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At least 145 million Americans -- half the population of the United States -- were impacted by the recent data breach at Equifax that netted thieves personal information such as names, addresses, birthdates, Social Security Numbers, and driver's license numbers That pales in comparison to the earlier Yahoo breaches, which affected more than 1 billi...
Microsoft on Tuesday released its long-anticipated and much-hyped Xbox One X console, promising to push the boundaries of modern gaming and video entertainment. The Xbox One X is the most powerful console in the world, with up to 40 percent more power than existing devices on the market, the company claimed.
Facebook on Tuesday announced that it was preparing a plugin for its popular Messenger platform that will allow website visitors to chat with a human or bot without leaving the site Customer Chat is one of a number of changes in the version 2.2 update of the Messenger platform revealed at the Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal....
Amazon recently began reducing prices on merchandise sold by third-party sellers, ratcheting up its market share competition with discount stores, including Walmart and Dollar General. The company has started to display a new tag, "Discount Provided by Amazon," The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. Price cuts so far have been a little less t...
A three-pronged banking malware campaign has been infecting Android phones since the beginning of this year, according to security researchers Attackers have been stealing credentials, planting the Marcher banking Trojan on phones, and nicking credit card information. So far, they have targeted customers of BankAustria, Raiffeisen Meine Bank and Sp...
We often talk about hybrid cloud business models, but virtually always in the context of traditional processor-bound applications. What if deep learning developers and service operators could run their GPU-accelerated model training or inference delivery service anywhere they wanted? What if they could do so without having to worry about which Nvi...
Getting customers -- and keeping them -- is the name of the game in e-commerce "The e-commerce market is crowded and noisy, and brands need to do everything they can to differentiate themselves from the pack," said Eric Hansen, CTO of SiteSpect....
Black Friday falls on Nov. 23 this year, but retailers already have begun to promote the huge discounts they plan to offer in its name. Some deals already are available to shoppers Although Cyber Monday has grown in significance, Black Friday "is still significant as the kickoff to the holiday season," said Ray Wang, principal analyst at Constellat...
Activision's Call of Duty WWII became available on Friday, and the title made its long-awaited debut with a splash, kicking off what is expected to be a robust holiday season for the gaming industry. The most anticipated multiplatform title of the season, based on the Nielsen Game Rank, Call of Duty WWII latest installment reaches back to the icon...
Razer on Wednesday unveiled its Razer Phone, a handset that clearly targets gamers. It boasts the world's first 120 Hz Ultramotion display, which has the potential to deliver fast refresh rates and provide the smoothest graphics available on a mobile smartphone "It's common knowledge that I'm obsessed with my smartphones. I play a ton of games on t...
IBM on Wednesday announced IBM Cloud Private, a software platform that allows enterprise customers to run applications and store critical data in an on-premises, private cloud environment. The new service employs a Kubernetes-based container architecture that supports both Docker containers and Cloud Foundry....
Optimove this week released a new version of its relationship marketing hub Optimove 6.0 lets users automate targeted marketing campaigns for new visitors as precisely as they can for current customers, the company said. It combines Web analytics with look-alike data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence from its retention ecosystem to mak...
A decade ago, there wasn't much talk about self-driving cars or autonomous-cars, but Toyota and Lexus were setting the stage with their self-parking cars. They aired television commercials showing how cars magically parallel-parked themselves. That was before any mention of the first iPhone or Android. At the time, it seemed amazing, but that was nothing compared to what's coming next...
Sony on Wednesday revived its robot dog, Aibo, which it put down, so to speak, in 2006 The autonomous entertainment robot brings fun and joy to the entire family, Sony claimed....
The Linux Foundation this week announced an agreement with AT&T and Tech Mahindra to launch the Acumos Project, a new platform for open source development of artificial intelligence The new platform is part of a broader effort to open up opportunities for AI collaboration in the telecommunications, media and technology sectors.
Reviews of Apple's next generation iPhone X have started appearing online, and for the most part, critics have showered praise on the product "The iPhone X is clearly the best iPhone ever made," wrote Nilay Patel for The Verge....
Keeping customers satisfied is the No. 1 priority of any retail business. Technological advances such as interactive voice response systems, chatbots, omnichannel accessibility and robotics have helped many large e-commerce companies improve customer satisfaction rates However, these options require financial and manpower resources that small and m...
Researchers have found a way to use neural networks to create DSLR-quality photos from snapshots taken with low-end smartphones A team of scientists at the ETH ZurichComputer Vision Lab recently published a paper describing a deep learning approach that uses neural networks to translate photos taken by cameras with limited capabilities into DSLR-qu...
Microsoft's Sonar, released last week under an open source license, could help developers build more effective and secure websites Sonar, a linting tool and site scanner, is the next evolution of the static scan tool, according to Microsoft....
A recent New York Times story about a conference held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, chilled me to the bone. The headline supplies all the reasons: "Saudi Arabia's Grand Plan to Move Beyond Oil: Big Goals, Bigger Hurdles." At first glance, this doesn't ring any CRM bells, but maybe it should. Why would any business or business-state contemplate moving o...
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