Foundries.io and Arduino are joining forces to make embedded Linux-powered internet of things and edge computing devices more secure. Foundries.io announced the partnership Thursday. The deal will combine technological innovations with Foundries’ cloud-native development and deployment enterprise solutions for secure IoT and edge devices. Those solutions will integrate with the Arduino Pro Portenta X8 release,…
Canonical’s Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, aka “Jammy Jellyfish,” is now generally available with features that raise the bar for open source — from cloud, to edge, to IoT and workstations. The desktop version is one of the biggest LTS releases from Ubuntu with respect to visual and feature changes. This major upgrade to GNOME 42 brings…
Canonical is pushing the security and usability conveniences of managing internet of things (IoT) and edge devices with its June 15 release of Ubuntu Core 22, the fully containerized Ubuntu 22.04 LTS variant optimized for IoT and edge devices. Combined with Canonical’s technology offer, this release brings Ubuntu’s operating system and services to a complete…
The art of automating business communication extends to resurrecting handwritten letters to customers and maximizing the appearance with a robot labor force to produce the correspondence. The Handwrytten app is part of an automated CRM tool that lets businesses — and individuals with an entrepreneurial passion — integrate computerized automation with personalized handwritten notes to…
Marketers are paying more attention to presenting potential buyers with a blend of product videos as a model that adopts live commerce goals based on consumer-led and consumer-centric product discovery. The developing new marketing method shares several names. The most prominent usage centers on live commerce and livestream shopping. Whatever you call it, the marketing…
Have you checked your online accounts lately? If not, make doing so a priority today. Account takeover fraud is on the rise and looking for new victims. The holiday shopping season is already underway, with more consumers relying on e-commerce than ever before. So, let’s hope that today is not too late. Got your attention?…
One thing that small and medium-sized businesses have in common with large enterprises is that cybersecurity remains a persistent and complex problem. Hackers understand that SMBs are vulnerable when connected to the internet and that there is a market to monetize stolen data. The proof is in the numbers released on Oct. 20 in the…
As much as I extol the variety that Linux offers, I’ve done a bad job of enjoying it. Sadly, playing with new distributions usually gets bested by competing priorities. Not today. A browse through Linux reviews revealed one dearth in attention: Intel’s Clear Linux*. It’s been on my radar for its ambition to sprint to…
After rising and falling since 2021, new Linux malware hit record highs at year-end in 2022, growing by 117% over previous levels. While Linux malware reached never-before-seen numbers in 2022, the total number of new malware developments among other major computing platforms fell. Linux is regarded as one of the most secure operating systems. But…
In September 2020 Jacque Montague Raymer, developer and creator of the MakuluLinux family of distributions, released a new distro inspired by a project he shelved several years ago. On Aug. 10 of this year, he released an upgrade that puts an expanded “Shift Distro” into revolutionizing the Linux distribution’s user interface. MakuluLinux Shift is a…
