Scotty Zifka was looking for a sales job. He started one in late May at a company called EZ Tech Support, a small inbound call center in an older building in northeast Portland, Oregon. The first day of Zifka’s unpaid training involved listening in on sales calls. But within three …
Scotty Zifka was looking for a sales job. He started one in late May at a company called EZ Tech Support, a small inbound call center in an older building in northeast Portland, Oregon. The first day of Zifka’s unpaid training involved listening in on sales calls. But within three …
The IT consulting firm Anthesis Group, in partnership with Stanford University and TSO Logic, has issued a report that suggests there may be as many as 10 million physical servers, or 30% of the servers deployed worldwide, that are not doing any work. The report refers to these idle servers …
Jawbone has filed its second lawsuit against Fitbit in less than two weeks, claiming its activity tracking products infringe several of Jawbone’s patents. The new suit, filed Wednesday in San Francisco by Jawbone parent company AliphCom, seeks unspecified damages and an injunction to block the sale of Fitbit devices such …
Apple’s next mobile OS will run on devices as old as the iPad 2 and the iPhone 4s, but that doesn’t mean the newest apps will run on those products as well. With iOS 9, Apple will allow third-party developers to restrict apps to running only on recently released iPhones …
Jawbone has filed its second lawsuit against Fitbit in less than two weeks, claiming its activity tracking products infringe several of Jawbone’s patents. The new suit, filed Wednesday in San Francisco by Jawbone parent company AliphCom, seeks unspecified damages and an injunction to block the sale of Fitbit devices such …
When security consultants speak of the huge internal threat against retailers, they are generally talking about rogue employees. They fear the people on the inside of your firewalls who might exceed their level of access/authorization to steal data from the company and sell it on their own. Companies try and …
Oracle wants to make it easy for its enterprise customers to move some of their software-based workloads from the vendor to the cloud. To the Oracle Cloud, that is. “Customers are excited about the cloud, but they are concerned about the cloud being treated as something fundamentally separate, as another …
Oracle wants to make it easy for its enterprise customers to move some of their software-based workloads from the vendor to the cloud. To the Oracle Cloud, that is. “Customers are excited about the cloud, but they are concerned about the cloud being treated as something fundamentally separate, as another …
Sony has an ambitious plan to bring 4K video-shooting capabilities to a wide range of its point-and-shoot and SLR cameras over time, and a new sensor developed by the company will make that possible. The Japanese company introduced its first three digital cameras capable of shooting 4K video at a …
Give a marketer a sale, and you’ll keep his company afloat for a day; teach him to predict future sales, and you may just ensure his longevity. That, in essence, is the premise behind predictive marketing, a concept that’s increasingly taking hold in enterprises today. Tapping into the analytics trend …
Give a marketer a sale, and you’ll keep his company afloat for a day; teach him to predict future sales, and you may just ensure his longevity. That, in essence, is the premise behind predictive marketing, a concept that’s increasingly taking hold in enterprises today. Tapping into the analytics trend …
On the heels of Tesla announcing a home and commercial battery product line, Mercedes-Benz today announced its own brand of energy storage products for those with solar systems to store surplus power. The Mercedes-Benz energy storage plants for private use are available for order now and are expected to ship …
When you’re not liking your friends’ photos on Facebook, you’re likely to soon have more opportunities to buy stuff. Facebook is expanding its partnership with Shopify, which helps businesses create online storefronts. Facebook has been testing buy buttons in the News Feed and on businesses’ Pages since last year, with …
Twitter, to reduce abusive content on its site, is letting users share lists of the people they block, so they can more easily silence those account holders on their own profiles. With the changes, users can save an exported file of the accounts they block to share with others. Users …
SAN DIEGO — Cisco this week enhanced its cloud software and lined up a roster of ISVs to create services for the company’s Internet of Everything initiative. Cisco added security, management and support for more hypervisors to its Intercloud Fabric software, an application that connects private, public and hybrid clouds …
Sony’s new bringing the ability to shoot 4K video to cameras that fit in pockets with its two new Cybershot products. The cameras are based on a new image sensors that “allow cameras to do things never done before,” Mark Weir, senior manager at Sony, said during a press conference …
Like it or not, faxing is still alive and kicking. No need to get a fax machine though — instead get any of these five apps for faxing and receiving faxes on your phone. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here (Insider Story) …
Tesla today announced that its line of home Powerwall batteries will be upgraded to more than double their initial output, while the price remains the same. The decision to upgrade the power output of the batteries followed some “negative” feedback after the Powerwall products were first announced, according to Tesla …
Behind every great ecommerce website is a database, and in the early 2000s Amazon.com’s database was not keeping up with the company’s business. Part of the problem was that Amazon didn’t have just one database – it relied on a series of them, each with its own responsibility. As the …
Windows 10 is nearly baked Image by Mark Hachman Although Microsoft won’t release the “final” version of Windows 10 for almost two months, we’re nearing the end. Microsoft has said it’s moved most of its development to polishing Windows 10, squashing bugs and tweaking the way it looks and feels. …
VMware has released security updates for several of its virtualization products in order to address critical vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to break out of virtual machines and execute rogue code on the host operating systems. The code execution flaws affect the Windows versions of VMware Workstation, VMware Player and …
Every so often, an electronics maker shows off some crazy display tech that has little chance of selling to consumers in the near future. This week, it’s Samsung’s turn, with 55-inch transparent and mirrored OLED displays. Neither technology is entirely new. Transparent displays have been popping up at trade shows …
VMware has released security updates for several of its virtualization products in order to address critical vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to break out of virtual machines and execute rogue code on the host operating systems. The code execution flaws affect the Windows versions of VMware Workstation, VMware Player and …
To help enterprise customers better manage applications sprawled across hybrid clouds, Microsoft has purchased BlueStripe Software, a provider of technology for watching over distributed applications. Microsoft plans to fold BlueStripe’s software into its System Center and Operations Management Suite software for managing IT resources, giving users more details on how …
All software and hardware in the German parliamentary network might need to be replaced. More than four weeks after a cyberattack, the government hasn’t managed to erase spyware from the system, according to a news report. Trojans introduced to the Bundestag network are still working and are still sending data …