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AI & the enterprise: protect your data, protect your enterprise value

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Imagine a hacker compromising a healthcare database and simply changing the blood type of every individual in a research study or the entire patient population. Ransomware attacks Recall the ransomware hack on MGM Resorts International hotel reservation systems, digital room keys, casino gaming systems, and restaurant point-of-sale systems.

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Restaurant and QSR Trends & Outlook for 2024

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Like many other industries, the restaurant sector was heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, with many businesses shuttering doors and many others struggling to make ends meet. This is for good reason— technological solutions make dining easier , both for customers and restaurants.

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Payment-processing outages at UK retailers raise reliability issues for cashless transactions

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The problems at fast food restaurant McDonalds, supermarkets Tesco and Sainsbury’s, and bakery chain Greggs, highlight retailers’ increasing reliance on third-party payment systems and the technical issues hampering a global shift from cash to digital payments. The larger the merchant, the more complex it could be.

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Strategic planning: How CIOs can build the best possible future

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That’s not the problem today,” says Bruce Rogow, former vice president and global head of research for Gartner and a Gartner executive fellow for 26 years. My good friend Geoffrey Moore told me over breakfast at Buck’s Restaurant in Woodside, Calif., Organizations were reluctant to spend money on technology.

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Uber embraces the cloud with customized CPUs

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Ampere is an ARM processor architecture licensee, and cloud service providers AWS, Google, and Microsoft have also customized ARM-based CPUs, notes Shane Rau, research vice president for computing semiconductors at IDC. Uber was constrained by its on-premises infrastructure, the company wrote in a September 2022 blog post.

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How IT leaders are driving new revenue

CIO

Sandwich-focused restaurant franchise Subway has some 37,000 locations worldwide, each of which faces a unique combination of factors, such as local competition and customer demographics, that impact sales and profitability. A 2022 report from Info-Tech Research Group revealed that supporting revenue growth was No.

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Speak Up: The Power of Voice Search and Its Impact on SEO

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Optimizing For Voice Search: Keyword Research And Content Strategy What Is Voice Search? Optimizing For Voice Search: Keyword Research And Content Strategy To optimize your content for voice search, you need to focus on long-tail keywords and conversational language. Table of Contents: What Is Voice Search ?