Tag: software

April 25, 2017

The moment Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff was dreading has arrived: Microsoft is wielding LinkedIn against Salesforce in the battle for the CRM market. Starting Tuesday, salespeople will get LinkedIn Sales Navigator data alongside other information in the Dynamics 365 Sales […]

April 24, 2017

Microsoft yesterday announced it will target March and September as the launch months for all upcoming Windows 10 feature upgrades, a return to regularity that has been demanded by enterprise customers. “We’ve … heard our customers want more predictability and […]

April 7, 2017

More than a year after introducing a virtual assistant in its Messenger app, Facebook is launching M to the masses. While it was originally conceived as a bot that users would chat with, M now only offers a set of […]

March 30, 2017

Microservices have a big future in digital government. Digital government services have been primarily built using a custom approach. This can produce enormous code bases that must be maintained. The complexity of custom code can make it difficult to reuse […]

March 29, 2017

For the past few years, analysts, politicians, and other thinkers have fretted about the potential impact of a “robot revolution” which could see AI drive humans out of the workforce. The LA Times recently reported that robots could take over […]

March 27, 2017

As the digital enterprise struggles to find the best security solutions to defend their ever-expanding networks, many are looking to next generation tools that offer interoperability capabilities. Software defined networking (SDN) holds lots of promises. By consolidating the control planes […]

March 24, 2017

Intel is deepening its investments in artificial intelligence and scaling up its research efforts around AI, announcing on Thursday a new Artificial Intelligence Products Group. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company’s AI organization will align resources including engineering, labs, software and […]

March 22, 2017

Artificial intelligence and machine learning already make a huge impact on the way we watch movies and television, shop, and travel, but how will these new technology advancements affect you as a sourcing or recruiting professional? It all comes down […]

March 15, 2017

After being in beta since November, Microsoft Teams is now available to anyone with a suitable Office 365 subscription. Teams is a group messaging application organized around chatrooms. Slack has become the darling of media and software development types, with […]

March 14, 2017

Systems software vendor CA will pay $45 million to resolve allegations of overcharging the General Services Administration for software licenses and maintenance. The settlement, announced by the Justice Department on March 10, resolves allegations that CA misrepresented its commercial pricing […]

March 13, 2017

A day after it was revealed through WikiLeaks that the CIA has allegedly explored hacking vehicle computer-control systems, including BlackBerry’s QNX OS, the company said its software is safe. “We are not currently aware of any attacks or exploits against […]

February 22, 2017

Microsoft this month reaffirmed that it will issue two Windows 10 upgrades this year, twice the number of 2016 but still shy of the firm’s original target. In a presentation 11 days ago at a Microsoft technical conference held in […]

February 22, 2017

Machine learning can automate the handling of huge troves of data to help companies make and save money. However, they’re not without pitfalls, as the real estate tech company Redfin learned. As Redfin began building its own machine-learning capabilities, it […]

February 21, 2017

The time has never been better for startups to access well-tested, feature-rich, affordable project management product previously offered only to larger companies. Here are just some of web-based options that a startup can license to manage its activities right out […]

January 30, 2017

Four years after the introduction of Office 365 for consumers, Microsoft last week said subscriptions to the productivity software had reached nearly 25 million. Subscribers, however, were harder to find last year than in 2015, according to the numbers Microsoft […]

January 30, 2017

When Department of Defense CIO Terry Halvorsen spoke at a late-2016 AFCEA NOVA event, he honed in on a single word: “faster.” “How do we move faster?” he asked. “How do we partner faster? How do we collaborate faster?” The […]

January 26, 2017

Although Cisco’s blockbuster $3.7 billion acquisition of AppDynamics has partners cheering, many questions remained about the networking giant’s implementation, sales and go-to-market strategy. Many of these questioned were answered during a conference call on Tuesday with the media and analysts […]

January 25, 2017

Microsoft gave users and administrators of OneDrive for Business some new features on Tuesday that they’ve requested for a while. The company also launched a new Mac client for its business-focused cloud storage service that can be deployed outside the […]

January 19, 2017

Slack, the popular work chat app, has launched one of the features that users have been clamoring for over its entire lifetime: threaded messages. On Wednesday, the company began the process of rolling out the update to all of its […]

January 17, 2017

Facebook plans to deploy a tool to deal with fake news in Germany in the coming weeks, after announcing tests of the tool last month. The move comes after reports that some German politicians wanted to impose fines of thousands […]