ZDNet - Tom Foremski: IMHO

Toshiba's new commerce platform targets retailers with 30 microservices and 400 APIs

Wed, 13 Jan 2021 13:27:00 GMT

Toshiba wants to help the survivors in the retail industry to quickly add new IT services in response to COVD-19 market changes and have the technologies to deal with agile online competitors such as Amazon.

Billions were stolen in blockchain hacks last year

Tue, 12 Jan 2021 22:13:00 GMT

The total value of the losses from 122 attacks in 2020 would be worth $3.8 billion today.

Dumb and dumber: The future of business AI depends on HI

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 16:15:45 GMT

When every organization has access to AI ... the difference will be in Human Intelligence (HI)

Uniphore call center survey: People prefer people over tech

Thu, 17 Dec 2020 13:03:25 GMT

Artificial chat technologies are hugely unpopular when used in call centers as the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically raised people's need for information from many businesses and government agencies.

DeepMind AI breakthrough in protein folding will accelerate medical discoveries

Tue, 01 Dec 2020 13:56:40 GMT

Machine learning enables AlphaFold system to determine protein structures in days -- as accurate as experimental results that take months or years.

AI approach could solve the problem of ROI for content

Mon, 30 Nov 2020 12:39:54 GMT

Every company has to be a media company, too. But figuring out what content marketing to produce - and measuring its impact - is a constant problem. An AI service from InPowered could offer an answer.

Vulcan frees up its huge database of IT vulnerability fixes

Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:36:19 GMT

Vulcan hopes to speed up the slow process of remediation of IT vulnerabilities -- one of the largest enterprise security risks.

Hybrid future seen for work from home, and these are top firms for work/life balance

Mon, 02 Nov 2020 12:07:21 GMT

A significant split is emerging among office workers about the merits of working from home; and Glassdoor investigates firms' work/life balance

With a female CEO SINAI raises $3.8m for decarbonization cloud platform

Thu, 29 Oct 2020 11:11:47 GMT

Silicon Valley investors are starting to turn towards ecological investments and to more diversity with female-led startups.

Study finds turbulent IT enterprise transition to COVID work-from-home policies

Tue, 27 Oct 2020 11:27:04 GMT

Most IT departments said the transition to supporting a home-based workforce due to COVID-19 has been far from smooth.

Accurics raises funding for self-healing cloud infrastructure

Wed, 14 Oct 2020 19:49:13 GMT

The rush to the cloud is outpacing the cyber-security needed for safe deployment -- this is the gap that Accurics is targeting.

Corporate diversity programs could receive a boost from Glassdoor's anonymous insider reviews

Thu, 01 Oct 2020 12:28:21 GMT

Diversity is best experienced from the inside. Glassdoor says it will publish data on workforce diversity volunteered by insiders at thousands of companies.

Security firm McAfee files for IPO on enthusiasm for IT stocks

Tue, 29 Sep 2020 12:03:57 GMT

Enterprise company IPOs are doing well and McAfee hopes that will continue as Intel seeks to completely reverse its 2010 acquisition.

Oyster raises giant $14m seed round as VCs focus on Latin America

Fri, 11 Sep 2020 12:26:14 GMT

I spoke with PayPal alumni Vilash Poovala about raising the largest seed investment in Latin America and the opportunities in fintech.

Vulcan Cyber study finds serious problems with vulnerability management

Thu, 03 Sep 2020 12:01:35 GMT

Cyber criminals don't need to invent new ways to breach IT systems — the easiest ways are by known vulnerabilities because enterprises are far behind in remediation — and they don't even know it.

What if tech's next big thing is unstoppable deflation?

Tue, 01 Sep 2020 17:29:58 GMT

The 'next big thing' will be bigger than anything before, and it will surprise us in its origin and in the massive changes it makes to our world.

Oura ring: Improved accuracy of wearables promises better healthcare for all

Fri, 28 Aug 2020 17:00:07 GMT

The Oura ring's high accuracy in monitoring a person's biomedical signals might enable a prediction of a COVID-19 infection two to three days before symptoms appear.

Stack Overflow reports strong growth from COVID-19 workplace changes

Fri, 28 Aug 2020 12:06:07 GMT

Working from home requires new collaboration tools such as Stack Overflow's Teams product, which has attracted top VC investments.

Tech industry group highlights positive role in US economy

Fri, 07 Aug 2020 12:06:44 GMT

Many US tech companies want to distance themselves from the antitrust allegations made against the tech giants with a report on the industry's value to the economy.

RangeForce gets backing from Cisco for plugging cyber security skills gap

Tue, 28 Jul 2020 13:59:13 GMT

Properly trained IT security teams are the best defense against hackers and the loss of sensitive data, says RangeForce.