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2015 Predictions: Enterprise Software Heats Up and the Office Landscape Changes Dramatically

CTOvision

Webapps are increasing in their complexity, in part, because they require closer and closer access to the operating system – for better presence, access to peripherals, and better performance. Most of the screen real estate will be for reading, with a huddle of controls in the lower left.

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Amazon gives developers access to Alexa device home screens, aiming to revitalize market for skills

GeekWire

Alexa users will be able to access content from third-party skills on the Echo Show home screen later this year, under a new developer feature announced by Amazon today. In addition, Amazon will let developers promote their skills in the regular rotation of content on the Echo Show home screen, using a tool called Featured Skill Cards.

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Understanding Cloud Computing for Your Business

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Furthermore, Software as a Service (SaaS) models allow companies to distribute their teams, focus on results, and simplify licensing and software upgrade issues. Platform as a Service provides more functionality, sacrificing the ability to configure every detail for a functioning operating system and containers to execute software in.

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How much longer can Google own the internet?

Vox

In mobile operating systems, Google’s Android has about 70 percent worldwide (in the United States, Android is just 40 percent , and Apple’s iOS has almost all of the rest). It pays off developers and manufacturers not to create or use alternate stores, and it pays or requires them to pre-load Google apps on the phones they sell.

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12 tips for achieving IT agility in the digital era

CIO Business Intelligence

The top priority for IT at Marco’s Pizza has been developing an in-house cloud-based technology platform at a time when digital ordering has grown threefold. Reining in application sprawl has also been valuable at Snow Software. Agile Development, Digital Transformation, IT Leadership Think a step ahead. Master data.

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Think you own your stuff? Think again.

Vox

It’s then that you might learn, as a number of John Deere customers have in recent years , that your ultra-modern vehicle comes with a far-reaching catch: Because its central software is the intellectual property of its manufacturer, said manufacturer may claim that you do not actually own your tractor outright. reselling a book).

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How Shopify’s network of sellers can take on Amazon

The Verge

Shopify is one of those companies that makes the modern internet go — it makes software that allows businesses of all sizes to set up online stores, and from there it can handle everything from shipping orders to financing loans for expansion. Shopify creates a centralized retail operating system.

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