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CLOAK and swagger: Apparel brand teams with Microsoft for ‘Minecraft Dungeons’ fashion line

GeekWire

A “Minecraft Dungeons” cloak available from the apparel company CLOAK. Microsoft and Mojang Studios have partnered with apparel brand CLOAK to take care of that. said Kayleen Walters, Minecraft’s general manager of partnerships and licensing. CLOAK Photo).

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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

CIO Business Intelligence

Instead, in working across Azure, “we use some proprietary solutions that we licensed and then do very simple coding,” he says. For Bryan Muehlberger, CIO at Vuori, the rise of SaaS use has also led to a corresponding rise in vendor management challenges. “We

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3 certification tips for IT leaders looking to get ahead

CIO Business Intelligence

For example, Puneesh Lamba, CIO of Shahi Exports, an apparel manufacturing company, acknowledges that “certifications have helped him perform better in board meetings, thereby making it easier to get approvals on IT spending.”. Certifications is a way through which CIOs can stay abreast with the latest,” Chanda says.

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Former Amazon exec inherits Microsoft’s complex cybersecurity legacy in quest to solve ‘one of the greatest challenges of our time’

GeekWire

” Another issue is Microsoft’s practice of putting advanced security solutions into its costliest enterprise licensing tiers. Beaumont also cited the enterprise licensing issue. “So customers who either are unwilling or unable to pay that premium for the security features get left out in the cold.”

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Takedown notices are threatening online thrift shops — just as business is exploding

The Verge

Small businesses say their livelihoods are threatened even when they aren’t running afoul of copyright and trademark claims In January 2020, Jade Myers, a successful seller of secondhand clothes on Poshmark, came across a trove of designer swimwear and apparel at a thrift store that she knew would be a hit with her shoppers.

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The Internet of First Responder Things (IoFRT)

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

A police officer’s badge or other apparel might have a small radio which broadcasts a signal unique to that officer, which allows many other communication devices (smart phone, radio, tablet computer) to automatically recognize the officer and therefore allow access to restricted databases such as criminal history.

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Data mining for B2B churn and loyalty management in India and South Asia

TM Forum

To avoid churn of customers who are at risk of not renewing their license techniques such as email intimation of license renewal are typically mass mailed, but we wish to target only loyal customers. Loyalty by itself in B2C is sometimes a rare event. a study done by Qymatix. ,

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