Artificial intelligence an help companies tackle well-defined problems, but knowing which problems to address requires curiosity, imagination, and a business culture that encourages these conversations, says CIO Journal Columnist Irving Wladawsky-Berger.
TransUnion Corp. is testing visual analytics software that lets banks, lenders and other corporate customers analyze their business performance by drawing on data from about 200 million consumers. The new product comes after a technology overhaul that moved TransUnion to open source and Agile development, and cut tech spending as a percent of corporate revenue.
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Step by step, the world is moving closer to the day when the mobile device is the device. It already has moved in that direction with the advent of touchscreens for laptops and tablets. Now, Alphabet Inc.'s Google is taking another step in that direction by making its Android apps, which were developed for mobile devices, available to laptops and desktops.
In the new role, Cynthia Stoddard will be responsible for developing and deploying a “scalable technology and business infrastructure” to support Adobe’s cloud platform, which includes Creative Cloud, Marketing Cloud and Document Cloud.
A widespread cyberattack designed to do physical damage could leave tens of millions of Americans without electricity for weeks or months said authorities on the electric grid who testified during a hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs.
Top chief information officers are removing friction between customers and the business and building connections among their corporate peers, panelists said Wednesday at the MIT Sloan CIO Conference. “The CIOs that can actually facilitate consensus, common purpose and mission are the ones that are really set to achieve great things,” said Craig Stephenson, managing director of the North American CIO practice at executive-search firm Korn/Ferry International
Innovation today, "is not as much about the technology, it's about changing the business model," says Michael Nilles, chief digital officer for Schindler Group and chief executive for Schindler Digital Business. "You have to have this protected incubator space at the beginning. Otherwise, normal operational challenges will not allow you to innovate at such a fast pace."
Unproven scalability, regulatory uncertainty, a lack of implementation standards and a talent shortage may slow its deployment in large companies.
David Autor, professor of economics at MIT, said that while the gig economy may be "the most fundamental shift in how employers engage with workers since the 1980s," it is mostly leveraged by firms to shift fixed labor costs to variable costs.
The cloud, once a corporate afterthought, is now the core of IT, forcing a realignment of vendors and their technology. In the midst of all this change, the customer is, at least in theory, ever more central.
Cybercriminals stole about $9 million last year from a bank in Ecuador in an attack similar to one that took $81 million from Bangladesh’s central bank about a year later. The case suggests global bankers haven’t been sharing critical information to prevent such heists
Uber will deploy a specially outfitted hybrid Ford Fusion on the streets of Pittsburgh in coming weeks, collecting mapping data and testing self-driving abilities.
Alphabet’s Google argued that France risks upsetting international law and emboldening totalitarian censors by trying to force the search firm to broaden its application of Europe’s “right to be forgotten.”
Google revealed new products that use machine learning to help users better perform simple tasks, access information and communicate with others.
A 2012 data breach at LinkedIn Corp. may have been far worse than previously known, potentially affecting over 100 million members.
Salesforce.com Inc. lifted its forecast for the year on the heels of a stronger-than-expected to start to its fiscal year.
Alphabet Inc.’s Google outlined several initiatives around virtual-reality in a bid to compete with rivals like Facebook Inc. that have taken an early lead in the emerging technology.
Google doesn’t yet have a name for Android N, its next major mobile operating system release, but the division is already highlighting its split-screen abilities.
Cisco continued to battle weak technology spending in its latest quarter, but the Silicon Valley company’s numbers showed progress in building businesses beyond networking gear.
Hackers with a “variety of motivations” are targeting U.S. presidential “campaigns and related organizations,” the director of national intelligence said.
An engineer who helped spearhead the self-driving Google car project has quietly launched a Silicon Valley startup that plans to retrofit tractor trailers with autonomous-driving technology.
Facebook exerts more editorial control than it previously disclosed over the “trending” news feature on the social network, newly posted documents show.
Apple erased any doubt about its interest in autonomous vehicles with a $1 billion investment in Didi Chuxing Technology, China’s dominant ride-sharing service.
Google’s whimsically named Parsey McParseface program helps machines understand written English, and the Alphabet subsidiary is making the code freely available for anyone to distribute or modify.
Nvidia said profit rose 46% in the latest quarter as videogame enthusiasts continue to pay up for greater performance and the company’s moves into new markets showed signs of paying off.
Many startup founders across Asia say that venture capitalists are hitting the brakes on funding, spooked by weakness in the global economy, volatility in China’s stock market and slumping investments in Silicon Valley.
Oracle’s attorneys said previous negotiations show the Alphabet unit knew it needed a license but decided to risk building Android without one, while Google’s attorneys said Sun executives didn’t believe a license was necessary to use Java as Google did.
Facebook is largely ruled by algorithms. But ultimately people must make judgments about what to show its 1.6 billion users and how.
European plane maker Airbus Group wants to become a major player in the fast-growing global drone industry, according to its chief executive, Tom Enders.
