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Data breaches in 2021 set a new record with 5.9 billion accounts affected by digital thieves, according to a new report by a VPN provider The biggest breach of the period was actually a combination of several cyber smash-and-grab operations during a five-year span that contained 3.2 billion unique email and password combinations from Netflix, Linke...

Supply chain issues have haunted businesses during the past several months. Given the status of the pandemic and other challenges, they probably won't be resolved any time soon The best e-commerce businesses can do to mitigate these issues is to adjust their own practices, timelines, and needs to ensure that they can continue serving customers and ...

Russian authorities on Friday reported that they shut down the REvil ransomware operations and arrested a dozen or more gang members The Federal Security Service (FSB) of the Russian Federation said it shut down the REvil ransomware gang after U.S. authorities reported on the leader....

Few desktop environments -- and Linux is both blessed and cursed with a plethora of them -- can be inviting enough to fit the computing needs of all user scenarios. KDE is one of them. Even better, the October release of KDE Neon 5.23 makes it a fitting choice over other distros running KDE This release has a double claim to fame. KDE Neon 5.23 h...

Salesforce held its Dreamforce NYC on schedule in early December, which you might have missed because of other news like Omicron and the looming chaos of the holidays But there it was -- trying to get back to some kind of normal, even if by absorbing efforts at mitigating the pandemic into its product line. What is so interesting was how un-CRM-lik...

Bias in AI systems can result in significant losses to companies, according to a new survey by an enterprise AI company More than one in three companies (36 percent) revealed they had suffered losses due to AI bias in one or several algorithms, noted the DataRobot survey of over 350 U.S. and U.K. technologists, including CIOs, IT directors, IT ma...

It's a common refrain from both technologists and laypeople alike, but the past two years have reshaped the digital landscape. While many people are probably a bit tired of hearing this phrase -- and other similar phrases -- it is particularly important for companies with e-commerce platforms There are many ways companies can stay relevant as we en...

Although Apple is expected to launch a mixed reality product sometime this year, don't expect it to lead its users into the metaverse, according to a prominent watcher of the company The watcher, Mark Gurman, who writes the Power On newsletter for Bloomberg, wrote in the latest edition of the publication that the metaverse will be "off-limits" for ...

This year I did not go to CES again because of the pandemic. I was less worried about being in Las Vegas than I was about the travel to and from the event because the infection rate where I live is a bit off the charts. As a result, I rarely leave home In any case, much of the event is streamed, and I was able to find several things that caught my ...

CES 2022 officially runs Jan. 5 to 7, but many of the big press conferences took place on Monday, Jan. 4, one day earlier than originally planned. Consumer Technology Association (CTA), owner and producer of CES, put the number of companies canceling at 72 but noted that it added 60 new companies The hybrid arrangement allowed CES to muster a globa...

As the New Year rolls in, consumers are strengthening their voices to tell brand marketers how their support can win more of their dollars. Their message is clear: make your purpose about more than corporate profit Deloitte's 2022 Global Marketing Trends report pinpoints key trends unfolding in the marketing function. It uncovers how high-growth br...

Shopping on social media platforms is growing at a torrid pace -- three times faster than traditional e-commerce platforms -- and is on a pace to reach US$1.2 trillion globally by 2025, according to a study released Tuesday by an international professional services firm Most of that growth -- 62 percent -- will be driven by Gen Z and millennial sho...

Welcome to 2022 in Linuxland. Last year closed out with solid developments in the open-source world. Expect that progress to continue as this new year moves forward 2022 arrived on the heels of three key European rulings that lend support to the open-source concept:...

It's okay to give ourselves kudos for CRM's resiliency over the course of the pandemic. We did a heck of a job keeping most of the balls in the air We did our minor miracle by leveraging the platforms on which most CRM systems are based these days. Vendors and customers built or enhanced systems designed to turn whims into orders and then into prod...

The holiday shopping season was very good for Apple's wearables business, according to a leading analyst of the company's operations Ming-Chi Kuo of TFI Asset Management reported over the weekend that Apple sold 90 million AirPods during the final quarter of 2021, including 27 million of the latest version of the earbuds released in September....

This is the first week of the new year and, given how 2020 and 2021 were, I am feeling a bit of trepidation that 2022 could be worse The first big consumer event of 2022 is CES, and I still argue it's way too soon after the holidays for a show that makes you want to spend more money just days after assessing the hole in our wallets from buying Chri...

Next week's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) will not be canceled despite a surge of new Covid-19 infections. Though last-minute plans have made it a hybrid event with a physical show in Las Vegas and a digital component for those unable or unwilling to attend in person In the weeks leading up to the mega event, numerous companies reconsidered healt...

The global remote work revolution the pandemic caused has accelerated and reinforced the need for companies to prioritize the employee experience. This necessity includes providing tech equipment and consumer products from select retailers via a "choose your own device" (CYOD) reimbursement program That is the view from two top suppliers of compute...

As 2021 winds down, it's time for cybersecurity experts to toss their runes and forecast what's in store for consumers and practitioners in the coming year Cybercriminals will move from identity theft to identity fraud, predicted the Identity Theft Resource Center in San Diego....

Not everyone who knows how to code software gets rich quickly, if at all. But extra money can be generated from software coding as passive income from side projects or independent distribution of mobile apps and more Software coders typically work for commercial entities developing internal applications. Some coders contract software creation proje...