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  • Cisco’s Webex vs. Arthur Digital and the future of collaboration and communication

    Editor’s note: Cisco and Microsoft are clients of the author. Cisco Webex and Arthur this week had events focused on each company’s collaboration approach. Cisco made a significant move to finally eliminate phones that can’t do video, attempting to do what AT&T promised to do back in the 1960s: move to video phones. While Cisco is using its…

  • How mixed reality (and Hololens) boosted productivity at Lockheed Martin

    Disclosure: Microsoft is a client of the author. Mixed reality (MR) in the consumer market has been less than exciting, but it’s been a big hit in business — particularly in manufacturing and training. Lockheed Martin was one of the first companies to embrace this technology (along with other aerospace firms like Boeing). In a…

  • How blockchain could help block fake news

    In 2018, a video of former President Barrack Obama surfaced on YouTube explaining how easily technology could be used to manipulate video and create fake news. It got more than 7.2 million views. In the video, Obama explains how we live in dangerous times when “enemies” can make anyone say anything at any point in…

  • Should you tell customers they’re talking to AI?

    When chatbots reach the level of always passing the Turing Test, and can flawlessly pass for human with every interaction, do you disclose to users that it’s AI? That’s the dilemma.

  • How the Apple Car will drive IT change

    Don’t think of the coming iCar as a car. It’s a remote office with a supercomputer inside that will change the way you think about cars — just as the iPhone changed how you use phones.