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Jeff Bezos last week announced he will be stepping down from his role of CEO Amazon. Bezos is following Microsoft's lead and putting his cloud executive Andy Jassy in charge of the company. Given that Microsoft was exceedingly successful with putting Satya Nadella in the same role, it would seem that this would be a slam-dunk success. But the is...

Looking back to the start of 2020, even if you saw the pandemic coming, it's doubtful that anyone would have guessed how much we'd still be talking about coronavirus in 2021 -- or grasped how much it would change almost everything. With that mindset, it almost seems ironic to make predictions. Still, some clear trends in B2B payments have emerged ...

Cyberattacks are increasing in frequency, ramping up the data privacy threats they pose to government agencies and businesses alike. Governments, both domestic and foreign, need to step up efforts to pass legislation that bolsters technological defenses this year, warn privacy groups Stiffer privacy laws are gradually being reviewed and signed into...

Amazon gets a new chief executive this summer. The company's founder, Jeff Bezos, plans to step down from that role and transition into a new job -- executive chair of Amazon, the company announced Tuesday. The chief of Amazon's cloud computing division, Andy Jassy (above, pictured right), will become Amazon's new chief executive. Jassy served in ...

A step toward engineering a new generation of powerful quantum computers has been made by a team of scientists and engineers at the University of Sydney, Microsoft and EQUS, the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems The team, which published their findings in the Jan. 25 issue of Nature Electronics, invente...

Canonical on Feb. 2 made available Ubuntu Core 20, a minimal, containerized version of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS for Internet of Things (IoT) devices and embedded systems This major version bolsters device security with secure boot, full disk encryption, and secure device recovery. Ubuntu Core builds on the Ubuntu application ecosystem to create ultra-secur...

Microsoft is set to step in with its Bing search engine should Google make good on its promise to cut service to Australia, the country's prime minister revealed Monday Speaking at the National Press Club of Australia, PM Scott Morrison said he has spoken to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who is confident Bing could meet the needs of Australians shou...

One of the many disappointments we've seen in handling the COVID-19 crisis has been how cloud software companies have been almost shut out of participating in providing solutions. In some ways it's to be expected because databases and wet chemistry aren't a natural fit, but still Early in the crisis vendors like Salesforce and Zoho began offering t...

Qualcomm last week announced several products that will be used to enhance next-generation automobiles. These future cars will most certainly be electric and increasingly autonomous The underlying technology has applications in emerging markets like robotics, automated businesses, and even smart cities; because when you develop an automated control...

The incoming presidential administration has proposed a stunning increase in support of federal investments in high technology. As part of the administration's plan to deal with the economic impact of COVID-19, the Biden proposal includes $10 billion for various federal information technology programs The single most visible component of the plan i...

Digital commerce transactions spiked in 2020 as consumers generated spending sprees from smartphones that produced 42 percent of all online shopping. As the pandemic continues to keep shoppers out of brick-and-mortar stores, new shopping behaviors continue to include smartphones to nudge products into consumers' digital shopping carts U.S. consumer...

Do you welcome physical fitness like a fish in water, or does it take a trip to the clothing store for larger sizes to get you moving? If you need a push, perhaps a new motivational tool called KrowdFit will be more to your liking. It pays you cash to put your fitness tracking devices on....

An online map of surveillance cameras in New York City is in the works The map project is part of a larger campaign called "Ban the Scan," sponsored by Amnesty International, which is partnering on the initiative with several other tech advocacy, privacy, and civil liberties groups....

The start of a new year often brings with it a renewed commitment to organizing, rethinking, and restructuring life and work The E-Commerce Times spoke with productivity experts to get their perspective on apps, platforms, and techniques that help organizations and individuals become more efficient....

Search-as-a-service company Algolia on Monday announced its acquisition of Google DNI-funded machine learning (ML) startup MorphL to fuel Algolia's new artificial intelligence (AI) offering. The company hopes the new service will eliminate barriers to AI implementation and help businesses drive website conversion and personalization. The acquisiti...

Google sent a shock wave through the advertising and publishing industries last year when it announced it planned to scrap third-party tracking cookies, which are an important tool for online marketers. Not to worry, the company announced Monday that it has a viable alternative in the wings "It might be hard to imagine how advertising on the Web co...

GeckoLinux is a unique distribution that goes a long way towards unifying the often-confusing array of workstation choices available to business and mainstream consumers looking for an alternative to other computing platforms A relative newbie in the overcrowded world of Linux distributions, GeckoLinux debuted in December 2015. But it has made up f...

Huawei has events where it pulls together key analysts to focus on problems it thinks are critical to the future. At its last event, Huawei spoke about two areas that need considerable work. One is that we need an international cybersecurity commission with teeth before some country accidentally starts WWIII with a cyberattack. The recent SolarW...

As we launch into a new year, the COVID-19 pandemic has made many business leaders, me included, reflect on what we'd do next time if we were faced with another unthinkable global crisis In the early part of 2020, the pandemic forced companies around the world to rethink their modern practices and determine how to accelerate the adoption of technol...

Marketing and loyalty have a lot in common, and not just what you think Loyalty programs have traditionally been both the target of marketing campaigns and a form of marketing in themselves. But the comparison I see goes deeper. Both marketing and loyalty had delayed starts in the CRM world, and both exhibited traits of confusion among those charge...