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Most contractors the Department of Defense hired in the last five years failed to meet the required minimum cybersecurity standards, posing a significant risk to U.S. national security Managed service vendor CyberSheath on Nov. 30 released a report showing that 87% of the Pentagon supply chain fails to meet basic cybersecurity minimums. Those secur...

Action by a government standards agency on potential post-quantum cryptographic algorithms will strongly stimulate the PQC market over the next five years, according to an international research and advisory firm In its recently released Post-Quantum Cryptography application analysis report, ABI Research predicted PQC revenues will jump 12% from US...

If you're looking for a solution for mobile devices with inferior sound that works equally well as a better sound system for portable devices that usually are desk-bound, consider the Poly Sync 20 Speakerphone The unit I tested is the limited-edition pink version of the Poly Sync 20. The pink device has all the same features as the gray fabric and ...

As if defenders of software supply chains didn't have enough attack vectors to worry about, they now have a new one: machine learning models ML models are at the heart of technologies such as facial recognition and chatbots. Like open-source software repositories, the models are often downloaded and shared by developers and data scientists, so a co...

Need a last-minute corporate gift idea? Consider a branded e-gift Gift-giving in the business world is often more an attempt to engage with clients, customers, and worthy workers than in spreading holiday cheer....

Loopholes in the rules governing advertising for stimulant medications should be closed, according to a report released Monday by an international think tank Many telehealth companies have used advertising loopholes to aggressively market stimulant medications to users on social media without the typical disclosures found in pharmaceutical ads, acc...

It's the season for gift-giving. I usually choose the easy path by giving gift cards, but I've discovered there can be problems along the easy path. Two Amazon gift cards I purchased didn't reach their intended recipients. Amazon replaced one rapidly, but the other had been stolen and used. I'm still waiting for a resolution on that one This year w...

Salesforce had its quarterly earnings call the other day. No spoiler, they made a lot of money, grew significantly, and generally had fun doing it. However, the real news from the call, for me, was that Bret Taylor is stepping down from the number 1-A position of Co-CEO and Co-Chair to return to his roots in entrepreneurship Taylor's fingerprints a...

Retailers: How many shoppers do you need to worry about this holiday season? The answer, it turns out, is five. Well, sort of In an 18-month global study of buying behavior, Epam Continuum discerned a critical pattern that today's consumers fall into five broad categories of shoppers: the investigative consumer, the frivolous spender, the experienc...

Calix has been one of the major success stories in the highly competitive technology communications space over the past several years. Although it's a company that few consumers would immediately recognize by name, the Calix cloud and software platforms empower internet service providers of all categories and sizes to transform and electrify their businesses...

Inflation woes and a looming recession did little to dampen online shoppers' enthusiasm on Cyber Monday, according to figures released Tuesday by Adobe Analytics, a tracker of seasonal e-commerce activity Adobe estimates online shoppers spent US$11.3 billion on Cyber Monday, a 5.8 percent increase over 2021 when sales for the Monday after Thanksgiv...

Sellers on Amazon face a potentially lower bottom line this holiday season as they wait for partial refunds of wrongly calculated seller fees. Often, the wait drags on with little or no money returned That situation leaves retailers constantly at odds with Amazon's automated accounting system. Frustrations set in as erroneous fees for customer retu...

Amazon does not develop smartphones or PCs, and its tablets lack widely used Google apps. Nonetheless, the company has built one of the most powerful consumer device ecosystems Under the banner of creating personalized, intuitive, and proactive ambient experiences, its technology has begun to permeate our lives, starting with smart speakers and dis...

A draconian Covid lockdown and work disruption at an iPhone factory in China might take some of the jolly out of Apple's holiday season Worker unrest at the Zhengzhou Foxconn factory could result in a production shortfall of six million iPhones, just as the holiday season is about to enter the home stretch, according to a report Monday by Bloomberg...

One thing that small and medium-sized businesses have in common with large enterprises is that cybersecurity remains a persistent and complex problem Hackers understand that SMBs are vulnerable when connected to the internet and that there is a market to monetize stolen data....

November put a shining spotlight on the progress open-source technology offers: Significant announcements at the ONE Summit North America in Seattle showed that non-proprietary software continues to thrive and innovate....

Thanks largely to Nvidia, GPUs have nearly eclipsed CPUs as the technology driving advancement. When it comes to AI, particularly on the training side, GPUs reign supreme. Generally, GPUs make our games and most advanced photo and video editing tools work better as well -- and with social media, many folks are becoming creation experts But while AM...

Streaming video content from non-mainstream providers might make you an unwitting target of content piracy. If you get a bargain pricing offer, at first you might not care. But you stand a chance of becoming the victim of scammers and hackers, losing personal data, and having your financial assets stolen. That amounts to a hefty financial loss for consumers and legitimate creative content providers...

Running a business without some cloud support is a rarity these days. Still, when formulating a cloud strategy, companies seem to make some common mistakes. Here are several of them Gartner, at its IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference this week, noted that a successful cloud strategy needs support from IT outsiders....

Qualcomm last week announced its Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor. The significant improvement is enhanced AI that will operate behind the scenes to improve the user experience significantly on phones due to launch in a few weeks This AI implementation should significantly improve most functions, from how well the modem works to optimize both voice and...