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• SAP has designs on new government business

  22-05-2017 23:55
  
  Steve Ballmer's latest hobby, USAfacts.org, cast a spotlight on the effectiveness of local, state and federal governments when it launched in April. Its easy-to-read dashboards allow ordinary citizens to compare government's performance of its core missions with spending at all levels.In a roundabout way, that's made the former Microsoft CEO something of an evangelist for companies like SAP, which has released a new cloud service to help public sector organizations manage their spending.USAfacts
  
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• 25% off Pac-Man Connect and Play With 12 Classic Games - Deal Alert

  22-05-2017 23:05
  
  Bandai's Pac-Man Connect and Play brings back your favorite classic video games right to your television. Connect the included cords directly into your television A/V jacks, and head back in time. Featuring 12 Classic games like: Pac-Man, Pac-Man Plus, Bosconian, Galaxian, Mappy, Super Pac-Man, Galaga, Dig Dug, New Rally X, Pac & Pal and Xevious. Not to mention, Pac-Man 256, which offers fans the chance to play the coveted level once made unavailable due to a bug in the program of the suppos
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How Rackspace flew through turbulence in the private cloud

  22-05-2017 21:00
  
  This year Rackspace won the Red Hat Innovation Award in two categories: the Cloud Infrastructure and the 2017 Red Hat Innovator of the Year. What sets Rackspace apart from its competitors is the fact that it co-founded OpenStack, along with NASA.Being there from day one also means Rackspace has seen both sunny and rainy days.Talking of the sunny days. During the OpenStack Summit (Boston) Jonathan Bryce, the executive director of the OpenStack Foundation, talked about the second generation of clo
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Directing the Technology Orchestra

  22-05-2017 20:00
  
  Writing blogs about emerging technology puts you at risk of becoming enamored with buzzwords. Cloud this, big data that. AI is taking over. So, where does this all lead? Is analytics where I should go? Is there a new bigger buzzword around the corner that overtakes all the others? My belief is that these phenomena are all interwoven and working toward the same enabler: Speed. Frans Johansson of The Medici Group likes to say, “Speed is the new IP.” Speed enables the end goal: a unique
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How Dell’s Project Sputnik came to life

  22-05-2017 19:30
  
  Today when a Linux user goes shopping, they have many options and Dell is at the top. Dell has earned a good reputation within the Linux community for Project Sputnik that works on high-end Linux powered machines.In late 2011, George was part of a team at Dell that was trying to figure out how Dell could better serve web companies. While Dell was already a major player supplying really big customers with custom servers, this group was looking to expand further to web companies of all sizes &mdas
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Creating a global social community for songwriters

  22-05-2017 19:00
  
  If Steve Jobs remains the most famous disruptor of communications and entertainment, that does not mean he is the last or latest revolutionary within the music industry, for example. That title belongs to Songistry (more about below), as it complements the spirit of Jobs’s passion for great — “insanely great” — technology, in addition to his demand for purity of design and simplicity of use. Think of Jobs as the icon he was, and continues to be, by vi
  
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• 60% off AUKEY USB-C to HDMI Adapter, 4k 1080p Support - Deal Alert

  22-05-2017 18:46
  
  Compatible with the new Macbooks, Chromebooks and more, this reversible connector from Aukey is USB-C to HDMI. Mirror or extend your display and experience the lightning fast data transfer speeds that come with this new generation of USB technology. The adapter's typical list price of $39.99 has been reduced 60% down to just $15.99. See this deal on Amazon.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Calculate the Cost of Downtime

  22-05-2017 18:39
  
  T projects, especially infrastructure projects can be challenging to get approved.Discuss the “cost of downtime” so senior management can understand the financial or risk implications, and you will get many more of your projects approved.Senior business managers don’t tend to understand IT, nor do they want to. When you need their approval to fund many of the projects you need to do it is difficult for them to “let go of the money” when they don’t understand w
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Why is Facebook’s iOS app so bloated?

  22-05-2017 18:29
  
  Love it or hate it, Facebook is one of the most popular apps in the iOS App Store. It consistently places in the top ten of the most popular free apps. As I write this post it sits at number 7 on the list, and I doubt it will drop out of the top ten anytime soon.And yet all is not well with the Facebook iOS app. It currently weighs in as a very chunky 388 MB download. The weight of the Facebook app has not gone unnoticed by users. A recent thread in the Apple subreddit noted how bloated the Face
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Ecosystems: when digital transformation grows up

  22-05-2017 18:28
  
  With more companies changing the way they do business in order to adapt to the new digital world, phrases like “digital transformation” are starting to feel too abstract. I’ve been expecting these generalities to give way to more specific advice: practices based on industry leaders’ patterns for success.Gartner’s 2017 CIO Agenda report is a case in point. Its headline? “Seize the Digital Ecosystem Opportunity.”Indeed, ecosystem strategies are emerging as
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: The MP3 is dead: long live the MP3!

  22-05-2017 18:27
  
  The MP3 is now confined to the dustbin of history.That appears to be the perspective of the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits when they announced that they terminated “Technicolor’s mp3 licensing program,” and various online writers have now pontificated about the death of the MP3. The Fraunhofer Institute developed the MP3 format back in the 1980s, and it is certainly true that MP3s have been supplanted by more modern codecs like the AAC family or what most laymen k
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Understanding the benefits and threats when building an IoT strategy

  22-05-2017 18:25
  
  The Internet of Things, or simply IoT as commonly known, has introduces to the market a large range of benefits to consumers, and industries besides the potential to completely change the ways that consumers and technology interact in every fundamental way. In a close future, IoT is very likely to converge both virtual and physical worlds in many different ways that are currently hard to understand. The year of 2017 will mark a great inflection point for the development and adoption of IoT Techn
  
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• BrandPost: Simplified Purchasing for Your Everyday IT Needs

  22-05-2017 17:59
  
  An ordinary day in an IT specialist’s life is anything but consistent. There are fires to put out and data to be saved; a company’s entire infrastructure depends on the IT department’s capability to keep it safe and secured. On top of that, they have to procure products and solutions to further the organization’s IT goals—but there simply are not enough hours in the day to get it all done.That’s why our team at Connection is working around the clock to update
  
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• BrandPost: Broadening the Scope of Software Asset Management to the C-Level Suite

  22-05-2017 17:50
  
  It is often thought that software asset management (SAM) is the constant pursuit of software license compliance. That way of thinking is so 2010! The fact is, software compliance is almost a by-product of an effective SAM implementation. In this same way of thinking, effective SAM can’t be achieved by simply implementing a tool—no matter how costly or sophisticated that tool might be.Gartner recently published a report entitled: Software Asset Management Is Now a C-Level Impetrative
  
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• DNB onderzoekt uitbesteding door verzekeraars

  22-05-2017 15:47
  De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) is een inventariserend onderzoek gestart naar de uitbesteding en de beheersing van het uitbestedingsrisico door verzekeraars. Het onderzoek is onderverdeeld in twee fases: een inventariserend onderzoek bij middelgrote en grote verzekeraars aan de hand van een vragenlijst en een on-site... lees meer
  
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• 47% off Pecham Vertical Stand for PS4 with Cooling Fan and Dual Controller Charging - Deal Alert

  22-05-2017 15:35
  
  Keep your PS4 or PS4 Slim compact, organized and functioning properly with this vertical stand from Pecham. It features an integrated cooling fan, dual controller changing and a USB hub for powering & charging your phone or other devices as needed. Pecham's stand currently averages 4.6 out of 5 stars from over 185 people on Amazon (82% rate the full 5 stars: read reviews here), where its list price of $29.99 has been reduced 47% to just $15.99. See this deal now on Amazon. To read this
  
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• Save 24% on Amazon's Echo Dot By Buying Certified Refurbished Right Now - Deal Alert

  22-05-2017 15:23
  
  Echo Dot is a hands-free, voice-controlled device with a small built-in speaker—it can also connect to your speakers or headphones over Bluetooth or through a 3.5 mm audio cable to deliver stereo sound to the speakers you choose. Dot connects to the Alexa Voice Service to play music, make calls, send and receive messages, provide information, news, sports scores, weather, and more—instantly. Echo Dot can hear you from across the room, even while music is playing. When you want t
  
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• 10 essential productivity tips for road warriors

  22-05-2017 14:46
  
  Today, entrepreneurs and executives are just as likely to be working remotely as they are from a traditional office.  And, as anyone who has traveled for business knows, it’s not always easy to stay connected to colleagues and clients and get work done when you’re on the go. But these suggestions can help you be more productive wherever work takes you.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Why we are going about diversity all wrong

  22-05-2017 13:25
  
  Is diversity good for your business? When answering this question, supporters of diversity point to the growing number of studies that show companies with greater diversity outperform the competition. I see two major reasons why these studies, compelling as they may be, are not moving the needle on diversity.First, these studies show correlation, which is indicative of two phenomena occurring together, but they cannot show causality -- i.e., which is the cause and which is the effect. Take
  
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• Samenwerking voor robotic process automation-oplossingen

  22-05-2017 12:39
  SQS, provider van softwaretests en services voor kwaliteitsbewaking, is een samenwerking aangegaan met Blue Prism, marktleider op het gebied van robotic process automation (RPA).Door de samenwerking wordt de kwaliteitsbewaking van de SQS-adviesdiensten gecombineerd met het RPA-softwareplatform van Blue Prism.... lees meer
  
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• Why you should invest in AI talent now

  22-05-2017 12:25
  
  LAS VEGAS – “Mark Minevich didn’t mince words in his Rise of the Autonomous Enterprise presentation here at Interop last week: “Whoever doesn’t get involved in AI will die and get phased out.” Minevich, a senior advisor to the government’s Council of Competitiveness in Washington D.C., ticked off several examples of companies that have transformed industries by leveraging AI technologies, including Amazon with its personalized recommendations and Tesla.
  
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• Don't worry CIOs: You still control tech spending

  22-05-2017 12:00
  
  CIOs still control the purse strings for most corporate IT, owing to the complexity of broad technology implementations. But other business executives play an ever-larger role in acquiring digital tools, underscoring technology’s growing importance, according to new reports from Forrester Research and CompTIA.To what degree business executives buy technology or influence tech purchases is tough to pin down. What is certain, however, is that it's a natural and necessary shift at a time when
  
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