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Can AI live up to its promise?

CIO Business Intelligence

History provides examples of innovations that have catalyzed epochal changes, such as the invention of the steam engine during the Industrial Revolution or the rise of the internet in the Information Age. Although the human brain has inspired much of the development of contemporary AI (e.g.

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Enterprise Browsers Reignite the Browser Wars, But This Time for Businesses

Forrester IT

I’ve been in the IT industry long enough to remember the start of the Browser Wars when Internet Explorer took on Netscape in the late 1990s. Product names like Mosaic, Netscape, “IE”, and Mozilla (and its next iteration with Firefox) were all part of the browser market development. Safari came along for Mac in 2003, […].

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End of an era: Microsoft to shut down Skype, shifting users to Teams, 14 years after $8.5B deal

GeekWire

billion in 2011 to acquire what was once a dominant player in voice and video calls over the internet. But conflicting internal development efforts and tough competition have taken their toll. Founded in 2003, Skype was acquired two years later by eBay for $2.6 Microsoft paid $8.5 billion, 2023), LinkedIn ($26.2

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Bezos’ Amazon: from bookstore to backbone of the internet

The Verge

to found an internet-based bookstore. In 1998, Amazon bought the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) for approximately $55 million, in the company’s first major acquisition. In 2003, Amazon, for the first time in its history, turned an annual profit of $75 million. Shaw & Co. Prime time.

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Extinction Timeline: what will disappear from our lives before 2050 - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Ross is author most recently of Implementing Enterprise 2.0 , the prescient Living Networks , which anticipated the social network revolution, and the Amazon.com bestseller Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships (click on the links for free chapter downloads). Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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Launching the Web 2.0 Framework - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Ross is author most recently of Implementing Enterprise 2.0 , the prescient Living Networks , which anticipated the social network revolution, and the Amazon.com bestseller Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships (click on the links for free chapter downloads). Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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Eight steps to thriving on information overload - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

In a world in which the pace of developments and amount of information available in any given domain is soaring out of sight, it’s a very valid question. Information is coming in from all sides in the form of reports, memos, newspapers, journals, and letters, and now the advent of e-mail and Internet has turned the torrent into a flood.

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