By Catalin Cimpanu – ConnectWise, a Florida-based company that provides remote IT management solutions, is warning customers that hackers are targeting its software to gain access to client networks and install ransomware. ConnectWise Automate is a software package that lets IT … Continue reading →
When Excel entered the scene in the mid ’80s, businesses discovered an entirely new way to organize and interact with their data. With Excel, enterprises could keep a growing mass of crucial information on a central platform, reducing paper trails … Continue reading →
By David Davies – Sometimes a technological revolution can begin and it’s only when it has achieved significant traction that it enters the landscape of the mainstream media. Such has been the case with the internet of things (IoT), which is … Continue reading →
By Chris Roberts – Device-assisted child care is an almost century-old concept. The world’s first electronic baby monitor, the Bakelite Zenith Radio Nurse, went on sale in the late 1930s—a response, at least in part, to the moral panic following the kidnapping and … Continue reading →
Mozilla, the nonprofit behind the free and open-source Firefox web browser, is partnering with Montreal-based artificial intelligence startup Element AI to push for ethical use of AI. To that effect, the two companies are exploring the idea of data trusts, a … Continue reading →
Tim Nottoli, Walsh Construction’s chief information officer, has seen Google’s Nest and Amazon’s Ring cameras brought onto the company’s construction sites and has dealt with every type of sensor used properly and improperly on the company’s network. But recently, he … Continue reading →
Most companies that say they’re using artificial intelligence have yet to gain any value from their A.I. investments. A survey from MIT Sloan Management Review and Boston Consulting Group released Tuesday found that companies that view A.I. as merely a … Continue reading →
The number of ransomware attacks on enterprises is up 500% from this time last year. Threat actors are becoming increasingly sophisticated and targeted. Ransomware is a business, and these actors want to get paid. Researcher Madeline Cyr interviewed me to … Continue reading →
Next-generation BI is upon us, and has been for a few years now. The first generation of business intelligence, beginning in the 1980s and extending through the turn of the 21st century, relied entirely on information technology experts. It was … Continue reading →
By: eWeek Editors – Robotic process automation, acronymed RPA, has been one of the hottest areas of tech in the last two years, based on venture investment and enterprise adoption. In 2018 alone, three companies raised more than $1 billion: Automation … Continue reading →