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Qualcomm had a smart city event last week where they talked about the operational and financial advantages that those living or working in a smart city would enjoy Shortly after watching this presentation, I watched the movie "Free Guy" (I loved the movie), which unintentionally featured the concepts of a smart city done well and one done quite poo...

Dreamforce saw Salesforce continuing to build out a product offering that, in some ways, defies description For the CRM rank and file, there were plenty of announcements and enhancements -- and for others, some tantalizing views of what may be coming in future releases....

Quantum computing until recently existed more in the realm of sci-fi than reality. Now, as computing technologies and the demand to solve complex problems accelerate, quantum computing is making its way into the mainstream While still in the stage of experimentation and development, for the most part, quantum computing promises to revolutionize the...

Canonical on Sept. 21 announced the lifecycle extension of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) and 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) to help organizations implement their transition to new applications and technologies This lifecycle extension enables organizations to balance their infrastructure upgrade costs. The support extensions give them additional time to...

Unless you are deeply rooted in the inner workings of internet search engine rankings, you may not know that organic search exists and differs from other search engine results. Take heart. You belong to a rather large club of unenlightened members of this technology With the right inquiries, though, you can remain oblivious to technical SEO and sti...

An international study of cyberattacks has discovered discrepancies based on race and gender The research by Malwarebytes, Digitunity and the Cybercrime Support Network based on a survey of 5,000 people in the United States, United Kingdom and Germany found that Black people, Indigenous people, and People of Color (BIPOC) are more likely to have th...

Gitpod on Tuesday announced the creation of a new open-source project licensed under MIT around Gitpod's OpenVSCode Server implementation of upstream, stock VS Code Founded in 2020, Gitpod is an open-source platform for automating the provisioning of ready-to-code developer environments. It is designed for applications running in the cloud....

Facebook on Monday announced it's putting its plans to launch a version of Instagram for kids on hold The move comes following a report in the Wall Street Journal that Instagram is harmful to young people and congressional pressure to scrap the project....

The holiday season is big business for e-commerce. Year-over-year metrics show massive gains for online sellers, particularly during the pandemic-fueled 2020, with sales growing a whopping 45 percent compared to 2019 At the heart of this surge was Amazon, whose worldwide sales grew more than 50 percent, with upwards of eight million items delivered...

Microsoft last week launched its new Surface line, and elements of it better target Apple's weaknesses than any prior effort I've been covering Windows releases since 1994, when I first started as an analyst and was tied to the Windows 95 launch. Every release has those that get over-excited and those that get overly concerned....

The term "social commerce" is the trend du jour for marketers, yet there's confusion in many circles about what that really means. At its core, social commerce is about turning customers into advocates Social commerce means many things to many people. Some equate it with capital-I "Influencer" marketing. Others think of it as the process of markete...

Positive Technologies on Wednesday released a report that indicates ransomware attacks have reached "stratospheric levels." Researchers into the Q2 2021 cybersecurity threatscape also point out the evolution in attack strategies and a rise in malware created to target Unix-based systems. Many different versions of Unix exist, and they share similar...

If you have the Linux skills to bolster a solid IT foundation, you will be in high demand for a job working in the open source software industry Hiring is rebounding in the wake of the pandemic, as organizations look to continue their digital transformation activities. This is evidenced by 50 percent of employers The Linux Foundation surveyed who s...

Shadow code -- third-party scripts and libraries often added to web applications without security validation -- pose risks to websites and jeopardize compliance with privacy regulations, according to new research released Tuesday Third-party code leaves organizations vulnerable to digital skimming and Magecart attacks, the researchers also noted....

Dreamforce happens this week, emanating from San Francisco and reaching out to the world via the global cloud computing network Salesforce helped to create. With that, this may be the last time to say with all sincerity that Salesforce is a CRM company Although the New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol will still read CRM when this is done, Salesfo...

Trust in sources that we depend on for business and personal decisions is critical. A platform that aggregates opinion and news should be held to the highest standard of trust and honesty. This need for trustworthiness is because, if it acts against its users, an aggregation service like Facebook can cause damage at a national or even planetary level by instigating people to act against their self-interest...

Smart home technology is quickly becoming more mainstream than niche. As people monitor and control so many aspects of their lives through apps and smart devices, they expect to do the same with their homes From security systems to intelligent pet doors, smart home technologies are evolving on pace with the accelerated consumer demand. Revenue in t...

Intuit on Monday announced an agreement to acquire Mailchimp, a global customer engagement and marketing platform for small and mid-market businesses, for $12 billion in cash and stock advances. The purchase could be the linchpin that thrusts the mostly financial software company into solving more fertile mid-market business challenges for its customers...

I try not to write too much about earnings because I'm an analyst more focused on how things work -- or don't -- than I am on how much money a company makes. That's largely because I got into the CRM space before companies made money on it. In later market stages, products work, and the interest is in how predictable the company's earnings are But ...

The latest version of the iPad Mini was the clear star of the show at Apple's pre-recorded new product event streamed from its website Tuesday "The iPad Mini was the biggest news of the day," Kevin Krewell, a principal analyst at Tirias Research, told TechNewsWorld....