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• 69% off WowWee Lumi Gaming Drone - Deal Alert

  08-06-2017 23:05
  
  The Lumi Quadcopter from WowWee averages 3.6 stars out of 5 on Amazon, which isn't earth-shattering, but at its currently discounted price you're sure to get your money's worth. EZ flight technology allows for instant drone stabilization, and for awesome aerial tricks with very little effort. But this Quadcopter also features a "Follow-Me" mode, where Lumi follows its pilot's every move. So where you go, Lumi follows. You can also program Lumi to perform custom choreographies to the be
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Why chatbots may be the glue that holds IoT together

  08-06-2017 20:55
  
  As smart as today’s conversational interfaces appear to be, when Alexa can’t distinguish what the word “it” refers to in a sentence, how valuable is she really?Chatbots should be more than a party trick; and at this stage, many of their use cases leave much to be desired. But repairing their conversational shortcomings could create value where we never thought possible, and potentially be the engine that drives the IoT landscape forward.The Key to Conversation: Context
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• IDG Contributor Network: Data Center Automation and the Software-Defined Database

  08-06-2017 20:43
  
  If you take a step back for a moment and think about airplane flight, it turns out that something rather extraordinary is happening. Most of the time the plane is being flown by an autopilot and the pilot is actually kind of a “meta pilot” - a minder that watches to ensure that the autopilot is not doing anything dumb. And every year, millions of us entrust our lives to this system - we’re not only okay with it, we’re in fact impressed that an auto-pilot can do that stuff
  
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• USDA-RMA CIO: For digital transformation to succeed, remove fear

  08-06-2017 20:18
  
  In the 1930s, a combination of severe drought, over-plowing, wind erosion and unsustainable farming methods led to the massive dust storms—known as "black blizzards" or "dusters"—that defined the Dust Bowl. Congress authorized the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) as part of President Roosevelt’s New Deal to help sustain the agricultural sector by providing farmers with crop insurance.Today, the FCIC is maintained under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Agriculture
  
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• Your guide to top tech conferences 2017

  08-06-2017 20:07
  
  IBM InterConnect, Code/Media, SXSW, Google Next, Microsoft WPC, Dreamforce '17, Adobe Summit...international conferences you may have only dreamed of attending! So many technology conferences, so little time (or money).Maybe you're looking to stay on top of emerging trends in your industry, or get a read on what your customers are excited about. Perhaps you're actively networking for customers, vendors or even a new job. Or you might simply be looking to mingle with your peers in more informal s
  
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• Linium Supports The Home Depot Foundation in Building New Homes for Veterans

  08-06-2017 19:47
  
  Linium, a world-class provider of business services that empower the entire enterprise, was proud to join The Home Depot Foundation to build new homes for U.S. military veterans and their families, part of an effort that also helped to raise $2.65 million to provide additional support in the future.
  
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• 10 screen-sharing apps offer easy collaboration

  08-06-2017 19:20
  
  10 collaboration apps worth a lookImage by ThinkstockThere’s no shortage of collaboration tools that let you screen-share with your colleagues, clients and customers, but it’s easy to get bogged down by all the specs and price points. Finding the right collaboration tool to fit your needs requires a little research into features, security, pricing models and reliability.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• BrandPost: Data Leverage: How CIOs Are Leading Cultural Change

  08-06-2017 16:51
  
  After years of business process transformation and the ongoing transition to cloud and mobility platforms, strategic CIOs are now working to transform entire business models and operations to help their organizations compete in digitally disrupted markets.Data as trusted currency is the new norm, but data-driven digital transformation involves far more than just data—it also requires a shift in the organization’s collective mindset. Unlike past resets where CIOs took their cues from
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Why Google might lose the enterprise AI wars

  08-06-2017 16:25
  
  “Google has never understood enterprise,” asserts Chris Nicholson, CEO of Skymind. By contrast, Nicholson gets how businesses think. His company builds Deeplearning4j, the leading open-source enterprise-ready library for deep learning. “You can do anything you want in consumer, because people aren’t paying. In enterprise, your customers hand you eight figure checks and expect top-notch professional service along with golf games and steak dinners.”The three current l
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How to Launch a Successful Video Product Review Campaign

  08-06-2017 16:18
  
  Video content is powerful. From a marketing perspective, user-generated content is even more powerful. But if you’ve never run a user-generated video review campaign in the past, trying to start one from scratch can be a little intimidating. Thankfully, it doesn’t have to be difficult.The Power of Video Product ReviewsThe power of video as a content medium is undeniable. All you have to do is take a look at some of the different data points and statistics curated by HubSpot:To read t
  
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• ‘Cybercrime-as-a-Service’-infrastructuur grijpt om zich heen

  08-06-2017 16:01
  Ofschoon prominente cyberaanvallen de media domineren, hebben de meeste bedreigingen waarmee organisaties te maken krijgen een opportunistisch karakter. Cybercriminelen hebben daartoe een uitgebreide cybercrime-as-a-service-infrastructuur tot hun beschikking. Daarop wijst cybersecurity-bedrijf Fortinet in zijn Threat... lees meer
  
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• 60% off KANGORA 300 Lumens LED Tactical Mini Handheld Flashlights, Pack of 5 - Deal Alert

  08-06-2017 15:54
  
  This mini LED Tactical Flashlight comes with a upscale box that can send as a gift and is powered by a single 3.7V AA battery or a 14500 Rechargeable (not included). Heavy duty, compact and tough as nails makes the KANGORA tactical torch perfect for hunting, camping or your next search and rescue mission. Its 300 Lumens LED produces an intense beam of light up to 600 feet. Right now the list price of $39.99 on this set of 5 flashlights is reduced 60% to just $15.95. See it on Amazon.To read this
  
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• 25% off SanDisk Ultra 256GB MicroSDXC UHS-I Card with Adapter - Deal Alert

  08-06-2017 15:43
  
  Capture life at its fullest with the breakthrough capacity of this 256GB microSD card from SanDisk. 256GB means that you never have to worry about what to delete. It’s enough capacity to hold up to 24 hours of Full HD video. You can transfer up to 1,200 photos a minute when you’re ready to archive. Built to perform in harsh conditions, SanDisk Ultra microSDXC UHS-I Cards are waterproof, temperature-proof, shockproof, and X-ray proof. The 256GB microSD card is rated Class 10 for Full
  
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• BrandPost: Six Ways to Advance Your GBS Maturity

  08-06-2017 15:34
  
  There are many benefits for service-delivery organizations that embrace global business services (GBS), a next-generation operational and organizational model for enterprises to deliver business processes such as HR, finance, IT, and customer care to internal and external customers, using outsourcing, shared services and, increasingly, cloud solutions.Those that climb the ladder toward greater GBS maturity can achieve benefits that range from low-hanging-fruit efficiencies to transactional and a
  
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• Kruip in de huid van een investeerder

  08-06-2017 14:50
  Door Vanessa Carels van de Vliet – Medewerkers laten meedenken over hoe nieuwe technologie de werkom­geving kan verbeteren, dat was het doel van een grootschalige challenge, georganiseerd door IBM.Cognitive Build werd een nieuwe benchmark voor enerzijds het werkelijk be­trekken van medewerkers bij de... lees meer
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: The New York Times is winning at digital

  08-06-2017 14:00
  
  Most of today’s media “success stories” are about digitally “native” companies like Google and Facebook. Meanwhile, many of the great brands of the pre-digital era seem to be struggling for mere survival in the face of digital disruption. And it’s hard to think of a media segment more threatened by digital than newspapers.  As advertisers have shifted more of their budget to web and mobile,  almost 70% of all newspaper advertising dollars have evapor
  
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• Applicatie-rationalisatie blijft heet hangijzer

  08-06-2017 13:09
  Door Erik Beulen – Applicatie-rationalisatie is al decennia een hoofdpijndossier voor menig chief information officer. Veel organisaties hebben ook anno 2017 nog steeds te veel applicaties. Een survey onder Nederlandse CIO’s en hun ondergeschikten geeft inzicht in de achtergronden en strategieën voor... lees meer
  
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• How CIOs can help close the gender-equity gap

  08-06-2017 12:05
  
  The gender pay gap is as wide as ever. Women remain severely underrepresented and underpaid in the global workforce, earning, on average, $100 for every $140 a man earns. But we can help change this. Digital technologies may be what ultimately helps women get into work, advance and close the gender pay gap.At Accenture, we conducted global research – Getting to Equal 2017 – which examines the challenges and opportunities in helping close the gender pay gap. We found that women gradua
  
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• 3 keys to keep your data lake from becoming a data swamp

  08-06-2017 12:00
  
  For years, buoyed by technologies like Apache Hadoop, organizations have been seeking to build data lakes — enterprise-wide data management platforms that allow them to store all of their data in their native format. Data lakes promise to break down information silos by providing a single data repository the entire organization can use for everything from business analytics to data mining. Raw and ungoverned, data lakes have been pitched as a big data catch-all and cure-all.But Avi Perez,
  
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• BrandPost: Moving Toward Real-time Analytics

  08-06-2017 05:03
  
  Moving Toward Real-time AnalyticsIn the years since the rise of big data and analytics (Apache™ Hadoop® and associated distributed data systems), we’ve seen a tremendous amount of innovation from teams looking to overcome either use-case specific, industry-specific, or even infrastructure-specific data pipeline challenges. At some point enough people begin innovating and creating similar designs, sharing their solutions at conferences or in online forums, and best practices form
  
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