WhistleOut: How Americans’ pandemic-reliance on the internet for work and e-learning put a heavy strain on bandwidth, yet internet speeds increased. Image: shironosov, Getty Images/iStockPhoto Logic may have you believe that with the dramatic increase of use and reliance on the internet during the coronavirus crisis that internet speeds slowed. However, the average internet speed […]
Archives for August 2020
Employers earn high marks, yet nearly half of workers report a mental-health decline
KPMG: Employees are strained emotionally and mentally as they deal with a work-life balance, childcare responsibilities, and more, while navigating the COVID-19 landscape. Image: iStock/sam thomas The onset of the pandemic introduced a bevy of lifestyle changes, affecting both home life and work life. Many offices quickly shifted staff to remote work. Employees who were […]
Verizon Claims 5G Virtualization First
News Verizon Claims 5G Virtualization First By David Ramel 08/27/2020 Verizon this week claimed a technology milestone: the first fully virtualized 5G data session in a live network in the U.S. As game-changing 5G wireless technology is being rolled out across the country, Verizon and other companies are introducing virtualization into the mix by applying […]
Walmart partners with Microsoft for TikTok bid
Walmart said it was joining Microsoft in a bid for social media company TikTok‘s U.S. assets, revealing its plans hours after the video company’s chief executive said he would step down. CEO Kevin Mayer, a high-profile former Disney executive, is leaving three months after joining TikTok, in the middle of negotiations to sell the Chinese-owned […]
Ex-Cisco engineer charged with wiping WebEx Teams accounts
A former Cisco employee has pleaded guilty to damaging Cisco’s internal network in an incident during 2018, leading to the deletion of 16,000 Webex Teams accounts belonging to company employees. Sudhish Kasaba Ramesh was charged with intentionally accessing a protected computer without authorisation and recklessly causing damage after he accessed Cisco’s cloud infrastructure and deleted 456 […]
Remote working shift could lead to “ghost towns”, experts warn
The UK government must do more to get workers back in the office, business leaders have said, as city centres are at risk of becoming “ghost towns”. The mass adoption of remote working is having an inadvertent effect on local businesses, robbing them of passing trade, according to Carolyn Fairbairn, the director-general of the Confederation of […]
Microsoft: We’re extending support for Windows 10 1803 by six months
To alleviate the impact of COVID-19 on IT staff, security updates for Windows 10 version 1803 will now continue until 11 May 2021. Microsoft has pushed back the end-of-service date for Windows 10 version 1803 until May 11, 2021, to ease pressure on IT staff impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. More about Windows The end-of-service […]
TikTok moving quickly to resolve issues in India, US: ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming
Zhang Yiming, founder of ByteDance, has said that the company is “moving quickly” to resolve issues in the US and India in a letter he sent on Thursday morning soon after Kevin Mayer announced his resignation as the CEO of TikTok. In the letter, the contents of which have been reviewed by ET, Yiming said […]
Visa, Innoviti join hands to offer EMIs on offline card payments
Visa has partnered with digital payments company Innoviti to launch a platform that will enable retail customers to convert their card purchases made through point-of-sale devices or QR stickers into equated monthly instalments. The platform in its first phase is being tested on a pilot basis at select electronics merchant chains. It will subsequently be […]
How fibre networks can make ‘smart’ motorways safer
Congestion on core road networks is a major problem for many countries around the world. Indeed, according to the largest ever study of global traffic, conducted by INRIX in 2017, congestion in the US alone costs $305 billion (€257 billion). In the UK, Highways England estimates the cost of congestion on the motorway and major […]