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It’s become largely accepted by most industry watchers that the Number 1 and 2 players in the cloud are Amazon and Microsoft.Both offer infrastructure as a service and platform as a service. Both share many higher-level services in common. Given that landscape, what does Azure do better than Amazon’s AWS? That question was put to
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The constant evolution in the technology sector can be highly rewarding for investors if they select the right industry with the greatest growth potential. However, the selection process can be unnerving given the sector’s wide diversity and high risk profile. Per Deloitte, “Technology is the backbone of the digital economy. The rate of change and
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Custom home automation and control supplier Crestron is the latest company to incorporate Amazon’s Alexa smart voice assistant into its products. Crestron-certified installers will be able to build voice-controlled scenes and settings that are fully customized to their clients’ needs, the company said. The company said integration will not be limited to basic functions such
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Intel headquarters in Santa Clara, California. iStock Demand for PCs has been stagnant at best, but Intel thinks a turnaround is on the horizon. What’s Hot on ZDNet The chipmaker on Friday raised its third quarter revenue outlook, saying the increase was “primarily driven by replenishment of PC supply chain inventory.” Intel says it’s also
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Tripcon is a travel metasearch company built to emphasize natural-language queries on mobile devices as the main way consumers access hotel, flights, destination, and activities information. Type “I want to stay close to the Tokyo Tower” or “Hotel with a hot spring near Izu”, and the site will try to fetch relevant trip-planning information. Founded
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Without realizing it, I joined the open source movement in 1999 during the midst of the Kosovo refugee crisis. I was part of a team helping route aid supplies to local humanitarian organizations running transit camps across Albania. These are the camps that refugees often arrived at first before being moved to larger, more formal
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A lot has happened during the past 20 years, particularly in the communications arena. The Internet was in its early stages, but many people still valued the regular-mail delivery of America Online (AOL) CD-ROMs even more—the movie You’ve Got Mail would not be released for another two years, around the same time that the first
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Internet of Things Posted on September 15, 2016 The Internet of Things (IoT) has its sights set on changing the health care industry as we know it. Figures from PricewaterhouseCoopers estimate that the connected health care market could grow to $61 billion by 2020 — that’s a growth rate of 33 percent annually from current
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Apple’s virtual assistant Siri is about to be the most well-fed data science algorithm on the planet. Over the past year, Siri hasn’t looked good compared to her peers in the bot world — Facebook and Amazon have opened up their bot platforms to developers, while Siri has continued to be handcuffed to a handful of
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