Chris Preimesberger

Ahead of its annual Dreamforce conference, set for next week in San Francisco, Salesforce on Sept. 18 launched Quip Slides, an extension of the company’s cloud-based collaboration suite that, to absolutely no one’s surprise, adds PowerPoint-like slide decks as a new element for presentations. By adding slides to presentations that already include documents, spreadsheets and […]

Perimeter-based virtual private networks (VPNs) are deployed globally for employee and contractor access to corporate networks. Up until now, they were one of the better solutions for remote access. However, once authorized, VPN users have broad access to resources on the corporate network. This all-or-nothing approach to access leaves potentially sensitive resources and information exposed […]

Bots, software that runs automated tasks over the internet with minimal or no human intervention, first appeared online in 1998, providing services to users of the Internet Relay Chat messaging system. Twenty years later, bots are seen as responsible for influencing the results of the 2016 U.S. presidential election and causing crises at two of […]

Apple, with roots firmly in the consumer world, has been making a concerted effort to move into the enterprise for the past several years, and many of the company’s loyal customers are only too happy to accommodate it. eWEEK has been watching this trend for more than five years, which continues to pick up momentum. […]

No-code and low-code software development, known in some circles as citizen development, has blossomed into a real DIY (develop it yourself) trend in the last couple of years. It’s all about starting with a basic app framework that can be customized for the task at hand—without having to call in IT staff to do what […]

Dell EMC continues to push hard to become the go-to storage vendor for small-to-medium-sized businesses and startups that need to have a data center or two in operation. The company on Sept. 12 launched its PowerVault ME4 Series, the fourth-generation lineup of entry-level data storage arrays designed for SMBs. These machines are aimed at organizations […]

Apple on Sept. 12 did what it does at this time every year: It introduced a new iPhone or two (or three, in this case), an update of its Apple Watch and some improvements for its processing chip (A12 now) and its iOS operating system. Some people grumble that this isn’t innovation, that it’s merely […]

eWEEK is building a new IT products and services section that encompasses most of the categories that we cover on our site. In it, we will spotlight the leaders in each sector, which include enterprise software, hardware, security, on-premises-based systems, and cloud services. We also will add promising new companies as they come into the […]

On Wednesday, Sept. 12, at 11 a.m. PST/2 p.m. EST/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its 71st monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be, “Why Voice UI Eventually Will Enable Everything.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, eWEEK’s editor of features and analysis. Some quick facts: Topic: #eWEEKchat Sept. 12: “Why Voice UI Eventually Will […]

At its first Spark technology conference in San Francisco, AT&T said Sept. 10 that it plans to introduce mobile 5G in sections of five additional U.S. cities––Houston, Jacksonville, Louisville, New Orleans, and San Antonio––before the end of this year. These new cities are in addition to seven cities where the huge telecom already announced plans […]

AT&T is thinking literally outside the wire in a new project designed to expand the availability of gigabit-speed internet power resources for wireless, edge computing and the IoT. Project AirGig, introduced Sept. 10 at the telecom’s first Spark tech conference at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, could well become a mainstay of […]

As we increasingly connect personal email addresses with access to cloud services, web apps and SaaS-based systems, the security of old-fashioned but “killer app” email has become more important than ever. For example, think about all the times you log into a web application of some kind and use your IDs from Facebook, Google, Yahoo […]