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Office 365 gets new Word, PowerPoint and Outlook features
Microsoft Office 365 users will soon get anew tools that aim to improve their writing skills, help prioritize important email and better research topics of interest.
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Should CIOs be chief robot wranglers?
Business Robotic Process Automation (RPA) initiatives can yield huge returns. But bypassing IT can create even bigger risks. Why CIOs need to take a greater role in RPA.
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Twitter scores live-stream deals with MLB, NBA, NHL and NFL
Twitter's steamy summer of sport got even hotter today as the company inked deals to live-stream MLB and NHL games. Each of the 'Big Four' major U.S. sports leagues is now on board to stream games or related content via Twitter.
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Cloud services now account for a third of IT outsourcing market
The ‘as-a-service’ market now accounts for a third of IT services activity. Can traditional outsourcing survive?
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Land O’Lakes spreads to the cloud with Microsoft (and Google)
Land O’Lakes CIO says no single cloud provider can meet all of the company’s requirements. Google and Microsoft are both in the mix, but the agricultural cooperative still isn’t ready for a full migration.It’s Open
Can Collabora and Nextcloud crack Office 365 dominance?
Nextcloud and Collabora partnership brings free of cost office suite and cloud syncing solution together.rn
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LinkedIn adds Gmail, CRM integration to Sales Navigator
LinkedIn looks to boost its appeal to sales professional with the first update of its two-years-old Sales Navigator product.rnrn
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Facebook details its 2016 open source accomplishments
Facebook ramped up its open-source initiative in 2016, and the company has already seen a 35 percent increase in followers.
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Big banks, big applications, big outsourcing
Large application outsourcing is booming at big banks, driven in large part by the need for digital transformation.
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Microsoft expands its Surface Enterprise Initiative
Microsoft wants businesses to adopt the Surface lineup, and it’s adding new incentives to its enterprise program to make the hybrid devices even more appealing.rnIt’s Open
Mirantis OpenStack 9.0 improves post-deployment support, private cloud operations
Mirantis emerges as one of the leading contributors to OpenStack.
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Offshore and cloud service providers upset IT outsourcing’s top tier
While IBM and Accenture still command a majority of the IT services markets, the combination of offshore-centric and as-a-service competition has proven to be an ‘all-out assault’ on traditional providers.News
Cisco aims to simplify security
By combining its network visibility and breadth of integrated products, Cisco aims to make it simple for distributed and mobile businesses to deploy effective security while reducing the complexity required to manage it.
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New Relic adds support for Golang, SPA monitoring
The software-as-a-service application performance monitoring provider is adding support for a popular programming language used in microservices, and also offering greater visibility into single-page applications.It’s Open
Kubernetes becomes more scalable, gets support for hybrid clouds
Version 1.3 makes it easier for new developers and enterprises to use Kubernetes to manage distributed systems at scale.rn
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Why Snapchat's Memories broadens snap appeal
A new feature from Snapchat, called Memories, should broaden its appeal by making it easier for you to preserve and curate the content you share, but the company's go-to disappearing 'snaps' live on.
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How IT outsourcing customers should prepare for HPE-CSC merger
The merger between HPE’s enterprise services business and CSC may or may not help solve those providers’ problems, but there are steps customers can take to make sure the huge ‘spin-merger’ works out in their favor.
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Twitter fails to impress with Wimbledon live stream
Twitter's first live-sports video stream at Wimbledon left much to be desired, and the company's early 'test' may not bode well for its upcoming plans to live stream 10 NFL football games this season.It’s Open
Test drive SUSE Enterprise Linux on Azure cloud for free
SUSE is currently the only commercially supported Linux for HPC available via Microsoft Test Drive.rn
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Hillary Clinton's tech agenda draws cheers from IT industry
Presumptive Democratic nominee calls for investments in STEM education, cybersecurity and job training, pledging to make an open Internet a cornerstone of her administration's diplomacy.It’s Open
Jim Whitehurst: The power of participation
During his keynote at the Red Hat Summit, CEO Jim Whitehurst took the audience on a walk through history, talking about how different industrial revolutions changed our social fabric and affected policies and politics.rnNews
Rio’s airport preps for Olympics with new Wi-Fi network and mobile app
With the 2016 Olympic Games promising to bring millions of visitors to Rio de Janeiro’s Galeão International Airport, its CIO initiated a huge wireless network upgrade and a new mobile app.
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MapR's Spyglass keeps an eye on big data deployments
MapR Technologies' new Spyglass Initiative is an open and extensible approach designed to centralized monitoring of big data deployments.
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YouTube rules at VidCon, but still empty-handed on live mobile video
YouTube's CEO led the opening keynote at VidCon for the third year in a row, and though the online video giant had its 'best year ever,' its still lags behind competitors on key features such as live streaming on mobile devices.News
Hortonworks ups its security and data governance game with HDP 2.5
Hadoop distribution vendor, Hortonworks, announced HDP 2.5 at Hadoop Summit, along with an expansion to its Partnerworks program and a reseller agreement with self-service BI on Hadoop specialist AtScale.It’s Open
OpenSUSE comes to Linode
The announcement comes on the heels of the openSUSE Conference, where the growth was a key topic of discussion.News
Obama, Zuckerberg push better broadband, innovative startups
Obama administration unveils new initiatives to promote global startups as Obama calls for broadband expansion and freedom of expression on the web.It’s Open
Facebook COO launches Together Women Can campaign
Spreading awareness of the power of peer mentoring.It’s Open
Red Hat announces Ceph Storage 2
The software defined storage solution introduces Ansible based storage management and monitoring system.rnIt’s Open
Nearly 1 in 3 Azure virtual machines now run Linux
Microsoft is betting big on open source for cloud.rnEye on Apple
macOS Sierra: First looks from around the web
The macOS Sierra developer preview is now in the hands of many bloggers and journalists. Find out what they are saying about macOS Sierra. Is it the best version of macOS yet?It’s Open
Docker packs container orchestration within its Docker engine
Customers now don’t need orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
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Instagram daily use nearly equals Twitter's monthly rate
Instagram's daily active user base is close to Twitter's number of monthly users, and the gap between the companies continues to widen as Facebook, Instagram's parent, consolidates power through its family of popular apps.Eye on Apple
Apple leads fight to ban rifle emoji
Apple and other technology companies have blocked the roll out of a rifle emoji for the Olympics. The decision has drawn some criticism from media outlets and users.Tech-ticism
Google bumps up bounty on Android bugs
During the past year, Google paid more than half a million dollars to researchers who identified flaws in its mobile OS. In fact, the Android Security Rewards program has been so successful that Google increased related bug bounties.
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Will government ‘IT special forces’ put CIO role in jeopardy?
As new units of IT experts take shape across departments and agencies to advance high-priority projects, lawmakers and a government watchdog warn that CIO authorities must be preserved.It’s Open
Fedora 24 released, brings something for everyone
It comes with a great mix of enterprise, cloud and desktop technologies.rnNews Analysis
Apple purposefully avoids enterprise at WWDC
Enterprise definitely was not the star of Apple's show at WWDC last week. The company barely mentioned business users or developers during the opening keynote, but it did introduce several improvements that should have far reaching implications for enterprise coders and IT.News Analysis
IBM leverages machine learning for hyper-local weather
New precision forecasts will help businesses in industries ranging from aviation and agriculture to energy generation and retail better respond to their environment.
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Ethnic, gender imbalances plague computer science education
Amid a new report from BSA, quantifying the economic impact of the software industry, Obama administration officials stress importance of broadening access to programming instruction in K-12 schools.
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Health IT adoption lags due to lack of patient interest
New Nielsen survey highlights slow rate of adoption and interoperability in health technology as patients don’t see the value of online scheduling, mobile apps and EMRs.
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Microsoft's big bet on LinkedIn not just about data
The initial shock of Microsoft's massive $26.2 billion bet on LinkedIn has mostly worn off, but it's still unclear just what Microsoft will do with LinkedIn, how the social network's loyal users will react to related change, and how Microsoft will integrate LinkedIn data with its products.News Analysis
Splice Machine releases dual-engine RDBMS to open source
The startup hopes to dramatically increase adoption of its dual-engine relational database management system, powered by Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark, by making the technology open source.
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GE Power taps IoT to reduce coal power plant emissions
Through Internet of Things analytics and optimization, GE says coal-fired steam power plants can reduce fuel consumption by 67,000 tons of coal per year, while maintaining the same megawatt output.
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What Apple's new open stance means for iOS apps
At its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple this week empowered third-party developers to further integrate their apps with native iOS software. The changes should have significant impact behind the scenes of iOS and on iPhone users' screens.News Analysis
What Lenovo's Phab 2 Pro Tango phone means for AR
Lenovo this week announced the world's first smartphone that supports Google's Tango augmented reality platform. The Phab 2 Pro is a consumer-oriented device that ironically could help progress AR in the enterprise.
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Biden says big data is key to fight against cancer
In ambitious bid to accelerate cancer diagnosis and treatment, vice president announces aggregated set of genomic and clinical cancer data.
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GE to open new locations to develop Industrial Internet talent
New facilities in Atlanta, Miami and Providence are a first step in GE's efforts to attract and retain IT talent with a mix of technical, analytical and leadership skills.Eye on Apple
Motion Stills: Google’s free app turns Live Photos into GIFs
Google releases a new app that turns your iPhone 6s or 6s Plus Live Photos into GIFs that loop forever, or you can opt to make them movies. Motion Stills also provides helpful stabilization algorithms.It’s Open
SUSE Enterprise Storage 3 brings Ceph support
With SUSE Enterprise Storage, powered by Ceph, SUSE becomes the first company to offer a commercial storage solution that is based on the Jewel release of the open source storage platform.rn
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