Michelle Maisto

Anita Borg Institute Celebrates Top Companies for Women in Tech The Anita Borg Institute announces the finalists for its Top Companies for Women Technologists Leadership Index. Macy’s “It’s an absolute honor for Macy’s to be recognized by the Anita Borg Institute,” Mike Robinson, executive vice president of Digital Technology at Macy’s, told eWEEK. “We’ve made […]

Fintech (financial technology) companies continue to be a threat to traditional financial services companies, which need to make changes if they’re to hold on to much more of their market share, the data and experts agree. A late August report from NTT Data shared that 64 percent of banks see Fintech as a threat; nearly […]

Peter Lopez, founder of Brooklyn Tech Guy, is a certified Apple specialist, a self-declared “local Mac guy” and an expert Brooklyn businesses call when they’re established enough to have tech needs but too small to have in-house IT staff. His clients are primarily businesses such as architecture, design and law firms, as well as fine […]

The Supreme Court will on Oct. 11 weigh in on a longstanding feud between Samsung and Apple, determining how much of a $399 million patent-infringement award Samsung actually owes to Apple. In 2012, after three years of legal back-and-forth, in a number of countries, a U.S. court ordered Samsung to pay $930 million to Apple […]

New plaintiffs have joined a class action complaint against Apple, claiming the so-called “Touch Disease” has infected their iPhone 6 and 6 Plus smartphones and accusing Apple of violating a long list of consumer protection, deceptive trade loss and warranty acts. The original suit, filed Aug. 27 in a Northern California U.S. District Court, named […]

Apple seems to have decided to run a tighter ship—or at least to get everyone in the same boat. Apple plans to physically bring together members of its cloud services teams, which are run by Eddy Cue and include Siri, Maps, iCloud, Apple Pay, Apple News and parts of iTunes and Apple Music, Bloomberg reported […]

Apple added a slew of new features to the iPhone 7 and took away a very notable one: the 3.5mm headphone jack. Earbuds, included with the iPhone 7, plug into the Lightning port; and for those with beloved earphones they have no intention of giving up, Apple included a headphone adapter in the box. (It […]

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has shared a subpoena and gag order that earlier this year were served to Open Whisper Systems, the company behind the encrypted-communications app Signal, as well as the encryption technology built into Facebook Messenger, Google Allo and WhatsApp. The documents, and the U.S. government’s more recent agreement to allow […]

SAP continues to build out Jam Collaboration, its enterprise social-collaboration software, which creates spaces in the cloud where businesses can connect with customers, partners and employees, regardless of the other business software they use. Its newest features, introduced Oct. 4, were created to relieve IT staff of a few duties by passing over the controls […]

For VirnetX, the third time may be the charm. On Sept. 30, a federal jury in East Texas ordered Apple to pay $302.4 million in damages for infringing on internet security patents held by VirnetX. In seven instances, the jurors agreed that Apple’s FaceTime had infringed on VirnetX patents. The verdict is the third in […]