Category: Analysis

It’s a fact. Email is making us slower, less productive and even dumber. The average employee now checks email 36 times an hour, spending a full 13 hours a week reading, deleting, sending and sorting emails. Each time we’re distracted with an email, it takes an average of 16 minutes (yes, 16 minutes) to refocus on the task at hand. But the news gets worse: Workers who check email frequently suffer a 10-point drop in IQ, the equivalent of missing an entire night’s sleep. Our email inboxes, once-upon-a-time the private…

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Farmigo, a small farm-delivered food service, has an audacious dream: It thinks it can help wipe out the likes of Kroger and Albertsons. Benzi Ronen thinks that the supermarkets’ time is up. And his company is just the thing to speed up its demise. “Our goal is to make the supermarket obsolete from a fresh perspective,” Ronen says. Farmigo, his five-year-old 30-employee startup, sells produce and other products like milk and cheese purchased directly from farmers for 10%-20% less than equivalent grocery store items. He does it by shrinking the…

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Kaspersky Lab presented its “Windows usage and vulnerabilities” research conducted in the summer of 2014. According to it the CVE-2010-2568 vulnerability was discovered back in 2010 at the same time as the notorious Stuxnet worm. Even today malware program exploiting this vulnerability remains widespread and poses a threat to users: 19,000,000 users encountered it in an eight-month timeframe from November 2013 to June 2014. CVE-2010-2568 is a shortcut handling error in Windows, allowing attackers to load an arbitrary DLL without the user’s knowledge. This vulnerability affects Windows XP, Vista and…

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Consumers’desire to stream video content on TV screens will drive content device purchases, Council For Research Excellence studies suggest. The most important determining factor among consumers in purchasing a new TV or video device is the ability for it to connect to the internet and stream content, a just-released study has found. Smart TVs were selected by the majority of households participating in the qualitative study, an acceleration ethnography designed to help determine consumers’ likely future video-device purchases, conducted for the Council for Research Excellence (CRE) by GfK. The acceleration…

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Digital Business Incompetence Will Cause 25 Percent of Businesses to Lose Market Position As enterprises move to become digital businesses, opportunities are arising for service providers to play a crucial role in the digital era, according to Gartner, Inc. Service providers should begin to align and adapt their organizational structure, capabilities, offerings, and engagement and delivery models to thrive in this new digital environment. “All signs suggest that organizations have just begun to tap into the potential of digital business; however, organizations that don’t accelerate their digital business transformation will…

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Four hours and 31 minutes.  That’s how much longer my HP Folio 1040 laptop estimates I can work given the energy stored in its battery.  Where does all that energy go? My CPU meter shows only slight activity. I’m only running a couple of apps and I’m not typing that fast. It turns out that today’s computers spend most of their time and energy shuffling data between tiers of storage and memory. In modern systems, this hierarchy can be more than 10 layers deep. In geek land, we call this…

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Phishing attacks become increasingly popular among cybercriminals. Stealing passwords and posing as legitimate organizations are well-known techniques used especially in mobile banking. The most recent example was an attack targeted at customers of one of the major Polish banks. It’s important to know what these new types of threats are and how can we protect ourselves. During a typical phishing attack cybercriminals send fake emails to customers, mimicking valid communications from a well-known company or institution. Such emails usually contain a request to click the link and login on a…

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The terms of service, also known as the document you’re supposed to read before signing up for a site or platform, is a treasure trove of legal guidelines, rules and permissions that few people really care about. But there are a few things you’re agreeing to, hidden within the jargon, that might change the way you use the web. Some permissions, like keeping personal information, protecting copyrights and preventing impersonation, are well-known and relatively innocuous. That said, there’s a chance you’re violating a term of service without even realizing it.…

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Supply Chain Management Revenue to Grow 12 Percent, the Highest Rate since 2011 Analysts to Discuss Creating Excellence and Sustainability at the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference 2014, September 10-11 in London Revenue from supply chain management (SCM) software is on track to reach $10.0 billion in 2014, a 12.2 percent increase from 2013, according to Gartner, Inc. This would be the highest annual growth rate since 2011. “The market for supply chain technologies is buoyant,” said Chad Eschinger, research vice president at Gartner. “Both supply chain execution and supply…

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SEOUL, July 24, 2014 — LG Electronics Inc. (LG) announced a 165 percent increase in second-quarter net profit compared with the same period last year, reflecting strong earnings from both the TV and mobile operations. LG reported second-quarter 2014 net profit of KRW 412 billion (USD 399.8 million) and operating profit of KRW 606 billion (USD 588.5 million), an increase of 26.5 percent year-over-year. Unaudited second quarter consolidated revenues of KRW 15.37 trillion (USD 14.93 billion) increased 7.7 percent from the previous quarter. The LG Home Entertainment Company saw steady…

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