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Outdated Windows Users Flout Computing Safety

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. ...

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

Will FAA Rules Be a Drag on Drone Deliveries?

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 ...

Red Hat’s Virtual Summit Airs Latest Linux Technology

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 ...

This New Online Marketplace Caters to Creators

TrovaPage, a new global open internet marketplace, helps creators and other entrepreneurs focus on marketing without detracting from their creativity ...

How to Avoid the Cost of Churn With Better Customer Experiences

Customer churn is costing mid-market companies an average of $5.5 million per year. Retailers need to avoid the costly mistakes that result in such disastrous churn, according to a recent CRM and Sales Impact Report from SugarCRM. ...

Open Source Joins Efforts to Create Gene Therapies for Rare Diseases

Some 400 million patients worldwide are affected by more than 7,000 rare diseases; yet treatments for rare genetic diseases remain an underserved area. More than 95 percent of rare diseases do not have an approved treatment, and new treatments are estimated to cost more than $1 billion ...

Digital Payments Lead March Toward a Cashless Society

From coin shortages and curbside operations to contactless transactions, how consumers pay for their purchases has been completely transformed during the pandemic. Marketers expect that transformation to continue and expand ...

REVIEW

New Netrunner 21.01 ‘XOXO’ Worthy of Hugs and Kisses

When I last visited the ever-changing Netrunner distribution, I said that Netrunner Linux still went its own way. That was its twentieth rebirthday upgrade over its then 10-year history in late February 2020 ...

Need More From Your Digital Ad Spend? Adopt Contextual Alignment

A recent study of eBay ads found that digital brand search ad effectiveness is overestimated by up to 4,100 percent. A similar analysis of Facebook ads yielded a number of 4,000 percent ...

How Fixable Is the Unsafe Internet?

The larger the Internet superhighway of information grows; the more users get run over by privacy abuses and stolen data. If only we could rebuild the Internet's infrastructure to make data's journey safer and more secure is a common cry of IT and cybersecurity experts ...

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Tax Benefits That Can Help Small Tech and Entrepreneurs Now

The ominous looming deadline for filing 2020 federal income tax returns has been extended from April 15 to Monday, May 17, 2021. ...

Fortune 500s Hit by MS Exchange Breach Maybe Still Unaware

Jonathan Cran, founder and CEO of Intrigue, a cybersecurity startup based in Austin, Texas, used his company's network security tools to compile a list of Fortune 500 companies still exposed to last month's Microsoft Exchange breach. Potentially, many of those companies may not know their networks are compromised ...

Intrigue Funded to Develop New Attack Surface Management Platform

Startup information security firm Intrigue on Tuesday announced a US$2 million seed round led by LiveOak Venture Partners for a new attack service management platform that helps secure enterprise networks. The Intrigue tools scan all public, exposed attack surfaces inside and outside a company ...

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

Social Platforms Now Central in the Commerce Spectrum

Social commerce -- selling products or services on social media platforms -- is a marketing tactic that can boost retail revenue with relatively little effort without overly adding to the advertising spend ...

Google’s Vested Interest in Linux Security

Google is now paying developers more money to work on securing their Linux kernels this year. The gesture may well be the start of the company's bid to enforce a tighter grip on open source ...

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How to Ride the ‘Consumer Wave’ to Better Customer Experiences

If your business does not provide customers with self-service options, you might be encouraging potential customers to go elsewhere ...

Sophisticated CRM Now at the Core of Customer Success

Over the course of the past year, adjusting to the challenges of the pandemic on business has made the customer relationship management system an essential tool for maintaining and growing a customer base. As a result, CRM platforms have evolved into something more than just a digital Rolodex to manage customer contacts ...

Made in China, Sold on Amazon: The Numbers are Skyrocketing

One of the most successful direct-to-consumer shopping outlets for China-based vendors outside of China's own Alibaba e-commerce platform is Amazon. This trend has been accelerating for years ...

REVIEW

Latest LinDoz: An Ideal Windows-to-Linux Crossover

MakuluLinux is an unusually creative operating system that developer Jacque Montague Raymer is constantly changing with each major upgrade. Some of these changes are radical and innovative ...

SECURITY

Cybersecurity Fears Trigger Migration From the Public Cloud

Cloud cybersecurity -- or a lack of it -- is feeding a frenzy of companies out of the public cloud. A similar concern about managing compliance obligations is keeping organizations from moving to the cloud in general ...

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