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4 ways Cognizant customers can protect themselves amid corruption probe

Customer of offshore outsourcing provider Cognizant should be diligent in response to the abrupt departure of the companyu2019s president and revelations of an ongoing corruption probe.

Apple users react to Google’s new Pixel phones

Find out what some of Appleu2019s customers think of Googleu2019s new Pixel Android phones. Is the Pixel really a match for the iPhone?

Why an IT services firm sponsors the New York City Marathon

Typically, major marathons are sponsored by financial services companies not IT services companies. Hereu2019s a look at why TCS decided to sponsor the New York City Marathon and why itu2019s working.

MariaDB reduce admin overhead for DevOps teams

New version of MaxScale software adds support for data streaming, enterprise security and high availability to cut administration overhead for DevOps teams.

Why automation doubles IT outsourcing cost savings

New research analyzes automationu2019s impact on the IT outsourcing market, revealing double-digit productivity improvements and specific cost reductions between 14 percent and 28 percent.

Google rebrands cloud services ‘Google Cloud’ and ‘G Suite’

Google yesterday said a billion people now actively use its public cloud. To celebrate the milestone, the company reorganized its cloud efforts under the name 'Google Cloud' and rebranded Google Apps as 'G Suite.'

LibreOffice celebrates its 6th anniversary with bug fixes and minor improvements

What started as an OpenOffice fork has become a major open source project.

White House to bolster STEM education, close skills gap

Touting new advanced placement course, the Obama administration looks at interdisciplinary approach to improve STEM education for underrepresented students and address shortage of skilled workers.

Container management war heats up with release of Kubernetes 1.4

What Docker Engine has done for containers, Google's Kubernetes is doing for container management.rn

A pre-launch history of Facebook at Work

Facebook is about to release its much-anticipated business collaboration service. Here's a look back at the last 20 months of Facebook at Work's growing pains, partnerships, pilot programs and delays.

BlackBerry (finally) says it’s done making smartphones

This week BlackBerry announced it has produced its last smartphone, though the company plans to partner with other hardware makers and continue to sell BlackBerry-branded phones.

Customers have a love/hate relationship with IT outsourcing providers

HPE, Oracle and IBMu2019s outsourcing customers are much more likely to recommend them, but many other IT service providers underperform in delivering a good customer experience.

Splunk puts machine learning at center of operational intelligence portfolio

Splunk is making machine learning capabilities a core capability of its real-time operational intelligence platforms to help companies use predictive analytics to optimize IT, security and business operations.

MapR helps developers leverage analytics with microservices

New capabilities in MapR Technologies Converged Data Platform help developers and administrators use microservices to integrate operations and analytics.

What is it like to work in an Apple Store?

Find out what Apple employees and former employees think about working in an Apple store.

LinkedIn Learning puts Lynda.com to work

LinkedIn this week integrated Lynda.comu2019s vast training library into its main site. The new LinkedIn Learning service is available to all premium subscribers, and the company says an enterprise-focused version is also on the way.

Learn how to deploy OpenStack for free

The Linux Foundation joins with edX to offer a free OpenStack course.rn

Google Drive gets machine-learning search features

Google's Drive cloud storage service this week got a familiar search feature that has helped defined the Google experience for years.

ISF consulting services seek to strengthen cyber resilience

The Information Security Forum has announced its global ISF Consultancy Services, which offer short-term customized professional support and training to help organizations build cyber resilience and improve their security posture.

Twitter’s live NFL debut a good start, but …

Twitter passed its first big live-football test last Thursday, but the social platform must cultivate more unique value for NFL fans if it hopes to steal them away from traditional TV broadcasts.

SAP makes HANA available on the PC and offline

Seeking to make it simpler for developers to experiment with SAP HANA and prototype and build applications on the platform, SAP announced an express edition that you can use for free on a desktop or laptop as well as a new personal edition of SAP Web

Controversial H-1B bill pulled from House committee

The U.S. House Judiciary Committee has halted its plan to take up an increasingly controversial H-1B bill. It had been set for a committee vote yesterday.

DataRobot aims to help create data science executives

New DataRobot University course is designed to teach executives how to identify opportunities to optimize their business using machine learning.rn

Digital transformation boosts captive offshore center growth

As enterprise demand for digital transformation grows, expect to see more global in-house centers.

SAS adds cognitive computing support

At Analytics Experience in Las Vegas yesterday, SAS unveiled SAS Visual Investigator and SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning for the Viya analytics platform.

Facebook Messenger now supports native payments

Facebook today announced Messenger Platform v1.2, and the company's head of Messenger, David Marcus, says it is committed to making the bot experience even better than traditional app experiences.

Why iPhone 7 might be a better fit for enterprise than consumers

Apple's new iPhone 7 may not have an audio port, but it does pack many improvements that are much more important to business users.

Google’s Apigee buy validates API economy

Googleu2019s $625 million acquisition of the leading API management platform provider validates CIOsu2019 plans to use APIs to build out digital businesses.

HPE deal makes SUSE an enterprise heavyweight

SUSE will become the preferred Linux partner of HPE.

Fed clamps down on for-profit schools

After the Department of Education found ITT Tech wasn't delivering on its promises, the for-profit college chain is the latest forced to close.

Apple updates App Store developer guidelines ahead of iOS 10

The days are numbered for iOS apps that crash instantly upon launch or that use lengthy names to game search results, according to Apple's newly revised set of App Store developer policies.

Hybrid tablets will continue to grow in popularity

After a drop in sales, IDC expects detachable tablets to revitalize the tablet market and outpace PCs and smaller slate tablets by 2020.

Samsung stops Note7 shipments on reports of battery fires

The Galaxy Note7 has received rave reviews, but some early units reportedly have a serious battery flaw. Samsung already stopped shipping the new Note in South Korea.

SAP builds next-gen data warehouse for the cloud

SAP BW/4HANA is a new data warehouse service for the real-time enterprise, designed for both on-premises and cloud deployments.

Commercial drones take off to deliver new data and business models

The FAA today released new regulations for the low-altitude operation of commercial small unmanned aircraft, which has the potential to unlock a wave of new data and business models built on that data.

Teradata Accelerators help put IoT on the fast track

A new set of technology-agnostic software-and-service solutions from Teradata aim to help companies rapidly transform business models and optimize processes using IoT sensor data streams.

LinkedIn ProFinder helps freelancers land jobs

LinkedIn doesn't want to overlook the growing U.S. freelance workforce, so it released a new tool, called ProFinder, that's designed to match independent workers with businesses seeking their services.

Linux Foundation chief reflects on 25 years of open source

Jim Zemlin, the executive director of the Linux Foundation, took the state at LinuxCon this week to address the evolution of the open source OS and look back on its history. rn

Why Vietnam is an attractive IT offshoring destination

Harvey Nashu2019s chief digital officer discusses the benefits and drawbacks of outsourcing IT work in Vietnam.

Why Microsoft open sourced PowerShell and ported it to Linux

You can already test PowerShell in Ubuntu, Debian and CentOSrn

How Adobe uses machine learning to drive marketing success

Adobe's new data science tool, Segment Comparison for Analysis Workspace, leverages machine learning to help marketers uncover the key characteristics of the audience segments driving KPIs.

Laptops most often stolen from most unlikely place

The rise of mobile has led many CIOs to fret about data loss from lost or stolen devices. A new study suggests IT theft in the office should be a primary concern.

Why Google’s new Linux-less Fuchsia operating system is a huge deal

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Cyberbullying continues to drag Twitter down

Hate speech and bullying are major problems for Twitter, and it's time for the company to decide, once and for all, if it's on the side of the abusers or the abused.

Why outsourced call center roles are coming back onshore

A shift in focus from cost containment to customer experience and advanced technology adoption is causing more enterprises to move more contact center roles onshore, according to recent research by the Everest Group

Open source R extension simplifies data science with IBM Watson

Open source R extension is designed to help data scientists access a bevy of Watson services without leaving their native development environment.

Android, iOS bug bounty biz is booming

Hackers who identify and document proven critical software vulnerabilities in Android or iOS stand to cash in big time, thanks to new bug bounty increases from Apple, Google and at least one security firm.

Open vSwitch becomes a Linux Foundation Collaborative project

Hortonworks DataFlow 2.0 focuses on enterprise readiness

Hortonworks updates platform for dataflow management and streaming analytics.

Facebook joins battle to kill ad blockers

Facebook just made a symbolic overture to advertisers by expressing support for the industry in its fight against ad blockers.