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After fan outcry, Wizards of the Coast will leave its original open license in place

GeekWire

would seek to deauthorize and replace its Open Game License (OGL), a public copyright notice from 2000. The OGL allows third parties to create virtually any sort of D&D material for profit, such as adventure modules, sourcebooks, or live-play shows. is now available under a Creative Commons license.? And we’ve listened.

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Network teams are ready to switch tool vendors

Network World

First, tool vendors sold them with perpetual licenses, which meant a long-term investment. Most network management tools are now available as SaaS solutions with a subscription license. Tools aren’t as “sticky“ as they once were For a variety of reasons, network management tools have historically been sticky in IT organizations.

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Telstra's AUS$100 million IoT deal points to IoT sustainability role

TM Forum

Telstra, which applied for energy licenses in 2021, this year plans to launch energy products in Australia, initially targeting its own customers. The deal, to provide up to. million cellular IoT SIMs. for smart meters over 10 years, means the operator’s business unit, Telstra Energy, will use. Intellihub’s IoT networks.

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Microsoft Ignite 2023: 11 takeaways for CIOs

CIO Business Intelligence

Confusingly, Microsoft already offers a Sales Copilot; Copilot for Sales is a different product that includes a license for Copilot for Microsoft 365, and helps sales staff prepare for customer meetings by creating custom briefing documents. These will offer more memory per GPU to improve data processing efficiency.

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How Big is the Hosted Desktop (DaaS) Market - Part 1

Fountainhead

Well, it turns out that some surveys have already been taken, and that there are also a number of “adjacent” markets that will convert to hosted desktops…. Enter Virtual Desktops. However, the cloud-hosted virtual desktop goes one step further. The broader Desktop Virtualization Market. What is a cloud-hosted desktop?

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Researchers find 87% of U.S. classic video games are out of print and ‘critically endangered’

GeekWire

The study , “Survey of the Video Game Reissue Market in the United States,” was written by Phil Salvador, the library director of the Video Game History Foundation , with the assistance of a team of student researchers from the University of Washington Information School. were still available for legal purchase. between 1948 (i.e.

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CIOs Struggle To Find The Machine Learning Employees That They Need

The Accidental Successful CIO

Most CIOs have implemented some form of AI , and in a recent survey 77% said they expect smart software to become a key business component within the next two years. Despite this momentum, more than 80% of survey respondents cited access to data and a shortage of AI-savvy tech employees as significant obstacles.