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SAS Pioneers ‘Smart Campus’ Technology at HQ (SCN)

Building on its corporate sustainability leadership and Internet of Things (IoT) technology prowess, SAS is taking steps to establish a "smart campus" at its Cary, NC, headquarters... More

Microsoft, Box Ink Cloud Deal with an Eye on Artificial Intelligence (Data Economy)

Microsoft and Box have entered into a partnership that will see the two parties share go-to-market investments, including the usage of Azure to sell Box storage capabilities to ent... More

Here is All of the Technology that Amazon Can Bring to Whole Foods (ARC)

Amazon can now bring to bear the power of Amazon Web Services on the entire retail industry, using Whole Foods as the model. Whole Foods can now replatform its digital backend with... More

Accenture-Microsoft-Avanade Team to Create Digital Identity Program (SCN)

Accenture, in partnership with Microsoft and Avanade, is leading a “call to action” and responding with blockchain and biometric technologies to support ID2020, a global public... More

Will the Next Pop Cultural Icon Be an AI? (Attentionecono.me)

Imagine if music labels wouldn’t have to deal with eccentric artists but could ask a software to produce the next summer hit. Imagine if a book publisher could just ask an algori... More

Accenture Launches Liquid Studio in Stockholm to Help Clients Accelerate Digital Business Transformation (SCN)

Accenture has opened a Liquid Studio in Stockholm, Sweden to help Nordic clients speed innovation and software development cycles. At the Liquid Studio, clients can work side-by-si... More

Dolby’s Focus: Take Over the Big Screen, and the One in Your Hand (Indian Express)

Dolby Labs is a well-known brand, and the San Francisco-headquartered company is the reason why many of your devices sound much better. But for those won’t know, Dolby works on e... More

Apple Debuts HomePod Smart Speaker (Twice)

Apple took the wraps off its first wireless smart speaker, the HomePod, at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) this week. Designed to work with an Apple Music subscriptio... More

Salesforce Debuts PRM App with New Lightning CMS Integration (CMS Wire)

Salesforce debuted another component of its Sales Cloud this morning: an application for Partner Relationship Management, Sales Cloud PRM. The app is a significant release for comm... More

Mixed Reality: It’s Not Virtual Reality, It’s Actual Reality (Avanade Insights)

Whilst Facebook’s announcement to shutter its mixed reality content studio has many thinking it’s maybe too early for the technology, the reality is quite different within the ... More

Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends: It’s Becoming More About Image, Voice, Location (Geo Marketing)

The importance of voice-activation, connected intelligence, visual search, and location targeting as pathways for organizing and using digital channels that Kleiner Perkins Caufiel... More

How AI, Voice-Activation Will Impact Business (Geo Marketing)

The influence of Artificial intelligence and voice-activated digital assistants on marketing has been considerable this past year. And businesses are only starting to catch up in t... More

Live Concerts are Music Tech’s Next Frontier (VentureBeat)

It’s almost a natural progression for these companies to expand from static audio streaming to live video streaming because they can leverage their experience with the music indu... More

Google Hopes This New Technology Will Make Artificial Intelligence Smarter (Fortune)

Google believes that the best way to improve artificial intelligence is new hardware technology. The search giant debuted a new microchip on Wednesday tailored for certain types of... More

Oracle Plans Blockchain ‘Pipelines’ to Boost Employee Efficiency (CoinDesk)

A new patent application from Oracle suggests the database giant is seeking to harness blockchain to improve its internal workflows. The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) r... More

Why the Entertainment Industry Needs Blockchain (Inside Counsel)

These days, the technology industry and the entertainment community tend to intersect often. Lately, there has been a type of technology that could benefit the entertainment indust... More

Voice-Activated Connected Device Usage Jumps 130 Percent This Year (GeoMarketing)

In 2017, 35.6 million Americans will use a voice-activated assistant device at least once a month for sudden rise of 128.9 percent over last year, says eMarketer. At the moment,... More

With Echo Show, Amazon Seizes the Lead in the Race to Artificial Intelligence (Forbes)

For years, smart home automation has been touted by IT giants like Apple and Microsoft, as well as by upstarts like Nest and Canary. What most distinguishes Amazon is the speed of ... More

Retailers Agree – Technology Will Transform Their Jobs (ITProPortal)

There will still be people working in the stores of the future, but technology is still going to make a profound impact on the retail industry. This is what retail workers think ab... More

Hacking Fears Could Scare Consumers Away from Smart Home Devices (CE Pro)

The rising occurrence of high-profile security hacks and privacy breaches, as well as being personally victimized, are contributing to ever-increasing consumer anxiety about smart ... More

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