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• Ford vs. Cisco: Two ways to approach innovation

  16-01-2016 20:13
  
  Last week, I talked about how Apple could likely learn from Ford’s approach to innovation, which favors promoting experimentation and shifts focus from blame for failure to encouraging and rewarding experimentation. This week I attended the opening of Cisco’s new Innovation Center in Toronto [Disclosure: Cisco is a client of the author] and it struck me that the differences between Ford’s Research and Innovation Center in Silicon Valley and Cisco’s efforts were very diffe
  
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• Microsoft will cut some Azure compute prices

  16-01-2016 01:10
  
  Good news for businesses using Microsoft's Azure cloud platform: their infrastructure bills may be shrinking come February.Microsoft announced that it will be permanently reducing the prices for its Dv2 compute instances by up to 17 percent next month, depending on the type of instance and what it's being used for. Users will see the greatest savings if they're running higher performance Linux instances -- up to 17 percent lower prices than they've been paying previously. Windows instance discou
  
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• The U.S. plan for a public-safety network could be a windfall for a big carrier

  16-01-2016 00:23
  
  A public-safety network across the U.S. that could speed up disaster response may also lead to a big payoff for a mobile carrier.
  The FirstNet network, set to go live in some areas next year, is intended to unify a crazy quilt of wireless systems for police, firefighters and emergency medical teams. If all goes as planned, it will ensure the agencies can communicate even during disasters and can reach each other to coordinate efforts.
  FirstNet will bring U.S. first responders into the modern ag
  
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