Any time a disruptive technology with industrial or productive applications comes into play, the question arises as to whether or not that technology will result in the loss of jobs. This issue has been tackled extensively in the manufacturing sector, but what about retail? Are robots and IoT technologies putting our retail workforce at risk? …
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Control4 Corp. (NASDAQ:CTRL) was upgraded by Zacks Investment Research from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a report issued on Tuesday. The brokerage currently has a $13.00 target price on the stock. Zacks Investment Research’s target price would indicate a potential upside of 16.28% from the company’s current price. According to Zacks, “Control4 …
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BlackBerry company released their lates updated mobile security software called BlackBerry Secure(Photo: BlackBerry/YouTube) As what BlackBerry said that they will stop producing smartphone hardware, and starts focusing on its software, they recently released their upgraded mobile security platform. It was called BlackBerry Secure that manage and secure all the endpoints from Enterprise Of Things. BlackBerry …
Starting this week developers will be able to use the Google Action development platform to build conversation interfaces with the company’s digital assistant technology. When Google announced Assistant, its digital assistant technology earlier this year, CEO Sundar Pichai described it as critical to the company’s effort to enable a more conversation-based and artificial intelligence-centric computing …
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Security researchers discover significant vulnerabilities in two separate lines of surveillance video cameras that could allow them to be hacked or made part of an internet of things botnet, researchers say. Two security researchers working separately are warning consumers and enterprises that network-connected video cameras from different manufacturers may not be secure, after researchers found …
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Google is ready to step up the fight with Amazon’s Alexa, announcing that it’s opening the doors for developers to start bringing their applications and services to its Google Home speaker. These integrations will be done through what the company touts as “conversation actions”, and won’t require the user to enable a certain skill or …
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The complexity inherent in large networks of connected devices brings the contact center front and center in the Internet of Things (IoT) era. By connecting devices, cars, homes, gadgets—just about everything it seems—the Internet of Things (IoT) is already transforming the retail customer experience in meaningful ways. Big retailers are using tiny remote sensors to …
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Can Oracle Buck Its Earnings Trend in Fiscal 2Q17? PART 2 OF 11 By Anne Shields | Dec 9, 2016 4:54 pm EST AWS: the key to Amazon’s cloud scale and presence Oracle (ORCL) has become a competitive player in the billion-dollar cloud space, where Amazon.com (AMZN), with its market share of 30%, still dominates. …
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A detailed look at Ericsson’s annual report analyzing the trending technologies in 2017 with consumer expectations reveals that AI and virtual reality will have a much more prominent role both in society and work. Virtual reality will be indistinguishable from physical reality in the near future while AI will take over offices as managers Transferring …
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A railway station services the campus of Tel Aviv University. Transportation is one the of the many industries expected to be impacted by the “Internet of Things.” [Image: George Dement/Creative Commons] Tel Aviv University (TAU), Israel’s largest research university, has announced the formation of a new technology incubator—with a US$20 million initial investment stake—to focus …