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Featured Articles » Robots are Headed to an Office Near You: Are You Ready? ITEXPO attendees got a real treat this week in sunny Las Vegas when a fully autonomous robot started making his way down the hallways and exhibit floor space, mingling effortlessly with show goers. Startling some-but intriguing most-this robot, created by iRobot, was certainly worthy of buzz during this week's show. » Intuit Gains Further Ground with itDuzzit Acquisition Intuit, these days, has been busy. With acquisitions like Check Inc. and Lettuce Apps showing up in recent days, Intuit is eager to gain ground and hold that ground by offering up the best range of services that it can. To that end, Intuit has made another purchase to line its growing arsenal in the form of itDuzzit, a startup out of Chicago that has a unique premise to it, and one that might make Intuit a real powerhouse in the field. » Big Layoffs Ahead for Cisco After Earnings Report While the news didn't seem all that bad out of Cisco's quarterly earnings report-a decline in sales that was smaller than expected, earnings and revenue that beat expectations, though not by much-the news was apparently enough to prompt some big changes in Cisco's overall operations, as the company announced plans to cut 6,000 jobs, which is approximately eight percent of Cisco's total workforce. » By 2020, TV Will Be a 'Must Have' Telco Service, Globally By 2020, half of all TV content viewed globally will happen on-demand, instead of live and linear, Ericsson predicts. » The Next Generation of Technology is Coming: Is Your Organization Ready? As Richardson explained during an ITEXPO panel Wednesday titled Leading Change: Taking Your Business and Technology in the Next Generation, IBM spends a lot of time interacting with different business executives, exploring the concept of adoption and change management, especially as it relates to technology. » Gigaom Talk at ITEXPO Explores the Future of Cloud Services Ashar Baig, a research director at the well-respected analysis firm Gigaom, today at ITEXPO offered his perspective on the future (and the recent past) of cloud services. » ITEXPO: CIOs Explain Where We Are, Where We're Going The wrap-up keynote session of Day 2 of ITEXPO in Las Vegas was in a word, scintillating, where TMCnet Group Editorial Director Erik Linask led a discussion on topics of intense interest. » Twitter Shifts Focus to Direct Messages, Which Could Lead to Higher Revenues Twitter has gone under a series of extensive overhauls as of late, replacing many of its top executives in order to match and fit to a new vision. But what exactly does that new vision entail? The social media giant has left several clues as to what that new direction may in fact be, ranging from a greater presence on TV and printed media as opposed to just the Internet to a greater presence in International markets. The company has been rather secretive about these plans until now, where it appears that the company may shift focus towards enhancing direct messaging capabilities. » Twitter's Bot Problem: Up to 23 Million Users Dream of Electric Sheep There are a lot of users on Twitter; reports say there are 271 million monthly active users (MAU) on Twitter as of the end of June alone. There's just no getting around that one. But even Twitter knew last month, reportedly, that not all of Twitter's users were represented by actual breathing human beings, and now, the true extent of Twitter's bot problem may have been revealed: as many as 23 million of Twitter's users may actually be bots. » NETGEAR Lets Fly the Nighthawk X6 Wi-Fi Router Home router giant NETGEAR has released its Nighthawk X6 platform, a tri-band Wi-Fi 802.11ac router that delivers speeds up to 3.2Gbps. It offers segmentation as a differentiator: it uses behind-the-scenes intelligence to segment slower and faster devices into the most appropriate Wi-Fi band for network load balancing. » Can Your Organization Balance Content Security with Customer Excellence? Today, everything is digitized, from banking and social media to more avant-garde cases like the television or the car you buy. This makes security a dicey issue, what with the majority of end users being unaware of the myriad of things that can happen each and every time a laptop is opened or a smartphone is powered up. Content security is a must for enterprises that are looking to stay out of the crossfire-the kind that Target recently encountered and made headlines for-but concrete security processes can also throw a wrench into achieving a seamless customer experience. Too tightly restricted processes can hinder productivity on the customer's end. » The Flexecutive Club: Future Workplaces in the Middle East will be Frictionless, Locationless Hubs Where Hierarchies Are No More Aruba Networks in collaboration with The Future Laboratory pinpoints some key trends that will shape the workplace of tomorrow. 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