Technology

The rising occurrence of high-profile security hacks and privacy breaches, as well as being personally victimized, are contributing to ever-increasing consumer anxiety about smart ... More

Security at this year’s Champions League final will be aided by facial recognition technology. Police will be able to match soccer fans’ faces against a database of known offen... More

Oracle is livening up its Clouds today with chatbots and other kinds of intelligent apps. First, it is bringing chatbot creation, management and hosting for the first time to its C... More

Blockchain networks tend to support principles, like open access and permissionless use, that should be familiar to proponents of the early internet. To protect this vision from po... More

Last month Cisco announced two new room video systems called the Spark Room Kit and Spark Room Kit Plus. Behind these dull names are some impressive technologies never before seen ... More

More than half of U.S. consumers plan to buy a smart-home device in the next two years, and of those who already own one, 84 percent plan to buy another one, according to research ... More

If your company uses IBM's helpdesk services, don't be surprised if you find yourself talking to Watson next time you contact the IT department. IBM has added a Watson-powered conc... More

Blockchain is synonymous with crypt0-currency, but a swathe of new efforts want to use blockchain to solve many of digital advertising’s problems with fraud and transparency. The... More

The use of artificial intelligence-based voice assistants is growing rapidly, thanks the consumer interest in “smart home” devices offered by Amazon, Google, Samsung, Apple, an... More

Wazee Digital today announced that its “controlled vocabulary” option for Wazee Digital Core, the company’s cloud-native digital asset management solution that powers all of ... More

Sales is both an art and a science; a combination of instinct, experience, relationships and raw data, so it’s no surprise that salespeople are often reluctant to abandon old way... More

New global research from Avanade and EKN Research shows that stores are expected to fulfill very different roles in 2020 and beyond, as retailers expect new, distinct store formats... More

IBM recently announced that it reached a new industry record in conversational speech recognition, which could have big implications for the future of artificial intelligence (AI).... More

Look at the modus operandi of today’s internet giants — such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, Uber, or Airbnb — and you’ll notice they have one thing in common: They rely on t... More

Margaret Harrist, Oracle: What CFO wouldn’t want to find a way to radically lower the cost of operations, boost productivity, increase insight across their company, and launch a ... More

Dave Lubowe, IBM and Brigid McDermott, IBM: The modern supply chain is long on data and short on trust. Historically, mistrust among organizations, including fear that information ... More

All TVs made for the US market may soon be ‘smart’, but they could still stand to get a lot smarter. Basic WiFi connectivity and a grid of apps are a low bar to clear. They add... More

A new UK initiative which aims to reduce the availability of pirated films, music and TV through search engines has been launched. Google and Bing, the Motion Picture Association, ... More

MP3s, AACs and the rest, are laughably insecure when it comes to metadata. As [Benji] Rogers points out, it is the work of seconds to strip out artist data from a file of this kind... More

The Blockchain is a perfect storm that makes sure the owners of content and the artists get what they are entitled to and don’t get squeezed out of the game. Smart contracts can ... More