The futuristic concept of 3D printing is now available to everyone as the technology has blossomed into a full-scale revolution. Take Tech Pro Research’s survey and let us know if you’re using 3D printing. Hershey’s is one of the many companies using 3D printers. This is a design made out of chocolate.  Image: Technabob.com Personal technology is at a peak, with any given smartphone today featuring more memory, processing power and storage capacity than the Apollo Guidance Computer used by the team who sent mankind to the moon in 1969.…

Talk to any information security professional over the past decade about a number of their greatest perceived challenges when it comes to doing their job. More often than not you’ll hear about how their organization’s business leadership didn’t provide them the support and space they need to secure their organizations properly. One way you’ll hear this is when it comes to the lack of budget. Another way you’ll often hear this expressed, is as security “doesn’t get a seat at the table.” There’s no doubt a large number of security…

Corporate employees familiar with Dropbox should take extra precautions to avoid becoming a victim of a phishing attack that uses the popular file-sharing service. Cybercriminals have been sending out emails with malicious links pointing to a ZIP file on Dropbox that contains a screensaver that is actually ransomware similar to one known as CryptoLocker, security vendor PhishMe reported Friday. The attackers try to trick the recipients into clicking on the link through a variety of ploys, including disguising the email, so that the link appears to point to an invoice or…

SAP’s biggest challenge in reshaping itself into a provider of online business applications is changing the corporate culture that made it one of the largest software makers on the planet. The technological shift is well on its way. SAP’s flagship Business Suite is available online through the HANA Enterprise Cloud. HANA is SAP’s in-memory database–a key piece of the company’s cloud platform. “They’ve made a lot of strides technically to get things to the cloud,” Henry Morris, analyst for IDC, said. But SAP must also navigate a changing purchasing landscape in which technology…

Open Street Map Open Street Map is an open source map of the world, created and amended by people all over the planet. It emphasizes local knowledge, so if you’re in a city and know of a new route or location, you can feel free to add it. There are many types of contributors, from mapping enthusiasts, to professionals, to humanitarians that help add things during disasters. The map shown here was listed as a great example of a community-made map of Pompeii, Italy. Image: Open Street Map Citymaps Citymaps is a…