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The non-profit organization’s Innovation Program was a huge success at QITCOM this year DOHA, QATAR, 14 MARCH 2017 Qatar Assistive Technology Center (Mada) successfully created  an accessible venue for all as the official QITCOM 2017 Accessibility Partner, as well as signing a new MOU with the Digital Incubation Center (DIC). During the event, the non-profit organization demonstrated its Innovation Program and created awareness about Assistive technology on its […]

Dutch voters head to the polls on Wednesday after Mark Rutte, prime minister, and rivals clashed over refugees, immigration and the economy in the last televised debate following an extraordinarily tight race. After a campaign that was interrupted by a diplomatic spat with Turkey, by fears of foreign interference and by a row over the security of populist Geert Wilders, the vote is set to be extremely […]

Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Those urban regions that pursue decentralized, networked, localized solutions will likely prosper as the adaptive advantages of these principles pay self-reinforcing dividends. In yesterday’s entry, I suggested that rather than bemoan the inevitable failure of centralized “fixes,” let’s turn our efforts to the real solutions: decentralized, networked, localized. To commentators such as Richard Florida, decentralized, networked, localized describes cities. He […]

Senior Officials Attend Opening Ceremony at MENA Headquarters in Dubai Internet City DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – 14 March 2017  SAP SE today announced a five-year USD 200 million investment in the UAE, underpinning objectives outlined by the UAE Vision 2021 plan to create economic diversity and jobs for youth. Senior officials participated in the official ribbon-cutting VIP ceremony and inaugurated the new SAP MENA headquarters in […]

(Image: file photo) Patch Tuesday is back — albeit after an inadvertent and undisclosed glitch led to a month-long delay in releasing security patches. Microsoft said Tuesday that it patched dozens of vulnerabilities across 18 bulletins. read this Why software updates have to get better All too often, security patches are breaking the devices they set out to protect, and trust in the software companies to protect […]

Identity management company Okta has officially filed for an initial public offering, seeking to raise $100 million. The tech IPO scene has been rather sluggish in the past several years, but things are expected to pick up in 2017 and the recent Snap IPO breathed some much-needed new life into the space. Many believe that the Snap IPO opened the door to more tech IPOs and they might just […]

When Intel’s chief executive addressed shareholders at last month’s investor day, he insisted that the “traditional market view” of the company as a Silicon Valley stalwart making chips for PCs and servers was wrong. “The way we look at the world is a bit different,” Brian Krzanich said. “We are a data company.” Investors would soon discover just how differently Mr Krzanich was looking at Intel’s world. […]

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Recently, the open-source multi-instant messaging (IM) program Pidgin was updated to version 2.12.0. That’s the good news. It’s a very useful program if you work with people using multiple IM services. The bad news is that its developers couldn’t add support to newer IM platforms, such as WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Slack. Additionally, it will no longer support the deprecated Facebook XMPP, MSN, MySpace, Mxit, and Yahoo. […]

Okta, the identity and device management firm based in San Francisco, has filed to go public. According to its S-1 form with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Okta plans to raise up to $100 million of Class A common stock through an initial public offering and trade on the NASDAQ market under the symbol OKTA. Goldman, Sachs, JP Morgan Securities and Allen & Company are lead […]

Starting next month, Microsoft will begin offering a preview of an on-premises/local version of its Dynamics 365 for Operations ERP product. Microsoft announced Dynamics 365 for Operations — a rebranding of Dynamics AX 7 and part of the Enterprise version of its newly combined Dynamics 365 CRM and ERP application bundle — in July 2016. At that time, officials said Microsoft would continue to offer on-premises versions […]

Cloud accounting software provider Xero announced a new product that it says will bring machine learning and AI to the process of small business invoicing. The machine learning automation technology is currently without an official title, but Xero says it’s designed to simplify and improve the way invoices are filed. More specifically, the technology will automatically suggest the appropriate account codes for an invoice based on past […]

This Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015, file photo, shows a Mobileye camera system that can be installed in your car to monitor speed limits and warn drivers of potential collisions, mounted behind the rearview mirror during a demonstration of the system, in Ann Arbor, Mich. Intel is buying Mobileye in a deal announced Monday, March 13, 2017, and valued at about $14.09 billion, the latest push by a […]

Robots will soon be teaching and assisting children across several schools in the UAE, according to tech firm ATLAB, which is planning to roll out a new system later this year. The technology-based learning solutions company has announced that it will be introducing the ATLAB TeachAssist in schools across Dubai and the UAE and the rest of the GCC by the end of 2017. The robot can […]

In the tech industry, it’s easy to get caught up in the minutiae. But we should all step back and witness an industry in transition. Here are a few things I believe will shape the next few years. Smartphone Hardware Runs its Course As my colleague Carolina Milanesi recently wrote, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to innovate in the smartphone space. After a decade […]

HPE and SUSE, a top Linux distributor, have a complex relationship. First, HPE spun and merged its non-core software assets with Micro Focus. Micro Focus owns SUSE, a major Linux provider. Now, SUSE has finished acquiring cloud assets of HPE’s OpenStack Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Cloud Foundry Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Stackato, HPE’s Cloud Foundry implementation. SUSE will develop clouds while HPE will sell, support, and maintain them in their […]

By Jeremy Wagstaff | SINGAPORE SINGAPORE In today’s so-called smart home, you can dim the lights, order more toothpaste or tell the kids to go to bed simply by talking to a small Wifi-connected speaker, such as Amazon’s (AMZN.O) Echo or Google’s (GOOGL.O) Home. This voice-first market – combining voice with artificial intelligence (AI) – barely existed in 2014. This year, Voice Labs, a consultancy, expects 24.5 […]

Now that a little of the hype has disappeared from the release by WikiLeaks of allegedly more than 8,000 internal CIA documents, and the sorts of hacking the American spy agency was up to, what has changed in the world of security? Unlike the Snowden documents, which fundamentally shook the world of many people with and without an interest in the world of cybers, this cache offers […]

Charlie Osborne | ZDNet Neural networking could pave the way for AI systems to be given a capability which we have, until now, considered a human trait: the possession of common sense. While some of us may have less of this than others, the idea of “common sense” — albeit a vague concept — is the general idea of making fair and good decisions in what is […]

By Angela Moon | NEW YORK NEW YORK For some millennial investors, loyalty to one of their favorite apps matters more than financial details in the case of Snap Inc. The stock of Snapchat’s parent company has been on a roller-coaster ride since its market debut last week, surging more than 70 percent from the initial public offering price in the first two days of trading and […]

Google’s self-driving unit, now called Waymo, is going after Uber, and it’s making it clear. It’s stepping up its legal attack on the popular ride-hailing company, most recently by asking a court to block Uber from leveraging technology, which it allegedly stole from Waymo to get ahead in the race for driverless cars. Waymo’s Uber Lawsuit The two, both Silicon Valley companies, are duking it out over […]

Earlier this week, Microsoft acknowledged that it has been working to bring Windows Server to ARM. But the way this announcement unfolded was rather confusing. Once the dust from the initial wave of press releases cleared, it turned out that Microsoft officially announced that it has been working with Intel, AMD, and two ARM vendors (Qualcomm and Cavium) to support Project Olympus, Microsoft’s next-generation cloud-hardware design it […]

Flippy the robot is starting its culinary career with one simple task, but just like any rookie, it is learning on the job. With some practice and training, Flippy will be able to do everything from chopping vegetables to plating meals like a pro. Miso Robotics created the robot, which debuted in a kitchen at the restaurant chain CaliBurger in Pasadena, Calif., this week. “Flippy will initially […]

The Google Pixel XL is among the hottest Android smartphones currently available on the market, but it gets some serious competition from the newly unveiled LG G6. LG officially announced its latest flagship smartphone, the LG G6, at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2017 on Feb. 26. The powerhouse comes with high-end specs and features all around, including a premium, waterproof build, a large HDR display and […]

My dad bought me a Nintendo to celebrate my first birthday in 1988, despite it being quite obvious the gift was intended for himself. Over the years though, I managed to develop some semblance of motor skills and we began taking turns playing Mario. I bonded with siblings over beating a boss in Zelda and fought with my cousins over who got to play Star Fox next. […]

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