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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella can brag to Bill Gates that the company’s stock price has never been higher during Microsoft’s 32-year history as a public company than it is now. And Microsoft’s market value just passed rival Google’s too. [1] [1] By Paul La Monica on CNN Money
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Microsoft has dropped a 40-foot long data-center pod onto the seafloor off the coast from the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney, north of Scotland. That’s a fairly remote location, but Microsoft’s thinking behind phase two of its data-center-in-the-sea research, Project Natick, is to bring its cloud servers closer to where people live. [1] [1] By Liam Tung on ZDNet
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Change comes hard. And sometimes, it’s slow. Until recently, no industry played closer to that model more than that of the automobile. Ever since the first series-produced cars of the 1900s placed the big internal combustion lump of iron at the front, the drive wheels at the back, and the passengers in the middle, the form factor of the automobile has stayed largely the same for 100 years. [1] [1] By Jim Resnick on ARS
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IT leaders are meant to be helping their organisations embrace digital transformation. Yet too many businesses feel the threat of disruption is leaving their company at a disadvantage — and some CIOs are beginning to feel their influence over technology is diminishing. [1] [1] By Mark Samuels on ZDNet
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It’s becoming increasingly clear that Facebook’s casual treatment of private consumer data exposed during the Cambridge Analytica scandal was the norm, not the exception. [1] [1] By Karl Bode on Motherboard
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Welcome to our second E-zine of 2018. By the time you read this, GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) will be well and truly in effect in the 28 countries of the EU, with far reaching implications for most companies with a presence on the Internet. We have had a number of clients enquire what GDPR will mean to consumers and businesses, so hopefully this sheds more light on the subject!
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This week at its Build developers conference, Microsoft announced some significant additions to its mobile offerings. An update to the Microsoft Launcher app for Android will allow enterprise customers to access line of business applications directly from a custom home page on an Android-powered mobile phone. The new features are provisioned by Microsoft Intune. [1] [1] By Ed Bott on ZDNet
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It’s easy in retrospect to say you would grab the leader who drove the creation of the iPhone, iPad and so many other things that built Apple into the most valuable company in the world. [1] [1] By Kenneth Roman on Medium
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Despite protests from employees, Google is still charging ahead with a Department of Defense collaboration to produce machine-learning software for drones. Google hasn’t listened to a contingent of its employees that is unhappy with Google’s involvement in the military-industrial complex, and now a report from Gizmodo says “about a dozen” employees have resigned over the issue. [1] [1] By Ron Amadeo on ARS
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When it comes to smartphones, is the whole greater than the sum of its parts? Apple thinks so. But on Tuesday, in a patent suit with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake, the company’s lawyers faced off against a Samsung legal team that thinks different. [1] [1] By Stephan Shankland on CNet
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When it comes to smartphones, is the whole greater than the sum of its parts? Apple thinks so. But on Tuesday, in a patent suit with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake, the company's lawyers faced off against a Samsung legal team that thinks different. [1] [1] By Stephan Shankland on CNet Read More
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