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Cybersecurity should be a concern for all businesses -- large and small. Cybersecurity also should be a concern for consumers, government agencies, and basically anyone who relies on the Internet in our increasingly connected world To cite two high-profile examples of mass cybercrime, some 3 billion Yahoo accounts were hacked in 2016, and 412 milli...

After having countless conversations with iPhone users in the last few days, I've concluded that Apple will sell loads of these new devices -- but not as many as in the past. There are several reasons I'm expecting a downturn in iPhone sales Among the top reasons are lack of support for 5G, lack of innovation, and high prices....

Amazon on Tuesday announced that dozens of partners have joined it in a Voice Interoperability Initiative. The aim is to support multiple, interoperable voice services on a single device so customers can access the one they want by saying the appropriate wake word Partners include Baidu, Tencent, BMW, Microsoft, Salesforce, Sonos, Spotify, Harman K...

Google need not comply with the right to be forgotten outside of the European Union, according to a European Court of Justice ruling released Tuesday A global de-referencing would meet the EU's data protection objectives, the court said, but it found that numerous third states do not recognize the right to de-referencing or have a different approac...

Xiaomi on Tuesday introduced a refresh of the Mi 9 Pro with support for 5G and a groundbreaking smartphone with a wraparound display The Mi 9 Pro 5G (pictured above), with a base price of 3,699 yuan, or US$520, works with 5G offerings of China's three main carriers -- China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom -- and supports speeds from 1.78 Gb...

I was speaking to an Oracle executive about some of the company's announcements at last week's OpenWorld, and my impression that the company has changed so much that it is difficult to recognize it from the entity it was just a few years ago On the macro side, it's easy to see that Oracle has transitioned from a product company to a subscription co...

Google on Monday announced tweaks to its privacy policy following earlier reports that its Google Assistant software was eavesdropping on user conversations Although it does not retain Assistant audio recordings by default, according to Senior Product Manager Nino Tasca, the company has increased privacy protections affecting the transcription proc...

A website created to gather faces for an art project has created a controversy over the use of artificial intelligence to classify human beings The faces collected at the ImageNet Roulette site are being incorporated into a work of art at the Fondazione Prada Osservertario in Milan, but that is only one reason American artist Trevor Paglen and Mic...

Fledgling e-commerce company PriceWaiter aims to save customers money, time and energy by negotiating better-than-Amazon deals on top-rated products -- simply, quickly and privately PriceWaiter's pitch to sellers is that it can help move inventory, maintain more margin, and make MAP (minimum advertised price) moot, resulting in more efficient prici...

Watching Brazil's rain forest burn is causing a lot of us to freak out a bit. Referring to it as "the world's lungs" may be an overstatement, but the rain forest is a critical global resource, and its destruction undoubtedly will do even more ugly things to global warming. Given that the U.S. government seems to be pro-global warming now, as it ...

Manjaro Linux 18.1, released on Sept. 12, is one of the most complete Linux OSes you will find. It is a powerhouse distro that offers a better Arch Linux computing platform, and it is the de facto standard for comparing Arch family options....

Smartwatches outsold traditional watches in the fourth quarter of 2018. The category saw a 51 percent increase in dollar sales for last year, along with a 61 percent increase in unit sales, according to recent data from NPD Group. One in four Americans aged 18 to 34 now owns a smartwatch, and that is likely to increase Traditional watches did regai...

Gone are the days when businesses just did business. Now, it's almost expected that business values and ethics will play a significant and enduring role in a company's identity From the products they sell to the way they treat their employees, businesses are finding that they no longer can separate what they do from what they believe -- and custome...

Facebook on Wednesday announced three additions to the Portal family: a new Portal, Portal Mini and Portal TV The devices let users make calls using Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp....

Amazon on Tuesday announced Amazon Music HD, which offers 50 million CD-quality songs -- 16 bits at 44.1 kHz. Customers also can stream millions more songs in Ultra HD -- better than CD quality -- with a bit depth of 24 bits and a sample rate up to 192 kHz Amazon Music HD will play the highest quality audio on customers' devices, and network condit...

Q1 in any business is the toughest for generating revenue and Oracle is no exception. In its Q1 earnings call it admitted missing by about US$70 million on a $9.2 billion nut: small but consequential. No need to run for the smelling salts though, Oracle has been here before and it's got this It should be no surprise, though, because in Q4 any self-...

Early reviews on the new iPhone models are appearing, and for owners of older versions of Apple's flagship mobile, an upgrade may be in order Reviewers had plenty of praise for Apple's more expensive iPhone models -- the 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max....

You've just come home from the gym and discovered that your teenager cleaned out your stash of energy bars. Drat. You grab a peanut butter and jelly sandwich to ease the hunger pangs, then decide to avoid future deprivation by ordering a new supply of bars online. You usually buy Clif Bars, so you type the brand name into Amazon search and start t...

While open-source enthusiasts still await the year of the Linux desktop, hardware developer Pine64 is advancing the cause of a US$25 Linux-powered smartwatch, dubbed "PineTime." The Pine64 community has invited FreeRTOS or ArmMbed developers with an interest in smartwatches to join in its efforts to bring the product to market....

The Wi-Fi Alliance on Monday released certification standards for Wi-Fi 6 devices, signaling that the technology is ready for prime time The certification program assures buyers that products carrying the Wi-Fi Certified 6 label will deliver the best user experience with devices supporting IEEE 802.11ax....