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IT Trends :: Thursday, November 16, 2006

  • 11/15/06

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What the Democrats' Win Means for Tech

Woo-hoo for ‘Net Neutrality! “On a wealth of topics – ‘Net neutrality, digital copyright, merger approval, data retention, Internet censorship – a Capitol Hill controlled by Democrats should yield a shift in priorities on technology-related legislation.”…

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Schmidt Says 'Your Mobile Phone Should Be Free'

Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt, denying that Google has any plans to give away phones, says that he thinks their use as mobile computing platforms makes them worthy of advertising and that will eventually mean that phones will be free. He was interviewed following a speech on the theme of business innovation organized by Italian student groups and the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University…

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South Dakota Regents: Colleges Need Tech Update

The regents’ concern is that students bring better technology to campus than the 5-6-year-old machines that the campuses provide for them once they are matriculating. The need to modernize computers across the university campuses will be a budget issue with the 2007 Legislature, Regents President Harvey Jewett of Aberdeen warned recently...

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The Top 10 Lies of Web 2.0

This piece from the San Francisco Chronicle starts with, “We learned our lesson last time,” and ends with “We look forward to working with our partners at Google.” Pretty funny…

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    WWT, NVIDIA Introduce Framework for Secure, Scalable, Responsible AI Adoption

    Technology services provider World Wide Technology and NVIDIA have jointly developed an AI security framework dubbed AI Readiness Model for Operational Resilience (ARMOR), designed to help organizations accelerate AI adoption while maintaining security, compliance, and operational resilience.

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    Apple and Google Strike AI Deal to Bring Gemini Models to Siri

    Apple and Google announced they have embarked on a multiyear partnership that will put Google's Gemini models and cloud technology at the core of the next generation of Apple Foundation Models, a move that could help Apple accelerate long-promised upgrades to Siri while handing Google a high-profile distribution win on the iPhone.

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    Student Readiness: Learning to Learn

    Melissa Loble, Instructure's chief academic officer, recommends a focus on 'readiness' as a broader concept as we try to understand how to build meaningful education experiences that can form a bridge from the university to the workplace. Here, we ask Loble what readiness is and how to offer students the ability to 'learn to learn'.

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    Microsoft Intros 'Cowork' Feature for Copilot, AI Updates

    Microsoft has announced a trio of AI updates, spanning Microsoft 365 Copilot, Security Copilot and Microsoft Foundry.