Riding the Wave: Navigating the IT Services Industry M&A Consolidation Movement with NTT and Dell

Earlier this week, Japan’s NTT Data Corp. agreed to buy Dell Inc.’s IT services division (formerly Perot Systems, acquired by Dell in 2009) for $3.05 billion.  Not a great long term investment by Dell, as the company acquired Perot Systems for $3.9 billion.  But, since Dell is spending $59 billion to acquire storage giant EMC, they need to come up with a few dollars to help lighten the debt load.

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LG G5 pre-orders in Germany come with free Cam Plus grip

Mainland Europe is getting the LG G5 a bit later than the US and South Korea, but Amazon Germany will start selling the flagship in the middle of the month and will offer a free Cam Plus grip.

The phone – available in Gold, Silver and Titan – costs €700 and the grip alone is €100, but using the LGG5AKTION code, the grip becomes free. The deal is valid for orders until April 16.

The grip helps shooting with an additional 1,200mAh battery and hardware controls – photo shutter and video recorder keys, plus a zoom dial.

The LG 360 Cam and LG B&O DAC are available too, but you’ll have…

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HTC 10 shows its face again, black version pictured

HTC 10 is going official on April 12 but we know pretty much everything there is to know about company’s next big thing. We know the design is a hybrid between the One M9 and One A9, we know about its Quad HD AMOLED screen and Snapdragon 820 chip, the possibility of a Snapdragon 652 model, its rumored retail price at €740, even the reported April 15 as a lunch date.

HTC has begun a marketing campaign with teasers over the social networks, but the leaks are quite more revealing than HTC’s hints.

Today’s leak show the black flavor of the HTC 10 shot next to its silver sibling. We’ve seen…

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DARPA: Help Us With Machine Intelligence For Wireless Devices

DARPA’s newest Grand Challenge is soliciting the public’s help on developing machine-intelligence technology for wireless devices to help combat the increasingly-overcrowded electromagnetic (EM) spectrum. The Spectrum Collaboration Challenge (SC2) will take place from 2017 through 2020 and will award the winning team with $2 million who successfully a smart, collaborative system for adapting to the EM spectrum based on load, congestion, and other factors.

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