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The United States government risks undermining the digital economy if it doesn’t embrace strong encryption, according to a bipartisan congressional report released last week. The Encryption Working Group’s Year-End Report comes after a year long investigation by the House of Representatives’ Judiciary …
Microsoft will be the first tech firm to hit a $1 trillion valuation, analyst says
Following its $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn Corp., Microsoft Corp. could become the first technology company to see its market value hit $1 trillion. That prediction comes from respected financial analyst Michael Markowski, who was previously named by Fortune as one of its “top …
Mimecast heads up Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for enterprise information archiving
Gartner Inc.’s latest Magic Quadrant for enterprise information archiving shows that Mimecast Ltd. is way out in front of a market that looks to be increasingly dominated by specialists in the field. It’s actually quite a competitive space too, with companies including …
ClusterHQ, creator of the Flocker software container manager, shuts down
ClusterHQ Inc., the startup that developed the popular open-source software container manager Flocker, today said it’s shutting down operations immediately. The move comes as something of a surprise, since the company had raised $18 million in venture capital funding to propel its vision …
Google researchers develop a test for machine learning bias
A team of researchers at Google Inc. has developed a method for testing whether or not machine learning algorithms inject bias, such as gender or racial bias, into their decision-making processes. For some time, concerns have been raised about the possibility that …
White House report mostly optimistic on economic impact of AI and automation
Artificial intelligence and automation have the potential to boost living standards and lead to an increase in people’s leisure hours, but could also lead to increased economic inequality, the White House said in a new report. The report, titled “Artificial Intelligence, Automation, …
Microsoft makes Office 365 more accessible to the visually impaired
Microsoft Corp. has made a number of improvements to Office 365, including making documents easier to read for those with poor eyesight. Announcing the updates, Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Office group, said the idea was to make content produced …
HPE, Cisco lead in cloud infrastructure, but Dell EMC and others are gaining fast
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. and Cisco Systems Inc. have led the field in the strategically important cloud infrastructure equipment market for years, but now they face new challengers for dominance in Dell EMC and makers of unbranded gear. Synergy Research Group, which …
BlackBerry posts small profit as software and services strategy takes shape
BlackBerry Ltd. posted a small profit despite reporting declining revenues on Tuesday, but Chief Executive Officer John Chen insisted that the company would finally break even next quarter. The former smartphone maker-cum-software developer reported a fiscal third-quarter profit of one cent per …
Qualcomm joins the Xen Project to promote ARM-based clouds & servers
Qualcomm Technologies Inc. has joined the advisory board of the Xen Project, an initiative that aims to further the development and support of the open-source Xen hypervisor and its related components. The Xen Project’s advisory board is a group of companies that …