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Persistent Systems is a multinational IT services company. From a huge development center in India, the company builds technology solutions for a raft of high-profile companies. Oftentimes we hear about outsourcing IT to India and think about poor work, cost cutting, and suboptimal results. For Bridgestone tires, however, the experience seems to have been quite different. I recently had the opportunity to sit down with the CEO of Persistent Systems, Anand Deshpande, to talk about what his company does generally... Читать дальше...

All password managers have as many as four separate products for storing passwords: a desktop and mobile app, a browser extension, or a pure Web-based service that doesn’t require any other software beyond a regular browser. There are various use cases that demand having this array of mechanisms. Not all tools support all four mechanisms.

Windows 10 was the biggest news story out of Microsoft in 2015, and looking forward to the coming year, it’s slated to continue as one of the pillars of the company’s business. 

Apple and Samsung dominate global smartphone sales with several new flagship models announced each year.

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Google’s Glass Explorer program may be dead, but the ill-fated face computer—now under the care of Nest CEO Tony Fadell—is very much alive. An FCC filing published on Monday shows the next version of Google Glass in precise detail, giving the world a closer glimpse at a reboot that appears destined for workplace productivity scenarios.