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Outdated or abandoned open source components are persistent in practically all commercial software, putting enterprise and consumer applications at risk from security issues, license compliance violations, and operational threats, according to the Synopsys 2020 Open Source Security and Risk Analysis Report released Tuesday Synopsys researchers anal...

More than 40 percent of professionals working at home because of the pandemic would prefer to work remotely full time in the future, suggests a new report from Valoir "One of the reasons we did this survey was to help provide people with more data to understand they weren't alone, and we expected to hear more about stress and the negatives of remot...

IBM's outgoing CEO Ginni Rometty gave a compelling talk at IBM Think last week on how the company is fighting strategically for diversity. I know of only one other company, Cisco, that is taking a genuinely holistic, strategic view of the problem, resulting in a broad positive impact The reason I can name only two companies is that most are taking ...

Consumers increasingly demand seamless ways to purchase wherever they go, and they want their transactions to be quick, safe and, importantly, secure. The fact is, merchants must embrace new methods quickly or risk being left behind Over the last decade, payment options have evolved in response to developments in technology and changing customer pu...

If you are looking for a well-designed Linux distro that is far from mainstream, loaded with performance features not found elsewhere, check out the 2020 upgrade of the MakuluLinux Core distro. It could change your perspective on what a daily computing driver should offer Developer Jacque Montague Raymer recently released the 2020 edition of Makulu...

Warren Buffet once said, "Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked." You can cover over a host of sins when times are good, but bad or unsafe practices will be exposed when times are rough Time and experience have borne out how accurate this witticism has been in the financial arena -- and we're now seeing how it can be...

Customer service doesn't have to suffer while your company goes through a difficult transition. In fact, 78 percent of consumers said they stopped doing business with a company because of poor customer service. Now is the time to show your most valuable buyers how you'll keep them informed, updated, and respected throughout this crisis While your b...

Microsoft on Wednesday introduced a slew of new products, including the Surface Go 2, the Surface Book 3, Surface Headphones 2, and Surface Earbuds Both the Surface Go 2 and the Surface Book 3 are offered in versions for the consumer and corporate markets....

In what could be a trial run for more of the same, Red Hat last week held a first-ever virtual technical summit to spread the word about its latest cloud tech offerings CEO Paul Cormier welcomed online viewers to the conference, which attracted more than 80,000 virtual attendees....

The next generation of Oculus Quest virtual reality headsets is in the works, but pandemic-related product development and supply chain problems may delay market arrival Oculus, which is a division of Facebook, has multiple potential Quest successors on the drawing board, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. Smaller, lighter versions with a faster image ref...

Salesforce on Monday announced a new version of Work.com designed to help businesses and communities function safely during the COVID-19 pandemic Features include the following:...

The Linux Foundation on Tuesday announced that it would host the Trust over IP Foundation, a cross-industry effort to ensure more secure data handling over the Internet This new foundation is an independent project enabling trustworthy exchange and verification of data between any two parties on the Internet....

Google is integrating its Google Meet videoconferencing application with Gmail, and it already appears as an option in some users' accounts. Google last week announced that it was making the service free for everyone....

The pandemic may force certain improvements but I'm not sure that it will, because political distractions are doing a rather good job of drawing our focus away from fixing things now. For instance, we should be ramping domestic manufacturing of PPEs and ventilators permanently to prepare for a likely huge fall spike in COVID-19 infections. Still,...

If you've followed this series on information security so far (Part 1 and Part 2), you should have a feel for which points in the communication process leave you exposed, and what kinds of tools cover them. Since category 1 threats are predominantly passive (letting you come to them) you can use them for practice at shoring up weaknesses. You know...

EndeavourOS is a rolling release Arch Linux-based distribution with some handy new features that improve the user experience EndeavourOS first appeared last summer. This latest version, the third release, became available on April 11 with graphical install options and preconfigured desktop environments. It introduces several in-house utilities to i...

Cracked or broken mobile device screens can be costly to fix, but a few inexpensive do-it-yourself strategies can eliminate a repair shop visit and salvage your tablet or phone Third-party repair shops typically replace glass on a tablet for about US$100-$200, depending on the model. Replacing the tablet's touchscreen can cost $50-$75 extra....

Shopify on Tuesday unveiled Shop, a consumer app that lets users discover local businesses, receive relevant product recommendations from their favorite brands, check out effortlessly, and track all their online orders It can gather and track orders and receipts automatically, but it also works without auto-tracking....

You can reduce the story of CRM to a lot of things, especially its many component parts. Social networking, cloud computing and analytics are mentioned often. We don't need an exhaustive list, but if we stop there I think we miss a lot To me, CRM isn't about the parts, although, like most people following the industry, I get a modicum of joy whenev...

Apple's new iPhone SE delivers incredible value and performance, based on early hands-on reviews. It has a surprisingly good camera and handles videos well. Many reviewers were impressed by the phone's A13 chipset However, there were criticisms too, including insufficient battery life and absence of a night mode feature. Lack of 5G support also cam...