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The education technology imperative facing higher education
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6 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
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Here is an article from David O’Leary from his roles as chair national council of IT Deans, CEO, CIO, VP, educator, writer IDG-IT World Canada… When I started teaching Mathematics and Communications to Electricians and Auto Mechanics in 1976, there were...
Internet connectivity for rural and remote communities an economic necessity
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6 months ago
by
Stephen.Ibaraki
Here is an article from David O’Leary from his roles as chair national council of IT Deans, CEO, CIO, VP, educator, writer IDG-IT World Canada… Over my thirty-seven year career as an educator, fourteen years have been spent in an urban environment. The...
Live from Geneva: ITU WSIS +10 High Level Event Outcomes impacting all areas related to ICT
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6 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
I am in Geneva and writing this live at the ITU WSIS+10 High Level event which generated the following outcomes: http://www.itu.int/wsis/implementation/2014/forum/inc/doc/outcome/362828V2E.pdf --------------- http://www.itu.int/wsis/implementation...
June 25 Webcast, "Navigating Cybersecurity and Public Policy: Six Key Issues"
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6 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
Register TODAY for the next free ACM Webcast: "Navigating Cybersecurity and Public Policy: Six Key Issues," presented on Wednesday, June 25, 2014 at 11 am ET (10 am CT/9 am MT/8 am PT/3 pm GMT) by Dr. Herbert Lin, Chief Scientist, Computer Science...
Visual Studio “14” CTP Resources
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6 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
Try out the Visual Studio “14” CTP, released recently: Downloads: Download the Visual Studio “14” CTP (also available on MSDN subscriber downloads ). Alternatively, save some time and use the provided VM in Azure . Blogs & Release Notes: Read announcements...
Chat with Helge Seetzen, Pioneering Chairman, CEO and World Innovation Technology Leader
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6 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
When I talk with CEOs and IT executives, their priorities involve driving agility and innovation and the resulting efficiencies gained. At the second IFIP World CIO Forum where I am a vice-chair, one of the sessions will be using entrepreneurial and start...
MVP top articles: web performance, SQL injection attacks, WMI namespaces, Operations Manager, PowerShell
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6 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
1. MVP">Improving Web Application Performance - Part Two Users & Environment By Mitchel Sellers – Visual C# MVP 2. Protect a program from SQL injection attacks in C# By Rod Stephens – Visual C# MVP 3. Quick Hits: List All Available...
Getting business and education collaboration right in the ICT sector
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6 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
Dave O’Leary insights include as a Chair, CEO, CIO, VP, and much more as profiled here in an earlier blog. Dave is sharing his lessons below in this article, “Getting business and education collaboration right in the ICT sector.” For the past thirty-seven...
Dave O’Leary, bringing CEO, CIO, VP, Chair insights on his Microsoft Surface Pro Journey
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6 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
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I have known Dave since the 1980s’ as a leader in business, industry, government, media, society, academia and internationally. He has several interesting ideas he shared with me as articles that I will be posting starting with this one today. His profile...
Noteworthy Expert Developer Webinars: Debugging Direct3D Windows Phone 8.1 apps, Developing Universal Apps with Azure Mobile Services, Optimizing Windows Phone Apps
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6 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
Debugging your Direct3D apps for Windows Phone 8.1 June 10 th - Rob Caplan and James Dailey, Microsoft http://forumnokia.adobeconnect.com/e5rrvxmhewt/event/registration...
Chat with Paul Niederer, CEO ASSOB, World Authority Equity Based Crowdfunding Investment, Top Innovation Leader and Entrepreneur
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6 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
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In working with enterprises and businesses, an area increasingly getting attention is crowdfunding. It can be a viable way to fund projects. It started in the consumer space and now is entering the SMB domain. There is precedent, much like email, mobile...
Microsoft System Center Advisor (preview)—Log Management, Capacity Planning, Update Assessment, Malware Status
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6 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
For IT executives and your teams, this is worth going to ‘ Advisor Limited Public Preview’ service: Collect, combine, correlate and visualize all your machine data. Separate the signal from the noise with simple, powerful log management tools. Collect...
Three lessons for career growth
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6 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
I am fortunate to work with top executives worldwide. I gain added insights from the hundreds of interviews with notable leaders. There are three common lessons to learn from and then implement for stellar career growth. Lesson 1: Be challenged and seek...
Register for June 17 ACM Learning Webinar: "The Marriage of BI and Big Data—Business unIntelligence"
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7 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
Register TODAY to attend our next free ACM Learning Webinar, "The Marriage of BI and Big Data—Business unIntelligence," presented on June 17 at 12 pm ET (11 am CT/10 am MT/9 am PT/4 pm GMT). Barry Devlin, Founder and Principal of 9sight Consulting...
Skype real-time translation breakthrough demoed at the Code Conference—watch it!
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7 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
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As noted in this Microsoft blog , at the inaugural Code Conference (#CodeCon), Satya Nadella discussed his views on a more personal, more human era of computing, and in the blog there is a demonstration of an exciting new capability Microsoft is developing...
Chat with Leslie Lamport ACM Turing Award Recipient in 2014 (Nobel Prize of Computing); World-Renowned Distinguished Researcher
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7 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
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* Bill Gates indicates “As a leader in defining many of the key concepts of distributed computing that enable today’s mission-critical computer systems, Leslie has done great things not just for the field of computer science, but also in helping make...
Ethics in IT: Making it Personal—Meet up roundtable Monday June 9th
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7 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
We assume that our employers, customers, and colleagues are be guided by ethical principles. So, we may not necessarily think too close to home. Although it would be difficult to be completely prepared for an ethically challenging situation...
New Surface Offerings: Livestream New York City Microsoft Surface event begins at 11 am EST May 20th
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7 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
The NYC livestream #surface event begins at 11 am EST. Here is the link: http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us Surface -- designed to be the one device for everything in your life. Every Surface offers ports, Office compatibility, and Covers. Whatever...
Microsoft Azure and SAP expanded partnership meeting diverse needs of the enterprise
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7 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
I found this news of great interest to the enterprise after speaking to my enterprise colleagues. An extension of the 20 year partnership between Microsoft and SAP was announced today in a post from Takeshi Numoto , corporate vice-president, cloud and...
Chat with Richard Longworth, Disruptive Thinker, Educator, Community Advocate, Website Developer, Writer & Blogger
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7 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
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PREVIOUS: College Professor, Capilano University Vancouver; Programmer & Systems Analyst, Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Montreal; Database Designer, Federal Business Development Bank Montreal RECENT: Independent Website Developer for community based...
Microsoft Virtual Academy 2 millionth member wins for country
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7 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
Check out the latest courses from the Microsoft Virtual Academy ? MVA is approaching 2 million members! The 2,000,000 th member wins for their entire country -- all MVA users from that country will get a bonus of 100 MVA points per person!
MVP Blogs Spotlight: Mentoring Imagine Cup, PowerShell Summit, Battle of the Lowlands, Using Microsoft’s Entity Framework, Best Practices Friday 5
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7 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
Being a Mentor in the Imagine Cup Battle of the Lowlands PowerShell Summit North America 2014 Creating Unit Test for Projects Using Microsoft’s Entity Framework Friday Five - April 28, 2014
OneDrive for Business Increases Storage from 25GB to 1TB Per User
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7 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
For more details go here ! Summary of notable items quoted from the link: First , we will be increasing OneDrive for Business storage from 25GB to 1TB per user. Second , all Office 365 ProPlus customers will get 1TB of OneDrive for Business storage per...
Azure massive enhancements with VM, Networking, Storage, Remote App, API Management, Hybrid Connections, Cache, Store
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7 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
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Here is a summary quoted from Scott Guhtrie’s blog post : Virtual Machines: Integrated Security Extensions including Built-in Anti-Virus Support and Support for Capturing VM images in the portal Networking: ExpressRoute General Availability, Multiple...
Journal: ITU WSIS Geneva, Think Tank LA, PACE Washington DC, IFIP GA Vienna, IEA GIS New York, FEAPO LA, World CIO Forum Beijing, EU E-Skills Brussels
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7 months ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
I am travelling much of this year and providing an update of my activities. The resulting articles and interviews will provides insights to you as IT executives to ensure you have the latest information to support your work and the goals of your organization...
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