by Sam | May 13, 2019 | Apple, Compliance, Cyber Security, Facebook, Google, internet, Microsoft
What tech giant do you trust? How Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft are doing privacy Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at Build this week. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) There’s a common theme running through the spring season of developer conferences and tech...
by Sam | Feb 15, 2019 | AWS, Cloud Computing, Google, IBM, internet, Microsoft
Google and IBM still trying desperately to move cloud market-share needle When it comes to the cloud market, there are few known knowns. For instance, we know that AWS is the market leader with around 32 percent of market share. We know Microsoft is far back in second...
by Sam | Feb 6, 2019 | Data, Did You Know?, internet
Big companies are not becoming data-driven fast enough I remember watching MIT professor Andrew McAfee years ago telling stories about the importance of data over gut feeling, whether it was predicting successful wines or making sound business decisions. We have been...
by Sam | Feb 5, 2019 | Did You Know?, internet, New Technology
Google Home can now translate conversations on-the-fly Just last month, Google showed off an “Interpreter mode” that would let Google Home devices act as an on-the-fly translator. One person speaks one language, the other person speaks another, and Google Assistant...
by Sam | Dec 27, 2018 | AWS, Cloud Computing, Did You Know?, internet, New Technology
Amazon announces a record-breaking holiday, 'tens of millions' of new Prime subscribers Amazon had another record-breaking holiday season, the retailer announced this morning. The company says it added “tens of millions” of people who signed up for Prime memberships,...
by Sam | Nov 29, 2018 | Cloud Computing, Data, Did You Know?, internet
AWS is bringing the Cloud on prem with Outposts AWS has always been the pure cloud vendor, and even though it has given a nod to hybrid, it is now fully embracing it. Today in conjunction with VMware, it announced a pair of options to bring AWS into the data...
