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The iPhone...yes, it's basically the antithesis of open source technology, but bear with me here. What made it the most significant consumer electronics breakthrough of the 21st century? Certainly not the hefty price tag. Was it powerful? Of course, but the average consumer doesn't camp out for a week on Fifth Avenue to get more processing speed. ...

Bitcoin has become a financial and cultural phenomenon, having been in existence only since 2009. While many people have heard of it, very few understand it. In short, Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency, or digital currency, that allows transactions independent of the banking system. Some see digital currency as revolutionary because it lets people send funds as easily as emails, even across international borders...

One of the big marketing decisions confronting e-commerce vendors today is whether current performance is good enough. Online vendors need to consider their customers' shopping experience in order to assess existing barriers to stronger shopper responsiveness to digital storefronts According to Adobe, the 2020 year-end holiday shopping season saw a...

Microsoft on Monday reported that multiple malicious actors were taking advantage of vulnerabilities in the company's Exchange software last week to attack systems at organizations that have failed to patch the flaws To help organizations that haven't deployed Microsoft's security tools, the company released the malware hashes and known malicious f...

Trisquel Linux is one of those computing staples you wished you knew about much sooner. This Linux distribution has been around literally for years and is extremely polished Trisquel GNU/Linux is based on Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS (Bionic Beaver) but comes with the Linux-Libre kernel using Ubuntu's 4.15 kernel. That should not matter to newcomers or seaso...

The United States government is trying to get smarter about getting smart. Throughout the federal government, and especially in defense and national security, artificial intelligence (AI) is getting an increased amount of attention, including the adoption of hefty AI budgets. That should lead to increasing contract opportunities for information technology vendors with high competence in AI...

Skeptics of giving computers control over high-risk activities like driving cars were given some ammunition last week when researchers at OpenAI discovered their two-month-old machine vision system could be tricked with a pen and paper into misidentifying objects The AI laboratory published a paper March 4 that revealed their new system could be fo...

Zoho might have had it as close to right as possible a couple of years ago when they named their flagship product Zoho One and called it the operating system for business Over more than 20 years, we've watched as CRM evolved from a collection of disparate front office apps to a suite, and then to a platform for building, maintaining, and most impor...

Last week was particularly interesting for me as it had Microsoft's Ignite event -- and separately, a handful of us analysts got to see Huawei's operating system strategy Microsoft is starting to accelerate now that it has completed its cloud focus pivot, and last week, it had two huge announcements in Microsoft Mesh and Microsoft Viva....

Learning to code, regardless of the path a child chooses to take, is crucial today. Research shows us that this knowledge will be important in any career. As both a female leader in technology and a mother of a 10-year old boy, I am acutely aware of its critical importance in both my professional and personal life. Coding is a necessary literacy in this technological age.

Social media has changed how we communicate with friends and family, keep up with everything from fitness trends to news, and share our thoughts and talents with the world. Now, it is changing how and where we shop Social commerce -- selling products or services on social media platforms -- is catching on fast. Social shopping grew 35 percent in 20...

A road map for continued U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence was revealed Monday in a 756-page report released by a national commission Two years in the making, the report by the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence made a number of recommendations to make the United States a leader in the AI age. Those include:...

Workplace ergonomics enhancements can simultaneously help reduce risk factors that lead to musculoskeletal injuries while providing better human performance and productivity Now that so many people work from home, ergonomic workspaces, furniture, and design have become a key concern when setting up a home workplace or company offices of the future....

Nostalgia website MyHeritage has launched a new service that allows you to create lifelike animations of faces in still photos The AI-powered service called Deep Nostalgia, launched last week, is free to try and is remarkably accurate in depicting how a person would look if captured on video. Their eyes blink, their head moves and their mouth forms...

I've often extolled the philosophy of Unix, and as the title implies, I'm not about to stop. Before I learned computer science, I thought all computers were impenetrably arcane. But when I grasped Unix, through the imperfect medium of Linux, it made intuitive sense to me. Through all its evolution, at its heart Unix retains the charm that I have previously remarked on.

The minor trend I began noticing over the last week or so is budding optimism about the future. COVID-19 cases and deaths are in decline, financial indicators are decent and trending up, and forecasters are predicting a booming economy. The Federal Reserve anticipates a 4.5 percent growth rate, while Goldman Sachs says it sees growth at more like 6.8 percent...

We are in the midst of what many are calling the Fourth Industrial Revolution, or Industry 4.0. This is a time of disruption, massive change, opportunities, and significant risks. Fortunes will shift, companies will fail, and new companies will rise from the ashes Like every revolution before, we will better understand what we can do and likely do ...

Apple's plan to release its App Tracking Transparency (ATT) privacy enhancement feature in early spring has set the ad industry on its ear and triggered a war with Facebook ATT requires apps to get a consumer's authorization before tracking them or the devices they are using....

A Shopper Experience Index report by Bazaarvoice, a provider of product reviews and user-generated content (UGC) solutions, shows shopping trends are expanding as the pandemic's impact on e-commerce continues, forcing retailers to adapt their marketing strategies to meet new consumer expectations and demands Consumer adoption of digital shopping is...

Despite an environment conducive to phishing scams, malicious actors achieved only a marginal increase in success in 2020, according to a report from cybersecurity company Proofpoint Catastrophic events, like a pandemic, coupled with hasty technological change such as many people forced to work from home immediately, have been a rich environment in...