Look Out Amazon: Walmart, Google Team for Voice-Activated Shopping
By Anne DInnocenzio Walmart is diving into voice-activated shopping. But unlike online leader Amazon, it’s not doing it alone. The world’s largest retailer said Wednesday it’s working with Google to offer hundreds of thousands of items from laundry detergent to Legos for voice shopping through Google Assistant. The capability will be available in late September.It’s […]
Apple Teams with Accenture To Build Mobile Enterprise Apps
By: Shirley Siluk Under a partnership announced today, the global consultancy Accenture aims to help its enterprise customers transform their businesses through a business service based on Apple’s iOS mobile operating system. The latest addition to Accenture’s Digital Studios business, the new dedicated iOS consulting practice will include experts from Accenture and Apple. To be […]
How To Better Manage The Challenges of Software Applications
Managing complexity, aligning IT with the business, and enabling agility are top priorities for CIOs who must deliver on software development projects. So, how can software applications be managed more efficiently? Introducing Integrated Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) within your organization helps you plan, manage, and execute the long-term maintenance of a software solution – from […]
Employer Surveillance Now Common and Accepted
By Andre Spicer Every technical innovation has brought with it a new way of watching over workers. CCTV allowed nosy managers to keep an eye on the shop when they were not around. Software systems have been used to track the number of keystrokes an administrator makes a minute, how often they move their mouse […]
12 Microsoft Power BI success stories
By: Thor Olavsrud Self-service BI is on the rise among forward-thinking organizations, enabling business users to obtain up-to-the-minute business information in graphical form on demand — with little to no IT intervention. Since the release of Microsoft Power BI, organizations around the world have been turning to the cloud-based service for self-service business intelligence tools that […]
Your Roomba May Be Sucking Up More than Dirt
By: Alex Hern The maker of the Roomba robotic vacuum, iRobot, has found itself embroiled in a privacy row after its chief executive suggested it may begin selling floor plans of customers’ homes, derived from the movement data of their autonomous servants. “There’s an entire ecosystem of things and services that the smart home can […]
Court: IBM Owes Indiana $78M for Welfare Automation Failure
IBM owes Indiana $78 million in damages stemming from the company’s failed effort to automate much of the state’s welfare services, a judge has ruled in a long-running dispute. Marion Superior Court Judge Heather Welch issued the ruling dated Friday, nearly six months after she heard arguments from attorneys for the state and IBM Corp. […]
Machine learning for Dynamics, Part 1: Microsoft’s ML packages in SQL and R Server
By: Mark Anderson They are top tech, software and internet companies; yet officials from Amazon, Baidu, Facebook, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Tesla have all recently stated they are becoming artificial intelligence (AI) companies. And this fad is no flash in the pan. AI is sweeping across the business world because computer power (especially […]
9 forces shaping the future of IT
By: Paul Heltzel IT is on the precipice of unprecedented change. Every company, now in the business of technology, is experiencing glimmers of larger shifts to come: automation, decentralized technology budgets, rapid adoption of cloud-based services, and most recently, artificial intelligence as a business necessity. Thanks to these emerging and converging trends, technology is increasingly […]
Facebook Fighting Court Order on User Data Access
Facebook is fighting a court order that blocks the social media giant from letting users know when law enforcement investigators ask to search their online information, particularly their political affiliations and comments. Major technology companies and civil liberties groups have joined Facebook in the case, which resembles legal challenges throughout the country from technology companies […]