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Businesses across all industries are competing in the experience economy. The best way to stand out from the competition and retain customers is with optimal customer experiences, according to cloud technology firm Oracle. While this sounds simple, differentiation is a daunting task for many businesses Business constraints are both financial and pe...

The InnoView 15.6" 4K HDR touchscreen portable monitor is a superior accessory for productivity and entertainment on your desktop and mobile devices. It checks nearly all the boxes for performance and usefulness Portable screens are often more of a hassle to use than they are a convenience, especially when traveling. They also do not usually measur...

In the current cross-industry scamper among enterprises migrating to clouds, no clear winners have yet to emerge in the race for market share among the hyperscale public cloud providers Automated cloud migration company Next Pathway on April 20 unveiled a new report with key data on the overall state of cloud migration, including the current status...

Businesses using open-source code -- which is embedded in a large majority of enterprise-grade software -- need a full-scale inventory of its existence. That is missing in many corporate IT records Without a detailed accounting of open-source code running within their software, companies have no way to monitor software policies, licenses, vulnerabi...

I was at Dell Technologies World 2022 last week. Often, I'm not very excited about anything on the showcase floor at events like this, but DTW has been the exception One year they had robotic baristas that made better coffee than Starbucks, and they've had cars from customers that I've wanted to buy. Which leads me to the one thing that should have...

Significant exposure to third-party risk could cost e-commerce websites millions of dollars in damages and lost revenue, according to a new study by a maker of security products to protect web and mobile apps Based on an analysis of two billion user sessions on e-commerce websites, the study by Jscrambler found that third-party services running on ...

Online gambling is at an all-time high in accessibility and popularity. However, many betting app developers are rolling the dice blindly without addressing users' customer experience (CX) concerns More states in the U.S. are legalizing sports betting, with legislation pending in many others. Major sports leagues such as the NFL and the PGA Tour ar...

If you've run any operating system for any length of time, you will probably have encountered strange phenomena. When it comes to computers, strange is usually unwelcome. The longer you run any given OS installation without a reinstall, the more likely you are to see at least a few quirks. This can be anything from programs freezing, to your cooling fan suddenly revving up, to all manner of oddities...

With last week's announcement that the Varjo Reality Cloud had exited beta and is now in full release, we basically have two metaverse camps: Meta's, which is focused on the consumer and revenue and is defined by performance limitations associated with its wireless Oculus headset; and the Varjo-Nvidia approach where performance is king, business is the primary focus, and the result is far closer to the Star Trek Holodeck goal that is anticipated to be the eventual metaverse photorealistic experience the market has been primed to want...

Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, are still a relatively new movement in digital consumerism. However, their impact has already created a long-lasting effect that will transform the e-commerce market in the years to come NFTs are individually authenticated, verifiable, and non-interchangeable items. Complete with unique identification and metadata, the...

A cocktail of increased supply, slowing demand and added capacity is bringing down the price of graphics chips. It could also signal the beginning of the end of the semiconductor shortage that's been plaguing the world since the start of the Covid pandemic The decline in graphics chip prices is a simple case of supply and demand, according to Jack ...

The content of large tech companies, like Google and Meta, will be more tightly regulated under a new European Union law that received provisional approval Saturday Among the provisions of the Digital Services Act approved in an agreement between the European Council and European Parliament are transparency measures on the algorithms used by online...

One of the world's wealthiest business moguls is putting his cash where his social media beliefs are. Twitter on Monday announced it entered into a definitive agreement for Elon Musk to purchase the social media platform for some $44 billion Once the transaction is completed, Twitter will become a privately held company. Twitter made the announceme...

Computer security only happens when software is kept up to date. That should be a basic tenet for business users and IT departments Apparently, it isn't. At least for some Linux users who ignore installing patches, critical or otherwise....

Retail companies have always succeeded or failed based on how well they serve their customers. When service is consistently great, it’s that much more likely that customers will become loyal to a specific retailer That’s a big deal because -- while they might account for only 15% of a retailer’s customer base -- loyal customers can drive as m...

I've been working with home automation offerings since the 1970s when I first installed X-10 switches in my apartment -- which I'm sure my landlord really appreciated when I moved out. Back then, there was only X-10, and while it was anything but secure, the fact there was no internet pretty much prevented me from being hacked Then in the early 200...

Expect to see a permanent evolution of brick-and-mortar retail omnichannel shopping in 2022. This milestone will effect retailers and shoppers alike Consumer in-store spending is down, inflation is skyrocketing, and several other factors that developed under the pandemic are contributing to a sea change in retail operations....

Canonical's Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, aka "Jammy Jellyfish," is now generally available with features that raise the bar for open source -- from cloud, to edge, to IoT and workstations The desktop version is one of the biggest LTS releases from Ubuntu with respect to visual and feature changes. This major upgrade to GNOME 42 brings changes to the desktop i...

In today's world, data is a rich natural resource worth a fortune in relationship knowledge. One of the newest business approaches for understanding data more accurately is natural language processing or NLP. This AI field involves analyzing human speech and text to derive meaning from it Delving into NLP is all about gathering data -- lots of it.

A company with a promising technology to fight plagiarism announced Tuesday that it has received US$6 million in venture capital to expand its efforts to expose cribbers Copyleaks, which has offices in Tel Aviv and Stamford, Conn., uses artificial intelligence to identify similarities and understand the meaning of textual content. In addition to fl...