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Microsoft announces new Azure G family virtual machines and premium storage feature

Oct20
by on October 20, 2014 at 6:45 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Product Launches

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At today’s Microsoft cloud event, Vice President of Cloud and Enterprise Scott Guthrie introduced two new services to Azure. The first is the new G family virtual machines which offer customers up to 32 Intel CPU cores, 450 GB of RAM and 6.5TB of local SSD storage. According to Guthrie, these machines offer twice the memory of anything offered by Amazon’s AWS service. The company also introduced a new premium storage service for its customers with each virtual machine getting up to 32 TB of storage with a read latency of less than 1ms. Guthrie says that these two new features will…

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Teach them to fish: 5 leadership lessons for mentoring employees

Oct20
by on October 20, 2014 at 6:16 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur

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David Hassell is the CEO of 15Five. This post originally appeared on the 15Five blog. To succeed as an entrepreneur you must constantly overcome countless factors that are beyond your control; market changes, employee attrition and tech/product issues. You have to keep moving quickly towards execution or competitors will swallow you whole. But you can’t do it all by yourself. You need the support of employees who will require mentoring to reach a level of competency where they can work independently. In an outcome-focused business with scarce resources, it is tempting to give only as much direction as necessary to get…

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What’s on your home screen? Checking in with HowAboutWe co-founder Aaron Schildkrout

Oct20
by on October 20, 2014 at 5:21 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Entrepreneur, Profiles and Interviews, Social Media

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Courtney Boyd Myers is the founder of audience.io. “What’s On Your Home Screen” is presented by Fueled, a New York and London-based mobile app development company that produces award-winning apps for big brands like Barneys to hot startups like QuizUp. Online dating isn’t easy. Finding a match, and getting said match to go out on a date is tough enough. Then figuring out what to do? So much pressure! HowAboutWe, a New York City online dating service, launched in 2010, to solve this very problem. Aiming to take the initial friction out of date planning, founders Aaron Schildkrout and Brian Schechter have since…

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Microsoft updates Office Mix presentation tools with raft of new features

Oct20
by on October 20, 2014 at 5:16 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates

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Microsoft has today announced a raft of updates for its still new Office Mix presentation and teaching tools. Among the new features is an option to pause recording part way through, to ensure you pick your words correctly and say exactly what you mean, and a new ‘erase ink’ feature, if you want to carry on dictating over the same slide but add new content to it. There’s also a new search feature that makes it easier to find ‘mixes’ that interest you, which allows for breakdown by category, topic, tag or author. With the update, Microsoft is looking to refine the way…

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Apple releases iOS 8.1 with Apple Pay and SMS Relay, brings back the Camera Roll too

Oct20
by on October 20, 2014 at 5:07 pm
Posted In: Around the Web

As promised, Apple has released its iOS 8.1 update, which brings back the much-missed Camera Roll, enables Apple Pay on iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus devices and adds support for sending text messages from your Mac. With iOS 8.1, you can test the iCloud Photo Library beta. You can find the 117MB download in the Software Update settings on your iOS device. Apple first announced iOS 8.1 last week at its iPad and Retina iMac event. iOS 8.1 also includes a number of bug fixes for Messages, WiFi, Bluetooth connectivity, screen rotation, Safari and accessibility.

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