GeekWire

MAY 8, 2024

Microsoft Graphic Microsoft released a new version of a study that has documented the transformation of work over the past few years, from the implications of remote and hybrid work to the rise of artificial intelligence in the workplace.

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The Verge

APRIL 12, 2021

Microsoft is buying AI speech tech firm Nuance for $19.7 Microsoft will pay $56 per share for Nuance, a 23 percent premium over the company’s closing price last Friday. Nuance has licensed this tech for many services and applications, including, most famously, Apple’s digital assistant Siri. The deal includes Nuance’s net debt.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JULY 14, 2009

Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 Social, Agile, Transformation Pages. and business transformation.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

(LinkedIn Photo) After more than a week of controversy, Unity Technologies posted an apology letter to its community and promised to undo or rollback many of the changes it had planned to make to the licensing agreements for its game engine Unity. Whitten is a Microsoft veteran and one of the founding members of the Xbox design team.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 11, 2023

They integrate with Slack, Microsoft Messenger, and other chat programs where they read the language you use, then turn on when you type in a trigger phrase. Licensed by MIT, SpaCy was made with high-level data science in mind and allows deep data mining. Chatbots work the same way. NLTK is offered under the Apache 2.0

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2024

Take the everyday interactions citizens have with government agencies when, say, applying for a license or a permit, finding out information about specific services, or even completing an annual tax return. And this is just the start. States and cities are already working to bring such scenarios to life. To find out more, click here.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 9, 2024

Now, thanks to the cooperative’s tight partnership with Microsoft systems integrator Stoneridge Software, as well as Melby’s extensive technology experience, Dairyland — which was formed during the New Deal in the 1930s — has been able to experiment with and put into production some of the earliest Microsoft Azure-based LLMs, Melby says. “We

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 16, 2023

Many, if not most, enterprises deploying generative AI are starting with OpenAI, typically via a private cloud on Microsoft Azure. And many organizations already have a relationship with Microsoft, and are comfortable with the security, manageability, and enterprise support they get from the company.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 22, 2022

Many organizations look for candidates with PhDs, especially in physics, math, computer science, economics, or even social science. TensorFlow: Developed by Google and licensed under Apache License 2.0, A PhD proves a candidate is capable of doing deep research on a topic and disseminating information to others.

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GeekWire

MAY 26, 2020

Microsoft and Mojang Studios have partnered with apparel brand CLOAK to take care of that. Microsoft called the collaboration a wonderful opportunity and great fit. “’Minecraft Dungeons’ is a fresh and exciting new part of the adventurous worlds Mojang Studios has built. The clothing brand was launched in 2018.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2024

For the business- and employment-focused social media platform, connecting qualified candidates with potential employers to help fill job openings is core business. So the social media giant launched a generative AI journey and is now reporting the results of its experience leveraging Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service.

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GeekWire

APRIL 12, 2023

Employees of companies that issue credentials using Microsoft’s Verified ID will see a prompt in LinkedIn to verify their workplace. LinkedIn will offer a new workplace verification system that uses Microsoft Entra Verified ID to issue credentials. Microsoft acquired LinkedIn for more than $26 billion in 2016.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Microsoft President Brad Smith. Microsoft likes Australia’s plan to make Google and Facebook pay local publishers for content included in search results or news feeds so much that the company thinks the U.S. It should copy it instead,” Microsoft President Brad Smith wrote in a blog post Thursday.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 27, 2015

Iowa testing digital driver's licenses - GCN.com. The License Plate Surveillance Technology That Caught the Virginia Shooter - Newsweek. Microsoft Says Its Facial Recognition Can Tell Identical Twins Apart - Nextgov. DigitalGov Podcast: The Secrets Behind CIA Social Media. State Dept. Rebuild Healthy Homes from HUD.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 5, 2020

(Microsoft Photo). Samsung and Microsoft are cozying up even more. “Whether you are working on a document, keeping up on your social media feed or simply staying connected with family and friends, everything is accessible in one place, so your flow is never broken,” Microsoft exec Yusuf Mehdi wrote in a blog post.

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Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 22, 2006

This squarely puts Microsoft into a space – enterprise social network software – that has previously been populated by Spoke , Visible Path , Contact Networks , and Tacit. Many organizations seem to think the enterprise social network software will provide an immediate solution, and many have stumbled already in applying these tools.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 25, 2021

The foundation, originally founded by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and his sister Jody Allen, said Monday the new funding focuses on food security and child care, among other needs, and builds on previous aid totaling $12 million from the foundation. “We Pride Foundation ?

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Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 31, 2007

companies and applications are mapped out across two major dimensions: Content Sharing to Recommendations/ Filtering ; and Web Application to Social Network. Recently commented on The Future of Sales is Social (the rise of social CRM) (3) Brian Vellmure (@CRMStrategies) wrote:Ross,Good stuff as always.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

Value is increasingly seen as shifting to social networks. Media – as in the flow of information – is increasingly between people rather than in a hub and spoke arrangement, which makes social networking platforms central to value creation. Social networking platforms have figured out what works. Microsoft, Yahoo!,

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Trends in the Living Networks

SEPTEMBER 21, 2005

However social network analysis has been applied by intelligence agencies and law enforcement for decades. Interestingly, two Australian software companies are world leaders in applying social network analysis in these domains. This is a field set for massive growth. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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GeekWire

JULY 8, 2024

OpenAI and Microsoft were sued by The New York Times Co. filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against both OpenAI and its partner Microsoft in December 2023. ” Microsoft does not appear to be publicly involved in this aspect of the dispute. GeekWire Photos / Todd Bishop and Kurt Schlosser) The New York Times Co.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at the Microsoft Build developer conference in Seattle in May 2019. GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) When I met Satya Nadella in 1992, we were both engineers at Microsoft, and I never would have guessed we’d go on to be life-long friends or that he’d end up running the company for over a decade.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 22, 2021

However, the company’s website is still up, with a message noting that its IP portfolio and tech are available for license. The pandemic has helped put mixed reality back into the spotlight as people look for ways to connect in a socially-distanced world. It raised a $11.7

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Trends in the Living Networks

APRIL 13, 2007

Yet social networking is not just about friends and personal networks. Applying social networks in the enterprise is a sweet spot that has massive potential value. Spoke had a unique model at the time, providing both social networking applications inside the enterprise, as well as a public version of their application.

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Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 12, 2006

I have no doubt that the analysis techniques used on this data were primarily network mapping, using software such as Netmap , which I described in an earlier article on social networks and intelligence applications. Searching for patterns in this data is a network analysis application, and the state of the art is pretty good now.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 3, 2007

From the very beginning of the social networking space, with the launch of sixdegrees.com in 2000 (which gave up the ghost in January 2002), the fundamental underlying issue was whether social networks would be entirely exclusive and competitive, or whether they would in some way integrate to create a global social networking space.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 21, 2006

Although the mobile phone offers an "extremely appropriate platform for social networks," he said current pricing structures were holding back the market. The first is that a large proportion of social networking will shift to mobile platforms. This is going to be a very big market. I will be beating this drum more in the future.

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Trends in the Living Networks

SEPTEMBER 12, 2006

I talked about how social media is unleashing our latent humanity, by providing us with new ways of interacting and relating. We are exploring and discovering who we become as individuals and a society through using the new tools of social media. MySpace is a specific manifestation of how young people’s attention is shifting.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Now, Microsoft is making an upgraded version of the program, OpenAI’s autocomplete software GPT-3, available to business customers as part of its suite of Azure cloud tools. Microsoft already uses GPT-3 in its products. Then, in September 2020, Microsoft bought an exclusive license to directly integrate GPT-3 into its own products.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Meta claims its approach complies with privacy laws, citing the use of publicly available and licensed information. Microsoft Previously, Microsoft forced Windows users to install Copilot , which cannot be uninstalled, only suspended. Microsoft confirmed the app does not run any background code or capture user data.

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Trends in the Living Networks

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

» Lloyds TSB pilots social media Ross Dawson, February 26, 2008 7:30 PM US PT James Gardner, head of innovation at Lloyds TSB, writes consistently on his blog Bankervision , disclosing some of the key issues involved in innovating in a major bank. Some excerpts from his below show how blogging can change how corporations work.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 28, 2007

It’s another issue to uncover which are the most relevant social networks for your professional life, and to use these effectively. As such, it often makes sense to belong to specialist social networks. Licensed physicians go to each other for advice, and get access to relevant content. The answer is: it is if you want it to be.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 27, 2007

How long you should spend reading each day will vary tremendously for each individual, though most directors would benefit enormously from spending at least two hours each day learning more about developments in their industry and the broad social, economic and business environment. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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Trends in the Living Networks

APRIL 21, 2008

Free download of entire book » Social networks in organizations: balancing risk, reward, and transparency Ross Dawson, April 21, 2008 4:20 PM US PT A rather popular topic these days is the risks to organizations of using social networks. My Enterprise 2.0 Governance Framework explicitly addresses risks, benefits, and actions.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JULY 21, 2006

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « The social nature of Search 2.0 | Main | Mobile traffic data will pressure local radio » Being in two places at the same time Ross Dawson, July 21, 2006 5:02 PM US PT I really like this.

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Trends in the Living Networks

APRIL 9, 2008

I see a parallel path to browser-based social networking. From its early beginnings with sixdegrees.com in 2000, it took until 2007 for social networking sites to work out the basics of what people found compelling and were comfortable with, leading to a broad-based uptake of social networking sites.

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Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 10, 2008

MySpace and Facebook are providing ways to open out users’ access to their data on those social networks. I wrote last year about how the dominant platform in technology is shifting to social networks , and the inexorable trend to openness in social networks. Permalink | View blog reactions Categories : Social networks , Web 2.0

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