Apple researchers achieve state-of-the-art results in multimodal AI with MM1 models, combining text and images for breakthroughs in image captioning, visual question answering, and few-shot learning, as the company invests heavily in AI to enhance Siri, Messages, and future products.
I've had the opportunity to visit several infrastructure and operations industry events already this year. Each targeted the same basic message: a return to innovation. But I have to wonder, are we really ready for innovation? The last 18 months have been marked by a consistent and constant effort to demonstrate return on investment (ROI). Why, as we now enter 2010, is there a sudden emphasis on innovation? The answer is what I refer to as "new shiny object syndrome."
Advanced Micro Devices is looking to invest in technology companies as it tries to build a hardware and software ecosystem around its upcoming Fusion processor, the company said on Tuesday.
ERP (enterprise resource planning) software investments aren't on this year's agenda for three-quarters of IT decision-makers who responded to a recent Forrester Research study, indicating that the global economic downturn's effects are still lingering.
A successful enterprise architecture project can help unlock an IT department's true value to the business it supports. EA, as a discipline, allows an organization to compare its near-term business objectives with its current technological capabilities and then make intelligent decisions about what it can reasonably expect to accomplish. Furthermore, the gaps that are identified represent opportunities for future IT investments.
A survey of 1,425 information technology managers in 32 countries about the type of security they deployed on their network endpoints, as well as security training for employees, indicates that these technology investments paid off in mitigating cyberattacks and downtime.
Bharti Airtel's profit continues to be weighed down by the cost of debt it took on to make investments in 3G spectrum in India and to acquire the African operations of Zain.
U.S. President Barack Obama has signed legislation that eliminates restrictions preventing entrepreneurs from seeking crowdsourced funding online and removes some other financial regulations for small businesses.
A global recession has yet to change carriers’ plans to increase their investments in submarine cables over the next two years, according to research from TeleGeography.
Governments should include more information and communication technology investments in their economic stimulus plans, according to an advisor to President Barack Obama's transition team. But governments must also move quickly to realize the desired short-run stimulus effects of these investments.
Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers announced on Thursday $16 billion in new investments in China, including manufacturing, investment and educational programs.
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In 2001, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, Japan's dominant telecom provider, got a shock. It had just started DSL broadband Internet service and was taking its first steps toward reaping the benefits of an ambitious and costly plan to string fiber-optic cable along every street in the country when along came Softbank.
Operators of fixed and mobile networks will invest more than $10 billion in IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS) over the next five years, powering many new services for business customers that will become available in the next two years. That’s the latest finding from ABI Research, which forecasts that service providers will generate nearly $50 billion in revenue from IMS-enabled applications in the year 2011.
To nurture Uganda's nascent IT sector, the government will be open to joint venture investments with the private sector, according to the national draft IT policy currently being discussed.
Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Kenya's ICT sector has dropped as a result of rigid policy on company ownership and investments, said Bitange Ndemo, permanent secretary in the Ministry of Information and Communication.
Last week Brocade announced its intent to acquire McData, an event that is interesting on a number of levels. The stated rationale, that this will create a "broader range of solutions and services that protect and extend customers' existing investments in [storage-area networking] infrastructure," and that it will "accelerate the pace of innovation to deliver next generation solutions to address customers' information management challenges" is of course an industry-standard platitude for this sort of occur
Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited is set to engage an independent consultant to advise it on the IT investments necessary to better serve Uganda.
Ask any executive if he would like to have better access to business intelligence in order to make better business decisions, and he’s likely to say “Who wouldn’t?” Then ask him why he doesn’t already have access to better BI, and he is likely to blame it on the big investments in time and technology as barriers to entry. I mean, don’t BI systems take years and cost millions to implement? Not if you outsource your BI.
The Taiwan government is planning major changes to regulations governing chip-related investments in China, but the island's companies are in no hurry to build new factories on the mainland.
Taiwan is moving towards a major revision of the restrictions placed on local semiconductor companies with regard to their investments in mainland China and is likely to remove many of the hurdles they currently face, a senior government official said in an interview.