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I was recently privy to a discussion amongst a number of high-level marketing executives within a traditional industry. This industry is facing something of a perfect storm as new entrants disrupt its cozy little industry. In an effort to shore up their operations, these vendors are looking to make cross-sell and up-sell offers to their existing customers. As I was chatting with these people, and as I quizzed them about just how personalized their emails were, I was gob-smacked to hear that their approach was very much generic... Читать дальше...

If CES is the party deck of the mobile technology world, Mobile World Congress is the engine room. It's where the world's carriers meet infrastructure vendors and telecom ministers, and Very Serious Business takes place. Handset makers from the top tier to the bargain basement all clamor for attention and, with any luck, something interesting will turn up.

Facebook will begin test flights of its solar-powered Internet drone later this year, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday.

Facebook remains committed to spreading the availability of the Internet in India, despite the recent prohibition of its free Web service by the Indian government, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday.

Smart city technologies are on display again at Mobile World Congress (MWC). This year, they are bigger than ever -- and more advanced.

Software companies don’t survive – thrive, in fact – for nearly 40 years without a strong aptitude for change. Kronos launched in the late 1970s with the first microprocessor-based time clock. In the decades since, the Chelmsford, Mass.-based company has become the leader in workforce management applications, navigating a rapidly changing technology landscape and the transition from startup to public company back to a private entity now generating more than a billion dollars in revenue annually.

Samsung had an opportunity to be an innovator by including future-looking technologies in its new Galaxy S7 and and S7 Edge smartphones. But the company played it safe with incremental upgrades like a microSD slot and better camera.

GitHub's popular code-sharing service for developers has long been available in a self-hosted enterprise version, and now it's coming to IBM's Bluemix cloud platform.

The Open Connectivity Foundation plans to introduce a single open-source code base in place of the alphabet soup of standards for the Internet of Things.

It’s widely agreed that the government should be able force a company to turn over information it possesses when there is reason to believe that information could be used to prevent a terrorist attack. However, that’s not what the current dispute between Apple and the Department of Justice is about. The government is asking Apple to undermine privacy protection that the firm has spent years developing and refining by creating software to defeat that protection. And it is just to discover whether... Читать дальше...

Intel sparked a wireless revolution over the last decade with its Centrino processor platform, designed to connect laptops over Wi-Fi, and now believes the 5G mobile standard will fuel the next big change in the way a new generation of devices communicate.

The digital-transformation imperative looms large in the business world, but it's not always clear how on-premises software and data fit into the picture.

Panasonic is branching out from its ruggedized computer and tablet roots, announcing a pair of new smartphones on Monday at Mobile World Congress.

Apple CEO Tim Cook isn't ready to confirm longstanding rumors that the company is designing a car, but he didn't exactly deny it, either, in an interview with Fortune.

Interesting news from IBM InterConnect today (Disclusure: IBM contributed to my travel and expenses to attend the event). Big blue is teaming up with VMware in order to give enterprises that use VMware (which, it has to be said, is just about everyone) an easy way to move their workloads to the cloud.

As I previously predicted, Apple has taken a big chunk out of the Swiss watch industry, smartwatche users are abandoning conventional time pieces, and Tim Cook’s already figures out how to set the stage for the success of Apple Watch 2.

“Take a deep breath and stop saying the world is ending,” FBI Director James Comey wrote on Lawfare as he tried to explain the FBI’s reasoning for trying to force Apple to unlock San Bernadino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook’s locked iPhone 5c.

Apple today said that the government should create an expert panel to discuss the implications of the FBI's demand that the company help it access an iPhone used by one of the people accused of killing 14 in California nearly three months ago.

I’ve talked a lot about patching, ever since my first column for Computerworld way back in 2008. Then, I had to struggle with the IT department to get them to do any patching. The backlog was immense — not only had the Windows operating systems running on our servers never been patched, but neither had their software applications. My vulnerability scanner found literally hundreds of thousands of patchable vulnerabilities.

It can see through smoke, it can dive underwater, and it can run Android Marshmallow.

Epson announced an update on Monday to its Moverio smart glasses at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, bringing a nice but incremental enhancement to a device that’s aimed at enterprise users and consumers alike.

Adobe has merged two of its app development services into one, in an attempt to help businesses easily build professional-looking apps, without requiring a whole lot of coding know-how. 

You can probably make your Unix systems hum -- deliver great performance, withstand threats to file system integrity, resist hacker attacks, report problems, and run smoothly no matter what your users throw at them. But can you make them do goofy things? Let's look at a collection of some really oddball tools that you might never have heard of are tried.

Facebook is extending its collaborative model for developing low-cost computing hardware to telecommunications gear as well, focusing on three areas -- access, backhaul, and core and management.

FBI Director James Comey claims the agency doesn't want to break anyone’s encryption or set loose a master key to devices like the iPhone.