Profile of Dawn Kawamoto

Associate Editor, Dark Reading News & Commentary Posts: 202

Dawn Kawamoto is an Associate Editor for Dark Reading, where she covers cybersecurity news and trends. She is an award-winning journalist who has written and edited technology, management, leadership, career, finance, and innovation stories for such publications as CNET's News.com, TheStreet.com, AOL's DailyFinance, and The Motley Fool. More recently, she served as associate editor for technology careers site Dice.com.

Microsoft Cutting 2,850 More Jobs In Smartphone Business, Sales

7/29/2016
The Redmond giant reveals in a regulatory filing that it's planning another round of job cuts in addition to the 1,850 cuts it announced in May.
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Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook Discuss STEM Funding, Immigration Reform

7/28/2016
During the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation panel in Philadelphia, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft representatives issued another call to action for increased STEM funding and for revisions to the nation's immigration policy.
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10 Hiring Challenges Confronting CIOs

7/28/2016
CIOs are seeing the highest level of skills shortage since the Great Recession of 2008-09 and other hiring issues, according to the 2016 Harvey Nash/KPMG CIO Survey. Find out where these challenges exist and to what extent.
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Tim Cook Talks Apple's AR Future, Pokémon Go

7/27/2016
Apple CEO Tim Cook reveals the depth of the iPhone maker's interest in augmented reality and where he thinks the platform is going.
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Office 365 Updates Add Machine Learning To Apps

7/26/2016
Microsoft is infusing more of its machine learning into Office 365 and adding in greater capabilities into Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
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Verizon Buying Yahoo's Web Business For $4.8 Billion

7/25/2016
The telecommunications giant strikes a deal to acquire Yahoo's core internet assets, ending a drawn-out process for one of the early dot-com darlings.
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Can 3D-Printed Fingers Help Police Solve A Murder?

7/23/2016
Michigan police are working with university researchers to re-create a dead man's fingers. The goal is to use the digits to unlock his smartphone and uncover information that may help catch his killer.
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Microsoft Moving Skype To Azure, Ditching P2P 

7/21/2016
The Redmond giant is wrapping up the final stages of migrating its Skype VoIP service to the cloud from its peer-to-peer backbone. The move will allow the company to offer new services including mobile group video calling and Skype Bots.
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10 Hot Security Technologies Enterprises Need Now

7/21/2016
With security threats increasingly becoming more advanced, research firm Gartner outlines the top 10 technologies that should be deployed to take advantage of digital business opportunities while managing risk.
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Google's DeepMind AI Cuts Data Center Power Bills

7/20/2016
Google uses its DeepMind artificial intelligence to slice nearly half of the amount of energy used for cooling its data centers, improving its overall power usage effectiveness (PUE) by 15%.
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Microsoft Azure Wins Boeing's Cloud Business

7/19/2016
Boeing is set to move its extensive portfolio of digital solutions to Microsoft's Azure cloud platform, with an aim to improve the operation and efficiency of its airlines customers.
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Obama Administration May Allow Foreign Search Warrants On US Tech Firms

7/18/2016
Under a proposed plan, foreign governments would have the right to serve search warrants on US tech companies for email and wiretaps. The deal would also give the US "reciprocal" authority to search data in other countries.
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Tech Leaders Slam Donald Trump In Open Letter

7/15/2016
Nearly 150 tech leaders, researchers, founders, and VCs posted an open letter characterizing presidential candidate Donald Trump as a "disaster for innovation."
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Robot Job Stealers: 3 Industries At Risk

7/14/2016
When it comes to industries and occupations that face the greatest chance of having robots replace humans as workers, a recent McKinsey & Co. report provides some insight. Is your job on the line?
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Tesla Stands By Autopilot, Plans More Educational Outreach

7/13/2016
Tesla CEO Elon Musk vows to continue use of the carmaker's Autopilot feature in the wake of a recent fatal crash of a Model S using the technology, and says he plans to step up efforts to educate customers about the system.
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SEC Investigating Telsa For Not Disclosing Fatal Crash To Investors

7/12/2016
Securities regulators are reportedly investigating Tesla Motors over its failure to inform investors that one of its cars involved in a fatal crash was operating in autopilot mode.
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Killer Robot Use In Dallas Raises Ethical Questions

7/11/2016
Dallas police used a robot to deliver and detonate a bomb to stop a suspected sniper who killed five officers and injured nine others. This deployment raises ethical questions.
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Google Testing Post-Quantum Cryptography For Chrome

7/8/2016
Although quantum computers are largely in the experimental phase, Google has started testing cryptography to protect against hackers in the post-quantum era.
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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Combines CRM, ERP

7/7/2016
The Redmond giant is folding its CRM and ERP cloud services into one cloud service dubbed Microsoft Dynamics 365.
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IBM Rolls Out New Job-Cutting Plan In The Netherlands

7/6/2016
According to a leaked company memo, IBM is imposing involuntary job cuts in the Netherlands for the first time. Does the move serve as a template for Big Blue to impose forced layoffs in regions where local labor laws have made it difficult to impose mandatory cuts?
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iOS 10 Makes It Easier To Be An Organ Donor

7/5/2016
Inspired by the difficulty Apple's late founder Steve Jobs endured in securing a donated liver when he was ill, the company says iOS 10 will allow iPhone users to directly connect to the National Donate Life Registry.
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'No-Cloud' Policies Will Nearly Disappear By 2020, Gartner Says

7/4/2016
Within three years, more than 30% of the world's 100 largest vendors are expected to shift software investments from a cloud-first strategy to a cloud only strategy, according to Gartner.
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10 IT Hiring Plans For Second Half Of 2016

7/4/2016
While CIOs say they expect to see a slight dip in IT hiring plans for the last six months of this year, according to recent survey results, one tech recruiter says the outlook appears positive. Here's a closer look at CIO hiring plans for the remaining months of 2016, including layoffs, the most in-demand IT skills, and the hottest regions.
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Oracle Ordered To Pay HPE $3 Billion In Itanium Suit

7/2/2016
A Silicon Valley jury has sided with HPE in a long-running dispute focused on support for the Itanium server platform.
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iOS 10: Siri Integrates With Third-Party Apps

7/1/2016
As Apple gears up for its iOS 10 public beta in July, a select group of developers will now be able to sync up their apps with users' Siri demands.
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