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computerworld.comProtecting your online accounts is more important now than ever - and using a password manager is one of the easiest and most effective ways to do it.Why? It's simple: Reusing passwords puts you at a heightened risk for hacking. If someone discovers your password at just one website - via any sort of breach, be it large-scale or targeted - they can then use that same password to crack into your accounts at countless other places. It happens all the time.To read this article in full, please click here...

computerworld.comIt's time for the monthly servicing of this server room's air conditioning, so a sysadmin pilot fish meets the AC guys when they arrive."The vendor had sent a team comprised of people who had never visited our office before," says fish. "I accompanied them to the server room, then headed back to my seat in the adjoining room to answer a phone call."But fish's heart stops when he hears the AC guys screaming for help.He rushes back to the server room, and sees in an instant what's happened. They've opened a servicing outlet without making sure the valve was closed -- and water from the high-pressure chilled water line is spraying all over the server room.To read this article in full, please click here...

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pcmag.comAll four networks splash out for 5G - who's got what and what happens next?...

pcmag.comApple Music boasts exclusive albums and Siri and Apple Watch compatibility, but this well-rounded streaming music service falls just short of toppling Slacker Radio and Spotify....

pcmag.comBusinesses need the right tools, data, and game plan to take full advantage of social customer relationship management. Make sure your business has a game plan to get the most out of your social customer relationship management....

computerworld.comHospitals are making significant investments in smartphone and secure mobile platforms to enable communications between clinicians and between them and patients, according to a new survey.Nine of 10 healthcare systems plan significant investments in smartphones and secure unified communications over the next 12 to 18 months, according to the results of the survey, performed in person by Spyglass Consulting Group; the survey included more than 100 healthcare professionals working in hospital environments.To read this article in full, please click here...

pcmag.comDespite some harrumphing from the digital arts community about Adobe's subscription-only model, Illustrator CC is the best vector-graphics editing program around, and new features make it even better for 2018....

computerworld.comIs Apple about to get into search? Probably not in the conventional sense, but the future of search depends on search agent’s mining local data across multiple devices - and Apple’s successful hire of Google’s chief of search and artificial intelligence, John Giannandrea, shows there’s a new kid in town.Search is dead, long live the new search The writing’s been on the wall for a very long time.Consumers are sick of being exposed to endless marketing. They don’t like their data being mined to provide advertisers and crafty political operators with tools they use to try to manipulate them.They’ve read the stories about Cambridge Analytica, and they are beginning to grasp what’s sexy about privacy and the need to make sure the sites, services, and solutions providers they use are truly protecting the customer data they gather.To read this article in full, please click here...

pcmag.comDespite what you may have heard, your Apple computer isn't immune to malware. We tested the top programs to find the ones that will keep your Mac the safest. Despite what you may have heard, your Apple computer is not immune to malware. We test the top Mac AV programs to find those that will keep you the safest....

computerworld.comDespite concerns over data privacy and immature technology, AI assistants and chatbots are gaining a foothold among businesses, according to a report from IT professional network Spiceworks.The report, which surveyed 529 IT professionals from North America and Europe, showed that 29% of respondents have implemented one or more chatbots or intelligent assistants for work-related tasks, or plan to do so this year.Adoption was higher for larger organizations, which have more resources to evaluate emerging technologies, with 24% using AI assistants or chatbots currently and 16% set to deploy the technology this year, for a total of 40%.[ Related: A.I. and speech advances bring virtual assistants to work ] “A lot of businesses are starting to see how these technologies are useful, and because they are more widely available, we are seeing adoption increase,” said Peter Tsai, Spiceworks senior technology analyst and the author of the report. He added, however, that the technology...

computerworld.comThis seasoned accountant has years of experience at a government agency, and a lot to keep her busy, reports a pilot fish in a position to know."Wilma spends her days processing forms, crunching numbers, checking and double-checking figures and printing critical reports that keep the agency up and running," fish says."One Monday morning, she comes into the office, gets settled in and wakes up her computer to log in. But her normal routine is shattered by an ugly error message: Incorrect user name or password."She tries again. Same error. "Hmm," she mutters, "they must be having another system problem. Those IT nerds again."To read this article in full, please click here...

computerworld.comThe deadline for compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - a set of rules created by the European Parliament, European Council, and European Commission to strengthen data protection for individuals within the European Union (EU) - is rapidly approaching.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)...

computerworld.comMozilla on Tuesday announced that it is building a browser designed especially for displaying virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) content, betting that the technology will become core to the internet.“We believe that the future of the web will be heavily intertwined with virtual and augmented reality, and that future will live through browsers,” asserted Sean White, Mozilla’s chief research and development officer, in an April 3 post to a company blog.Firefox Reality, the moniker for the browser White laid out, was far from ready for end-user deployment, but was available Tuesday in developer builds, and because Mozilla is an open-source developer, so was Reality’s source code. There was no hint when the browser might be polished.To read this article in full, please click here...

pcmag.comWordpress powers some of the Web's top sites and it can work for yours, too. Get the most out of it with these excellent plug-ins that extend its functionality....

computerworld.comGoogle's Pixel phones have plenty of good things going for 'em, but they've also always had one pesky limitation: a lack of diversity, both in price and in style.For these phones in particular, that can sometimes be a tough pill to swallow. If you want an optimal user experience on Android, after all - including the presence of timely and reliable software updates for an extended period of time (something that's important on numerous levels) - well, they're pretty much your only option.To read this article in full, please click here...

pcmag.comThe PC, console, and handheld video games you'll want to play this month. Be it hardcore action, zany antics, or tactical strategy, April has the game for you....

computerworld.comI’ve spent years collecting iPhone tips. Here are 15 iPhone hints you’ll probably use every day. None of them are particularly hard to find, but all of them make a difference to how you use your Apple smartphone.Flash This well-known tip means your flashlight will flash when you receive a call. Enable this in Settings>General>Accessibility and toggle LED Flash for Alerts to on (green).Film in landscape mode Taking a video? Turn your iPhone into landscape mode before you begin filming. Not only will you end up with clips that look better on your phone, but when you play them back later using Apple TV, Mac, or iPad, they’ll look better there, too, without that letter box effect. Want to get rid of that effect on clips you’ve already created? I got you covered.To read this article in full, please click here...

computerworld.comI’ve been running Linux on the desktop for decades. When I was starting with it, Linux was, comparatively, harder to use than the GUI-based operating systems then available from Apple and Microsoft. That was then. This is now.Today, Linux, especially such distributions as openSUSE, Ubuntu and, my favorite, Linux Mint, are just as easy to use as macOS and Windows. And they don’t have the security bugs.What’s that? You don’t mind dealing with a few bugs? Well, on the latest Patch Tuesday, as Woody Leonhard put it, an “enormous number of patches spewed out of Microsoft this month, with two ponderous cumulative updates.” Every month, we see a new flood of critical Windows updates. Maybe updating Windows is your idea of a good time. It’s not mine.To read this article in full, please click here...

pcmag.comWe test and compare the leading data visualization tools, from those dedicated to building infographics to those with direct querying capabilities across multiple data sources. Today's business intelligence has pushed the capabilities of the average business user light years ahead of where they were even two years ago. The key is powerful new data visualization capabilities and we've tested 10 of the top players to help you get your analytics to the next level quickly....