup founded by Isilon veterans, today added $32.5 million in funding to expand its sales operation. Qumulo’s C funding round brings its t... More

The IoT to Make Up Almost Half of IT Budgets by 2020 (Information Age)

By 2020, 44% of IT budgets globally will be solely used for the purpose of IoT project development and maintenance, with the vast majority of decision makers (91%) expected to be u... More

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

IBM’s Chief Innovation Officer Looks Back On Nearly 40 Years Of Breakthroughs (Forbes)

American industry has a rich heritage of top-notch corporate labs. Bell Labs created not only the transistor, but also other fundamental breakthroughs, such as the laser and inform... 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

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

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

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

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

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

How UX Informs IT Leaders’ Build versus Buy Decisions (ZDNet)

Corporate technology users have become increasingly demanding, particularly around the user experience (UX) provided by internal and external tools. Like it or not, your user base ... More

Netflix Built a Massive Worldwide Operation to Make Chelsea Handler’s Dirty Jokes Land Globally (Quartz)

Netflix has pegged the global hopes for its new late-night talk show format on Handler’s particular breed of off-kilter humor. And the streaming service has a massive operation t... More

Expert System Wins the 2016 LT-Innovate Award for Best Language Technology (MESA)

Expert System today announced that it was honored with the 2016 LT- Innovate Award (Linguistic Technologies Award) for Best Language Technology during the annual LT-Innovate Summit... More

Dolby Atmos Arrives in Cannes Celebrating Film Festivals (MESA)

Dolby Laboratories announced today the permanent installation of Dolby Atmos® at Cinéma L’Olympia which is used as part of Cannes’ annual Marché du Film. The theater’s new... More

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