Smartwatches at work: Boon or bane for IT?
It's hard to assess how popular smartwatches will be for business users, or how much of a pain they'll be for IT to support. But don't surprised when they start showing up in the office.
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Google's move into home automation means even less privacy
Plans by smart thermostat maker Nest Labs to share some customer data with corporate parent Google means the search engine giant will be fending off privacy concerns as it expands into home automation.
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Impact of today's hardware and software applications in Cloud-based environments: Part 1
As an industry, we have been looking at cloud-based technologies both from private and public structure and how best to optimize design, engineer and develop such technologies to better optimize the world of wireless and the Internet of Everything.
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Ten years after: HP's primordial Windows XP tablet versus Surface Pro 3
The HP Compaq TC1100 is only 10 years old, but in mobile computing years, it's laughably archaic.
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Nearly 80 per cent of Macs will be able to run OS X Yosemite
OS X Yosemite will run on about eight of every 10 Macs, a boon for customers who want to upgrade this fall, but also another proof point that "good enough" has contributed to the personal computer business's stagnation.
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Boost that battery: Tips and tricks for laptops
All laptops run on batteries and all batteries eventually run out -- especially when you use your device throughout the day. Here are some tips to help keep it going.
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Perspective: The Surface Pro is Microsoft's latest premature introduction problem
Microsoft has become mildly famous -- in hindsight -- for being early, far too early, to important technology products and trend swings. Is history repeating itself with the Surface Pro 3?
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Microsoft's money pit: Surface has lost $1.2bn
Microsoft has lost more than $1.2 billion so far on its Surface tablet business, an expensive experiment that makes tomorrow's revelations of new hardware an important milestone for the "devices" side of its corporate-refashioning strategy.
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Clueless CIOs aside, open source is 'frightening and fantastic'
There's a reason the theme song at this year's Open Business Conference was 'Happy.'
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10 things we want to see in Microsoft's Surface Mini
If Microsoft indeed intends to release a shrunk-down Surface Mini this month, as an invite for a "small" Surface event suggests, merely downsizing the tablet's design to fit an 8-inch frame ain't going to cut it. Sure, the Surface Pro 2 and Surface 2 are beautiful pieces of kit, but they're made for big-screen productivity--the Surface Pro is essentially an Ultrabook without a keyboard. That experience won't translate well to a smaller form factor, better suited for content consumption than content creation.
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IBM pushes Watson's role in healthcare
IBM is pushing for Watson to play a greater role in healthcare analytics, saying that the supercomputer platform can extend medical knowledge globally and help doctors access information and advice faster than ever before.
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Supply chain 2013: New tech tackles unprecedented risks
IT can never take all the risk out of a supply chain, but it can help organizations minimize their vulnerability in a world of new threats.
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Can we talk? Internet of Things vendors face a communications 'mess'
Vendors will tell you that the Internet of Things (IoT) has arrived. We're here to tell you that it hasn't.
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First-to-market means diddly when it comes to smartwatches
The old wisdom that "first-to-market" technology products will win out gets thrown out the window when it comes to smartwatches and some other wearables.
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AI gets its groove back
Thanks to the advent of Big Data, new algorithms and massive, affordable computing power, artificial intelligence is now, finally, on a roll again.
