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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Ubiq Daily – Tuesday August 30th,2016

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Martyn Croft, CIO of the Salvation Army, explains why he’s embraced thin clients, e-learning, and BYOD, but not big data.
The average tech worker makes $96,370 per year; tech workers with skills in Spark, Azure, JIRA make over 20% more, CIO.com reports.
With just one slip up, your meeting room can instantly transform from an impenetrable Area 51-like fortress to the set of a television show that only your rivals watch. Here are some tips to make sure that doesn’t happen.

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The European Commission has determined that Apple must pay a fine of $14.5 billion for receiving illegal tax benefits in Ireland. Tim Cook has written a sternly worded letter in response.
The New York Times explores why Palo Alto, a town with no shortage of tech-savvy residents, has such lousy cell phone reception.
Buckle your seat belts, laptops are about to get a whole lot faster.

Ubiq Daily – Thursday August 25th,2016

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Following the debut of Allo and Duo, Google is now re-branding Hangouts for enterprise in an attempt to reduce its arsenal of consumer-based messaging apps from 8 to 7.
The state of your conference room says a lot about the state of your company. Here are 5 things your conference room should have in order to create the best possible impression.
Some Silicon Valley start-ups are migrating to Arizona to avoid San Fransisco real estate prices, but according to Entrepreneur.com, these companies aren’t going far enough: relocating to Asia is the best strategy to reduce costs.

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In his new book Blockchain Revolution, Wikinomics writer Don Tapscott predicts that blockchain will have the same impact on government, the financial services industry, and the Internet of Things as wikis had on collaboration. “Once again, the technological genie has been unleashed from its bottle,” he writes. 
Apple’s recent $200 million acquisition of Seattle-based artificial intelligence start-up Turi is good news for Apple and Turi, bad news for everyone else, writes Vinod Iyengar of Tech Crunch.
For those who have trouble prying themselves away from their screens and suffer from insomnia as a result, you’re in luck: Scientists have discovered that going outside during the day counteracts the effect of starring at a blue light at night.

Ubiq Daily – Wednesday August 17th,2016

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The average professional wastes 31 hours a month in unproductive meetings. David Humphreys offers 5 ways to reduce that figure.
Groupthink has been responsible for some of the biggest U.S. foreign policy blunders of all time. Could it also be an issue at your workplace?
On the importance of authenticity in IT leadership: “If your employees don’t feel that you’re authentic in what you say and how you act, you run the risk of losing great talent and jeopardizing your company’s long term future,” Lissa Minkin of Addepar tells CIO.com.

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With all of the recent advancements in A.I. and genome editing, now is the time to seriously start weighing the pros & cons of being a cyborg, says futurist Gerd Leonard.
The idea that apps will one day be replaced by bots is starting to gain mainstream acceptance. Don’t be so sure of it, says Kik founder Ted Livingston.
Google revealed the new security features of the Android Nougat 7.0 today during an hour-long Hangout with media and select IT professionals. New features include an “always-on” VPN, a “work security challenge” which allows IT to lock restriction for specific apps, and a ”work mode” which allows users to disable all work-related apps after business hours.

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Ubiq Daily – Wednesday August 3rd, 2016

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From the CIO

Gary Steen, CIO of TalkTalk, discusses the procedures his team implemented following a cyber attack that exposed the personal information of hundreds of thousands of customers.
Jan Willem-Brands of Barco extolls the virtues of the wireless conference room. “Meeting room technology needs to be upgraded and brought into the BYOD era,” he writes.
Want to increase productivity without spending money? R.L. Adams of Forbes argues that exercising self-restraint when it comes to browsing social media and playing mobile games is a much better strategy than purchasing a faster computer or tablet.

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Is your business based in the United States? If so, there’s a 50% chance that you’ve been the victim of ransomware, a new study indicates.
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According to the New York Times, China is no longer following in Silicon Valley’s footsteps when it comes to mobile technology, but rather—thanks to apps like WeChat and Alipay—leading the charge .
Has your conference room devolved into an epicentre of boredom, frustration, and dread? Don’t worry: UBIQ has 5 quick tips to help you turn the situation around.

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Ubiq Daily – Tuesday August 2nd, 2016

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From the CIO
Oliver Bussmann of UBS and Level39 argues that the days of lone geniuses locking themselves away in rooms and inventing game-changing technology single-handedly are over. The future of innovation will be collaborative.
Liv Fiksdahl, CIO of Norway’s largest bank, discusses how outsourcing the equivalent of 500 full-time IT positions to India helped her reduce costs by nearly 60%.
Marty Miner, CIO of Leidos, reflects on the lessons he learned after inheriting an IT organization that was on the brink of disaster. “No one division in IT was responsible for ensuring IT operations and business continuity, and all the divisions were doing some type of development,” he recalls.

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Why do the children featured in this viral video assume that print magazines are broken iPads? Jonathan Margolis of the Financial Times discusses how technology is changing the way our brains are wired.
If you’re looking to stay up-to-date with emerging trends, expand your network, and redeem some of your soon-to-expire AirMiles (just five months until all of your pre-2012 miles vanish into thin air), CIO.com has you covered. They’ve compiled a sortable list of the fall’s most important upcoming tech conferences, not all of which will take place in Vegas.
Jacqueline Chan released a new blog article on ‘3 wireless technologies that can give your IT superpowers.’
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