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With the holidays approaching and the pandemic surging, clickwrap transaction platforms (CTPs) are emerging as a valuable tool to help businesses navigate the increased volume of online transactions. CTPs help companies secure transactions that are, or have moved, online. These business transactions are purpose-built for high volumes of agreements...

The front office is moving out the front door and into the world. Actually, it's exiting via the Internet, the windows, side doors -- and even the smokestack -- to form the basis of what will be the next normal, or whatever future historians want to call it. For a while, when we were just dabbling with mobility and social media, we could ignore all that -- but no more...

Cybersecurity firm FireEye, which has been prominent in the fight against nation-state cyberthreats, has been itself attacked by "a highly sophisticated threat actor, one whose discipline, operational security, and techniques," company CEO Kevin Mandia announced Tuesday This indicates the attack is likely state-sponsored by a nation "with top-tier ...

During any holiday season, consumers have a tough time wrestling with each other for best-selling products, but now times have become even tougher, thanks to the proliferation of online "scalper" bots These robot shoppers emulate the activity of ticket scalpers in the real world....

Despite the proven effectiveness of smartphone contact-tracing applications in reducing COVID-19 cases and deaths, Americans seem to have little interest in using the programs An analysis by the Associated Press released Monday found that only 18 states make those apps available to their citizens and in those locales, only about one in 14 people ha...

Service outage detection website Downdetector on Nov. 19 reported that the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Internet infrastructure service, which many websites and apps use as a backbone, was having problems Downdetector's historical data shows that AWS had also experienced problems on Nov. 2 and Nov. 16....

The antiX distro offers a solid operating system that many other Linux communities fail to deliver. It is unassuming but reliable and focuses on performance rather than prettiness That last element goes a long way to giving users distraction-free computing power. That does not mean antiX is not visually appealing. This distro has a no-nonsense appe...

Qualcomm last week launched its Snapdragon 888 platform which will show up in premium phones next year -- and this promises to take the high-end of Android smartphones to levels of performance they've never seen before While Qualcomm provided critical help to Apple by enabling the company to bring its first iPhone to market, Apple broke up with Qua...

Mobile shopping apps have, in the midst of the pandemic, become central to online retail operations, and they're clearly here to stay. In fact, by 2021, mobile e-commerce, or m-commerce, sales are expected to account for 54 percent of all retail e-commerce sales The E-Commerce Times spoke with m-commerce specialists to find out what's behind the ra...

The majority of software development teams believe they don't test well. They understand that the effect of quality defects is substantial, and they invest heavily in quality assurance, but they still aren't getting the results they want. This is not due to a lack of talent or effort -- the technology supporting software testing is simply not effective. The industry has been underserved...

Libra, the digital currency announced by Facebook last year, is getting a new name. Libra will now be Diem The new name will reenforce the currency project's independence, according to a statement released Tuesday by the Libra Association, which is also changing its name. From now on it will be the Diem Association....

CRM giant Salesforce on Tuesday signed a definitive agreement to purchase enterprise communications platform Slack, as widely expected Under the terms of the agreement, Salesforce will pay $26.79 in cash and 0.0776 shares of its common stock for each share of Slack, for a total of about $27.7 billion....

For years the consumer virtual reality market has failed to fulfill the hype surrounding it, but that's going to change in the next five years, according to a report released Monday The forecast by Omdia, a market analysis firm based in London, predicts the value of the virtual reality hardware and software market to reach US$10 billion by 2025, up...

When a tech company gets big enough, you can predict that some of its brainy and talented members will form a rock band. They'll play at company events like user meetings, and these days, it is just a formality. A culture that moves fast and innovates to cause disruptive innovation is pure rock'n'roll To the best of my knowledge, Salesforce doesn't...

Today is Cyber Monday, which doesn't mean as much this year because the related sales have been going on for much of November as retailers try to milk every available dollar they can. However, like you, I'm doing a lot of shopping, both for others (yes, I'm going to cheat and mostly give Amazon gift cards but some gifts) and myself Since this enti...

The 2020 holiday season is upon us, and it should be prime time for shopping, but the pandemic has forced many consumers to tighten their purse strings. Besides trying to avoid crowds to dodge COVID-19, this year's digital holiday shoppers have to be wary of counterfeit sellers lurking within e-commerce stores It's projected that about one-third of...

Spotlight, a new short video service launched by Snap on Monday, is set to take on the leaders in the space, TikTok and Instagram Reels Moreover, it has pledged to prime the creative engines of Snapchatters making videos by divvying up a daily pool of US$1 million for the day's best content....

Recently, I bumped into a friend (at an appropriate social distance because, yes, this is 2020) that I hadn't seen in a long time. The two of us have many common interests and little time to discuss them. But in the few minutes before parting ways, we immediately slid into discussing Linux. We talked distros, desktops, configurations, and everything in between...

The rapid expansion in the use of cloud technologies to support remote working during the COVID-19 pandemic has underscored that the U.S. government's increasingly high rate of cloud adoption will likely be sustained for the next several years In fact, 2020 was a "historic year" for federal cloud migration, according to Alex Rossino, senior princip...

This month we decided to retire my wife's 2008 Infiniti FX35 and find something else. This swap isn't an easy task because her SUV has a Stillen Stage 2 supercharger in it (a video of the car is here), so we wanted something green and quick Electrics were left out of the equation because we already have an electric Jaguar I-Pace, and there is a sev...