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United States government agencies will continue to invest hefty sums in cloud computing technology over the next five years. After that period, spending on cloud is likely to moderate, but the amount of investing will remain at impressive levels Cloud computing is far from mature within the federal government, but it has reached a point at which i...

Artificial intelligence will revolutionize marketing in the next five years, according to survey results Demandbase released this week Eighty percent of the 500 B2B marketers who participated in the online poll, conducted last month by Wakefield Research, said they expected an AI-fueled marketing revolution....

There appears to be some optimism in the air following Wednesday's highly anticipated sit-down between the Trump transition team and more than a dozen top Silicon Valley executives at Trump Tower. Outsourcing and domestic hiring policies were contentious issues during the often volatile presidential campaign. However, the Trump transition team and...

Nvidia last week began test-driving autonomous cars on California roads, after the state's Department of Motor Vehicles gave it the green light, according to The Verge The company is testing its Drive PX2 autonomous driving platform, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group....

United States Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler on Thursday announced that he will leave the agency he helmed for the past three years on Jan. 20, the day President-elect Donald Trump will be sworn in "Serving as FCC chairman during this period of historic technological change has been the greatest honor of my professional lif...

One year after a powerhouse group of technology executives and venture capital icons met to form the Breakthrough Energy Coalition, the group, led by Microsoft founder Bill Gates, has launched a US$1 billion investment fund to support clean energy startups around the world The Breakthrough Energy Fund, chaired by Gates, is designed to jumpstart an ...

Amazon on Wednesday announced that it had completed its first drone delivery in the UK. During the private customer trial period, packages of up to 5 pounds will be delivered within half an hour The first live delivery took place a week ago, when a highly automated drone delivered a bag of popcorn and an Amazon Fire TV to a customer near Cambridge....

Crate.io on Wednesday announced the general availability of the first non-beta release of CrateDB 1.0, an open source SQL database that enables real-time analytics for machine data applications. This release is an upgrade from version 0.57 CrateDB is an SQL database alternative to NOSQL machine data management solutions. It gives mainstream SQL dev...

Salesforce on Tuesday released LiveMessage, a chatbot that lets enterprises users engage customers through messaging apps such as Facebook Messenger, SMS or MMS directly within its Service Cloud Service agents can respond to customers on Facebook Messenger after accessing their records, for example, and the conversation automatically is appended an...

Apple's new wireless AirPods are finally available The company on Tuesday began taking orders for AirPods at its online store, and said it would start delivering the US$159 earphones to customers, Apple Stores, resellers and carriers next week....

Facebook investors have accused director Marc Andreessen of secretly coaching CEO Mark Zuckerberg regarding a major sale of shares he held, according to a Bloomberg report citing recently unsealed court documents. The structure of the sale enabled Zuckerberg to refocus on philanthropic activities with his wife, Priscilla Chan, while maintaining lifetime control over the company he co-founded...

It turns out the awe-inspiringvideo Magic Leap unveiled last year is not a demo of its still-secretive mixed reality technology, but a bit of sleight of hand from special effects firm Weta Workshop, which is credited at the beginning and end of the clip Magic Leap's post -- titled "Just another day in the office at Magic Leap" -- claims the video s...

Linus Torvalds this weekend announced Linux 4.9, which offers a number of significant upgrades to the kernel "I'm pretty sure this is the biggest release we've ever had, at least in terms of commits," Torvalds wrote. "If you look at the number of lines changed, we've had bigger releases in the past but they've tended to be due to specific issues."

Some of high-tech's heaviest hitters will be in New York City on Wednesday to meet with President-elect Donald J. Trump On the list of all-stars expected to attend the meeting are Alphabet CEO Larry Page, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty, Intel CEO Brian Kr...

Traditionally in this year-end piece, I peer into my cloudy crystal ball and forecast the year ahead in CRM. Sometimes I'm close, other times not, but either way, my predictions quickly are forgotten. This year, I've decided just to say what I want rather than what realistically might happen. Since my vote has all of the authority of yesterday's news, it will follow the prognostications of years past.

Welcome to Gadget Dreams and Nightmares, the column that's stopped shaking its head in disbelief that it's actually December long enough to cast an analytical gaze over the latest gadget announcements. On the last page of the calendar are a portable record player, a device to craft designs into lawns, and a bed for your phone. Yes, you read that l...

Microsoft last week closed its US$26 billion acquisition of LinkedIn LinkedIn will remain a separate company and Jeff Weiner will continue as its CEO, but he now reports to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella....

Microsoft on Monday announced robust sales of its Surface line ahead of the holiday season. November was the best month ever for consumer Surface sales, according to Brian Hall, CVP of Microsoft devices marketing, who noted that Best Buy's exclusive bundle offering sold out on its first day.

I'm starting to get the idea that for the next eight or so years, a lot of what many of us are going to write will have something to do with what Donald Trump tweeted. Granted, since that has been the case for much of the last year, we have gotten comfortable with it. However, when Trump said he would kill the deal for an updated Air Force One -...

AT&T and Time Warner executives this week appeared before a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee to respond to lawmakers' concerns about their US$84 billion merger. Their testimony came at a time of high public skepticism of institutional power. Rival content and mobile providers applied further pressure with questions about the impact the deal would have on competition and pricing...