Daily Archives: March 21, 2016

Another Nubia passes through TENAA – possibly the Z11 Mini

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If you are familiar with the Chinese mobile landscape, you might have noticed that Nubia (the ZTE sub-brand), one of the relatively big-name players, has been keeping a rather low profile lately. In fact, the manufacturer has been teasing us with various rumors about a new flagship offer, allegedly caller the Z11, going as far back as November 2015. After missing two consecutive suggested launch dates, one on January 5 and the other on January 18, the device is starting to prove quite illusive.

However, not all hope is lost yet, as a new TENAA certification entry suggests Nubia is…

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CIO Gus Shahin Leads Flex’s Digital Transformation

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Flex is a $26 billion provider of global supply chain solutions. Flex has long been in the business of designing, building, shipping, and serving packaged electronic products for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Flex works in collaboration with companies large and small, and the company’s CIO Gus Shahin’s team has been an integral player in creating the tools and the environment to allow innovation to sprout.

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Kevin Steele Of Cars.com Runs IT And Product

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Cars.com is a web 1.0 company, having launched in 1998. It receives roughly thirty million visits per month, and it focuses on the merchandising of new and used vehicles. Kevin Steele leads IT and product for the company, and as such has typical CIO responsibilities, but also is responsible for the Cars.com website, the products the company sells to dealers, the features the company presents to consumers. Therefore, he has an unusually strategic set of responsibilities. Within the past three and a half years, Steele has shepherded in the rise of Cars.com’s mobile presence to reflect the fact that customers increasingly wish to access the site on their smartphones.

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Introducing The Winners Of The Forbes CIO Innovation Awards

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I have had the privilege of being a judge on a number of awards bestowed upon leading chief information officers. Many of them have an innovation theme of one sort or another. I have also had the opportunity to speak with a great number of CIOs, and for those who have an innovation mandate, I have had a chance to speak with them about what constitutes innovation.

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Three Things You Need To Know About The Google Cloud Platform

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Over the past two years we have seen the market for public cloud become hyper-competitive. The field of players has expanded and retracted exponentially. Industry stalwarts like Amazon.com Inc.’s Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Inc. Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Corporation Azure have solidified their dominance in this space. Others have entered this market only to retreat and focus on either hybrid, private, co-locating/hosting, or any number of cloud service machinations. Each public cloud provider has its strengths and weaknesses. For example (and a gross over-simplification), AWS is strong on compute and infrastructure, Microsoft Azure on applications and OS, and Google in the data analytics and storage.

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