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As a follow-on to my column about the impacts of the political battle between the United States and China (The Electronics Industry: A Pawn in the US vs. China Chess Game), it appears necessary to address the question of Qualcomm vs. Huawei. Because both companies are technology leaders in the wireless segment and have invested heavily in 5G, they...

A significant percentage of IT systems are cloud-based, according to a CompTIA survey of 502 U.S companies. The cloud is a key enabler for emerging technology, suggests the poll, which was conducted last month....

Apple on Tuesday released iOS 11.4, the latest version of its mobile operating system, with some beefed-up features for its HomePod wireless smart speaker The update allows users to create a stereo pair with two HomePods. It also supports multiroom streaming through AirPlay 2 connections. Music can be played in every room with a HomePod. It can be ...

There has been a lot of noise in the wireless industry in the last few years. Between the competition among existing wireless carriers and the challenges of new players, the industry has been growing and transforming. However, despite all the chaos, one thing has remained unchanged: Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility are still the top two competitors in the space...

In spite of all the high-profile breaches that seem to sweep the headlines with greater frequency, companies slowly but surely have been getting a handle on internal security practices. At this point, it's hard to imagine any employee, in or out of the tech sector, who hasn't been run through antiphishing training. However, security is only as str...

If you're a cybersecurity practitioner, chances are good that you've heard the term "zero trust" over the past few months. If you attend trade shows, keep current with the trade media headlines, or network with peers and other security pros, you've probably at least heard the term. Counterintuitively, this large-scale attention from the industry ...

I got a view of the future when I visited HP's Innovation Center in Barcelona, Spain, last week. The company has made some aggressive moves to blend its printing and imaging technologies to create products that will redefine our near-term future. HP also showcased capabilities that are something just short of magic. I mean, when you can transfor...

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff described Facebook as the "new cigarettes" in a recent appearance on the television show CBS This Morning and called for the U.S. to adopt a national privacy law like the GDPR, which just went into effect in Europe. "Maybe this is a time where the government has to step in and regulate not just that product but really o...

The popular first-person shooter video game franchise Battlefield, which made its debut almost 16 years ago, will return to its World WarII roots this summer. Battlefield V was unveiled this week in an online presentation hosted by comedian Trevor Noah, who sat down with the game's development team and discussed what gamers can expect when the title arrives this fall...

The United States Department of Justice and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission have opened a joint criminal investigation into price manipulation of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, according to a Bloomberg report The illicit tactics reportedly being investigated include spoofing and wash trading....

The FBI has disrupted a network of half a million routers compromised by the group of Russian hackers believed to have penetrated the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign during the 2016 elections, according to reports The hacker group, known as "Fancy Bear," has been using a malware program called "VPN Filter" to compromi...

Okta on Wednesday announced the Okta API Products One App, which lets engineering teams and developers implement multifactor authentication, or MFA, for any single website or application Developers can use API Products for One App free if they display "Identity by Okta" on the login page of their app....

WhiteSource on Tuesday launched its next-generation software composition analysis (SCA) technology, dubbed "Effective Usage Analysis," with the promise that it can reduce open source vulnerability alerts by 70 percent The newly developed technology provides details beyond which components are present in the application. It provides actionable insig...

Apple has ramped up production of its new 7-nanometer processor for its upcoming crop of iPhones The new processor will be smaller, faster and more efficient than the 10nm processor in Apple's current iPhone line, Bloomberg reported Tuesday, citing people familiar with matter....

Jon Lee is the CEO of ProsperWorks In this exclusive interview, Lee discusses the importance of high-quality data to CRM success....

Cloud Health Services, Part 1: Benefits and Complications In response to the migration of health services to the cloud, vendors have been partnering with various organizations to gain a foothold in the market and to test out their solutions....

The cloud offers a host of potential uses, according to the healthcare industry and academic medical center representatives who participated in a Healthcare Information and Management Systems Societysurvey last year. Application hosting was the top use, identified by 90 percent of the 64 respondents....

Cisco has reduced the poaching of endangered rhinos in Africa by a whopping 96 percent. This success comes at a time when kids appear to be increasingly at risk from rogue school shooters and the United States government seems deadlocked on gun control. Guns kill rhinos as well, but the focus of Cisco's tech is on catching the poachers who kill a...

It was once common knowledge that Apttus was the next big acquisition target on Salesforce's radar, until Salesforce decided to acquire another CPQ (configure, price, quote) vendor to augment its Sales Cloud. In the two-ish years since, Apttus has nicely pivoted, diversifying its partner base and justifying its existence with a new strategy and nomenclature around what it calls the "middle office." I was present at Accelerate, the company's annual user conference, last week in San Francisco...

RoboLinux is a unique distro that focuses on incorporating Windows versions XP through 10 within a fully functional Linux operating system You might never need the Stealth VM features that let you easily install and run Microsoft Windows within almost any Linux distro. Still, RoboLinux is a top-notch general-purpose Linux computing platform that co...