The new CAIAC alliance will deploy AI in the fight against COVID-19
The Collective and Augmented Intelligence Against Covid-19 (CAIAC), is a newly formed global alliance of think tanks that are working to deliver a platform, driven by AI to curb the effects of Covid-19 on the economy and public health.
The aim is to fight the virus's effects by way of advising p...
Docker and Amazon partner to accelerate application delivery
Docker has partnered with Amazon Web Services to increase application delivery speeds. The companies are offering a workflow with a more straightforward design, for developers who would like to use Docker Compose, to build apps that can run on Amazon Elastic Container Service and on Amazon ECS on A...
Freshworks acquires Flint, to bring automation and IT orchestration to their platform
Freshworks announced that they acquired Flint, an IT orchestrator and management platform for the cloud. This new acquisition is a move by Freshworks to add more value and functionality to their Freshservice IT support service.
Flint brings aboard new automation tools and propels Freshworks clou...
PC shipments rise due to COVID-19 remote work increase
Information Technology industry market researchers IDC and Gartner, both reported a surge in personal computer shipments during the second quarter of 2020.
The increase of pc shipments is attributed to the growing demand for computers to facilitate remote work during the Covid-19 pandemic. Howev...
Google unveils Android 11 Beta 2 with design tweaks and modifications
Google unveiled Android 11 Beta 2, the updated test version of its mobile operating system (OS), introducing a couple of new design tweaks and modifications.
The release has achieved a notable milestone which Google refers to as “platform stability.” This means the Application Programming In...
Microsoft adds APIs to its Azure Cognitive Services for developers
Microsoft is including more Cognitive Services APIs to its Azure cloud platform in a bid to widen its array of Artificial Intelligence (AI) services.
Azure Cognitive Services is used by developers to add Artificial Intelligence cpabilities such as speech understanding, image identification and ...
Microsoft adds new Teams features, like AI-powered virtual spaces
Microsoft unveiled a couple of new features for Microsoft Teams as demand continues to rise due to the coronavirus pandemic and ongoing workplace changes.
First in the list of the new Teams' features is what Microsoft has called "Together mode." According to Microsoft, this feature will change ...
Not many enterprises can depend on their supply chains right now
Just before coronavirus pandemic disrupted world economies, one in ten enterprises were working on a robust, and resilient customer-centred supply chain which could facilitate growth. This is according to Accenture’s recent research which concludes that not many companies can depend on their supp...
CyberArk Alero enhances Remote User Security with new Authentication
CyberArk, a leading global firm in providing privileged access management services, today unveiled new features for CyberArk Alero that allows remote customers to securely access CyberArk’s managed critical services from any mobile equipment- including non-smartphones.
“There are nearly 1.3...
IBM acquires RPA provider WDG amid automation market surges
IBM announced that it has signed a deal to buy WDG Automation, a Brazilian developer of robotic process automation (RPA) software. This move comes amid a surge in enterprise spending on automation equipment.
WDG was founded in 2014, and since then it hasn’t attracted outside funding, according...
F5 Silverline Shape Defense protects against fake web traffic
Network traffic management firm, F5 Networks, introduced a new security service today. The new tool will help its enterprise clients to protect themselves against fake web traffic, including bots and other kinds of automated threats on their websites.
A fully managed security service, known as S...
Zoom unveils hardware-as-a-service subscription for enterprises
Today, Zoom Video Communications, unveiled a hardware-as-a-service subscription in order to attract a sizeable slice of enterprise spending on communications equipment for workers.
Zoom provides a couple of premium features to companies that utilise its video conferencing platform. They include ...