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Chicago wants to tax the sky - or at least the cloud. A recent move by the Chicago to clarify that the city's Amusement Tax also includes subscription based services like Netflix and LexisNexis has many wondering what's next. read

Sales organizations plan to increase their use of sales analytics 58% from 2015 to 2016. Smart selling fueled by predictive analytics will jump 77% among high performing sales organizations in the next 12 18 months. 60% of high-performing sales teams already use or are planning to use a mobile sales apps. read

IBM Research announced that it built a microprocessor on the 7 nanometer process earlier this week, another notable sign that Moores Law, the driving force of the technology industry, is far from over. read

Pattern of Life analytics (POL) is a new predictive data analytical method that is similar to profiling. The implications of POL in the context of the Internet of Things (IoT) are far-reaching for both governments and business. With the recent estimates of IoT financial impact being in the trillions of dollars, Big Data is getting exponentially bigger and data analytics is becoming increasingly important and complex. Security, privacy and data protection legal compliance are paramount; the laws and[...] read

It must be tough to be an analyst estimating the size of the cloud market. Where do you draw the line between a "cloud" system and a "non-cloud" system? It's a fuzzy line at best, if there even is a line any more. read

In a colossal training initiative, Indias largest IT services firm, the Mumbai-based Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), will train 100,000 employees this year in digital technologies such as automation and artificial intelligence. The humongous training program has been necessitated by a strong demand for new technologies from customers in key verticals like retail, financial services and life sciences. About 12.5% of TCS revenues already accrue from digital technologies and the company[...] read

A few months ago, Microsoft launched a preview of Office 2016 for Mac and now it has officially launched to the public today. The last major Office release for Mac was Office 2011. Office 2016 -- which includes a new version of Word, Excel and PowerPoint -- is available in 139 countries and 16 languages. The new version of Office for Mac includes support for Retina displays,the signature ribbon interface, task panes, cloud integration, Multi-Touch gestures and a Full Screen view mode. read

Rolling out so many exciting new products at once shows why AWS is, and will remain, the cloud leader for the foreseeable future. read

Oracle is trying its best to catch up with the cloud world. Last month at a marathon five-hour online event, Oracle Executive Chairman of the Board and CTO, Larry Ellison and Thomas Kurian, President, Product Development announced 24 cloud services (phew!) cutting across IaaS, PaaS, SaaS segments. Six platform services including RDBMS, NoSQL, MBaaS, Big Data, process, and integration services are available today. While the market leaders are moving in a direction that blurs the line between infrastructure,[...] read

Corporate IT spending is on the move. Obviously the CEO is not dead, nor is the chief financial offer (CFO) or the chief information officer (CIO) for that matter but changes are afoot. The current renaissance witnessed in information technology sees multifactorial but essentially decoupled service-based chunks of IT (you can just say cloud computing and virtualization if you prefer) now impacting the way technology itself is procured. read

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