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Nintendo is retreating from the booming mobile games market, Bloomberg reported Sunday The maker of the Switch and Switch Lite game systems has become disenchanted with the mobile market, Bloomberg noted, as sales of three out of four of its mobile offerings lost money from February to May of this year....

Twitter on Tuesday notified business clients that their personal information, including email addresses, phone numbers, and the last four digits of their credit card numbers may have been compromised. However, Twitter says there's no evidence that this has happened so far Self-serve advertisers that viewed billing information on ads.twitter.com or ...

If you search for "why CRM fails," you get over three million results. Analysts report that close to half of all CRM projects fail, and about 40 percent of CRM software purchased goes unused -- because sales teams don't want to use software that makes them glorified data entry clerks and still doesn't "work." As a CRM industry veteran, this ongoing...

In the midst of the global Covid-19 pandemic this spring, entrepreneurs Rebecca Cahua and Vivian Qu joined forces, skills, and teams to create and bring to production an innovative new product -- the O2 Nano Mask, a reusable nanofiltration mask that combines a high level of filtration with unique breathability and comfort Together, Cahua and Qu fou...

Apple's 2020 Worldwide Developers Conference will probably be known for two things: it was the first time the forum was staged virtually, and it's when Apple announced it would start making Macs based on its own processor designs "Today is a truly historic day for the Mac," Apple CEO Tim Cook said during the virtual keynote presentation....

Cisco Live was last week, and this was their first large-scale virtual event. What made this event very different from the other games was the amount of effort they put into socially responsible projects I'm not just talking about their Corporate Social Responsibility efforts. Many of the customer projects they highlighted are dealing with a variet...

Perhaps one of the most missed Linux desktop environments is Ubuntu Unity Desktop, developed by Ubuntu's parent company, Canonical. It was either loved or hated by users otherwise endeared to the vastly popular Ubuntu Linux OS But now that it has been replaced by GNOME 3 as Ubuntu's default desktop environment. An infant cottage industry of sorts h...

Forming a real company, creating a working prototype of a new multipurpose drone, making components from scratch, and getting electronics and software to work together is filled with seemingly unending difficulties Imagine doing all that as a high school student under the time constraints and pressure of being part of an international competition....

Qualcomm on Wednesday announced its Robotics RB5 platform, with 5G and 4G connectivity, on-device AI and machine learning, superior computing and intelligent sensing capabilities The platform's Qualcomm QRB5165 processor, which is customized for robotics applications, offers a heterogeneous computing architecture coupled with the 5th-generation Qua...

I had a good conversation with a smart guy in Marin County over the weekend about the next normal. One thing he said seemed to be aimed at the heart of CRM. This impressed me because Kevin is not a CRM guy, though he started and successfully ran a couple of businesses for decades Kevin's contention is that the virus is removing a lot of spontaneity...

Online sales are projected to surge even after America reopens for business E-commerce enablement platform CommerceHub, which hosts more than 12,000 retailers, brands and suppliers, reported that its online order volume across its network more than doubled year over year between April 1 and May 31, 2020....

Amazon is rolling out a system that combines artificial intelligence and augmented reality to help workers maintain social distancing in the workplace, the company revealed Tuesday in its Covid-19 blog The new system has been deployed at a handful of Amazon buildings, but the company plans to deploy hundreds of the units in the coming weeks, the gi...

A new e-commerce partnership could bring 1,200 Shopify small business sellers to the Walmart Marketplace this year, the companies announced Monday For years, Walmart's top e-commerce priority was building a marketplace customers would trust. According to Jeff Clementz, vice president of Walmart Marketplace, the company has joined forces with Shopif...

The next generation of Intel mobile processors will include malware protection built into the chip, the company announced Monday The protection, provided by Intel's Control-Flow Enforcement Technology (CET), will first be available in the company's "Tiger Lake" mobile processors, Vice President of Intel's Client Computing Group Tom Garrison reveal...

I've been working from home for nearly 20 years, but being locked up at home due to the pandemic still drove me a little nuts. Several technology products have been particularly helpful while sheltering in place, making this semi-forced timeout feel less like a punishment and more like something I could endure I'll close with my product of the week...

One of the great joys of constantly checking out new or obscure Linux operating systems is finding some insane innovations that stand out from the crowded collection of distros. The current release of PsychOS Linux, code-named "Insane," possibly might blow your mind This distro is really an off-the-wall project with the potential to become a thing ...

There has been a lot of debate in the public sphere around the degree and kind of legal regulation a society should apply to online speech. While the dialogue has become more intense and urgent in the last few years, the effort to impose limits on Internet speech has been contentious from the start. At the present juncture, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is undergoing reconsideration...

As the dust settled on what most have deemed the "new normal" of working from home, many industries -- including customer service -- rapidly shifted operations to be remote work-friendly At the same time, call volumes increased exponentially: During the last few months, airlines saw a 199 percent increase in customer inquiries, while grocers saw a ...

Two separate teams of academic researchers on Wednesday published papers describing flaws in Intel's Software Guard Extensions (SGX) SGX, a set of instructions, enhances application security by letting developers partition sensitive information into enclaves -- areas of execution in memory with hardware-assisted enhanced security protection. The ai...

Online medical appointments have become commonplace during the pandemic, and they're likely to continue into the future, even as in-person medical visits resume. The convenience, accessibility and cost-effectiveness of telemedicine will make it a vital part of comprehensive medical care in the digital age "Both patients and providers can benefit fr...