Based on years of pilot projects and proofs-of-concept, the Industrial Internet Consortium has detailed the best-practices organizations can use to ensure successful deployments. While most consumers may find Internet of Things (IoT) devices like Google’s Nest or Ring’s doorbells new and exciting technology, the manufacturing world has embraced the IoT to optimize discrete and process […]
Navigating Your Career in Electrical Engineering in the Big Data Era
Many careers have been heavily impacted by changes in big data. The big data revolution has had a profound effect on healthcare, marketing and many other fields. One of the fields that has been most affected by big data is electrical engineering. Tom Dietterich, a professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science […]
2020 Tech Salary Study Pegs Cloud Engineer at $128,347
News 2020 Tech Salary Study Pegs Cloud Engineer at $128,347 By David Ramel 02/21/2020 It’s good to be a technologist with cloud skills, and even better to have data-wrangling cloud skills. The 2020 Tech Salary Report from careers firm Dice pegs the occupation of cloud engineer as No. 3 on the list of average tech […]
How 5G will affect jobs in 2020 and beyond
There’s no doubt that the disruptive nature of 5G will change how we work—but what will change, and should tech professionals be worried? 5G is here, and as we enter a new decade it is poised to be one of the most life-changing technologies to come around in decades. The technology is even growing faster […]
ISS World Hit with Malware Attack that Shuts Down Global Computer Network
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IT Disappoints Business on Data and Analytics
Business groups inside organizations express their disappointment with IT in terms of data and analytics in a new survey that looks at priorities and areas at risk for failure. The business sides of organizations today are recognizing the importance and value of data and analytics in competing in today’s market, but they feel like IT […]
US IRS sues Facebook for $9 billion in unpaid taxes
The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has sued Facebook for $9 billion in unpaid taxes, alleging that the social networking giant undervalued the intellectual property it sold to the subsidiary, thereby dodging billions in taxes. The IRS lawsuit, filed in a San Francisco court, claimed that Facebook “undervalued the royalty amount between 2010 and 2016, […]
Microsoft touts ‘enhanced AI’ features for Dynamics 365
Microsoft has unveiled an operations-centric module for its Dynamics 365 suite of enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) applications, on top of enhanced AI capabilities. Customers are being promised smarter AI-powered business insights in 2020, with additional technology powering new features such as forecasting in Dynamics 365’s Sales and Finance Insights apps. […]
Paytm Bank partners with Ola & Uber to issue FASTags to one lakh drivers
Paytm Payments Bank said it has entered into a strategic partnership with ride-hailing companies, Ola and Uber, and will issue FASTags to more than 1 lakh driver-partners. The company said it has set up over 12 camps at Uber Green zones across all the major cities including Delhi-NCR, Bangalore, Chennai Kerala, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Guwahati, Pune, […]
Amazon grapples with the fallout from the Coronavirus
By Karen Weise and Michael Corkery What if the Everything Store couldn’t sell everything because of disruptions from the coronavirus? That’s the situation that Amazon — which typically stocks more than 100 million items, from toilet paper to yoga pants — is working to avoid as the deadly outbreak continues to shut down and slow […]