Monthly Archives: October 2017
Microsoft Ventures Launches AI Startup Competition
Microsoft Ventures, the software giant's venture fund for early-stage startups, is looking for four artificial intelligence (AI) startups across North America, Europe and Israel...
New Box Skills Uses AI to Extract Key Image, Audio, Video Content
SAN FRANCISCO—Looking to give enterprises and other organizations better access to relatively underutilized content, Box has announced Box Skills.The initial release of Box Skills...
Microsoft Previews PowerShell’s Cross-Platform Future at SpiceWorld
At the SpiceWorld conference here in Austin, Texas, Spiceworks' annual gathering of IT professionals, Microsoft technical fellow Jeffrey Snover a spent a couple sessions...
WD May Have Given HDDs New Life for Big-Data Storage
If you thought hard disk drives are going the way of the dinosaur, think again.WD, the storage media maker formerly known as Western Digital,...
YouTube Channel Shut Down Over Russian-Sponsored Election Propaganda
Google has reportedly shut down a YouTube channel run by two video bloggers over concerns that it was used in a Russian disinformation campaign...
Docker Raising New Funding as Container Competition Grows
Container vendor Docker Inc. is in the process of raising a $75 million round of funding, as the company aims to grow its business...
Google Finds Russia-Backed Entities Placed Ads on YouTube, Gmail
Today’s topics include Russia-backed presidential election ads identified on YouTube and Gmail; FCC’s approval of Google’s Project Loon to help hurricane-devastated Puerto Rico; Microsoft’s...
Workday Announces Self-Service Analytics and Data as a Service
CHICAGO—Cloud ERP vendor Workday used the opening day of the Workday Rising customer conference here Oct. 10 to announce availability of its Workday Prism...
How to Overcome Limitations of Conventional Discovery in the Cloud
How to Overcome Limitations of Conventional Discovery in the Cloud
Following a few years of fits and starts, enterprise use of the cloud is growing...
Spiceworks State of IT Report Predicts Strong Hiring, Budgets in 2018
Spiceworks State of IT Report Predicts Strong Hiring, Budgets in 2018
By nearly all measure, the IT industry is poised for strong growth 2018. That’s...