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Microsoft Offers New Tool to Grow Linux in Windows

Microsoft has released an open source tool that makes it easier for programmers and developers to run Linux on Windows 10 The new tool, released last week, also helps Linux distribution maintainers bring their distros to the Windows Store to run on Windows 10's Windows Subsystem for Linux. Microsoft developed the project for distribution maintainer...

Snapchat May Risk Connecting Apps, Despite Facebook Uproar

Snapchat soon may have a Connected Apps feature that is similar to the functionality at the heart of the Cambridge Analytica brouhaha, which has Facebook writhing under congressional scrutiny and consumer backlash. The latest beta features a new Connected Apps tab within the setting page, Mashable reported earlier this week.

Trump Rails at Amazon Over Taxes, USPS, Local Retail

President Trump on Thursday tweeted criticism of Amazon, implying that the administration may be mulling some type of regulatory action I have stated my concerns with Amazon long before the Election. Unlike others, they pay little or no taxes to state & local governments, use our Postal System as their Delivery Boy (causing tremendous loss to the U...

Atlanta Works to Break Ransomware Hold

Nearly a week after it became the target of one of the largest ransomware attacks to date, the City of Atlanta has made progress toward recovery, but it is still far from business as usual. Hackers encrypted many of the city government's vital data and computer systems The ransomware attack, which Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms characterized as "a host...

Adobe Hones Target's Personalization Tools

Adobe this week introduced three features to its Target application in an effort to improve customer experiences through increased personalization: New Personalization Insights reports;...

Facebook Takes Baby Steps Toward Rebuilding Trust

Facebook has introduced a set of changes designed to empower members to protect their account information. The company has been at the center of an unrelenting firestorm following revelations that it allowed Cambridge Analytica to mine private data belonging to 50 million of its users without permission, which Cambridge Analytica then leveraged for political purposes.

GOVERNMENT IT REPORT

FTC Signals Tougher Stance on Mobile Privacy Protection

Mobile device makers and telecom service providers need to make significant privacy protection improvements for their customers, according to a recent report from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. The report could become the basis for agency enforcement actions -- not only for smartphones, but also for other mobile devices "The report is a clear...

Smart Homes: The Power, the Pleasure and the Pain, Part 2

Smart Homes: The Power, the Pleasure and the Pain, Part 1 Smart homes are here. Although not every home in the United States is tricked out with the latest technologies, they're no longer a rarity....

New Firefox Extension Builds a Wall Around Facebook

Mozilla on Tuesday announced Facebook Container, a Firefox browser extension that is designed to segregate users' activity on Facebook from their other Web activity, limiting Facebook's ability to track them and gather personal data. Mozilla recently has engaged in an aggressive strategy to counter Facebook data management policies that many see a...

Mobility Steers Apple's New Education Strategy

Apple on Tuesday announced a refresh of its iPad as part of a new approach to the education market. CEO Tim Cook and other Apple officials also outlined a number of new education initiatives at an event held at Lane Tech College Prep High School in Chicago The new 32-gigabyte, 9.7-inch iPad, which will sell to consumers for US$329 and to students f...

How to Safeguard Your Firm's Online Reputation

When it comes to business, you're only as good as your reputation. Indeed, your reputation is your brand. It is the substance your logo represents; it is the glue in customer brand loyalty. In a word, reputation is everything. Yet it's not entirely under your control That doesn't mean you are helpless as a victim of false accusations, ratings, or w...

INSIGHTS

It's Getting Lonely at Quota Club

Sales people and their managers should be celebrating the economic gains of the last few years but for many of them the gains may be illusory. There's evidence that these will not be remembered as the good old days in selling, suggests a new report from CSO Insights, "Running Up the Down Escalator." ...

US Charges 9 Iranians in Massive Academic Research Theft

The United States Department of Justice has charged nine Iranian nationals for engaging in a massive phishing campaign on behalf of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. The allegations include the theft of US$3.4 billion in research and intellectual property from 320 colleges and universities in the U.S. and abroad, as well as from 47 foreign and domestic companies, plus several federal agencies, state governments, and the United Nations.

Facebook Phone-Scraping Takes Users by Surprise

Facebook on Sunday confirmed that its Messenger and Lite apps for Android smartphones routinely collect call and text histories The call and text history logging are opt-in features for people using Messenger or Facebook Lite on Android devices, the company said in a post.

Women-Owned Firms More Active on Social Nets

Small businesses use social media extensively, according to the results of a recent Clutch survey of 351 United States firms with fewer than 500 employees Overall, 71 percent of the respondents used social media for business purposes, and those affiliated with firms owned by women reported heavier use....

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

Zoho VP Rodrigo Vaca: AI Can Help Salespeople Seize the Moment

Rodrigo Vaca is vice president of marketing for CRM at Zoho In this exclusive interview, Vaca shares his enthusiasm for the marriage of artificial intelligence and CRM....

OPINION

Chaos Threatens Tech Takeover

The tech world experienced more insanity last week. We finally got confirmation from AMD that the CTS Labs security report was a tempest in a teapot, but the big question remained unanswered. A self-driving Uber vehicle killed a pedestrian, but we didn't ask the right questions. Facebook admitted that it gave our information to a bad actor -- we not only failed to reach the right conclusion, but also forgot what really would wake up Mark Zuckerberg. ...

ANALYSIS

Salesforce's Latest Big Gamble: APIs

Anyone who has attempted to adopt Salesforce cloud solutions in an enterprise environment knows that it may not be as easy as expected because of the additional effort typically required to integrate various data sources This is a common problem that has plagued the enterprise application industry since its inception. In fact, it spawned an entire ...

LINUX PICKS AND PANS

Neptune 5: A Practically Perfect Plasma-Based Distro

ZevenOS' Neptune 5.0, released earlier this month, offers a refreshing take on a classic KDE-based Linux distro....

Brit Lawmakers Want Cambridge Analytica's Nix to Explain a Few Things

British lawmakers have demanded that Alexander Nix, the suspended chief executive of Cambridge Analytica, return to Parliament for additional questioning in its fake news inquiry. The Parliament's probe led to disclosures that Facebook had allowed Cambridge Analytica unauthorized access to up to 50 million user records, igniting a firestorm over user data privacy and possible U.S. voter manipulation.

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