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Smart glasses’ appeal comes into focus at CES 2025 – Computerworld
Smart glasses require “purposeful compromise,” when it comes to balancing functionality with a lightweight form factor, and “different vendors are making different decisions,” to achieve this, said Greengart. Halliday’s smart glasses, for example, project text and images directly into the wearer’s field of view. This is perceived as a 3.5-in. screen that appears in the upper-right corner of the user’s view, and…
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Microsoft sharpens agentic AI focus with new ‘CoreAI’ division
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has unveiled the launch of a new internal AI division focused on advancing the tech giant’s agentic AI capabilities. The new ‘CoreAI – Platform and Tools’ division looks to improve synergy between the company’s software engineering and AI divisions, as well as other key teams from the office of the CTO such as AI Supercomputer, AI…
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Focus Group names Neil Hall as CEO with strategy for market leadership
Workplace solutions company Focus Group has announced a trio of appointments to its board of directors, including the arrival of Neil Hall as chief executive officer. The UK firm said the ‘significant appointments’ reinforce its commitment to strategic growth, innovation, and market leadership. A seasoned industry veteran, Neil Hall brings more than two decade’s experience to his new role, most…
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How to Use Focus Cell to Aid Data Entry and Analysis in Excel
Excel’s Focus Cell feature is one of the program’s simplest yet most useful additions in recent years. It highlights the row and column of the active cell, helping you keep track of your position in the spreadsheet and making it easier to read across rows and down columns. As of December 2024, this feature is only available to Microsoft 365…
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Channel Focus: All you need to know about Oracle’s partner program
Current chair and chief technology officer (CTO) Larry Ellison alongside Bob Miner and Ed Oates launched Software Development Laboratories (SDL), later Relational Software, in 1977 in Santa Clara, California. Renamed Oracle in 1982, today the firm is increasingly known for portfolio expansion through the acquisition of firms like Siebel Systems, Sun Microsystems, PeopleSoft, and NetSuite. Oracle boasts 160,000 employees and…
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Channel Focus: All you need to know about IBM’s partner program
Founded in 1911 by financier and businessman Charles Ranlett Flint, International Business Machines (IBM) – the Computing Tabulating Recording (CTR) company until 1924 – remains an elder statesman of IT, reporting $61.9 billion revenues for full-year 2023 and maintaining a strong innovation record from AI and quantum computing to industry-specific cloud solutions and patents. Chair and chief executive Arvind Krishna…
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Channel Focus: All you need to know about Salesforce’s partner program
Headquartered in Salesforce Tower, San Francisco, Salesforce says it’s paving AI-agent-powered or “agentic” productivity in the enterprise. Putting money where its mouth is taking it beyond its category-defining customer relationship management software (CRM) for deeper penetration of automation, AI, and data opportunities. One of the company’s key goals is driving enhanced customer experience across sales, service, marketing, commerce, and IT.…
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Channel Focus: All you need to know about Dell’s partner program
Dell Technologies’ journey began with customizing and selling PCs, broadening significantly after its $67 billion acquisition of storage giant EMC completed in 2016. This new acquisition blended SMB go-to-market strengths with EMC’s enterprise focus. Once famed for only selling direct, Dell Technologies today promotes partner opportunities across everything from AI, data center, and multi-cloud to edge computing. Dell also cites…
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AWS sharpens sustainability focus as AI environmental concerns rise
Amazon Web Service (AWS) has unveiled new sustainable data center components with a focus on energy efficiency, bolstering its ongoing commitment to sustainability across the board. Among these is a new mechanical liquid cooling solution that will provide liquid-to-chip cooling in both new and existing data centers, AWS said. Liquid cooling is a technique that uses liquid to absorb heat…
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Dell Technologies CTO: ROI on AI should be the number one focus for execs
Business leaders need to focus more on the return on investment (ROI) from AI projects, prioritizing those with definable value, according to John Roese, Global CTO at Dell Technologies. In conversation with ITPro at Dell Technologies Forum London 2024, Roese argued that there’s immense potential for AI and generative AI in the enterprise but that customers still struggle with identifying…
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