Articles by David Jones

Google on Tuesday announced its rebranding of G Suite as Google Workspace, along with its newly integrated desktop environment that is designed for enhanced collaboration and communications, marking its latest bid to challenge Microsoft 365 Google Cloud officials said the Workspace environment will create a new user experience that integrates meeti...

SpaceChainon Monday announced that it has entered a partnership with the Arch Mission Foundation to use open source technology to launch an ambitious project involving the storage of large data sets in spacecraft and on other planets. Arch Mission will load large quantities of data onto SpaceChain's satellite vehicles with the eventual aim of sto...

Lattice Engines, a provider of account-based marketing tools driven by artificial intelligence, on Thursday announced the launch of Lattice Atlas, positioning it as the first customer data platform for ABM. The new platform synchronizes all customer data across a single, integrated view, the company said, making it easier for customers to see the...

F-Secure researchers have discovered a flaw in electronic hotel door locks from Assa Abloy that could allow hackers to access guest rooms and other secure locations at millions of properties worldwide Software updates were issued to fix the flaw in the smart locks, called "the Vision by VingCard," after F-Secure notified and worked with Assa Abloy ...

Amazon on Tuesday added a new option to its Amazon Key service for Prime members: in-car delivery, which allows drivers to place packages inside a locked trunk or elsewhere in a car that is parked in a publicly accessible area The Amazon Key In-Car delivery service is available at no extra charge to millions of Amazon Prime members, including drive...

Users of Google's Gmail have been receiving spam that appears to have been sent from their own accounts, according to reports. Google said it was aware of a spam campaign impacting a "small subset of Gmail users" and was taking measures to protect against it.

Vendors have a better shot at closing deals for large-scale B2B software purchases when they are upfront and honest about the quality of their products, a new study from TrustRadius suggests. There is a bit of a trust gap between what is promised in negotiations for these deals and what actually is provided, indicates the poll of more than 650 tec...

Companies that aim to upsell their existing customers should develop a hybrid message that reinforces their existing relationships while providing an incentive to break the status quo, suggests a new study commissioned by Corporate Visions The study was conducted by Nick Lee, a professor at Warwick Business School, in partnership with the Internati...

Facebook on Tuesday unveiled a comprehensive series of privacy enhancements designed to extend protections required by the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation to all of the social media company's users around the world The updates, which include major changes to the company's terms and data policies, fulfill promises CEO Mark Zucker...

Demandbase officially announced ABM Analytics during its annual ABM Innovation Summit in San Francisco last week. The new tech, part of the company's account-based marketing platform, leverages its account identification technology to help marketers analyze performance from advertising to pipeline and revenue figures "Artificial intelligence gives ...

McAfee on Monday introduced its Cloud Workload Security v5.1, which represents the first solution for open source containers, at the RSA conference in San Francisco McAfee CWS v5.1 secures Docker workload and servers in public and private cloud environments by quarantining infected workloads and containers in a single click, the company said.

Following two days of often contentious exchanges between members of Congress and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg this week, the focus in Washington and Silicon Valley has shifted from how Facebook plans to change its data practices to how to implement some of those plans The company has already taken steps to streamline its disclosure and privacy pol...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday endured a second day of congressional criticism during a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. His appearance followed an intense session with the Senate Commerce and Judiciary Committees a day earlier Some members of the House committee questioned whether Facebook tracked users offline. Some ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday conceded that the company failed to inform the Federal Trade Commission that Cambridge Analytica had gained improper access to personal data belonging to millions of Facebook members, despite its 2011 settlement with the commission over earlier complaints of unauthorized data sharing Zuckerberg made the admis...

Microsoft has rummaged deep into its archive for its latest contribution to the open-source community: Windows File Manager Originally bundled with Windows in 1990, File Manager was a replacement for the command-line interface in MS-DOS. The program was used to search, open, copy and delete files until it was replaced by Windows Explorer, which fol...

Facebook reportedly allowed senior executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, to delete messages from recipients' inboxes and chat threads, but it never disclosed the practice or offered the same capabilities to users. Facebook secretly used technology to delete archived messages sent from Zuckerberg's social media account, TechCrunch reported las...

Valve has been working to reassure members of its community that it has not yet thrown in the towel on SteamOS and Linux gaming systems that have been hampered over the years due to performance issues, soaring sales on mainstream rival platforms, and generally weak demand for Steam Machines. Valve recently withdrew SteamOS machines from its direct...

An alarming number of major U.S. retailers, industrial firms, government agencies and other organizations have been hit in a recent wave of cyberbreaches that may signal increasing vulnerability for consumers and businesses alike. The attacks have exposed millions of consumer payment cards to fraud. Cyberthieves have used a variety of methods to i...

Nearly half of all the small businesses that participated in a recent survey said they handled their mobile application development in house, in part to cut costs and speed time to deployment The results of the study, whichThe Manifest released on Tuesday, showed that 46 percent of the 350 small businesses polled used in-house staff to develop cr...

A female suspect is dead, and at least three people were wounded in a mass shooting incident Tuesday at YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, Calif. Hundreds of company employees fled the chaotic scene San Bruno police swarmed the YouTube offices at about 12:48 p.m. local time after receiving numerous emergency calls two minutes earlier reporting shot...