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• IDG Contributor Network: Why CIO's need to worry about Chennai

  05-12-2015 13:23
  
  I come from the beautiful city of Chennai in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu.Many of you would have heard of the natural disaster that has shut down the city of Chennai this past week – besides being my hometown, it is also a leading hub of offshore IT services where global firms in America and elsewhere have extended teams providing development and infrastructure support. Given my unique perspective on the situation as a long-time technology professional with deep connections to the
  
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• Mozilla scraps in-Firefox ads

  05-12-2015 13:19
  
  Mozilla on Friday said it would chuck its plan to advertise within Firefox, explaining that the money-making strategy "isn't the right business for us at this time."
  The turn-about suspends, if not ends, a two-year project to expand the open-source browser's revenue stream beyond the one it has relied on for years: contracts with search providers.
  "We have ... made the decision to stop advertising in Firefox through the Tiles experiment in order to focus on content discovery," wrote Darren Herm
  
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• Researchers creating assistant that whispers directions in your ear

  05-12-2015 01:56
  
  Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are working on artificial intelligence software that could one day act like a personal assistant, whispering directions to get to a restaurant, put together a book shelf or repair a manufacturing machine.
  The software is named Gabriel, after the angel that serves as God's messenger, and is designed to be used in a wearable vision system – something similar to Google Glass or another head-mounted system. Tapping into information held in the cloud,
  
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• Net neutrality fans and broadband backers clash in court

  05-12-2015 00:45
  
  Both sides in the fight over net neutrality said they're confident they'll win over a federal appeals court that's hearing legal challenges to the FCC's actions on the hotly contested issue.Lawyers gave oral arguments in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington on Friday and faced questions from judges in a case that could reshape the way the government treats both the wired and mobile broadband industries. Broadband service providers such as AT&T are suing to stop the Federal Communicat
  
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• Amazon brings Microsoft users into AWS with Active Directory service

  05-12-2015 00:18
  
  Amazon has launched an AWS Directory Service for Active Directory, a fully-managed implementation of Microsoft's authentication and user management service.Using Active Directory in Amazon's cloud will enable companies to bring applications including SQL Server, SharePoint and custom applications built with .NET onto AWS. That's useful for businesses trying to move into the cloud from an on-premises deployment of Microsoft's software. When companies start using the service, it creates a pai
  
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