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For years, U.S. broadband has received a bad rap by comparing it to the European market. That rap -- and the comparison it's founded on -- is dubious, according to a report released Monday by a D.C. tech think tank Comparisons between U.S. and European broadband prices abound, but their respective markets are built on such entirely different cost s...

A key to business survival may depend on how effectively retailers and other businesses can blend digital and in-person customer experience (CX) tactics The pandemic came close to nailing the coffin shut on the livelihood of brick-and-mortar stores. Despite shoppers' attraction to the convenience and health safety of online shopping, their appetite...

Why aren't potential customers purchasing from your business online? Oftentimes, it's a guessing game for brands. Understanding the drivers and obstacles that impact consumers' decision-making processes is critical But how can brands successfully do this with a lack of understanding of consumers' complete online journeys?...

Microsoft continues to supplement its Windows and cloud platforms with more of its own "borrowed" Linux roots. The developing symbiotic "WindLux" integration could spawn an open-source hybrid of Windows on Linux. Might this be a new pathway for the growing popularity of cross-platform applications and cloud-based computing? Nvidia has quietly stepp...

A new partnership between multinational e-commerce platform Shopify and cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com is making it easier for digital shop owners to cash in by adopting crypto payments Crypto.com in May announced that Shopify merchants can enable Crypto.com's cryptocurrency pay platform on their online storefronts. This agreement lets merchant...

Misconceptions about embedded SIM cards (eSIMs) for IoT are keeping companies from adopting this new technology. That is detrimental, as eSIMs are crucial for patching and successful secure IoT deployment eSIMs are slowly replacing standard SIMs in IoT devices and products such as smartwatches. They are also making their way into the machine-to-mac...

One of the stories told in management classes as an example of a recurring mistake companies make when their industry is transitioning focuses on buggy makers at the turn of the last century Those that figured out they were in the personal transportation business pivoted to cars. Most of the others that thought they were only in the buggy business ...

Scalable cloud-based solutions are widely popular among IT pros these days. The cost, convenience, and reliability of ready-to-use software as a service make this disruptive technology a favorable choice Still, Paul Evans, CEO at Redstor, a data management provider headquartered in the U.K., suggested that the market needs some convincing that back...

Getting low-income drivers behind the wheel of electric vehicles is necessary to reduce greenhouse gases in the coming years, according to a report released Monday by the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF), a science and technology think tank in Washington, D.C The need for EVs to be a market success is immense given the lack of ...

For decades, the cybersecurity industry has emphasized the need to protect the server side, or back end of a business to ensure smooth IT operations and protect the overall integrity of the business and the data it stores However, for businesses whose models center on the use of websites and webpages that require customer inputs, it's the actual cl...

Over the winter, in the (hopefully) waning days of the pandemic, we at Beagle Research did a study of selling. Oracle sponsored the study and it included responses from more than 500 sales professionals and their managers The responses gave us good insights into selling in the pandemic and its immediate aftermath. For example, quota attainment drop...

As criminal activity on the internet continues to accelerate, bug hunting for cash has begun to attract more and more security researchers In its latest annual report, bug bounty platform Intigriti revealed that the number of analysts signing up for its services had increased by 43% from April 2021 to April 2022. For Intigriti alone, that means the...

For most of us, the metaverse is mostly hype about the promise of a new internet that we could explore virtually. As it's currently implemented, the metaverse is reminiscent of the networked world pre-internet. It is represented by a bunch of very different and unique attempts to create what seems much like a walled garden approach, more like AOL and CompuServe than the post-Netscape internet that we enjoy today...

Lately I've been thinking a lot about thinking. There are a couple of reasons for this First, doing it well is a prerequisite to developing any dependable expertise in any kind of computer science or engineering discipline. With the right mental toolset, you can bootstrap any of the subject matter knowledge you could possibly need....

The retail industry has experienced rapid changes over the last couple of years as Covid-19 impacted both sides of the sector significantly. Where retailers had to act quickly to enhance -- or, in some instances, create entirely -- their e-commerce capabilities, consumers quickly took advantage of heightened convenience when it came to purchasing through online channels...

The Linux Foundation is holding one of its most expansive physical and virtual showcases this week at its Open Source Summit North America 2022 in Austin, Texas The event is a staging ground for some of the most important announcements and cutting-edge topics touching open source today....

Digital devices and home networks of corporate executives, board members and high-value employees with access to financial, confidential and proprietary information are ripe targets for malicious actors, according to a study released Tuesday by a cybersecurity services firm The connected home is a prime target for cybercriminals, but few executives...

Got Crypto? Make sure you own and have access to it in a secure digital stronghold Having self-custody of your crypto keys and managing your digital assets can help stave off digital bankruptcy or loss through theft, warns cryptocurrency storage provider CompoSecure....

One of the big news items last week was that a leading AI researcher, Blake Lemoine, had been suspended after going public that he believed that one of Google's more advanced AIs had attained sentience Most experts agree that it hadn't, but that would likely be true regardless of whether it had because we tend to connect sentience to being human an...

Marketers and retailers can now more easily monitor customer engagement directly from HubSpot's CRM business platform Software-as-a-service firm CloudShare on Tuesday announced the integration of its product experience platform with HubSpot. This integration lets business-to-business software marketers access data on product competency and engageme...