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Aligning IT with the business has been a top priority of IT organizations for the past few years, but that is changing, according to the latest State Read More
No, really! Amazon has finally released its own smartphone. The Fire Phone, which runs on Amazon's Android-based Fire OS 3.5 and incorporates a Read More
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The more languages it learns, the better it becomes at the ones it learned first, but no one knows why Speech-to-speech translation technology Read More
I like the IBM Edge conference because it tries to showcase how infrastructure can provide a large company with a competitive edge. While the event Read More