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Windows 10X began as a streamlined operating system for the Surface Neo, a premium mobile device with two screens that opened like a book. Now Microsoft seems poised to use the OS to power laptop competitors to Google's highly successful Chromebook portables According to Zac Bowden, writing for Windows Central, a significant feature has been remove...

The pandemic might be changing the way we work, but much of the need for change in our CRM tools predates COVID-19. Nevertheless, Salesforce last week introduced some changes in its Marketing Cloud that couldn't have been timelier In much of the research I've been conducting this year, there's a distinct trend. Employees are well aligned with the d...

Encryption is an obscure but critical part of everyday life. That padlock in the address bar of the website you're visiting represents the 's' after 'http' -- which stands for the latest version of Transport Layer Security (TLS). Together with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), which TLS replaced, these digital security technologies allow encrypted communication between two parties, such as websites or servers and web browsers...

As traditional gyms, fitness centers, and health and wellness studios shutter during COVID-19, technology has kicked in to provide a replacement or an alternative for growing numbers of online shoppers. Digital at-home exercise sessions and sales of home exercise and health equipment purchased online are fueling new consumer trends that could perm...

When the coronavirus pandemic first hit, telecommunications companies prepared for an uptick in internet use. While they were right to ready themselves, there's been an even larger surge toward a more time-honored device: the classic telephone Indeed, the number of daily phone calls U.S. carrier Verizon handles has risen to 800 million -- the same ...

I've been covering video conferencing since before we called it video conferencing. I became interested in it when I was a kid at Disneyland around 1965. It has been an exciting and somewhat painful technology to watch because it seemed like everyone in the segment fundamentally didn't understand that if you don't have interoperability and didn't ...

AutoTux is a fully automated Linux distribution that is literally a hands-off event from start to finish. It goes a long way to adopting Linux a no-brainer for Windows and macOS converts AutoTux's self-installing approach is also the kind of Linux operating system that makes you wonder why more distribution developers do not use similar strategies ...

Sports performance technology continues to advance and gain popularity as high-tech tools are utilized to enhance player performance in all types of athletics Golf is no exception. Technology can be used to make aspects of this popular and challenging sport less difficult and frustrating and more rewarding and enjoyable....

The Latin American market has substantial potential for e-commerce growth, with online sales in the region expected to grow more than 19 percent in the next five years -- compared to the global average of 11 percent, according to Focus Economics "The Latin American market for e-commerce will be about $120 billion by 2021, serving 156 million people...

For most, it's hard to remember a time when Walmart wasn't the dominant retailer in the U.S. Despite the company's scale, it has struggled in e-commerce with less than five percent market share -- putting it squarely behind Amazon, which has nearly 40 percent of the market, and eBay However, times are changing....

Although many people haven't wrapped their minds around 5G mobile technology yet, Samsung has already started talking about 6G In a report released Tuesday, the South Korean electronics giant reveals its 6G vision of the future, including technical and societal megatrends, new services, requirements, candidate technologies, and an expected timeline...

Advertising for software and hardware designed to stalk and spy on people will soon be banned on Google Promotion of products or services that are marketed or targeted with the express purpose of tracking or monitoring another person or their activities without their authorization will be prohibited on the platform starting Aug. 11, the company, wh...

During the pandemic, increasing numbers of people have pulled out their sewing machines and knitting needles and gotten to work "Since the stay-at-home orders were issued and people were stuck at home, many who had sewn before pulled out their machines and started sewing again," Blaine Austin, CEO of SewingMachinesPlus, told the E-Commerce Times....

As used in website development contracts, indemnification typically concerns whether the vendor will defend you in court if you later get sued for your use of the technology, including Intellectual Property (IP) or services provided by the website development vendor In some instances, a well-drafted indemnity clause can protect you in litigation en...

Company performance relies on how well a company is led, how engaged its employees are, and the quality of the technology at hand, which effectively means the tools employees can leverage. Certainly, there are metrics for all of this. But the trouble with metrics is that they are collected and administered by management which has a vested interest in the outcome of any survey...

The success of The Linux Foundation's first virtual summit may well have set the standard for new levels of open source participation Summit masters closed the virtual doors of the four-day joint gathering on July 2. The event hosted the Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2020 and ended with more than 4,000 registrants fro...

IBM is chasing two of the three technology areas that I think will change the world as we know it over the next two decades. Granted, we are currently experiencing a level of unprecedented change, thanks to the pandemic, and it is dramatically accelerating at least one of these efforts The three technology changes that I'm watching are robotics (in...

The global pandemic threw the world for a loop as businesses shut down, schools closed, and working from home became the new normal. Phrases like "social distancing" and "self-quarantine" became part of our everyday nomenclature, and safety measures such as temperature checks and mask-wearing were integrated into daily life. It's now hard to imagine businesses and gathering places without these new standards in place...

If you conducted e-commerce transactions since the pandemic struck, you have probably been the target, or even a victim, of online fraud Fraud prevention solutions firm Sift yesterday released a report focusing on a 109 percent increase in content abuse and growth of the fraud economy from January through May 2020....

Moving to the cloud was never going to be seamless or sudden. There was simply too much at stake for most companies to make a big switch. With the exception of many cloud native companies like Salesforce and NetSuite, most customers and vendors have had to find ways to transition from on-premise to cloud over the last 20 years, and those years have generated more, not fewer, options.