A recent Windows 7 security-only update came with a telemetry surprise. Ed Bott reports on ZDNet that these updates usually stick to their name and only include security updates… But that wasn’t the case this time. The “July 9, 2019—KB4507456 (Security-only update)” supplied the Compatibility Appraiser, KB2952664 — designed to identify issues preventing a Windows 7 machine from updating to […]
Fatih Koca, an analytics expert with Mixpanel, says he’s often asked, “what are the right success metrics to measure?” Well, without understanding which to measure, IT managers might as well not be collecting anything, he says in a recent article on The Next Web. But fret not, your analytics could be far more pointed and […]
Dell Technologies, HP, Microsoft, and Intel recently showed opposition to U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal to add laptops and tablets to the list of Chinese goods targeted for tech tariffs, a Reuters report says. The companies said in a joint statement the proposed tariffs on laptops would increase U.S. customer cost and fail to address […]
Rare is the chance for us editors to share with you what it is really like to do our jobs. But a recent article from Venture Beat on photo caption AI caught our attention — and we found something in it we can really relate to. Something you probably wouldn’t know unless you’re a journalist […]
It’s always a challenge not just to insinuate a proposed audio visual product’s ROI, but to actually prove it in a technology pitch. Thankfully, nobody knows more about A/V products and their return on investment better than the professionals who handle them every day. And many of them just saw countless good examples in-person. Something our colleagues over at Commercial Integrator – the trade […]
Over half of small businesses in the U.S. said they’ve experienced some kind of cyberattack within the past 12 months, says a Hiscox Cyber Readiness Report. Yet many lack a way to alert, diagnose, and solve these security concerns in a holistic way — and for a reasonable price. Recent funding gained by Defendify, a SaaS-delivered […]
IBM says in a study that the cost of lost business after a breach for US organizations is $4.2 million. It is evident, then, that the organizations involved in the 5 biggest data breaches in 2019 thus far will likely suffer a considerable economic blow. But if you read this data breaches list thinking, “these are mega-companies; the risk of a data […]
You may or may not realize that this is one of the busiest weeks in the United States for people who install A/V & security systems: InfoComm, the A/V industry’s largest North American trade show, is showing off new products left and right. One well-known manufacturer, BrightSign, is showing off something to make maintaining digital […]
IP security wasn’t always revered — in fact, it was a topic of suspect by many A/V professionals only a short few years ago. But with advances in encryption and other cybersecurity measures, things like IP-based monitoring systems started cropping up all over the place. But Swedish-founded company Axis Communications says it was the first to […]
What if computers could perform simple logic with half the transistors, switch between different operations using light, and store the output of the operation in the device itself? A new paper by researchers in Shanghai aims to answer that with molybdenum disulfide transistors, says this report from Ars Technica. “With the development of carbon nanotubes and graphene, […]
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