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Privacy-Minded Smart Speaker May Struggle to Get to Know You

Mycroft AI earlier this week announced that its Mark II smart speaker achieved full funding on Kickstarter in just 6.5 hours. As of Wednesday, pledges reached more than three times its US$50K goal -- with 23 days remaining in the campaign The Mark II is positioned as an open source alternative to the dominant Amazon Echo line of smart speakers and ...

Apple May Be Gearing Up to Crack E-Books

Apple has been working on a redesign of its e-book app for iPhones and iPads, in what could be the biggest upgrade to its e-book service in years, according to Bloomberg One recent indication is that the app is listed as "Books" instead of "iBooks" in the iOS 11.3 beta Apple released to developers last week....

OPINION

The Top 20 CRM Blogs of 2017: Countdown, Part 2

The Top 20 CRM Blogs of 2017: Countdown, Part 1 Where does the discipline of CRM begin? We have a good idea where the software fits, but where does its impact end? With a sale? With a customer saying good things about your company to other customers? With a repeat purchase? And does CRM contribute to these events alone, or is there a web of other a...

Alphabet's New Chronicle Promises to Speed Threat Data Analysis

Alphabet, the parent company of Google, has launched Chronicle, a new cybersecurity venture, following two years of development at the Alphabet X research lab. Cofounded by CEO Stephen Gillett and Chief Security Officer Mike Wiacek, Chronicle will operate as an independent unit. Gillett previously worked as executive in residence at Google Venture...

OPINION

Don't Pay the Hackers

Those who follow security news may have noticed a disturbing trend. Late last year, we learned that Uber paid attackers US$100,000 to keep under wraps their stealth of the personal information of 50 million Uber riders. More recently, we learned that Hancock Health paid approximately $55,000 in bitcoin to bring hospital systems back online. Whi...

Free Linux Tool Monitors Systems for Meltdown Attacks

SentinelOne this week released Blacksmith, a free Linux tool that can detect Meltdown vulnerability exploitation attempts, so system administrators can stop attacks before they take root. The company has been working on a similar tool to detect Spectre vulnerability attacks.

WOMEN IN TECH

NYC Data Science Academy CTO Vivian Zhang: Do the Difficult Things First

Vivian Zhang is CTO and chief data scientist for the NYC Data Science Academy In this exclusive interview, Zhang traces her journey from passionate open-source activist to data science training evangelist....

Google's Ad Mute Option Could Be a Valuable Messaging Tool

Google on Thursday announced a new feature that will let users mute so-called" reminder ads" in third-party apps and websites that are powered by its ad engine. It plans to expand this feature to its own services, including Gmail, YouTube, and Google Search, in the coming months The new tool is the latest addition to Google's dashboard for ad contr...

Self-Service AI Aims to Grease the Wheels for B2B Sales Teams

SalesDirector.ai this week released a self-service version of its artificial intelligence sales execution and sales forecasting platform for B2B sales teams The system provides enterprise-grade AI to sales teams in less than five minutes, according to the company. Like the regular SalesDirector.ai platform, the self-service version is offered as a ...

LINUX PICKS AND PANS

SolydXK Plasma Rewards Effort With Stunning Results

SolydXK is a Debian-based Linux distribution that comes with a choice of the Xfce (SolydX) or KDE (SolydK) desktop. The latest edition of SolydXK, released this month, provides a state-of-the-art Linux platform....

AT&T Raises Eyebrows With Call for Internet Bill of Rights

In an open letter and a series of full-page ads in major newspapers, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson on Wednesday urged Congress to enact an Internet Bill of Rights and to bring the Net neutrality debate to an end. Although AT&T supported the Federal Communications Commission's December vote to repeal its Net neutrality rules, the company has called o...

AT&T Raises Eyebrows With Call for Internet Bill of Rights

In an open letter and a series of full-page ads in major newspapers, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson on Wednesday urged Congress to enact an Internet Bill of Rights and to bring the Net neutrality debate to an end. Although AT&T supported the Federal Communications Commission's December vote to repeal its Net neutrality rules, the company has called o...

AT&T Raises Eyebrows With Call for Internet Bill of Rights

In an open letter and a series of full-page ads in major newspapers, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson on Wednesday urged Congress to enact an Internet Bill of Rights and to bring the Net neutrality debate to an end. Although AT&T supported the Federal Communications Commission's December vote to repeal its Net neutrality rules, the company has called o...

Apple Spotlights Key iOS 11.3 Features

Apple on Wednesday unveiled new features that will become available when iOS 11.3 is released this spring. The company has released the developer preview of iOS 11.3 to members of the iOS Developer Program. A public beta of the update is expected shortly....

Intel Reports Progress on Patch-Related Performance Issues

Intel appears to have encountered some daylight in its struggle to fix performance issues related to the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities. The company has identified the root cause on its older Broadwell and Haswell platforms, Navin Shenoy, general manager of Intel's data center group, wrote in an online post earlier this week.

INSIGHTS

Salesforce's Triangulation Strategy

Partnerships may be playing the role usually reserved for merger and acquisition activity in the CRM world right now. Generally a company makes a purchase when it wants to capture the benefits of another business' R&D or established market base. However, at the moment it appears that the desirable targets are too big to swallow, and the result is more partnering between the big guys and the really big guys...

Apple's HomePod Set to Barge Into Hot Speaker Market

HomePod, Apple's long-awaited entry into the torrid smart speaker market, will be available Feb. 9, the company announced Tuesday The HomePod, which is not quite 7 inches tall, will be offered in white and space gray. It can be pre-ordered at Apple's website for US$349 starting Friday....

New Service Aims to Ease B2B Tech Purchasing Process

TechTarget last week launched Deal ScoreCard, a quarterly report designed to help B2B technology executives make better purchasing decisions Deal ScoreCard covers 20 technology product market segments across the storage, data center, cloud, and end-user computing enterprise technology markets....

Quest Updates Toad Open Source Database Tools

Quest Software on Monday announced a series of updates to its Toad open source database software applications, including new versions of its Toad Edge, Toad Data Point and Toad Intelligence Central products. After launching the first version of Toad Edge last summer, the company began seeing an uptick in downloads of freeware that supported MySQL ...

ANALYST CORNER

Don't Discount the Business Power of Emotions

What accounts for the amazing success of Apple and Starbucks? They both connect with users on an emotional level. This "secret" is evident to anyone who looks closely, and you can apply it to succeed with your own company and improve your own life Apple was a struggling computer maker until the 1990s, when Steve Jobs returned. Jobs connected with t...

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