Why voice recognition will finally conquer the office

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	INSIDER Why voice recognition will finally conquer the office While spoken input is spreading on mobile devices, it barely has a toehold in the office. But artificial intelligence that operates in the cloud will help drive speech technology beyond smartphones to computers and into other areas of the workplace, say experts. Read More WEBCAST: Cloudera Modernizing Your IT Infrastructure This webinar will speak to businesses expectations of big data, benefits of analytic platforms built on Hadoop, business challenges that led to evaluation of big data technologies, and the framework for success. View Now! In this Issue 5 top tools for BYOD management Kill switch thrown on Internet in Syria Visa creating 800, seemingly well-paying, IT jobs in Austin Microsoft joins malware, ad teams to fight click fraud Facebook loosens ties with Zynga System vulnerability at Conn. state university may have exposed student data Lenovo's ThinkPad Tablet 2 again delayed Amazon launches workflow orchestration service Sprint to charge Nextel net users an extra $10 a month Google exec rips Facebook as social net of the past Richi Jennings: Microsoft Surface Pro release date confirmed WEBCAST: T-Systems Charting a Course for Realizing Business Value in the Cloud Cloud is not simply about delivering IT services. Rather it is about vesting the organization with the agility it must have to respond to challenges and opportunities at the speed of business. View this on-demand webcast to learn how to blaze your own pathway to enterprise applications in the cloud. Learn more. 5 top tools for BYOD management SOTI MobiControl and SAP Afaria lead the way in a five-vendor test of MDM tools Read More Kill switch thrown on Internet in Syria Internet and mobile communications were shut down Thursday in war-torn Syria. Read More Visa creating 800, seemingly well-paying, IT jobs in Austin Credit card issuer Visa USA plans to create a global IT center in Austin, Texas, and hire about 800 workers to run it. Read More Microsoft joins malware, ad teams to fight click fraud Microsoft is combining malicious software analysts with online advertising fraud experts in an effort to disrupt click fraud, a scam where advertisers pay for worthless clicks. Read More Facebook loosens ties with Zynga Facebook and Zynga have loosened their ties in an amended agreement that does away with most of Facebook's exclusive rights to Zynga games, but also permits Facebook to develop its own games from March next year. Read More WEBCAST: IBM How to Take Business Analytics to the Next Level By viewing this webcast you will learn how you can implement an effective BA strategy that will deliver maximum strategic value to your company. View Now System vulnerability at Conn. state university may have exposed student data Western Connecticut State University said a vulnerability in its computer system present for more than three years may have exposed the data of 233,880 students and other people affiliated with the institution. Read More Lenovo's ThinkPad Tablet 2 again delayed Lenovo has delayed shipment of the highly anticipated ThinkPad Tablet 2, which will now become available to buyers in December. Read More Amazon launches workflow orchestration service Users of Amazon Web Services will soon be able to orchestrate workflows across different AWS services and their own internal resources, using a new orchestration engine called the AWS Data Pipeline. Read More Sprint to charge Nextel net users an extra $10 a month Showing that it's serious about quickly phasing out its venerable iDEN network and traditional push-to-talk service, Sprint Nextel now plans to charge all subscribers on that system an extra $10 per month beginning Jan. 1. Read More Google exec rips Facebook as social net of the past In an interview this week, a Google executive called rival Facebook an outdated social network that is annoying the heck out of users with its ads. Read More Richi Jennings: Microsoft Surface Pro release date confirmed The Surface Pro release date has been confirmed by Microsoft. We now also have more details about the pricing, battery life, and other features. Unsurprisingly, it doesn't change the laws of physics, despite how much some would like it to. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers look forward to the next step to IT consumerization. Read More
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