Technologies that have been jump-started by COVID-19
It’s an ill wind that blows no one any good. True, the coronavirus pandemic is destroying large swathes of the economy. In particular, small businesses...
Tag : Technology Industry
14 technology winners and losers, post-COVID-19
As opposed to, say, the travel or restaurant industries, the tech sector has weathered the most disruptive effects of the COVID-19 pandemic relatively well. But...
Apple and COVID-19 drive QR code innovation
QR codes were invented in 1994 by a Japanese auto parts company called Denso Wave. The idea was to enable the tracking of car parts...
Apple CEO Tim Cook: ‘Speaking up on racism’
In an important move, Apple CEO Tim Cook has published an open letter on the company’s website in which he speaks up on racism following...
Fitting ITSM into a devops world
IT Service Management (ITSM) has been around for long time. I remember when I started at Peregrine Systems learning that their original code base had...
Zoom fatigue is real and it’s costly
A viral pandemic swept the globe. More people started working from home. Everybody started using Zoom. Wait, what? Why? COVID-19 forced office work fans —...
Conspiracy theories slow public 5G adoption (but private 5G gets a boost)
It’s fun to mock loony conspiracy theories about 5G. But there are two reasons why false beliefs about 5G are no laughing matter. First, people...
Box adds collaboration features, updates app UI
Box has added new collaboration features and interface updates to its cloud storage app to support better productivity for remote workers. Among the changes in...
5 lessons companies should learn about working at home
We’ve all been working from home now for several weeks, and there is no end of stories — good and bad — about the experience....
Biggest technology acquisitions 2020
Last year marked a slight decrease in global technology M&A activity from the blockbuster year that was 2018 – when SAP bought Qualtrics for $8...