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Software systems come and go Back in the day, they were tightly tied to the hardware and operating system in your data center, even to the point that each system had to be compiled for specific OS versions and the language it was written in....

Canonical is pushing the security and usability conveniences of managing internet of things (IoT) and edge devices with its June 15 release of Ubuntu Core 22, the fully containerized Ubuntu 22.04 LTS variant optimized for IoT and edge devices Combined with Canonical's technology offer, this release brings Ubuntu's operating system and services to a...

The Robocalypse -- the time when machines become sentient and start to dominate humans -- has been a popular science fiction subject for some time. It's also worried some scientific minds, most notably the late Stephen Hawking However, the prospect of a sentient machine seemed very far in the future -- if at all -- until last week, when a Google en...

New research from Atlas VPN shows that cloud-native exploits on major cloud service providers (CSPs) declined during the first four months of 2022 Cloud-native exploits dropped by 25%, from 71 exploits in the first four months of 2021 to 53 exploits in the first four months of this year, Atlas researcher Ruta Cizinauskaite told the E-Commerce Times...

During the last few weeks we've had two developers' conferences. First, there was Microsoft Build, and last week was Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). You'd think both events would be similar and focused on developers If you watch Satya Nadella's keynote at Build, you'll see a textbook example of how to do a developers' conference key...

Trying to sell to your target e-commerce audience without a buyer persona is like seeing in the dark without a flashlight You have to resort to potentially wrong perceptions based on inaccurate details and guesswork. Buyer personas -- also known as customer, audience, or marketing personas -- although fictional, rely on research-based insights coll...

The KYY 15.6-inch portable monitor is a classy and functional portable monitor that works well while traveling or as a permanent second monitor for home and office use This portable display panel is lightweight and sturdy, making it a solid accessory for game playing. It greatly expands the viewing field when using a mobile phone or small-screen ga...

Mobile ad spending in 2021 set a record by reaching $295 billion globally, a 23% increase from 2020. This trend will continue in 2022 -- with the figure projected to reach $350 billion by the end of this year. The reason? We're spending more time on our mobile phones. In fact, the average person now spends four to five hours per day on their phones. As of last month, in the U.S., roughly 53% of web visits originated from mobile devices...

Ransomware is the top supply chain risk facing organizations today, according to a survey released Monday by ISACA, an association for IT professionals with 140,000 members in 180 countries The survey, based on responses from more than 1,300 IT pros with supply chain insights, found that nearly three-quarters of the respondents (73%) said ransomwar...

Apple's 2022 Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday revealed the company's latest versions of its mobile and desktop operating systems at the kickoff of its annual week-long virtual high-tech show targeting developers and the Apple consumer experience The event showcased Apple's major software updates to iOS 16, as well as updates to iPadOS, mac...

My last piece took modern selling to task because experience tells me there's too much emphasis on lead generation and not nearly enough on doing things that result in closing deals The issue isn't CRM but rather how many of us work. For many, our short attention spans keep us from following through focusing more on lead development than on closin...

The typical path for a new tech company is to hire someone experienced to run it in the early years, have them train the founders, and then have the company transition to being run by the people that created it The reason behind this approach is that the typical creator will be good at understanding the technology behind the product they have creat...

Collaboration between Linux computer and software firm System76 and HP is pushing for greater commercial adoption of open-source software and hardware optimized for Linux System76 and HP on Thursday announced a new premium computer line designed to attract a wider audience to the developer-focused HP Dev One laptop computer....

The cost of cleaning data is often beyond the comfort zone of businesses swamped with potentially dirty data. That clogs the pathways to trustworthy and compliant corporate data flow Few companies have the resources needed to develop tools for challenges like data observability at scale, according to Kyle Kirwan, co-founder and CEO of data observab...

A "Zero Day" vulnerability in a Windows tool that hackers have been exploiting through poisoned Word documents was discovered over the weekend An independent cybersecurity research team known as nao_sec announced in a series of tweets that they'd found the vulnerability in a malicious Word document uploaded to Virus Total, a website for analyzing s...

Titan Linux is not an operating system that casual Linux users -- especially new adopters -- should install on their primary or only computer. But seasoned Linux distribution hoppers looking for a pleasant new Linux experience should not pass up the new offering Titan is a new distro built on the Debian Stable branch. Developers first announced its...

This reminds me of that old joke about the guy who couldn't make ice because he lost the recipe. Selling is something we humans have done since the species climbed down from the trees and onto the savannah I think of selling as fundamentally human because it involves assessing value and determining a fair trade of unlike things like bushels of whea...

The increased adoption of cloud computing over the past decade has enabled businesses across industries to meet their growing technology needs while efficiently gaining access to exciting new tools However, not every industry has kept up with the evolution of cloud technologies brought forth by digital transformation. A prime example is the real es...

Government organizations and educational institutions, in particular, are increasingly in hackers' crosshairs as severe web vulnerabilities spiral upward Remote code execution (RCE), cross-site scripting (XSS), and SQL injection (SQLi) are all top software offenders. All three increase or hover around the same alarming numbers year over year....

Microsoft Build is Microsoft's most interesting event because it focuses on the people that build stuff, mostly code, but often, as is the case this year, hardware Last week, Microsoft held its latest Build event and I'm pretty sure it caused most of the PC OEMs to freak out. This is because Microsoft announced a new focused workstation for develop...