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Silicon Valley Club Names Top 10 Most Important Trends of 2018 (eWeek)

Have any idea what the top IT trends are for the next three to five years? The Churchill Club, one of Silicon Valley’s longest-running and most successful business/social organiz... More

Box Expands Zones to Manage Content in Multiple Regions (TechCrunch)

When Box announced Zones a couple of years ago, it was providing a way for customers to store data outside the U.S., but there were some limits. Each customer could choose the U.S.... More

Apple is Missing Out on Billions by Skirting the Hottest Trend in Software (CNBC)

Apple still makes the bulk of its money selling iPhones. But in trying to show investors that it can thrive in high-margin software, the company has built a services unit that's no... More

AI and the Expectation Gap (Gigabit)

The history of artificial intelligence has always been characterised by an ‘expectation gap’ – the gulf between what we’ve expected of it and what it’s capable of deliver... More

Cisco CEO: New AI Tech Helped Boost Q3 (HITS)

Cisco continued to make progress on its key initiatives, including an expansion of its artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, in the third quarter (ended April 28) and exited t... More

3 Technology Trends Driving Adoption of Collaboration Tools (Forbes)

Today’s workforce has changed significantly in the past decade. More and more businesses are hiring remote employees, freelance employees, part-time employees in addition to full... More

Oracle Buys Machine Learning Platform DataScience.com, Will Integrate Into Cloud Offering (SCN)

Oracle has signed an agreement to acquire DataScience.com, whose platform centralizes data science tools, projects and infrastructure in a fully-governed workspace. "Every organ... More

Amazon is Hiring Semiconductor Engineers to Make its Cloud Better at Streaming Video (CNBC)

Amazon Web Services is loading up on engineers at a semiconductor unit in Portland, Oregon, where the cloud business is focused on improving video processing speeds. Chips are beco... More

Do You Have What it Takes to Be an IoT Developer? (ReadWrite)

The Internet of Things has been a dream of many companies and individuals for years, but it’s only just beginning to really take off, making now the perfect time to consider maki... More

White House Announces Creation of Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence (Fed Scoop)

Watch out China — the Trump administration has its own plans to dominate development of artificial intelligence. As the latest indication of this, the White House announced the c... More

Google CEO: AI Helping Transform Google Products, Services (eWeek)

Google CEO Sundar Pichai this week touted several examples of how the company has successfully used artificial intelligence approaches and machine learning to improve its products ... More

Microsoft Unveils AI Stack for On-Premises Data Centers, Edge Computing Sites (DCK)

Microsoft expects 30 billion smart devices to make their way into homes and businesses by 2020. Together, they will pump out so much data that uploading it all directly to the clou... More

Cognizant CEO Sees Opportunity Using AI to Automate Business Processes (CRN)

Cognizant CEO Francisco D’Souza said a new era of artificial intelligence and an “infusion of digital” are driving growth for the Teaneck, N.J.-based solution provider. "D... More

Nearly 300,000 Developers Now Use Microsoft’s Azure Bot Service (VentureBeat)

Microsoft’s Azure Bot Service has now been used by almost 300,000 developers. That’s up from 240,000 in December 2017, a Microsoft spokesperson told VentureBeat in an email. Th... More

Microsoft Build Kicks Off with Focus on AI (ITProPortal)

Microsoft wants every developer to be an AI developer. This was essentially the message at the start of its Microsoft Build event, which kicked off this week in Seattle. During... More

7 Ways to Embrace Shadow IT and Win (CIO)

Fear not shadow IT, the software and services employees secretly use without explicit organizational approval. For decades, CIOs and IT managers have searched for ways of reliably ... More

Q&A with SAS CEO Goodnight: Analytics Development from A to Z (eWeek)

Jim Goodnight on what he expects to see coming from SAS in terms of new products, revisions on current products and innovation in general over the next 12 to 24 months: "Where we'v... More

Adobe Offers Schools Creative Cloud Licenses for $5/Year (Engadget)

Adobe has been slowly moving its apps and services to the cloud since 2013. If you use any of the company's creative products — like Photoshop, Illustrator or Lightroom — you p... More

The Current State of Blockchain in Business: Are CIOs Planning on Using It? (IA)

Only 1% of CIOs indicated any kind of blockchain adoption within their organisations, and only 8% of CIOs were in short-term planning or active experimentation with blockchain, acc... More

Women in STEM: An Introduction to Sony Electronics’ Cheryl Goodman (Gigabit)

In an industry where the goalposts are forever moving, heading up corporate communications for a company such as Sony Electronics is no straightforward or indeed predictable task. ... More

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