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Amazon Unleashes Alexa for Business - Consequences Abound
Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Alexa for Business, bringing Amazon's intelligent assist into the office. This shouldn't be a surprise to T…
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Pai Makes His Case for Title II Repeal
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai today made clear his plans to repeal Title II net neutrality rules. The commission is expected to pass his proposal at its Dec. …
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Winners of the 2017 Tech Diversity Award Announced
TMC, a global, integrated media company helping clients build communities in print, in person and online, today announced the recipients of the 2017 T…
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Mist Applies AI to Improve Wi-Fi
Mist has created an AI-driven wireless platform that puts the user and his or mobile device at the heart of the wireless network. Combining machine le…
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International Tech Innovation Growing, Says Consumer Technology Association
The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) is best known for the world's largest trade event, but the organization's reach is growing far beyond the CE…
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Broadcom Makes Unsolicited $130B Bid for Qualcomm
In what could result in the biggest tech deal in history, semiconductor company Broadcom has made an offer to buy Qualcomm for a whopping $130 billion…
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How Google's 'Moonshot' Could Benefit Industrial Markets
The term "moonshot" encapsulates the spirit of technological achievement: an accomplishment so ambitious, so improbable, that it's equivalent to sendi…
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After Cisco/Broadsoft, Who's Next for M&A?
Cisco's trail of acquisition tears over the decades includes the Flip video camera, Cerent, Scientific Atlantic, Linksys, and a couple of others. The …
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Amazon Continues Innovation with Amazon Key
Amazon Key, which lets delivery people drop Amazon package inside Prime subscribers' homes, will be available in 37 U.S. cities starting Nov. 8.
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Winners of the 2017 Tech Culture Award Announced
TMC, a global, integrated media company helping clients build communities in print, in person and online, announced the recipients of the 2017 Tech Cu…
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Top 3 Takeaways from Microsoft Ignite
Microsoft Ignite wrapped up last week in Orlando. At the company's big conference dedicated to IT professionals and developers, 25,000 business custom…
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Millennials Want Smart Home Tech More Than Anyone
Millennials are known for having very specific interests. They also hold a significant level of buying power in certain markets, particularly technolo…
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SpaceX Names Satellite Broadband Service, Works FCC Connect America
"Starlink" is the potential title for SpaceX's massive satellite network to deliver high-speed Internet access, reports Florida Today. The company has…
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New Apple iPhone X as Much Hype as Innovation
Apple is counting on it with the iPhone X -- the "X" symbolizing the 10th anniversary of the iPhone. Fans of the company are falling all over themselv…
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Alexa and the PBX, Coming Soon
This week, Amazon unloaded a ton of Alexa-enabled Echo gizmos, including the Echo Connect. Shipping on December 13, 2017 (just before the holiday seas…
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How Valuable is Your Personal Data?
Pressure has been growing in the past few weeks for politicians and regulators to clamp down on the monopoly power of Big Tech. Indeed, scrutiny is gr…
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Designing Insightful Dashboards for Decision Making
As businesses continue to accumulate data that has the potential to improve operations and increase revenue, dashboard design is becoming a key compon…
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Artificial Intelligence: The Human to Bot Handoff
Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most talked about and debated topics of conversation happening today. It is touching every industry.
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Dark Data - Do You Have a Plan?
Practically every organization has vast amounts of "dark data" in the form of weblogs, machine logs, and logs from sensors on everything from oil rigs…
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Open is the New Black for Mobile Voice Services
It's time for some fresh thinking about voice services. Once the dominant source of revenue for mobile operators, voice calls are now a rare form of c…
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5 Specific Ways You Can Protect Your Customer's Data
When a customer gives you his data, he expects that you're going to use it wisely and safeguard it against those who shouldn't have access to it. But …
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Self-Healing Technologies Too Futuristic To Believe
Now imagine for a moment a world in which nothing breaks-or rather, nothing stays broken. Too good to be true? Not quite. Self-healing technology is b…
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Addressing the Security Risks of the Mobile Internet of Things
As the number of connected things has grown, so has the determination of cybercriminals to exploit them. Businesses might not think about the cybersec…
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Data Is King: How to Unleash Its Full Potential
If data is king and integration is the glue that binds an enterprise together, then data integration is the building block that can make or break an o…
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This Digital Catapult Can Launch Jets
A new technology for launching aircraft from U.S. Navy aircraft carriers has now been making headlines, too. This new technique demonstrates a fundame…
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4 Biohacking Facts You Should Know About in 2017
When it comes to biohacking, a more recent development in science, it involves combining the idea of hacking with biology. In today's world, biohackin…
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Rest Your Weary Fingers: Voice Activation is Coming to a CRM Near You
We spend a lot of time talking to our gadgets these days. Whether we're seeking directions from Siri or weather updates from Alexa, speech is quickly …
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Kevin Kennedy Stepping Down, Will New Leadership Help Guide Avaya Back into Prominence?
After more than eight years as Avaya's chief executive, Kevin Kennedy will be stepping down from that role as of October 1, 2017. He'll be replaced by…
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Micro-CT Scans Allow Researchers to Study Live Insects in 3D
The things we don't know about the natural world could fill textbooks. That's why excitement is the most appropriate response when we discover new way…
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Gogo Making Air Travel More Productive
Gogo created tremendous hype when it first enabled in-flight connectivity on American Airlines, back in 2008. But, anyone who has used in-flight Wi-Fi…
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Can We Run Out of Internet?
As little as ten years ago, you couldn't discover new things like you can today. Whether you consider this to be a curse or a blessing, the content av…
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Tech Makes it Possible to Work Entirely from Home
The number of people who work from home has grown substantially over the past decade. Nearly 50 percent of Americans say they work from home at least …
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Cyber Extortion: Is Your Business Software At Risk?
2017 looks set to be the year of global ransomware attacks - a type of malware that blocks access to a computer and demands money to release it. In re…
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Mitel Finally Gets ShoreTel, Puts UCaaS Market on Notice
Mitel announced yesterday that it's acquiring ShoreTel, after all. Three years after a failed attempt at the same deal, Mitel gets a discount in the n…
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Machine Learning & EHSQ: An Overview
No matter what industry you work in, you've likely been hearing about the importance, and prevalence, of machine learning and analytics. But what do t…
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10 Announcements From WWDC That Impact Mobile-First Businesses
With several announcements made during Apple's annual WorldWide Developers Conference (WWDC), here are the top 10 that mobile-first businesses should …
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How Artificial Intelligence is Changing the Travel Experience
In tech circles and beyond, AI is the mot du jour lately, often thrown around in speculative conversations as the magical key that will unlock previou…
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Attacking Democracy: Should DDoS Be Considered a Legitimate Form of Protest?
It used to be that news about DDoS attacks was largely limited to tech websites and other specialized information sources, where the focus was on atta…
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How AI is Changing the Way We Invest
According to Investopedia, algorithmic trading already comprises 70 percent of daily trading. As trading becomes more automated, the need for human an…
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Meet Your Company's New Data Scientist: The CFO
Big data is a huge trend in business today, with companies across industries gathering, tracking and analyzing hordes of new metrics to improve their …
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Becoming a Software Company Only Keeps You in the Game
Over the past several years, we have witnessed how critical it is for traditional enterprises in many industries to become software companies to not o…
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Pokemon Go Paves the Wave for More AR
In the world of virtual reality and augmented reality, the latter has been perceived as the less-glamorous cousin. However, with the stunning populari…
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US Action Against Microsoft Could Ruin The Fourth Industrial Revolution
Throughout human history, new technologies have been delivering us from inconveniences great and small. Right now, one of the most significant new tec…
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Ransomware is a C-Level Problem, Not a Hacker Issue
CEOs, CIOs, CROs and business owners: listen up for a minute. If you have never been in the situation where your entire IT infrastructure is down, it'…
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SoftKinetic Delivering Big New Mobile Solutions
SoftKinetic's latest work in facial recognition, augmented reality may mean some exciting new mobile tools to come.
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Remote Work: The Future of IT
Remote work opportunities are on the rise thanks to innovative technology that makes telecommuting and virtual collaboration more effective than ever …
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WannaCry? No, It's Worse in New Ransomware Attack
A wave of ransomware attacks strikes computers across much of the planet, leading some to wonder if WannaCry has made a return.
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Surface Pro, Surface Book, Surface Notebook: The Choice Is Surprisingly Easy
I've been using Microsoft's latest versions-or, in some cases, the only versions-of its Surface PC line of products. Each is very different in terms o…
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Two Technologies That Showcase Good VR Could Cost $20K
This month, there were two interesting product announcements. The first was in regard to very high-resolution displays that should arrive in VR headse…
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Popularity of Voice Recognition Gadgets Highlights Need for Speech Analytics
Voice-activated personal assistant platforms such as Amazon's Alexa continue to grow in popularity, making lives easier in all sorts of ways. As such …
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