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Mozilla's revenue in 2018 fell by nearly 20% compared to the year prior, and for the first time expenses outweighed income, the organization said in its annual financial report.
The nonprofit behind Firefox implied that the apparent downturn was misleading because of the comparison to record revenue of the year before. "2017 was an outlier, due in part to changes in the search revenue deal that was negotiated that year," Mozilla said in the "State of Mozilla 2018" report published on its website.
[ Further reading: 14 must-have Firefox add-ons ]Mozilla also asserted that the revenue decline would not affect its work. "Despite the year-over-year change, Mozilla remains in a strong financial position with cash reserves to support continued innovation, partnerships and diversification of the Firefox product lines," the organization wrote.
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Itthe late 1980s, and this pilot fish is working as a teller at small suburban bank with a few branches.
&Automation is catching on, but slowly,& says fish. &We have terminals to process deposits, withdrawals and money orders — but at the end of the day, the branch manager still takes our totals and enters them into a handwritten ledger.&
The terminals use a text-based menu for everything, but for some operations that require a managerapproval — say, printing a cashier's check — the manager must walk over, hold down an override key and type in a password to let the teller access the check-printing menu.
Fish notices that the console beeps now and then during the password process. But it doesn&t happen every time, and thereno pattern he can detect.
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As businesses look to give employees flexible work environments, whether on desktops or mobile devices, in the office or out in the field, IT shops have had to scramble to consolidate the management of hardware using a single console.
With that IT goal in mind, Microsoft in 2011 launched its Intune cloud service to address the emerging enterprise mobility management (EMM) needs of the workplace.
After eight years, Microsoft decided to combine its Intune unified endpoint management (UEM) platform with its System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr), enabling users to access both with just one interface.
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Microsoft surprised most of the tech and political world when it was awarded a 10-year, $10 billion contract from the U.S. Department of Defense for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) project to transform the militaryuse of the cloud. Amazon, IBM, Oracle and Google had all been in the running, with Amazon thought to be the front-runner because it is the worldlargest cloud provider and had already built a cloud system for the Central Intelligence Agency.
After Microsoft received the contract, plenty of people expressed the belief that President Trump had intervened to make sure Amazon didn&t win it, pointing to his constant criticism of Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, who also owns The Washington Post. Fueling the speculation was a book published by a speechwriter for former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, which claimed that Trump wanted to freeze Amazon out of the contract.
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Apple has entered manufacturing infrastructure with its products seeing wide deployment as industrial technology moves into whatcalled Industry 4.0 & connected systems augmented by AR and mobile solutions.
Smart, connected machines
The introduction of the iPhone and the subsequent debut of other advanced mobile devices acted as a clarion call.
The ability to work remotely doesn&t just apply to humans, but also to machines. Smart, connected industrial infrastructure is the inevitable result. Analysts call this &The Fourth Industrial Revolution,& hence, &Industry 4.0&.
What sort of real-world implications do these technologies have? Heresome ideas:
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Email has long been the go-to tool for internal communications. But ensuring the right information gets to the right employee can be challenging & particularly for companies with thousands of employees across different locations.
At TD Ameritrade, email was central to corporate and team communications & and workers sometimes felt bombarded with messages not particularly relevant to their jobs, according to Neal Obermeyer, senior manager for digital workplace and channel effectiveness for the company.
[ Further reading: 10 tips for preventing Slack burnout ]At the same time, employees sometimes missed out on important conversations going on via email, with &choke points& getting in the way. &Information in email is essentially useless to anybody who is not in the conversation,& said Obermeyer. &As far as our organizational intelligence goes, information in email might as well not exist.&
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