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MediaTek's brand is often associated with affordable, budgeted, Android phones. However, the company has made incremental inroads into the more premium, high-performance models. The launch of the MediaTek Dimensity 9200 chipset is a potent step in that direction Like all smartphone chips, the Dimensity 9200 is a system on a chip (SoC), which means ...

If you want to give the gift of privacy this holiday season, you may want to check out the 2022 edition of Mozilla's Privacy Not Included buyer's guide, released Wednesday. The annual guide contains privacy reviews of more than 75 popular consumer electronics gifts and will be continuously updated throughout the giving season Among the potential gi...

Building emotional loyalty with customers and employees might be the secret to long-term business success Emotional loyalty is the strong emotional bonds people attach to brands, products, services, or providers. Its practice rests on doing good business through a great experience that meets people's needs....

A technology platform watchdog group reported Monday that it had found more than 100 Facebook groups, some with tens of thousands of members, where business management accounts are bought and sold in violation of the social network's rules The accounts can be used to run multiple pages and ad campaigns, creating new opportunities for online scams, ...

The retail industry requires small and midsize companies to respond swiftly and nimbly to constantly changing circumstances. However, the Covid-19 outbreak and recent economic news have caused a degree of upheaval like never before Plus, SMB retailers face an increasing need to meet their customers where they are. That includes online marketplaces,...

AMD, on Nov. 3 in Las Vegas, held a launch event to take the wrappers off its next-generation desktop graphics family. The event was a refreshingly brief but powerful overview of the innovation that AMD continues to bring to the graphics space In a bizarre but fascinating manner, it was interesting to see that much of the ho-hum or negative pre-lau...

CRM is, in many ways, the story of maturing markets. Our technology was innovated to help with the big jobs of finding customers for new and sometimes hard-to-understand products, servicing those customers, and finding ways to renew their enthusiasm with new versions CRM did a lot of other things too. For the first time, CRM made it easy first to c...

For those of you who haven't traveled lately, things have changed over the last couple of years. For example, most airlines don't take cash anymore, and an increasing number don't accept credit cards Airlines are almost all short-staffed, and at this time of year, there are a lot of mechanical delays and weather events. Depending on the airport, th...

Women comprise 56% of the U.S. workforce but hold only 26% of technology jobs. The percentage of female STEM, or science, technology, engineering, and math graduates is about 19%. According to the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT), that number has been steadily declining Research shows that gender-diverse teams bring in m...

In marketing, the term "influencer" refers to a generalized category of people who use their vast social media reach to publicize products or services to their audience interested in learning about what they are promoting. Influencers fall within identity tiers depending on the type of products they favor and the size of their audience Research sho...

Mozilla believes the high-tech industry has lost its soul by putting profits ahead of people and is going to try and do something about it. It has announced Mozilla Ventures, a US$35 million venture capital fund to finance early-stage startups producing products and technologies that advance values such as privacy, inclusion, transparency, and human dignity. ...

Troubles with software supply chain safety have recently grabbed a chunk of negative headline space. That might well set the stage for what to expect in an upcoming State of Open Source Report A collaboration between OpenLogic by Perforce and the Open Source Initiative (OSI) will provide the industry with a snapshot of organizations' benefits a...

While watching the live stream of last week's formal announcement of the Matter smart home initiative, I couldn't resist recalling Samuel Becket's classic existentialist play, "Waiting for Godot," where two characters participate in several discussions and encounters while awaiting Godot, a proxy for God, who never arrives After all, the Matter ini...

Schools are spending a flood of money on security products. Still, according to a new report from Parks Associates, not enough thought is given to how the products can be leveraged to better respond to violence in schools The market research and consulting company in Addison, Texas, noted in its report that while schools have boosted the use of acc...

We are approaching a major technological pivot where much of the processing we do personally happens not on our local PC but in the connected cloud At the forefront of this charge is Qualcomm, which uses Arm technology to complete its PC solution. Microsoft has followed Apple toward Arm, but unlike Apple, it partnered with Qualcomm to get there. To...

Spiraling inflation is increasing consumer demand for incentives wherever they shop. So, retailers take note: if you want shoppers to buy your wares, reward them for it That marketing strategy was the top-shelf tip tallied in a June survey of more than 1,000 U.S. adult consumers broaching shopping rewards programs, including cashback, discounts, an...

One of the joys of doing my work is getting exposed to scores of new and disruptive products. The Thanksgiving and December holidays are quickly approaching, so it’s the time of year when I'm fortunate enough to evaluate new tech products that merit attention. It's a tough job, but someone has got to do it Keep in mind that my comments are not in...

Nearly 50% of all phishing attacks targeting government personnel in 2021 aimed to pilfer the credentials of those workers, according to a report released Wednesday by an endpoint-to-cloud security company Phishing attacks on civil servants jumped 30% from 2020 to 2021, with one out of every eight workers exposed to phishing threats during the peri...

The role of digital marketing continues to gain traction in the wake of the retail rebirth following the pandemic As a result, retailers need to pay close attention to the benefits of using a variety of digital marketing tactics to differentiate themselves from competitors and improve their shopping experience....

A C-level executive will be fired for their firm's use of employee monitoring in 2023. That's one of the security, privacy, and risk predictions aired by Forrester on Monday In the coming year, lawmakers will be paying increased attention to workplace monitoring, and whistleblowers may also be demanding monitoring information to support complaints ...