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Asking The Right Questions For B2B Marketing ROI

Forrester IT

The “right” formula for calculating marketing ROI depends on the underlying business question that you are looking to answer.

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Talk Tech to Me: 9 Common Linux Network Commands

Association of Information Technology Professional

It seems like there’s a never-ending array of commands for Linux administrators to remember. Some are for file manipulation, others manage hardware and others configure services or databases.

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Employers Must Navigate Social-Values-Based Branding With Care

Forrester IT

Social Values, Employer Branding, And Econ 101 The role of social values in motivating consumer behavior is a topic that gets a lot of attention. We’ve even built an econometric model to identify and size consumer segments with the greatest likelihood to purchase based on social considerations. What is not as readily apparent is the role […].

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What Is Headless Search? Improve Experiences, Simplify App Dev, Enable AI

Social, Agile and Transformation

Microservice architectures, serverless frameworks, low-code development platforms, oh my! What used to be a choice between two and three-tiered web architectures now has several distinct options, and in large technology departments, chances are the architects and senior developers debate and defend their preferred approaches.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Introducing The Forrester Wave: Marketing Measurement And Optimization Solutions, Q1 2022

Forrester IT

Joe Stanhope and I are excited to announce the publication of The Forrester Wave: Marketing Measurement And Optimization Solutions, Q1 2022. This report evaluates ten top vendors’ current offering, strategy, and market presence for their unified measurement and optimization solutions. The 2022 Forrester Marketing Measurement Wave will help B2C Marketers select the best measurement vendors […].

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The location intelligence challenge of ensuring public safety

TM Forum

As public safety agencies are striving to gain location intelligence to fulfil their missions to safeguard the public, location analytics is becoming increasingly important. The demands for greater planning and faster reaction to public safety events are being driven by governments and organizations like the European Emergency Number Association (EENA).

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Key themes for 2022

TM Forum

Trends in telecoms operations can typically be measured over periods of many years. But in the cloud era new paradigms are turned into deployments much more quickly, and the rate of change generally is accelerating. In this report, our analysts look at eight of the most important key themes that we think will see significant developments in 2022 and make some predictions about the implications of these macro trends: Core network developments.

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Install Dell Command Integration Suite DCIS for SCCM

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get the latest updates. [link]. Read More. The post Install Dell Command Integration Suite DCIS for SCCM appeared first on HTMD Blog #1 by Jitesh Kumar.

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Managing Cloud: Why to Keep a Data Center Mentality

Information Week

The move of more compute to the cloud and the edge has many organizations rethinking their need for data centers -- yet data centers aren’t going away and neither should ‘data center thinking.

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Commentary: How homeowners defeated Zillow’s AI, which led to Zillow Offers’ demise

GeekWire

Now that the dust has settled, we can ask how could the smart and savvy team at Zillow Group, armed with cutting-edge AI methods and mountains of data, lose half a billion dollars buying homes in the second half of 2021. This post identifies two Achilles’ heels that led to this debacle: the “inside information” advantage of homeowners coupled with unanticipated changes in home prices over time.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Ways to Smooth the Bumps on the Data-Driven Path

Information Week

Becoming data driven requires easy, secure access to any type of data across any platform, cloud, or application. These six steps will help you reach that goal.

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Yahoo Japan is going dark in Europe

The Verge

Photo by STR/JIJI PRESS/AFP via Getty Images. Yahoo Japan has announced that most of its online services will cease to be accessible in the European Economic Area and the UK as of April 6th. The company’s email, credit card, and ebook services will continue to be available, but everything else is going dark. The given reason is the cost of complying with European regulations, which would include GDPR.

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Sony plans to showcase Gran Turismo 7 exclusively during its first State of Play in 2022

TechSpot

With the launch of Gran Turismo 7 creeping upon us, Sony decided that now is a good time to hype up one of its longest-running console sellers by featuring it in the next State of Play. Sony's Content Communications Manager Brett Elston noted that the upcoming streamed event would have.

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Wordle has been bought by The New York Times, will ‘initially’ remain free for everyone to play

The Verge

The smash online word game Wordle has been bought by The New York Times , which will integrate the daily word puzzle into The New York Times Games suite of word games, creator Josh Wardle announced today. Wordle will “initially remain free to new and existing players” once it moves over to the Times’ site, and Wardle says that he’s working with The New York Times to preserve players’ existing wins and streak data once the game heads to its new home.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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Unlock Venture Partners raises $60M for second fund, will invest in more Seattle and L.A. startups

GeekWire

The news: Unlock Venture Partners, a seed-stage firm that invests in Seattle and Los Angeles-based startups, raised a $60 million fund. The details: This is the second fund from Unlock, which launched in 2018 and has now raised more than $85 million. The firm is co-led by longtime Seattle-area entrepreneur and angel investor Andy Liu; 3-time founder Sanjay Reddy, based in Los Angeles.

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Paramount shares first Halo TV series trailer ahead of March 24 premiere

TechSpot

The Halo TV series has been a long time in the making. Microsoft originally detailed the project alongside the announcement of the Xbox One in May 2013, with Steven Spielberg attached as an executive producer.

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Sony is buying Bungie, the developer of Destiny and original creator of Halo

The Verge

It’s another blockbuster gaming acquisition. | Image: Sony. Sony is buying Bungie , the developer of Destiny and the original creator of Halo, for $3.6 billion. The acquisition arrives shortly after Microsoft’s announcement that it intends to acquire Activision Blizzard in a deal worth $68.7 billion. Bungie will “continue to independently publish and creatively develop our games,” Bungie CEO Pete Parsons writes in a blog post.

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Man builds 27 million mAh power bank that can charge TVs, washing machines, and thousands of phones

TechSpot

Geng starts his homemade project by welding the power bank’s 5.9-foot by 3.9-foot frame together. While that’s obviously quite far from portable in the traditional sense, he does at least add wheels for some mobility.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Antimicrobial biotech startup lands $1.25M grant to develop urinary catheter

GeekWire

Spokane, Wash.-based biotech startup Iasis Molecular Sciences received a $1.25 million grant from a U.S. government program that addresses spinal cord injuries. The 7-year old company will develop a “wholly antimicrobial” urinary catheter that incorporates the company’s proprietary antimicrobials throughout its structure, instead of just as a coating.

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Sony answers Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard by purchasing Bungie for $3.6 billion

TechSpot

Sony Interactive Entertainment President and CEO Jim Ryan said he wanted to be clear with the community that Bungie will remain an independent and multi-platform studio and publisher.

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Zuckerberg’s dream of launching a cryptocurrency is officially over

The Verge

Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. After multiple rebrands, congressional hearings, and several high-profile staff departures, the Meta-backed cryptocurrency known as Diem is calling it quits. The association behind Diem confirmed Monday that it sold its assets for around $200 million to Silvergate, a crypto-focused bank it was working with last year to launch a stablecoin pegged to the U.S. dollar.

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Intel responds to graphics card crisis, promises to ship millions of Arc Alchemist GPUs

TechSpot

The open letter comes from PC Gamer’s Dave James, who cites the familiar problem of supply chain issues and crypto mining leading to low supply combined with huge demand, resulting in scalpers snapping up cards to resell them at double the MSRP, and retail outlets increasing their prices.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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This Working Quadcopter Drone Was Built Using Leonardo da Vinci's 500-Year-Old Sketches

Gizmodo

Leonardo da Vinci is best known for works like the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, but what you might not know is that in the 1480s—hundreds of years before the first flight—the polymath sketched a design for an aircraft. Lacking the right materials, da Vinci never built or tested the helicopter-like device, leaving us… Read more.

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FCC will invest over $1.2 billion in rural broadband across 32 states

TechSpot

As part of the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) project, the commission also created the Rural Broadband Accountability Plan to ensure that programs such as the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund are compliant with the regulatory terms. The new plan aims to double the number of audits and verifications in 2022 compared.

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6 Bugs Scientists Want You to Squash Immediately

Gizmodo

Insects are cool (if you look past all the legs). They break down dead things by eating them and pollinate plants so that we can grow enough crops to feed the world. Conservation encourages us to protect wildlife, especially bugs that are now looking down the barrel of an insect apocalypse. Read more.

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Toshiba to pilot "holographic" self-check kiosks in Tokyo 7-Eleven stores

TechSpot

Toshiba is making moves in this direction with touchless "holographic" displays. The self-check stands do not employ actual holograms—it looks to be more of a variation on the Pepper's Ghost illusion. When combined with gesture recognition, the effect can be pretty convincing.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Sony to buy Bungie, former Microsoft studio, for $3.6B in latest blockbuster video-game deal

GeekWire

Bungie Image Bungie, the Bellevue, Wash.-based game developer that originally developed the platform-defining Halo franchise for Microsoft’s Xbox, has agreed to be acquired by Sony, maker of the competing PlayStation consoles, for $3.6 billion. Sony Interactive Entertainment’s surprise announcement Monday comes two weeks after Microsoft struck a $68.7 billion deal for Activision Blizzard.

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BOE unveils 27-inch gaming monitor with blisteringly fast 500Hz refresh rate

TechSpot

BOE has announced a 27-inch 1080p gaming monitor. That wouldn’t usually attract much attention, but its 500Hz refresh rate makes it a world’s first. The panel achieves that blistering speed through a high-mobility oxide backplane.

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Podcast: Sony’s $3.6B Bungie deal, explained

GeekWire

The latest jaw-dropping deal in video games is Sony Interactive Entertainment’s agreement to buy Bellevue, Wash.-based Bungie, maker of the Destiny series of online multiplayer first-person shooter games, originally known for developing the blockbuster Halo series for Microsoft’s Xbox. Analysis: Sony buying Bungie is the counter-move we were waiting for Bungie was spun out of Microsoft in 2007 and.

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Spotify podcasts that mention Covid-19 to come with content advisory as more musicians leave service, Joe Rogan responds

TechSpot

The situation began last week when Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Young wrote an open letter promising to remove his music from Spotify if it didn’t drop the Joe Rogan Experience, which he accused of spreading vaccine misinformation. “They can have Rogan or Young. Not both,” he said.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.