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Stella Low, one of the most capable communications executives I've ever met, just left Cisco to lead corporate communications and support diversity and social responsibility at Apple In contrast, Apple seems to have made a list of things not to do to customers or as an employer, and rather than avoiding bad practices, has set them as goals....

Back when e-commerce first emerged as a viable solution for business-to-customer sales, there were platforms such as Shopify, Amazon, and eBay that allowed e-commerce merchants to set up websites and inventory digitally and sell items and goods online in a unique way. These days, most of that is old news to us, but there are still markets that are making that shift...

Efforts by several internet industry groups are focusing on new measures to fix inherent security weaknesses with the rapidly expanded use of internet of things (IoT) devices for enterprises and consumers Supply chain security company Finite State on April 27 announced a partnership with application security solutions Veracode to offer comprehensiv...

As longtime readers know, while I try to stay knowledgeable on the many sub-disciplines of information technology, my passion is for information security. Since it's been a while since I've contributed any InfoSec know-how, I wanted to rectify that. I couldn't have timed this realization better because (as you'll see) the techniques on display are perfect for protecting your deluge of tax season documents...

Two out of three global CISOs feel unprepared to cope with a cyberattack, according to an annual survey released Wednesday by a cybersecurity and compliance company The 2021 edition of Proofpoint's Voice of the CISO report -- based on a survey of more than 1,400 CISOs in 14 countries -- found 66 percent of the executives acknowledged their organiza...

If you are looking to expand your sales territory and have not yet put Latin America on your bill of lading, you're missing a golden opportunity. Latin America offers the fastest-growing regional e-commerce marketplace in the world You do not think so? Well, think again. Last year, the total retail e-commerce sales to the LATAM region grew 36.7 per...

More than 90 percent of U.S. users of the latest version of Apple's mobile operating system are taking advantage of a new feature to block an application's ability to track their activity on their phones. This is bad news for advertisers According to research updated Saturday by Flurry, an analytics company owned by the Verizon Media Group, 96 perc...

The big questions about reopening the global economy and what new moves portend are coming in for analysis. The results, if you try to munge it all together, are frankly mud We'd all like the pandemoclypse to be over and out so that we can focus on the new normal but it's not clear what that normal is -- some of which is predicated on vaccination r...

Last week at Dell Technologies World, the most significant announcement was a massive as-a-service offering called Dell Technologies Apex. This promises to return the IT market to its long lost but fondly remembered IBM past. Back when I came out of school, IBM was the most revered and powerful technology company. This benefit was mainly due to ...

Livestream shopping has grown in popularity in recent months, and it's likely to become even more prevalent in the future. The technology and its business model deliver an interactive experience for brands, influencers, or celebrities to promote and sell products and for consumers to participate by asking questions and shopping during the event The...

After one year of avoiding physical stores due to the pandemic, consumers have had time to adjust to the likes and dislikes of digital stores. But if vendors hope to keep customers visiting their online wares, they had better tune in more sharply to the new wave of shoppers' attitudes toward online customer service practices Customer service platfo...

Picking the ideal Linux distribution takes research and planning. Not because Linux is a challenge. Rather, the Linux OS offers a seemingly unending selection of distributions to meet general computing as well as special needs for enterprise, SMBs, and personal use However, for enterprise and business-focused users, one popular choice has fallen in...

A legal dispute between Google and Oracle over software copyrights has now been decided, with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in favor of Google. The Court's decision in Google LLC v. Oracle America Inc. was released on April 5, 2021 The decision ended 10 years of tortuous litigation. While the Court definitively addressed the dispute between the two...

The software industry fueled jobs and GDP growth in the United States in 2020, according to a report released Tuesday by an international software research organization The report by Software.org: the BSA Foundation found the software industry supported more than 15.8 million jobs in 2020, a 5.9 percent jump from 2018; and supported $US1.9 billion ...

Numerous CEOs doubt of the value of social media marketing, according to a new survey by a mobile payments platform The research by Bango, which surveyed more than 200 CEOs, maintains that poor digital marketing practices and meaningless metrics are "putting the board to sleep."

Kaspersky on April 26 released survey results revealing that almost one quarter (22 percent) of PCs still run the end-of-life OS Microsoft Windows 7, which stopped receiving mainstream support in January 2020. When operating systems reach end of life, vulnerabilities will remain on the system without patch updates to resolve issues, providing cybe...

BlackBerry had its annual analyst event last week where its CEO John Chen explained something I thought was very provocative about the future the company anticipates. It has to do with far broader interoperability, unique dependencies, and a level of potential security risk that most other technology firms aren't yet considering. What if our com...

I was at a Salesforce analyst briefing the other day. Most of it was under NDA but I had an insight that many of you may have already had and I want to share it I've been writing about the importance of platform as a tool and as a strategy for a while, and not only with regard to Salesforce -- though they have one of the more pronounced strategies ...

Red Hat on Wednesday concluded its April two-day Summit 2021 Virtual Experience with a hefty list of announcements and presentations by the company's innovative customers driving the latest open-source technologies and trends Perhaps one of the event's most significant announcements was Red Hat's plan to deliver the first functionally safe, continu...

A surge in online shopping sprung up over the past year due to the pandemic. The rapid adoption pushed the expected timeline for consumers to expand their online shopping forays. It also opened the door to a drone delivery industry to feed a growing demand for increased online deliveries Companies scrambling to compete with the advancing delivery c...