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As global warming and environmental protections become more pressing issues, more companies are looking for ways to “go green” and, hopefully, reduce costs. Unfortunately, going green can be a bit overwhelming. There are many opportunities, and some of them require an investment. The best approach to going green is an incremental one that starts with onsite employee services.    

Microsoft last week quietly acknowledged that a year-old plan to focus phone sales on the enterprise market is dead.

A U.S. appeals court has denied a request by broadband trade groups to rehear its decision last June to uphold the Federal Communications Commission's controversial 2015 net neutrality rules.

May 4 is coming up and has been designated as World Password Day to remind enterprise workers and consumers everywhere to use strong, updated passwords to protect cybersecurity.

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The way a person walks, or gait recognition, has long been used for biometric purposes, but MIT researchers say that since how fast you walk is supposed to help predict health problems, they’ve come up with a device that can detect walking speed, and thereby potential health issues, without being as invasive as a surveillance camera, a Kinect, or even a wearable. The device is dubbed “WiGait” and it uses wireless signals to monitor walking in a “continuous and unobtrusive” way.

Kimble first came to my attention awhile ago after I’d written a few commentaries about the broader professional services automation (PSA) space.

Less than one-fifth of enterprise IT assets are in the cloud, but it looks like more are on the way.

You can pick up Amazon Echo for far below list price, if you're comfortable buying refurbished. Which you can be -- certified refurbished products are tested and certified to look and work like new, and come with warranties. Amazon Echo is a hands-free speaker you control with your voice. Echo connects to the Alexa Voice Service to play music, provide information, news, sports scores, weather, and more—instantly. All you have to do is ask. Echo has seven microphones and beam forming technology... Читать дальше...

As part of his “America First” campaign, President Trump has set his sights on the H-1B program, in which temporary visas are granted to foreign workers with college degrees and “highly specialized knowledge,” so that they can fill gaps in the U.S. workforce. The tech industry is a big supporter of the H-1B program, claiming that there’s a shortage of workers with in-demand tech skills. Hiring these foreign workers, the industry says, is good for the economy because it helps the tech industry thrive. Читать дальше...

People were talking about Bixby, Samsung's virtual assistant, for months before it launched with the Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+ phones. 

There's a massive difference between retailers using technology to free up associates to do more hands-on work and using that technology to replace those associates. Freeing up will work but replacement won't. 7-Eleven's plans to rid itself of the need for store associates, by leveraging RFID-tagged merchandise and relying on payment cards and mobile purchases, is one Slushee too far.

Q&A: Attorney Jeffrey Scolaro

Jeffrey Scolaro, an attorney at Daley Mohan Groble PC in Chicago and a member of Legal Services Link, answers questions about employment contracts.

Are employment contracts for IT workers negotiable, or are they one-size-fits-all? The axiom that “everything is negotiable” should be where all IT professionals begin their assessment of proposed employment contracts. However, the IT industry in particular can be especially rigid in its collective enforcement of employment agreements. Читать дальше...

Greg Downer, senior IT director at Oshkosh Corp., a manufacturer of specialty heavy vehicles in Oshkosh, Wisc., wishes he could tip the balance of on-premises vs. cloud more in the direction of the cloud, which currently accounts for only about 20% of his application footprint. However, as a contractor for the Department of Defense, his company is beholden to strict data requirements, including where data is stored.

This small public accounting firm doesn't have an official IT guy, so it falls to a junior accountant pilot fish to handle the first pass for all IT issues.

In the mid-2000s, the BlackBerry dominated handheld computing. That was before the iPhone was introduced in 2007.