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Regardless of how well we secure our assets from outside parties, we ultimately need to give access to our employees, contractors and partners in order for them to do their jobs. Misuse of this privileged access, whether through data theft or damage, is an unfortunate, yet inherent risk of doing business for most organizations.
Why You Need to Know: It is clear that insider threats span a variety of disciplines, including HR, Legal, business processes, and information security. The expansive nature of the problem can make it a daunting task to address, but all of the data indicates that this problem is not going away. An ounce of prevention today could easily prevent a disaster in the future.
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Voice is emerging as a key player and may ultimately turn into a key profit generator for the company. Microsoft's growing portfolio and power in voice applications is going to have a significant impact upon emerging SmartVoice companies while telephone companies continue to travel down a dumb pipe road.
Why You Need to Know: Three key examples to Microsoft's growing voice technology portfolio include the Cortana intelligent assistant, Skype Translator and support of WebRTC in Internet Explorer. Each part blends well with the mobile first/cloud first (M1C1) vision, with the underlying technologies able to be used as building blocks for more sophisticated value-added services. |
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Oracle recently brought out word of just what's to come, and the word of the day seemed to revolve around big data. Indeed, Oracle offered up a list of seven predictions in 2015, and big data figured into most of these, in one way or another.
Why You Need to Know: Improved versatility, better security, and both more and better tools to manage and handle big data are all going to be front-of-mind. |
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Google Cardboard is proving to be one of the most popular new releases from Google in some time. Google's answer to the Oculus Rift virtual reality (VR) system has so far shipped over 500,000 units since its release.
Why You Need to Know: Still, Google Cardboard is proving there's plenty of interest in the VR platform, regardless of what kind of hardware it takes to run it. While that may not prove to be the thing that keeps Google Cardboard in the fight, it's certainly enough to get it started. |
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Democrat Bonnie Watson Coleman was elected the first African-American woman to represent New Jersey in the U.S. House of Representatives last month. That she won was not surprising, but that she crushed the vote by winning a significant 61 percent was what shocked the pundits.
Why You Need to Know: This is not the first time databases of voter information and a good predictive dialer have helped a campaign climb to victory. This is an example of a growing trend: To win political office increasingly requires sophisticated data-based campaign machines. |
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