Guesswork is often involved in predicting the “next big thing” — but with CES just a week away, the future is almost now. The annual international trade show, as well as other industry events following one after another — including ITExpo, Gitex, Mobile World Congress and Techspo — means there will be no shortage of […]
2017 may be the year that developments in the tech world truly were overshadowed by other world events: deepening divisions in the United States and the looming threat of war with North Korea; numerous high-profile Hollywood players, TV personalities, politicians, journalists, business executives and others involved in sexual misconduct scandals; terrorist attacks in Europe and […]
One of the issues with virtual reality is that expectations have been overset massively with TV shows like Star Trek: The Next Generation, which promised an artificial reality indistinguishable from reality. VR failed. It didn’t have to — there is a pattern to bringing out successful technology that is repeatable. You create a complete experience […]
Open Garden on Monday announced the launch of a new peer-to-peer service that allows users to share Internet connections and unused plan data for free, with compensation in a new Ethereum cryptocurrency as an extra incentive. The company is offering the service through an app that can be downloaded from Google Play. The system requires […]
By John P. Mello Jr. Dec 20, 2017 9:52 AM PT The United States on Tuesday accused North Korea of responsibility for a global ransomware attack that locked down more than 300,000 computers in 150 countries earlier this year. The U.S. now has enough evidence to support its assertion that Pyongyang was behind the WannaCry […]
Given how many big names have fallen over the last few weeks due to sexual misconduct, abuse and harassment, you’d think I’d name 2017 as the year of power abuse. However, while I know a lot of folks think the issue is dying down, I don’t see that at all. There are entire industries that […]
Microsoft on Wednesday announced new artificial intelligence features and functionality for several of its flagship products and services, including Office 365, Cortana and Bing, at an event in San Francisco. Harry Shum, EVP of Microsoft Artificial Intelligence and Research, demonstrated some of the new capabilities Building on the progress the company has made in integrating […]
By John P. Mello Jr. Dec 12, 2017 3:24 PM PT Some HP laptops users came with a preinstalled program to capture the keystrokes of users, a security researcher recently discovered. The researcher, Michael Myng aka “ZwClose,” discovered the keylogger software while trying to solve a keyboard problem for a friend. The software is turned […]
Business Review USA speaks to Grace Jackson, VP Procurement at The Guthrie Clinic, about how the organization has overhauled its supply chain infrastructure to improve operations and cement its status in the region.Jackson stepped into her role with a view to restructure the logistics of Guthrie, as the business was operating with many different systems […]
A vulnerability in the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) header filtering functionality of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security Appliances (ESA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass configured user filters on the device. The vulnerability is due to improper handling of a malformed SMTP header in an email received on an affected […]