BEP 177–Presentations: Making an Impact (Part 1)

This is the first in a two-part Business English Pod series about adding impact to your presentations. Weve all sat through boring presentations before. And weve all worried during our own presentations that others might be feeling that way. So what

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The American company Amazon.com is one of the biggest businesses in the United States and around the world. Now, the company is said to be negotiating with the government in Chile on a plan to reach for the stars. The Reuters news agency reports that

腾讯云计划新增五大海外数据中心

Tencent Holdings Ltd announced last Wednesday plans to more than double the number of its offshore data centers this year, its latest push to grow its cloud business and serve both international companies as well as Chinese groups wanting to expand o

云计算产业定下小目标 2019年规模达4300亿元

China is aiming to increase the scale of its cloud computing industry by more than 2.5 times by 2019, from 2015 levels, according to a new government plan. 根据一项新的政府计划，到2019年，我国云计算产业规模将在2015年的基础上

阿里巴巴电商中心落地马来西亚

China's e-commerce giant Alibaba last Wednesday announced a plan to set up an e-commerce hub in Malaysia encompassing logistics, cloud-computing and e-financial service. 我国电商巨头阿里巴巴上周三宣布，计划在马来西亚建设涵盖物

iPhone 4S “人工智能应用”

如同之前预测的一样，iPhone 4S除了硬件的升级外，最大的特点是人工智能语音程序Siri。在这个系统中，用户可以向程序提出问题，比如我今天需要带雨伞吗?现在巴黎几点了?纳斯达克股价如何

经济学人33:云计算的发轫之困

Cloud computing's growing pains 云计算的发轫之困 Break-ins and breakdowns 侵入和故障 The lessons from Sony's big security lapse and Amazon's cloud-computing outage 从索尼的巨大安全漏洞和亚马逊的云计算中断中汲取的教

经济学人27:云计算 Cloud computing

Books and Arts;America and Iran;Cloud computing; 文艺；美伊问题;云计算; A Single Roll of the Dice: Obama's Diplomacy with Iran, by Trita Parsi. 《孤注一掷：奥巴马的对伊政策》;特里塔帕塞著; With dark rumours swirling of

Amazon web-services partially recover

SAN FRANCISCO, April 22 (Xinhua) - Amazon's web-services disruption issues have not been completely resolved Friday morning, as some websites still in slow recovery. Amazon said in an update early Friday that meaningful progress has been made and is

High-tech industry fledges muscles at Dubai fair Gitex

DUBAI, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- While many fairs in crisis-ridden Middle East struggle to attract sponsors and exhibitors, the Gulf Information and Technology Exhibition, or GITEX, which opened Sunday, has a different challenge: a lack of space due to the

阿里与软银成立合资公司SB Cloud

Alibaba and SoftBank have announced a new joint venture targeting Japans competitive cloud computing market. 阿里巴巴(Alibaba)和软银(SoftBank)宣布成立一家新的合资公司，瞄准日本竞争激烈的云计算市场。 The new company,

强强联手! 万达与IBM共推企业级云服务!

IBM and a unit of China's Dalian Wanda Group, a property and entertainment conglomerate, agreed to team up to provide cloud services to Chinese companies, the U.S. technology provider said. 美国技术服务供应商国际商业机器公司（IBM）表

英特尔获利低于预期 全球裁员5%

英特尔获利低于预期 全球裁员5% It's troubling because i think you know we are used to hearing from you that you are very well spread that you've got a good eye on what the next technology is going to be, it seems all of the things have go

Cisco to buy newScale to expand cloud computing offering

SAN FRANCISCO, March 29 (Xinhua) -- Computer networking equipment giant Cisco Systems Inc. on Tuesday announced the intent to buy privately-held software company newScale Inc., in a move to complement and expand its offerings in cloud computing. Base

经济学人193:科技公司和医疗保健 头文字云

Technology firms and health care 科技公司和医疗保健 Heads in the cloud 头文字云 Digitising America's health records could be a huge business. Will it? 美国的医疗记录数字化会是巨大商机吗？ About time we caught up with th

阿里巴巴的全球扩张步伐

Situated in the Silicon Valley - home of many of the world's largest tech firms and countless startups - the data center that opened on March 4th is Alibaba's first data center overseas. The company says the data center aims to offer cloud computing

经济学人283:美国的医疗记录数字化会是巨大商机吗?

Technology firms and health care 科技公司和医疗保健 Heads in the cloud 头文字云 Digitising Americas health records could be a huge business. Will it? 美国的医疗记录数字化会是巨大商机吗？ ALTHOUGH most rich countries, an

阿里巴巴二季度营收优于预期

Alibaba, the Chinese ecommerce group founded by Jack Ma, delivered its fastest pace of quarterly sales growth since its 2014 flotation as it defied the wider slowdown in the Chinese economy and fears about its business model. 马云创立的中国电商

Microsoft Office 365 suffers first major outage

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- Microsoft's cloud-based software Microsoft Office 365 on Wednesday experienced its first major outage since its introduction in late June. At approximately 11:30 a.m. PDT, Microsoft became aware of a networking issu

经济学人:IBM的反叛呼喊(2)

Red Hat's OpenShift is supposed to create an uber-cloud, 红帽子的OpenShift程序有望创造出一个超级云， allowing computing workloads to run anywhere: whether it is in corporate data centres, on any of the big public clouds or a combinat