This month must be “Get Serious Month” for BlackBerry, Cisco, and Microsoft, because two of these firms’ CEOs came out personally very strongly on privacy and the third—Cisco—released a powerful study that points dramatically to the need for privacy protection […]
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Though it slipped beneath some radars during CES 2019, the full implications of a Microsoft announcement reemerged a week later at the National Retail Federation (NRF2019) conference in New York. In the original press release, Microsoft and Kroger announced Retail
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One of the most common questions, or statements really, back in the 1990s was on whether Microsoft was evil. You could see how folks got there because—at the time—Microsoft was heavy handed, Netscape was claiming (accurately) that Microsoft was misacting
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This week Microsoft had an update for their HoloLens technology which, I think, currently has the best shot at defining one of the major evolutionary pivots for personal computers. Right now, it reminds me a lot of the early days
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Quisitive is a relatively young infrastructure company that just went public and plans to aggregate other small regional infrastructure firms using a Cisco-like growth strategy. This isn’t new, but what is unusual is that their stated goal is to become
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We don’t take security seriously enough—particularly with regard to our personal device use. The communications we have with these devices can be work-related, finance-related, medical in nature or legal in nature, and involve people like our kids or parents who
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The tech industry’s brightest spotlights tend to be fickle which is hardly surprising since marketing and self-promotion are often part of the game. But that doesn’t mean that real work and progress aren’t being accomplished on stage. That’s surely true
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Microsoft continued to expand its influence in the world of cloud computing by joining the Cloud Native Computing Foundation as a Platinum member. Microsoft’s participation and collaboration in open source projects is a win-win for Microsoft and Microsoft customers. Microsoft
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Last week Microsoft and Dun & Bradstreet revealed a new strategic partnership of sorts. At the core of the arrangement is the fact that Dun & Bradstreet has selected Microsoft Azure as its cloud platform, and that Dun & Bradstreet
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I’ve been on the road for a week with the new Surface Laptop and I think I fully get what a lot of old Apple users used to see in their Macs. It is kind of cool to be using
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