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China Unicom plans data network

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Heads Up, Hot Rods: FIA Autonomous Robo-Racing Has Arrived

If you’re into artificial intelligence, high-speed mechanical competition, and the kind of open-minded ‘statement’ designs for which concept cars are known, then you’ll find that the Federation Internationale de L’Automobile (FIA)’s all-electric Formula E circuit just got a whole lot sexier.



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Lenovo Racks Up Six Server Benchmark World Records With New Intel Xeon E5 v4 Systems

Intel’s unveiling of their new Broadwell-EP based Xeon E5 v4 server and HPC processors made a splash today in the enterprise markets, as the new multicore chips that range all the way up to monster 22-core variants and built on Intel’s 14nm process technology, offer better efficiency and higher compute throughput along with new features and optimizations. Specifically, improvements in AVX instructions optimization, for example, which are critical for floating point operations that are vital to multimedia, scientific and financial processing workloads, afford the chip performance boosts in excess of 50 percent in certain mission-critical applications.



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Where Are Sports Videogames in the American eSports Explosion?

Curiously absent in the recent and gigantic uptick of eSports enthusiasm in America, are sports video games. League of Legends’ world championship sold out the Staples Center and drew more viewership than The Masters in 2o13, but games such as Madden, FIFA and NBA 2K have not yet begun to approach that level of attracting spectators.


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Where Are Sports Videogames in the American eSports Explosion?

Where Are Sports Videogames in the American eSports Explosion?

Curiously absent in the recent and gigantic uptick of eSports enthusiasm in America, are sports video games. League of Legends’ world championship sold out the Staples Center and drew more viewership than The Masters in 2o13, but games such as Madden, FIFA and NBA 2K have not yet begun to approach that level of attracting spectators.



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Baptist Health Earns Highest Designation as National Spirit of Women...

As part of a comprehensive evaluation process, Baptist Health demonstrated innovation and excellence in women’s programming across the board and earned the designation as a Premier Hospital System by…


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Cloud readiness: New Zealand cedes #2 spot to Singapore

The latest Cloud Readiness Index from the Asia Cloud Computing Association has placed Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand and Australia above …



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Tracing the Legacy of Zaha Hadid, Architecture’s Esteemed Anomaly

Tracing the Legacy of Zaha Hadid, Architecture’s Esteemed Anomaly

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Asia leads the world in Cloud Readiness Index 2016

Asian countries, led by Hong Kong and Singapore, top the new Cloud Readiness Index (CRI) 2016 released by the Asia Cloud Computing …



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Why IBM spent $200 million to buy a huge Salesforce partner with Marc Benioff's blessing

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Apple releases iOS 9.3.1 to kill the app-freezing Safari bug


Earlier this week we reported a bug in iOS 9.3 that caused apps to become unresponsive after tapping on links in Safari. The bug seemed to affect any iOS device, but was most prevalent on the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus. Today, Apple released an update to fix the problem. iOS 9.3.1 has a pretty short changelog — a single item that “Fixes an issue that caused apps to be unresponsive after tapping on links in Safari and other apps,” it says. The issue seems to have appeared after the iOS 9.3 update and somehow affected an iOS 9 change…


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Microsoft Build Day 2: Azure Flexes Muscles with New Features

… conference in San Francisco kicked off today with a big-picture look at the company’s capabilities and latest advances in cloud computing. As part of …



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Microsoft pitches developers on building applications for Office users

Microsoft Executive Vice President Qi Lu had an interesting pitch for developers Thursday: Build applications that use data from Microsoft Office.


Microsoft’s crown jewel for building apps that integrate with Office is its Graph set of APIs, which let developers build applications that know how users work with one another. Lu, speaking at the company’s Build developer conference, announced six new APIs to improve the Microsoft Graph, including one that allows developers to see when a group of users is available to meet.


That functionality will let developers build more intelligent applications that help people who use Office to work together, which can help Microsoft tie customers deeper into its productivity ecosystem. According to Lu, API calls to the Microsoft Graph have been growing 420 percent month over month since it was released last year.


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Intel doubles down on cloud push, but will it be enough?

As enormous as cloud computing has become, Intel thinks it’s only getting started–and it wants a bigger piece of what’s coming next. Intel today …



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Buccaneer of the seas costume includes red head sash, white shirt, brown vest, shoulder belt, sash with attached belt, pant, and boot top shoe covers. For more than 30 years, Forum Novelties has been a leader in the costume industry, as well as the joke, trick, magic, and novelty gift item business. Forum offers over 8,000 items to choose from, ranging from baby costumes, to adult and plus-size costumes, to pet costumes. Look to Forum Novelties for all of your Halloween, luau, Christmas, mardi gras, and St. Patrick’s day supplies. From funny to frightening, forum has it all


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Why IBM spent $200 million to buy a huge Salesforce partner with Marc Benioff"s blessing

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Why you don"t have to be in management to succeed in business

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Amazon in talks to buy stake in mapping company HERE -sources

“Amazon would take a stake as part of a broader deal to lock them in as a provider of cloud computing services,” one source familiar with the talks said …



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IBM to buy Salesforce.com consulting specialist Bluewolf

IBM sees customers of Salesforce.com as key to growing revenue at its Global Business Services consulting division.


No, it’s not buying Salesforce.com, as was rumored last year.


Big Blue has, instead, made a bid for Bluewolf, a consulting practice that specializes in helping companies integrate Salesforce.com’s CRM services into their IT systems. IBM values the market for this and other Salesforce.com-related professional services around at US$ 111 billion annually.


Bluewolf has been working with Salesforce.com since 2001, and publishes an annual report on the market for that company’s services, “The State of Salesforce.”


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Microsoft"s rude A.I. bot Tay: Officially a piece of CaaP [updated]

Microsoft’s artificial intelligence strategy is to unleash more bots like Tay. Redmond doesn’t mean more nasty, racist or homophobic chatbots, but a forest of A.I. personalities for different uses — Satya Nadella named it ‘Conversation as a Platform’.


However, as the last few days have shown, Microsoft still has a very long way to go. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers fear the 4chan army. Not to mention: 20 years of Resident Evil


curated these bloggy bits for your entertainment. [Developing story: Updated 1:36 pm and 12:39 am PT with more comment]


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Uniweld Visits National Supply Co. Ltd Branches in Kingston/Montego...

National Supply Co. Ltd holds training seminars in Jamaica sponsored by Uniweld Products, Inc.


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Microsoft unveils Graph improvements, Office for Mac add-ins, new Skype SDKs, and Office 365 connectors

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At its Build 2016 developer conference in San Francisco today, Microsoft announced three improvements that help developers leverage Microsoft Office. Qi Lu, executive vice president at Microsoft, took the stage to show off what’s new with Microsoft Graph, Office for Mac 2016, Skype, and Office 365.


In November 2015, Microsoft launched the Microsoft Graph, which gives applications access to digital work and digital life data across the Microsoft cloud. Put another way, the company opened the door for developers to leverage data, intelligence, and APIs with a single authorization token in their own apps.


Today, the Microsoft Graph expanded to include a user’s out-of-office status, recent email attachments, as well as new APIs that return “relevant documents” and suggestions for meeting times based on real-time calendar availability. Applications that consume Office data will also be more responsive, Microsoft promises, as they can now get notifications through Microsoft Graph for changes to users’ email, calendar, and contacts.


On stage, DocuSign was demoed to show how users can pick files directly from their OneDrive account, search for signatories from their contacts and colleagues by expertise or phonetic name matches, and be notified when a colleague they are emailing a document to is out of the office. Zapier meanwhile was showed off using the Excel REST API to interact with a file sitting in OneDrive for Business and add data to an Excel spreadsheet.


Next, Microsoft announced add-ins are coming to Office 2016 for Mac “later this spring.” The company also promised centralized deployment and programmatic creation of ribbons and buttons.


Three examples were given Starbucks is developing an Outlook add-in that allows people to send gift cards within Outlook, schedule meetings at nearby Starbucks locations, and eventually even arrange for coffee delivery. Baydin has built a Boomerang add-in with custom ribbon buttons for email productivity tools inside Outlook and the officeatwork Document Wizard add-in offers data-driven Word templates.


Last but not least, Microsoft unveiled the new Skype Web SDK, Skype for Business App SDK, and Office 365 group connectors. The first two allow companies combine “cloud voice, meetings, and messaging” in their apps across a range of web and device platforms.



Office 365 group connectors allow developers to push data from their own services into an Office 365 group conversation in Outlook. Microsoft also announced that Office 365 Connectors will be coming to the Outlook Inbox “soon.”


Out of all of the above, add-ins are probably the easiest to grasp. It remains to be seen which ones developers race to implement though, as Microsoft is clearly still at the stage of trying to figure out how best to reach its 1.2 billion Office users.







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Bright Computing to Exhibit at HPC for Wall Street – Cloud & Data Centers Show & Conference

… and OpenStack clouds, announces it will be exhibiting at the 2016 HPC for Wall Street – Cloud & Data Centers Show & Conference on April 4, 2016, …



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Systems & Cloud Computing Engineer – OpenStack

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Tesla Model 3 lines are the new iPhone lines

A Tesla line in Dublin, California

Eager, die-hard Tesla fans spanning Australia, Asia, Europe and the U.S. are waiting in line this morning (a la Apple) to put a $ 1,000 deposit on the upcoming $ 35,000 Model 3, a car nobody outside the company has ever seen before.


At the time of writing, over 100 people — physicians, bankers, engineers, existing Tesla owners, etc — were waiting in line at Tesla’s Dublin, California showroom to put down a deposit on the long-awaited car, which isn’t expected to ship until at least next year.


Here’s a look at the line, courtesy of technology evangelist and writer Robert Scoble. The car is expected to be unveiled tonight at 8:30 p.m. PT.



 









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Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning To Power The Alphabet Cloud

Alphabet is deploying AI and Machine Learning (ML) technologies to its commercial cloud computing service. The recent AlphaGo breakthrough …



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5 things to expect from Microsoft"s Build developer conference

Microsoft executives will take the stage at Moscone West in San Francisco on Wednesday for the first of two keynote addresses to the company’s big Build developer conference. Here are five key things to expect from the next two days of Microsoft announcements:


1. New features in Windows 10 for developers and end users alike


Last year, Microsoft used Build to show off its vision for developing applications to run on what was then an unreleased operating system. In the intervening year, the company released Windows 10 to the world, and people have started using it in droves.


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New No Cost “Super World of Marcos” by MobiEos Software is an Ultra...

In Super World of Marcos by MobiEos Software Private Limited, gamers must think ahead – and fast – in order to race and jump through a variety of scenes and landscapes, including: jungles, dungeons,…


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ISE implements securities exchange on Amazon cloud

AWS is a leader in cloud computing and working with their team enabled us to implement our vision for the anywhere exchange,” said Robert Cornish, …



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Chinese AI team plans to challenge Google’s AlphaGo at board game

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BEIJING (By Paul Carsten, Reuters) – A team from China plans to challenge Google’s AlphaGo, the artificial intelligence (AI) program that beat a world-class player in the ancient board game Go, the state-owned Shanghai Securities News reported on Thursday.


Scientists from the China Computer Go team will issue a challenge to AlphaGo by the end of 2016, said attendees at an event in Beijing organized by the Chinese Go Association and the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence, according to the report. It did not elaborate on the nature of the challenge.


The event was ‘The Forum for Understanding the AlphaGo War between Man and Machine and Chinese Artificial Intelligence’, Shanghai Securities News reported on its website.


AlphaGo, developed by Google subsidiary DeepMind, shocked audiences when it beat South Korean professional Go player Lee Sedol in Seoul earlier this month.


The program made history last year by becoming the first machine to beat a human pro player, but 33-year-old Lee, one of the world’s top players, was seen as a much more formidable opponent.


Go, most popular in countries such as China, South Korea and Japan, involves two contestants moving black and white stones across a square grid, aiming to seize the most territory.


Until AlphaGo’s victory last year, experts had not expected an artificial intelligence program to beat a human professional for at least a decade.


Also on Thursday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai visited one of China’s top Go training schools, according to the China Daily.


A spokesman at Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc, said Pichai was in China to develop his understanding of Go and of the country.


Chinese companies like Baidu Inc, the country’s nearest equivalent of Google, are also working on developing AI.


Baidu in 2014 hired former Google engineer Andrew Ng, who had helmed the U.S. search giant’s Google Brain AI efforts.







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SharePoint Fest Returns to Downtown Washington, DC and Announces…

SharePoint Fest DC 2016 will occur April 27-29th, 2016 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in downtown Washington, DC and announces that Protiviti will sponsor this annual technology…


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Google"s biggest cloud challenge? Serving enterprises

Last week Google made it clear that it takes cloud computing seriously: “dead serious,” as Diane Greene, Google’s top cloud exec, stressed. To make its case, the company brought out a range of enterprise customers (Disney, Domino’s, Best Buy, and others) and a bevy of functional improvements.


What it didn’t showcase, however, was the culture necessary to win over the enterprise.


Eric Knorr suggests that “perhaps most important of all in Google’s enterprise push is the rapid evolution of Kubernetes,” the company’s container project. Though important, such innovations don’t address the biggest gap in Google’s cloud: DNA. Even as “entire data centers are being closed and replaced by AWS,” as former Netflix cloud chief Adrian Cockcroft highlights, Google needs to quickly learn to speak enterprise if it hopes to compete with corporate-savvy AWS.


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Wednesday, March 30, 2016

ACCOUNTS PAYABLE| CLOUD-COMPUTING

Accounts Payable| Cloud-Computing| 35K. Global Leader in cloud-based technology is seeking a motivated Accounts Payable Administrator to join …



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5 things to consider before choosing a Web hosting provider

Do you need a simple WordPress site? If yes, can your Web host provide a managed WordPress hosting (which possesses features that would make work easy for you)? These features should be your deciding factors, not price. There are different features …



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Microsoft Will Bake Ad-Blocking Right Into Its Edge Browser


On the first day of its Build developer conference, Microsoft confirmed that it will bring ad-blocking capabilities into its Edge browser. The feature will be available in the next version of Edge, along with support for extensions — which it included in a preview build earlier this month — an integrated Bing translator as well as a list of previously visited pages you can navigate to from a menu tied to the back button. That will make Edge one of the few desktop browsers that natively supports ad-blocking: Opera’s latest developer edition and former Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich’s Brave also…

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Microsoft will bake ad-blocking right into its Edge browser


On the first day of its Build developer conference, Microsoft confirmed that it will bring ad-blocking capabilities into its Edge browser. The feature will be available in the next version of Edge, along with support for extensions — which it included in a preview build earlier this month — an integrated Bing translator as well as a list of previously visited pages you can navigate to from a menu tied to the back button. That will make Edge one of the few desktop browsers that natively supports ad-blocking: Opera’s latest developer edition and former Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich’s Brave also…

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The Origin Of Geological Terms: Garnets

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If you"re comparing cloud TCO, you asked the wrong question

But I feel I must challenge these deeply ingrained misconceptions that persist when people discuss the transition to cloud computing. Otherwise many …


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EMC has locked down ScaleIO with its biggest update yet

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Build 2016: The top 3 reveals from Microsoft"s developer conference keynote

The consumer-facing news was scant, but here are the most interesting tidbits that Microsoft had to offer.



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ProIntro Wedding Volume 3 Released by Pixel Film Studios

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Ollis Bros. Garage Doors Begins Offering Service for Delaware County,...

Known for bringing high quality and reliable garage door service to the Philadelphia, PA area, Ollis Bros. is now available for service in Delaware County, Chester County, and Montgomery County.


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Nature Inspired Nanotexturing Gives Graphene Boost In Light Absorption

The humble moth has provided inspiration to a team of top researchers at the Advanced Technology Institute at the University of Surrey, who have engineered graphene, a material that is usually terrible at absorbing light, to create a nanotextured graphene that can absorb 95% of incident light – all by mimicking the nanostructure found on on the eye of a moth.



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Let the cloud buyer beware

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Most managed security tools will be cloud based by 2020, IHS predicts

Even as security remains a concern for cloud users, research firm IHS says managed security vendors are increasingly delivering their security products via the cloud.


And by 2020, most managed security services will be delivered via the cloud, IHS predicts.


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IHS predicts that by 2020, more managed security vendors will deliver their products via the cloud than on-premises. 


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Inside sales companies have raised only $150 million this year and may soon face consolidation

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With seven transactions totaling $ 150 million, including the $ 90 million financing for new unicorn Anaplan, the first two months of 2016 have been quiet on the funding front for inside sales. The future will tell us if it is a reflection of the overall technology slowdown, or if we have reached an investment peak that precedes industry consolidation.


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The $ 30 million funding from NewVoiceMedia is the largest financing from a pure-play Inside Sales Technology. This externally led round was smaller than the last one, which totaled $ 50 million. NewVoiceMedia scored a second big win with the addition of Moni Manor, former Five9 CTO, as chief product officer. With a total $ 140 million raised since inception, NewVoiceMedia has captured the market’s attention. Originally a Contact Center cloud software provider, NewVoiceMedia has expanded into the Inside Sales space by first repackaging its core technology and later by adding gamification capabilities.


Social Engagement received some attention with two small financings. Insightpool sits at the crossroads of Sales and Marketing, mining social networks to find influencers and prospects. Initially targeting the B2B market, it has been expanding its efforts to encompass B2C. Socedo is a pure-play sales company focused on lead generation on Twitter.


Although not an event of the previous month per se, I came to recognize the growing importance of coaching. You can expect it to become a dedicated category in the next iteration of my Inside Sales technology landscape.


Coaching importance grew because many of the inside sales roles are entry positions into the sales profession. It is also a way to address the high learning and growth expectations of younger generations. Inside Sales initial successes were fueled by email communication, which is text-based. As the market matured, companies have rediscovered the importance of engaging in-person with prospects. It hinges on good conversation skills that are best taught by coaching.


It is not a surprise that voice solution vendors have experienced strong customer demand for recording and coaching. RingDNA, for example, made it a central theme of its roadmap, introducing a Coaching module in its latest release. It departs from legacy recording offerings that target compliance by making sales behavior the focal point. We have also seen the emergence of pure-play providers such as ExecVision trying to innovate the market with a mobile application to make coaching on the go easier. Their vision is to make coaching pervasive in the organization by enabling anyone to listen to his/her calls and mark the important moments.


Nicolas De Kouchkovsky is the principal of CaCube Consulting. You can track his 340+ company Inside Sales Landscape on VBProfiles.com.


 







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