Blue days at end for IBM? After years of decline, turnaround may be at hand (+ videos)
IBM’s half-decade losing streak will most likely end Thursday, analysts predict, when the company reports its quarterly performance.
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AI, VR, AR: The alphabet soup of new mobile reality
Posted by WRAL News | Nov 17, 2017
Your mobile device and apps will soon be part of the rapidly approaching world in which artificial intelligence, virtual reality and augmented reality – the three acronyms of the next future – “touches” every piece of software. So says a top marketing executive at IBM Watson where a great deal of the world’s research into the AI, VR and AR world is taking place. “In the next three to five years, every piece of software you touch will have some form of AI or machine learning capability,” Mark Trapani explained at the Internet Summit on Thursday. “Many are already...
Read MoreInternet Summit: The strange future of mobile – and how to prepare for it
Posted by WRAL News | Nov 17, 2017
As the first decade of mobile smartphones ends, the future ahead is “going to look a little weird,” Michael Trapani, product marketing leader for IBM’s Watson Marketing, warned at the Internet Summit on Thursday. Before talking about “The strange future of mobile and how to prepare for it” at his Internet Summit session, Trapani took a look at “how we got here.” He showed a slide of the Nokia 1100, launched in 2003, which had a one-inch LCD display and could store a whopping 50 contacts. It was the most popular cell phone in its time. Then, in 2007,...
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