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Ubiq Daily – Tuesday September 20th,2016

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From the CIO

Martha Heller, author of Be the Business: CIOs in the New Era of IT, says that IT must be viewed alongside accounting and human resources as a foundation of the enterprise.
How much longer will cloud and on-premise installations continue to coexist? Oracle’s Larry Ellison predicts one decade.
Clint Boulton of CIO.com recounts how Oshkosh Corp, a maker of military vehicles and fire trucks, used ServiceNow to unify its 15 different organizations.

Technology News

With Salesforce and Oracle announcing A.I. features two days apart, 2016 will be remembered as the year that A.I. came into its own for mainstream businesses, writes Quentin Hardy of the New York Times.
U.S. vice president Joe Biden says that better data and computing could be the key to curing cancer.
When they were first introduced in 1999, SD cards could only hold a few megabytes. Yesterday SanDisk unveiled an SD card that holds 1TB.

Ubiq Daily – Thursday, September 15, 2016

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Rob Harding, CIO of Capital One, discusses promoting agile development methodologies with Computer Weekly.
Philips and Qualcomm are teaming up to build an Internet of Things health care ecosystem that could trim billions off rising health care costs, reports John Markman of Forbes.
“Even with the high rate of predicted growth, a large number of organizations still have no current plans to use cloud services,” says Gartner research director Sid Nag.

Technology News

Earlier this year, Microsoft claimed that Edge is the most energy-efficient web browser currently available. Today they’ve released the numbers to prove it.
In light of Sapphire Ventures new $1 billion start-up fund (not to mention Technology Crossover Ventures $2.5 billion fund and Andreessen Horowitz’s $1.5 billion fund), it’s probably safe to say that fears about a downturn in the venture capital industry are misplaced.
For those who aren’t too embarrassed to be seen with them in public, Apple’s new AirPods are a godsend, writes Geoffrey A. Fowler of The Wall Street Journal.
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Ubiq Daily – Tuesday September 6th,2016

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When the Snowden documents leaked in 2013, many predicted a bleak future for American cloud vendors in Europe. According to CIO.com, these predictions have been horribly off-base: Amazon Web Services pulled in $11 billion in 2016, and AWS, Microsoft, Alphabet’s Google, and IBM all increased their market share by a third.
Millennials are beginning to take on management positions, and they are having a hard time winning over their older subordinates: 45% of baby boomer and Gen-X employees think their millennial managers have a negative impact on company culture.
Motivational speaker Tony Robbins discusses the importance of body language during business meetings and why not looking at your cell phone is the first step to not wasting everyone’s time.

Technology News 

Bernard Marr of Forbes reports on Food Cloud’s efforts to reduce food waste through Big Data and crowd sourcing.
Delta isn’t the only airline that’s been forced to ground all of its flights as a result of a computer glitch: British Airways just experienced a similar IT meltdown.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the IT drought could be over in the U.S.: 205,000 new IT workers were hired in August.

Ubiq Daily – Thursday September 1st, 2016

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Scott Spradley, CIO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, discusses how he managed to spearhead two major asset splits within the span of just 12 months.
Pictures and videos of cute cats are arguably the two biggest obstacles to worker productivity. Here’s how to counteract them.
For those living in cramped 1 bedroom apartments, building a home office can feel a lot like playing a game of Tetris. To free up space, Inc.com recommends putting your office in your hallway.

Technology News

Hackers obtained 68 million user names and passwords from Dropbox in 2012. It took Dropbox 4 years to notice.
A study conducted by the University of Surrey reveals that 40-50% of IT in the U.K. is effectively out of date.
The collapse of WrkRiot (formerly 1For.One and JobSonic) has riveted Silicon Valley all week. Katie Benner of the New York Times investigates how it all went wrong.