Monthly Archives: December 2017
Microsoft’s Windows 10 Free Accessibility Upgrade Offer Ends Dec. 31
Still sticking with Windows 7 or Windows 8.1? Time is quickly running out for users wishing to upgrade to Windows 10 at no cost,...
Microsoft’s Partner Ecosystem Gears Up for GDPR as Deadline Looms
Time is running out for businesses preparing for the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation. The GDPR rules will not only have a big...
Boundless Server Provides Base for Enterprise GIS Ecosystem
Location data–not to mention lots of other types of information–is what more and more enterprises are collecting for their analytics engines, so they can...
Smartphones Will Become Even Smarter in 2018, Analysts Predict
Acting as a powerful computer in the palm of your hand, today's smartphones can do everything from make calls and send texts to play...
Apple Sued for Intentionally Slowing iPhone Performance
Today’s topics include a lawsuit against Apple for distributing software updates that slowed down iPhones; Alphabet's announcement that Eric Schmidt is stepping down as...
Digmine Cryptocurrency Miner Spreads via Facebook Messenger
As the value of cryptocurrency has grown over the course of 2017, so too have the methods used by hackers to get unauthorized mining...
Security Vendors Continue to Attract Investors to Fund Their Efforts
Security Vendors Continue to Attract Investors to Fund Their Efforts
This year ended strong for cyber-security vendors looking to raise new funding. Like recent months,...
Whitehouse.gov Moves From Drupal to WordPress in CMS Shift
Eight years ago, the Obama administration chose an open-source content management system to power the whitehouse.gov website. In 2017, the Trump administration also chose...
Apple iPhone Performance Throttling Results in Class Action Lawsuit
It’s hard to say which caused greater consternation. First a group of researchers determined that older iPhones were running slower once they were updated....
Alphabet’s Eric Schmidt to Step Down as Executive Chairman
Eric Schmidt, the former Novell CEO that Google hired 17 years ago to bring adult supervision to the company is stepping down from his...