Topic: service integration
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Australian Experts Lead Global Update of SIAM Industry Playbook
Australia's technology sector, led by Kinetic IT experts, has driven a major update to the Service Integration and Management Body of Knowledge to keep it relevant for modern digital operations. The 2025 edition introduces new guidance on AI, experience management, and organizational change, expa...
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Modelence Secures $3M to Streamline Vibe-Coding Development
Modelence, a Y Combinator-backed startup, has raised $3 million in seed funding to simplify the complex development-to-deployment pipeline for AI-assisted software creation. The company addresses the critical weakness of fragile integration between services by offering an all-in-one TypeScript fr...
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Abu Dhabi Debuts World's First AI Public Servant at GITEX 2025
Abu Dhabi has launched the world's first AI public servant through the TAMM AutoGov platform, automating routine tasks like license renewals and bill payments to free residents from administrative burdens. The initiative introduces AI-driven features such as AI Vision, Smart Guide, and holographi...
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Affinda Acquires Pathfindr to Boost AI Transformation
Affinda Group has acquired Pathfindr in a $15 million all-scrip deal, combining two Australian AI specialists to enhance their service offerings for corporate digital transformation. The acquisition integrates Pathfindr's expertise in AI training and implementation with Affinda's focus on automat...
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Netflix's Warner Bros. Deal Could Change Your TV Remote
Netflix mandates strict certification for TV manufacturers, requiring a dedicated app button and prominent home screen placement due to its dominant 19% share of North American streaming traffic. The service maintains a walled garden by tightly controlling data sharing and blocking its content fr...
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Alexa.com Brings Amazon's AI Assistant to the Web
Amazon is expanding its Alexa+ AI assistant to the web with Alexa.com, moving beyond smart speakers to compete directly with web-based chatbots and increase ubiquity. The service differentiates itself by focusing on home and family management, handling tasks like calendar updates, reservations, a...
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OpenAI DevDay 2025: Agent Kit, Apps SDK & ChatGPT Updates
OpenAI's DevDay 2025 announced a strategic shift, positioning ChatGPT as an evolving operating system with new tools like AgentKit, Apps SDK, and Codex, alongside model updates such as GPT-5 Pro and Sora 2 entering the API. The event highlighted enhanced developer capabilities, including the gene...
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N-able Enhances Backup Security with Advanced Threat Protection
N-able has enhanced its Cove Data Protection platform with Anomaly Detection as a Service (ADaaS), a built-in feature that identifies and neutralizes cyberthreats without extra management or costs. The first component, Honeypots, detects brute-force attacks by luring unauthorized access attempts,...
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Google's AI Demand Forces 6-Month Capacity Doubling
Google must double its AI serving capacity every six months to meet demand, aiming for a thousandfold computational increase within four to five years while controlling costs and energy use. The surge in AI demand may stem from both user interest and Google's strategic integration of AI into prod...
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DevOps1 Acquires Innablr to Challenge Cloud Giants
DevOps1 has acquired cloud engineering firm Innablr to create a strong Australian competitor to global system integrators, addressing a shortage of local challengers in the technology services market. The merger increases DevOps1's workforce to 130 with plans to double it in two years, combining ...
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ExpressVPN Adds Private AI Assistant and Major Upgrades
ExpressVPN is expanding from a VPN specialist into a full security platform, launching new tools like ExpressKeys (password manager), ExpressMailGuard (email masking), and a future private AI assistant called ExpressAI. The new services focus on distinct privacy areas: ExpressKeys offers standalo...
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Unmask Email Leaks With This Simple Alias Trick
Plus addressing allows you to append a unique identifier to your email address, helping trace which companies mishandle your contact information by revealing the source of unwanted emails. This method involves adding a plus symbol and a descriptive word to your email when signing up for services,...
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Amazon's Bee AI Wearable: A Hands-On Review
The Bee AI wearable records and transcribes conversations, but its key innovation is intelligently segmenting and color-coding discussions into organized, actionable summaries with minimal user effort. It diverges from professional tools by lacking intuitive speaker identification and deleting or...
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Airbnb Tests Instacart Grocery Delivery for Guests
Airbnb is piloting a grocery delivery service with Instacart, allowing guests to order groceries through the Airbnb platform before and during their trips to enhance convenience. The trial will launch in select U.S. cities—Phoenix, Orlando, and Los Angeles—with hosts earning incentives for storin...
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New Echo Devices Come with Alexa Plus Pre-Installed
Amazon is shipping new Echo and Fire TV devices with Alexa Plus pre-installed, expanding access to the previously invite-only AI assistant in the U.S. Alexa Plus introduces "agentic" functions for tasks like reservations and rides, improved memory, and natural conversational interaction without n...
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