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The Story No One Cares About: PC Sales at lowest number since 2007

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The analyst firm IDC reports that worldwide PC shipments in 2015 were about 300 million units, on par with 2007 numbers. The PC market continued to face persistent challenges from longer-PC lifecycles and competition from mobile phones and tablets, despite the slowing growth in those markets. PCs are not going away.

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Social TV platform Scener adds Hulu’s David Baron as CEO and filmmaker J.J. Abrams as investor

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Scener , the Seattle-based startup that adds a social layer to the viewing of streaming television content, has named David Baron as CEO. Baron helped launch Hulu in 2007 and spent 14 years at that streaming service. “Consumers are now demanding both simplicity and social connection in their viewing experiences.

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Tech Moves: Starbucks names new CFO as pandemic fuels mobile ordering; Panopto adds IBM exec; F5’s new security leader; and more

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Starbucks has accelerated the rollout of its mobile-focused Starbucks Pickup stores , designed for customers who order ahead using the Starbucks app. Founded in 2007, Panopto offers video management software for business and universities. billion, for the fiscal year ended in September. Melissa Murray Bailey. Hootsuite Photo).

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Being a CIO: One Year Later - Social, Agile, and Transformation

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Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 Labels: about me , cio , innovation , mobile. social media. (3).

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Mobile social networking, meaning virtual networks bringing people physically together, will inevitably be a pervasive application - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Arrington writes: A few years from now we’ll use our mobile devices to help us remember details of people we know, but not well. I see a parallel path to browser-based social networking. Right now there a lot of mobile social networks trying to prove their business model based on ad sales.

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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: Beware Social scammers that call.

Sean Daniel

Beware Social scammers that call pretending to be the Microsoft HelpDesk. On 9/21/2012, I received my first social engineering hacking attack. Hosting Multiple Domains on SBS 2008/Exchange 2007. Microsoft Office 2007. (10). Windows Mobile. (23). Windows Mobile. Microsoft Office 2007. Social Media.

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What accelerates – and slows – the development of social networking mobile platforms - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Although the mobile phone offers an "extremely appropriate platform for social networks," he said current pricing structures were holding back the market. Although the mobile phone offers an "extremely appropriate platform for social networks," he said current pricing structures were holding back the market.

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