7 years ago082Major U.S. technology company chief executives sat down with White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and other top Trump administration officials on Monday before meeting with the president on cutting government waste and improving information technology services.
Other officials meeting in 10 small group sessions with the executives...
7 years ago0124After a string of terrorist attacks in Western countries over the past couple of years, major technology companies have been the targets of criticism from European government officials, advertiser boycotts, and lawsuits from family members of those killed in terrorist attacks. As a result, such companies are increasing their counter...
7 years ago082After being around for a little more than two years, Microsoft is shutting down its document sharing service, Docs.com. The purpose of Docs.com was to provide users a place on the Web to show off their Office documents without them having to be hosted on a personal website.
On June 9, Microsoft posted a bulletin on its website...
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Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday announced the recipients of the 2017 Microsoft Supplier Program (MSP) Excellence Awards. The MSP Excellence Awards recognize superior performance, exemplary service and innovation by suppliers that demonstrate what it means to be a preferred supplier at Microsoft. The purpose of the MSP is to build...
7 years ago086Have you ever been faced with managing a new team to find that your employees are unhappy, or aren’t performing as well as you hoped?
Whilst there could be a myriad of contributing factors, managers should consider learning the work style of their employees as soon and as thoroughly as they can.
Global CEO Coach and former HR...
8 years ago045Microsoft this week introduced Outlook Customer Manager, a new cloud-based tool that aims to help its small businesses clients stay on top of their customer relationships.
The new service organizes everything from emails to meeting invitations, call logs, notes, tasks, files and other essential items.
It comes just four months...
8 years ago057Microsoft on Tuesday showed off the next incarnation of a major software product called Dynamics 365, stuffed full of new features and artificial intelligence.
Microsoft has been teasing Dynamics 365 for a while now, as is its custom. On Tuesday the company announced that Dynamics 365 will be will be available to customers worldwide...
8 years ago051Enterprise applications delivered to corporate clients via the cloud may be extremely powerful, thanks to the near-infinite compute resources such programs can deploy. But much of the time they are not necessarily the easiest programs for staff members to use. Two new platforms from Microsoft aim to change that by making a company's...
8 years ago050There's an update available for Microsoft's Dynamics CRM 2016, and it brings with it a brand-new tool to help companies tap the Internet of Things for their customer-service efforts.
Announced on Monday, the Spring 2016 Wave of Dynamics CRM adds Connected Field Service, a new tool companies can soon use to leverage the potential of...
8 years ago047Summary: Salesforce has transformed itself into the Amazon of Cloud Applications.
Scaled solutions to big problems mean fast growth but, so far, lean profits.
The story has enormous power.
The ticker symbol for Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) may need some updating as may the company's name.
Salesforce started as a customer...
8 years ago040Hundreds of millions of hacked user names and passwords for email accounts and other websites are being traded in Russia's criminal underworld, a security expert told Reuters.
The discovery of 272.3 million stolen accounts included a majority of users of Mail.ru (MAILRq.L), Russia's most popular email service, and smaller fractions of...
8 years ago043Reading and writing are a bit of a chore, but it keeps data safe for thousands of years.
Microsoft is buying ten million strands of DNA from biology startup Twist Bioscience to investigate the use of genetic material to store data.
The data density of DNA is orders of magnitude higher than conventional storage systems, with 1 gram...
8 years ago054Perhaps the biggest surprise to come from Microsoft's Build developer conference last week was the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
The system will ship as part of this summer's Anniversary Update for Windows 10. WSL has two parts; there's the core subsystem, which is already included in Insider Preview builds of the operating...