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IT Spending Reports Show A Tech Market In Transition
Gartner is predicting that worldwide spending on information technology will decline 5.5%, while Forrester has revised its US tech market projections down slightly.
Microsoft Cuts Display Ad Business, Sells Bing Maps To Uber
Microsoft transfers its display ad business to AOL and sells Bing Maps tech to Uber as CEO Satya Nadella executes a new corporate mission.
AWS Building Massive Data Center In India
AWS is planning to build a massive data center in India to help expand its cloud computing services to customers there and around the world.
10 Essential Google Apps For iPhone Users
Just because you're an Apple aficionado doesn't mean you can't load up your iPhone with Google apps. Here are 10 of the best.
IoT Market Forecast At $11 Trillion, Report Finds
A new report from McKinsey finds that the market for IoT could reach $11 trillion by 2025. This means a sea change for IT, as well as the CIOs who have to manage budgets.
11 PCs Ideal For Windows 10 Upgrades
With Microsoft's big Windows 10 launch just over a month away, let's take a look at some recently released PCs that would be ripe for an OS upgrade.
Windows 10 Pricing Chaos, Upgrade Explained: Microsoft Roundup
Microsoft this week released the full suite of Office for Android, updated the Surface Pro 3, and confused the Internet with its Windows 10 pricing strategy.
IBM, Box Cloud Partnership: What It Means
IBM and Box enter a partnership to bring mobile storage and sharing to the enterprise cloud.
Windows 10 Upgrade: 8 FAQs Explained
July 29 is fast approaching and we know you still have a lot of questions about how to download and use Windows 10.
Samsung Slammed For Disabling Windows Update
Samsung admitted to altering the behavior of Microsoft's Windows Update tool, but claims to have good intentions.
Microsoft Office Fully Lands On Android Phones
Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are now generally available on Android smartphones and tablets.
Salesforce Service For Apps Gives CRM A Mobile Edge
A new suite of products revealed by Salesforce today is aimed at improving the customer service experience on mobile devices through intuitive routing and contextualization.
Docker To Defang Root Privilege Access
Docker's upcoming 1.8 release will answer security concerns by separating a running container's root privilege from that of its owner to avoid the owner becoming a "Superuser."
NBA CIO Focuses On Analytics, Data And Fans
The NBA is one of the most tech-savvy sports leagues. A lot of that has to do with CIO Michael Gliedman, who oversees the process of turning reams of data into a fan-friendly stats website.
Gmail Undo Send Plus 3 More Improvements We Need
The "Undo Send" feature in Gmail graduated from beta status on June 23. That's nice, but here are three features that business users really need from Google's email service.
Supercomputers Unleash Big Data's Power
Here are six reasons why established companies, and even startups, are using supercomputing resources, and why your IT organization may want to consider such options to meet your big data and business analytics needs.
Docker Adds Container Networking, Deployment Options
Docker gives its container platform a DevOps flavor with multi-host networking and the ability to deploy into the cloud.
Salesforce Vs. The Competition: A CRM Primer
Salesforce.com is a leader in providing cloud-based enterprise software applications and platform services. How does it stack up to the competition? Here's how.
CFO Data Needs: How IT Stacks Up
If you think about how the data is going to be presented and used by the CFO's group, the technological decisions to ensure data accuracy and determine types of data you present actually become easier.
Windows 10: Free For All Insiders?
Microsoft's muddled messaging sparks a debate over whether Windows 10 will be available for free to Windows Insiders.
VMware Brings More Tools To Docker Development
VMware courts Docker-oriented developers with a developer hypervisor, AppCatalyst, and deployment workflow, Bonneville.
IBM Aims To Ease Data Sharing For Police, Emergency Services
IBM's Safer Planet, a sub-unit of the company's Smarter Planet effort, is expanding its cloud-based offerings with the goal of making data sharing and analysis affordable and accessible to IT professionals in a wide range of public safety and emergency management agencies.
Google, Microsoft, Mozilla Want A Faster Web
Google wants to keep you from leaving the Web by delivering a faster experience.
COBOL Leads Us Back To The Future
COBOL defined business software development for decades. Now, is it over the hill or just hitting its prime?
Windows 10 Mobile Update, Elop Exit: Microsoft Roundup
News of an executive shakeup at Microsoft comes the same week as new Windows 10 Mobile build 10136.
Wal-Mart CIO Talks Data, People, And 'Classic' Systems
In conversation with InformationWeek, Wal-Mart CIO Karenann Terrell talks about what's it's like to run technology at the $500 billion retailer.
Oracle's Financials Detail Its Cloud Computing Future
For IT professionals, as well as the CIOs who sign off on expensive Oracle technology, the company's new cloud strategy is a sea change worth watching.
Salesforce Launches 'Wave Analytics' App
Salesforce taps its new Wave Cloud with its first analytics application, Sales Wave Analytics, which draws data from many sources.
Stephen Elop Out In Microsoft Executive Shakeup
Organizational changes within Microsoft's engineering team will result in the departure of senior executives, including former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop.
600M Samsung Smartphones Vulnerable To Hacking
A report from a security firms finds that Samsung's smartphones are vulnerable to attacks thanks to replacement software in the SwiftKey keyboard. However, it's not really Samsung's fault.
8 Ways MDM Can Ease IT Pain
Mobile device management is more than a security tool. Here's how your IT organization can draw value from MDM.
OPM Breach Offers Tough Lessons For CIOs
While your enterprise may have a chief information security officer and a robust data governance department, CIOs and IT organizations are the ones on the front lines of protecting enterprise data. What lessons can we draw from the OPM breach?
'Leap Second' Clocks In On June 30
It doesn't sound like a big deal, but every second counts in the Network Time Protocol upon which the Internet and all apps that synch with it are based.
SAP Brings New HANA, Analytics To Market
Service pack 10 brings new Internet of Things, big data management, data high availability, and application development capabilities to SAP's HANA platform.
Windows 10 Mobile Build 10136 Ready For Insiders
Microsoft gives Insiders a closer look at Windows 10 Mobile with the launch of Build 10136.
Windows 10 vs. Mac OS X 10.11: OS Showdown
Microsoft and Apple are both planning OS releases for later this year. Which one is the better pick, Windows 10 or Mac OS X 10.11?
Adobe Upgrades Creative Cloud Apps, Launches Stock
Adobe's major Creative Cloud update stretches across 15 applications and includes new tools for iOS and Android users.
Amazon Adds Supersize General-Purpose Servers
Amazon Web Service expanded its virtual server offerings again with M4s, a much larger version of its general-purpose M3s.
IBM Bets On Apache Spark As 'The Future Of Enterprise Data'
The key problem Spark resolves is access to data across the enterprise. IBM initiatives include providing courses to train 1 million data scientists and engineers to use it.
Google GCP Customers Sungard, PwC Share Use Cases
At the Google Next event in New York City, executives from Sungard and PwC talked about how they're applying the company's cloud platform to meet enterprise-scale big data needs.
10 Raspberry Pi Projects For Learning IoT
The Raspberry Pi isn't just a great platform for building Internet of Things project: It's a super platform for learning about the IoT. Here are ten projects to help built IoT skills.
Windows 10 Enterprise Update, Surface Hub Pricing: Microsoft Roundup
Microsoft news from this week included pricing and release date for the Surface Hub, clarification about the Edge Internet browser offering for some enterprise users of Windows 10, an updated Skype, and changes to Office 365 online.
Facebook Infer Bug Detection Tool Is Now Open Source
For Facebook, open-sourcing Infer represents a gesture of goodwill toward the developer community and advances the eventual goal of automated software verification. Doing so should also lead to improvements in Infer through external contributions.
FileMaker 14: A Database For DIY Apps
FileMaker 14 features new tools to make DIY mobile database apps possible for non-programmers.
Google’s Sidewalk Labs: Exploring Better City Living
Sidewalk Labs will help lay the foundation for real-time oversight of civic activities and resources through sensors, software, and ubiquitous connectivity. It will be Google's path to smart city projects.
Q&A: Nina Bjornstad, Country Manager For The UK And Ireland, Google For Work
The Google exec discusses how businesses can harness the potential of collaboration, transparency, and emerging technology.
HP Discover 2015: What We Learned
HP Discover is HP's largest annual meeting. Announcements were of the "continuing evolution" sort, though they're likely to make HP customers happy as everyone works through the implications of the two Hewlett-Packards yet to come.
iOS 9 Gives iPad A Serious Productivity Boost
Split-screen multitasking and changes to the keyboard will make the iPad a more powerful productivity machine for road warriors thanks to iOS 9.
AI Creates Jobs: Study
For knowledge workers, whose jobs consist of many tasks, the automation of a single task frees them to focus on other responsibilities. A survey of business leaders finds enthusiasm for AI as a creator of jobs and a way to deal with data.
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