The penchant for tech whistleblowers to quit their jobs with a bang while many of their colleagues engage in “quiet quitting” should be a wake-up call to industry leaders, according to a blog penned by four Forrester analysts. A scorching employment market for security, risk and privacy professionals combined with the recruiting of values-based employees…
Sometimes the world of smart technology innovations collides with the planet of dumb customer service provisions. That collision usually does not bode well for the customer. In my case, that scenario is particularly true. I bought Lenovo’s Chromebook Duet 5 for an attractive price from a major national electronics store. In hindsight, that was a…
The video game market is divided into five segments: legacy PC and console, evolving mobile devices — mostly phones but some tablets, and the emerging cloud. That’s four, I’ll get to the fifth segment in a minute. Observing these segments, Qualcomm is present mostly in evolving mobile devices. At the same time, that has an…
Cybersecurity pros want the computer industry to push for vendor consolidation and open standards. This major change in how IT pros safeguard networks is long overdue, according to new research by the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) International and independent industry analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), a division of TechTarget. The push toward vendor…
While Netscape didn’t invent the internet or HTML, it was the company that made the internet real. Netscape advanced with Tim Berners-Lee’s creation of HTML and was instrumental in turning it into something that changed the world. Last week at Siggraph, Nvidia’s opening keynote identified Universal Scene Description (USD) developed by Pixar, which is a…
Navigating the internet can be a trouble-filled journey. Bad actors intent on exploiting uninformed users are constantly lurking behind emails, websites, and social media invites. Even your Wi-Fi router and those now-ubiquitous QR codes can be danger points. Add to that the never-ending virus and malware threats. Computer and mobile device users are often unaware…
Fake social media accounts are usually associated with bot networks, but some research released Tuesday revealed many social media users are creating their own fake accounts for a variety of reasons. One in three U.S. social media users has multiple accounts on the social media platforms that they use, according to a survey of 1,500…
Less than 1% of Netflix’s 221 million subscribers are playing the service’s games each day, according to a report from CNBC. Based on statistics from Apptopia, the report revealed that there have been 23.3 million global downloads of Netflix’s mobile games and an average of 1.7 million subscribers are engaging with the games daily. When…
This week is Siggraph 2022, where Nvidia will be doing one of the keynotes. While the metaverse on the consumer side is industrial use, outside of gaming which has effectively consisted of metaverse instances for years, Nvidia at Siggraph will be talking about its leadership in integrating AI into the technology, the creation and application…
Nearly all the top 10 universities in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia are putting their students, faculty and staff at risk of email compromise by failing to block attackers from spoofing the schools’ email domains. According to a report released Tuesday by enterprise security company Proofpoint, universities in the United States are most…
