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Glasgow Caledonian New York College Bolsters Graduate Recruitment with EdTech Provider Anthology

GCNYC leveraged edtech solutions provider Anthology to help grow its graduate programs against fierce competition.

January 17, 2023 TD Staff Leave a Comment

When leaders at Glasgow Caledonian New York College (GCNYC) were looking to stand out in the oversaturated higher education market, they came upon a more critical finding – graduate program growth in America is outpacing student interest. There were nearly 40,000 master’s programs available in the U.S., a staggering 24% increase from 2012. With program […]

Microsoft Announces New Smart Store Tech, Retail Communication Tools

Microsoft's new retail solutions include smart store technologies, management tools and more retail-specific Microsoft Teams features.

January 12, 2023 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Microsoft is releasing several new capabilities through Microsoft Cloud for Retail designed to help retail organizations communicate while digitizing the physical store and the front-line worker experience, including new computer-vision powered autonomous store offerings and management tools. The new offerings, detailed in a blog, as part of Microsoft’s retail industry cloud offering, come in advance […]

Poster for Rise Vision's new feature. The background features blurred students while the foreground features a display showing a severe weather alert.

Rise Vision Unveils Emergency Alerts for Interactive Flatpanel Displays

Rise Vision's digital-signage-software solution enables schools to quickly and effectively disseminate emergency alerts to staff and students.

January 12, 2023 TD Staff Leave a Comment

Rise Vision introduced a new feature for its digital-signage-software solution that enables schools to quickly and effectively disseminate emergency alerts to students and staff. The feature works on interactive flatpanels from various brands. These include Promethean, SMART Technologies, Clear Touch, Clevertouch, Boxlight, Newline, BenQ, ViewSonic and Avocor. With this feature, teachers can go about their […]

January 2023 Patch Tuesday: Nearly 100 Bugs, One Actively Exploited

Microsoft releases fixes for 98 security vulnerabilities for its January 2023 Patch Tuesday release, including one under active exploitation.

January 10, 2023 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

IT administrators are starting 2023 with a busy January Patch Tuesday, as Microsoft has released fixes for nearly 100 vulnerabilities, including 11 rated critical and one under active attack. According to security researchers, the 98 vulnerabilities fixed in this month’s security update from Microsoft is the largest the company has issued in a January for […]

IT Jobs Still in Demand Despite Tech Layoffs

Demand for skilled IT jobs and skilled professionals remains strong as salaries continue to climb despite tech industry layoffs.

January 10, 2023 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Despite headlines of massive layoffs throughout the tech industry, IT professionals are still enjoying high salaries as inflation and a high demand for IT talent are driving up salaries, according to a new study of compensation in the industry from Janco Associates. The Park City, Utah IT consultancy found that median salaries in the IT […]

Amazon S3 Will Now Encrypt Objects by Default

AWS has announced that Amazon S3 will encrypt all new objects by default and automatically apply server-side encryption for each new object.

January 9, 2023 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

AWS has announced that Amazon S3 will encrypt all new objects by default and automatically apply server-side encryption for each new object unless specified otherwise. Server side encryption (SSE) for Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) was first introduced in 2011, with users given the ability to request encrypted storage when storing a new object […]

Zoom Adds New Meeting Features, Curated Apps to Start 2023

Zoom is bringing avatars, meeting templates, new chat features, Q&As and curated apps to the platform in 2023.

January 6, 2023 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Zoom is beginning 2023 with several new features and partnerships designed to enhance meetings on the platform, including avatars, meeting templates, new chat features and curated apps from the company’s App Marketplace. In two blog posts this week, the company detailed four new features and new Zoom-curated Essential Apps, both of which are designed to […]

Five Ways to Embed Data Science into the Logistics Industry

Business technology advancements in the logistics industry will create more digitally enabled products and services that provide rich data.

January 5, 2023 Dr. James Fairweather Leave a Comment

Technology advancements in the current business landscape – and especially in the logistics industry – continue to afford and even demand that we innovate. This will create increasingly digitally enabled products and services that provide rich data and digital signals to convert historically “non-networked” physical products to a connected set of services and experiences enabled […]

Voyager Free 60 Series earbuds from HP and Poly on display at CES 2023

HP Unveils New Laptops, Collaboration Tools at CES 2023

New HP laptops, collaboration devices and monitors showcased at CES 2023 are designed with hybrid work and sustainability in mind.

January 4, 2023 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

With a third year of distributed work upon us, HP’s new products being showcased at CES 2023 are largely designed to accommodate the hybrid workforce, including new hybrid work-designed laptops and PCs and wireless earbuds. CES, taking place this week in Las Vegas, comes as organizations and the tech industry supporting them dive into a […]

Samsung to Showcase Slidable, Foldable Displays at CES

Samsung Display is showcasing several new innovations at CES, including a new display category combining foldable and slidable capabilities.

January 3, 2023 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Samsung Display is showcasing several new innovations at CES this week, including the Flex Hybrid, a new display category that combines both foldable and slidable capabilities into one display and large-screen sliceable that the company says will be the prototype for future laptops. In addition, Samsung is revealing its QD-OLED–which the company says will feature […]