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Chat with Adrian Schofield, International Leader in ICT, Accreditation, Certification and Research
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1 day ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
This week, I have an exclusive interview with Adrian Schofield. Born in the south of England, Adrian began his career in the petroleum industry and later moved into casino administration. Adrian emigrated to Southern Africa in 1981 (acquiring South African...
Windows 10–just amazing
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5 days ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
Awesome Windows 10 announcements: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-ca/windows-10/about Cortana’s got your back Cortana is your truly personal digital assistant who works across all your devices to help you get things done. Rule the web Project Spartan...
The SMART Tech Startup with Microsoft BizSpark (Microsoft Store at Square One Mall Mississauga)
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5 days ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
Go to this amazing event at Microsoft Store Square One Shopping Centre to help drive your tech startup to success. During this special networking event, the Microsoft BizSpark startup guys are teaming up to help drive your tech startup to success. Come...
Top 5 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Blogs of 2014
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7 days ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
1. Calendar Federation with an Exchange Hybrid 2. PowerPoint and Excel: Perfect Partners for Dynamic Tables and Dashboards 3. Using OneNote with the Surface Pro3 4. Using ObjectDataSource with ASP.NET ListView for Entity Framework 6 5. Better Best Bets...
Microsoft Virtual Academy: Active Directory, Windows 8.1, Office 365, Hybrid Cloud Azure, Bing Optimization, Windows App, Designing XAML UI
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7 days ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
IT Pro Courses 1. Understanding Active Directory 2. Windows 8.1 Deployment JumpStart 3. Office 365 ProPlus Deployment for IT Pros 4. Moving to Hybrid Cloud with Microsoft Azure Dev Courses 1. Mobile Dev: Bing Search Engine Optimization Jump Start 2. Mobile...
Microsoft Webcast Series: Top 5 Microsoft Data Platform Solutions
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7 days ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
Data Platform Technologies are constantly evolving. To help you keep up to date Microsoft Canada introduces a DataPlatform webcast series. Learn about new generation of Microsoft Data Platform solutions: Power BI‚ Analytical PlatformSystem appliance,...
International CES amazing transforming technologies
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11 days ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
I just returned from Las Vegas and the international CES with 170,000 delegates, 3600 exhibitors, 6000 press in over 2.2 million square feet—the largest technology showcase ever! Appreneur Scholars I judged the CES Appreneur Scholar awards...
Register for January 28 Webcast: Stranger than Fiction--Case Studies in Software Engineering Judgment
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12 days ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
Register* TODAY for the next free ACM Learning Webinar, "Stranger than Fiction: Case Studies in Software Engineering Judgment," presented on Wednesday, January 28, 2014 1pm ET (12pm CT/11 am MT/10 am PT/6 pm GMT) by Steve McConnell, CEO and...
Microsoft Ignite: The what’s-next-in-tech experience
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21 days ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
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May 4–8, 2015 Chicago, IL The best and brightest minds will be all in one place to talk cloud infrastructure and management, productivity, big data and the internet of things, unified communications, mobility and more. So welcome, thinkers. And get ready...
Reporting live from the international CES 2015–Jan 4–my predictions and judging
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23 days ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
I’m in Las Vegas at the international CES (Jan 6 to 9) in several roles: - at the invitation of the US Embassy as an industry board chairman - as a judge for the Kay Family Foundation Appreneur Scholar Awards - as a chairman and managing partner...
Applicative 2015 February 25th-27th, ACM's conference for software developers interested in the latest in emerging technologies and techniques
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24 days ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
The Applicative 2015 conference consists of two tracks, one looking at system-level programming and the other at application development. --------------------------------------------- Application Development The application development track has speakers...
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) useful resources for you and your organization
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24 days ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
The ACM, the largest non-profit in computing, has much to offer to support you and your organization. I will continue to share ACM news, videos, webinars and resources with you. I use all of them and find them indispensible in ALL of my work. A key part...
United Nations (UNESCO)-founded International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) News impacting you
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24 days ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
Here are a sample of news updates from IFIP: - Message from the President, Leon Strous - 2014 World CIO Forum November 2014 held in Xi’an China - 23rd World Computer Congress Oct 4-7, 2015 Daejeon South Korea - News from IFIP’s Italian member AICA - IP3...
Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals or MVPs top-ranking independent experts and resources available to YOU
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24 days ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
There are independent experts awarded by Microsoft annually and they can be a great asset to you when you need elite support. Who are MVPs? As noted in partial extracts from a reference letter by Steven Guggenheimer Corporate Vice President Developer...
ICTC announces ICT jobs outpace all others combined in 2014 led by business system analysts, multimedia designers, graphic illustrators
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1 month ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
Quoting: Job growth in ICTs exceeded the overall Canadian labour market considerably in 2014 with three quarters of notable gains and the last quarter remaining unchanged. The ICT unemployment rate has remained steady at 2.2%. Informatics / business systems...
Office Sway: reimagine how your ideas come to life
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1 month ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
From the Office Blogs : Say hello to Sway ! Sway is an entirely different way to express yourself and bring your ideas to life. When your ideas are born, you want to explore, visualize and share them—quickly and easily, wherever you happen to be, and...
Microsoft Datacenter Tour: Video, Facts, Top 10 best practices, Team blog
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1 month ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
Check out this video for a cool look inside a Microsoft Datacenter. As the engine that powers Microsoft's cloud services, the Cloud Infrastructure and Operations group focuses on smart growth, high reliability, operational excellence, cost-effectiveness...
Microsoft Ignite Mailing List
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1 month ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
Sign up here to receive news and updates about the Microsoft Ignite Conference taking place May 4-8, 2015 in Chicago! Ready to spark your future? We’re bringing together the best of all your favorite events—Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, Project, Microsoft...
Code.org #HourOfCode – A Huge Success!
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1 month ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
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Satya Nadella and the Hour of Code – Your passion makes a different As a part of Code.org’s Hour of Code, more than 20 Million students in 76,000 classrooms around the world learned to code this week, bringing us one big step closer to Code.org’s goal...
Microsoft Virtual Academy: Active Directory, Windows 8.1 Deployment, Office 365 ProPlus Deployment, Bing Optimization, Windows App to Market, XAML UI with Blend, Hybrid Cloud with Azure
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1 month ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
IT Pro Courses 1. Understanding Active Directory 2. Windows 8.1 Deployment JumpStart 3. Office 365 ProPlus Deployment for IT Pros 4. Moving to Hybrid Cloud with Microsoft Azure Developer Courses 1. Mobile Dev: Bing Search Engine Optimization Jump...
What are the technology trends at the international CES?
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1 month ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
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I am participating and judging at the International CES in January 6-9 2015 experiencing disruptive trends that will profoundly impact enterprises. You will find the trends here in an article I wrote for IDG-IT World appearing today: http://www.itworldcanada...
Professor Tetsuro Kakeshita, International Leader in Computer Science Education, Accreditation and Certification
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1 month ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
This week, Stephen Ibaraki has an exclusive interview with Professor Tetsuro Kakeshita. Tetsuro Kakeshita received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Kyushu University in 1989. Currently he is an associate professor at Saga University, Japan. His...
What does the future hold for Microsoft?
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1 month ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
From their annual report shareholder letter signed by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella indicates: ”Looking forward, we have a rich product road map that positions us to thrive in a mobile-first and cloud-first world. For example, we recently launched Delve...
Introducing .NET Core
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1 month ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
From a post by Immo Landwerth [MSFT] : “At connect() , we announced that .NET Core will be entirely released as open source software . I also promised to follow up with more details on .NET Core. In this post, I’ll provide an overview of .NET Core, how...
Register for December 18 ACM-SIGCAS Webcast: "Getting Cyber Safety Through to Employees (and anyone else)"
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1 month ago
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Stephen.Ibaraki
Register TODAY for the next free ACM Learning Webinar, "Getting Cyber Safety Through to Employees (and anyone else)," presented on Thursday, December 18, 2014 at noon ET (11am CT/10 am MT/9 am PT/5 pm GMT) by Ron Woerner, Director of Cybersecurity...
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