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If executives at United Airlines want to rescue their brand, and quite possibly the fate of their company, they need to make concrete changes and then use social media to turn around the conversation.

Microsoft today began pushing the latest Windows upgrade, nicknamed "Creators Update," to customers, via Windows Update.

I’m a sucker for history.

Specifically, I love companies that have a sense of history and pedigree behind them. Maybe its because my own business, Cactus Equipment, has for 25 years created products in a world which is awash with manufactured brands and pseudo-authenticity. Similarly, Corvil strikes me as a company in the technology space with a real history. The company was founded back in 2000 by John Lewis, the late Welsh mathematical physicist known for his contributions to areas including quantum measurement... Читать дальше...

Boeing will begin using at least four 3D-printed titanium parts to construct its 787 Dreamliner aircraft and may some day rely on as many as 1,000 parts created via  additive manufacturing.

The entire airline industry is at first glance highly technical and, at the same time, highly dependent on personnel to handle tough issues. The big story this week for United Airlines -- which is quickly turning into a public relations nightmare and even creating conflicts with China -- has to do with a passenger who was forcibly removed due to overbooking the seats.

Lockheed Martin, Procter & Gamble and Caterpillar have joined with 62 other organizations to create hardware and software guidelines for using augmented reality (AR) on the manufacturing floor.

Cisco this week took the wraps off several products aimed at helping existing Fibre Channel customers grow the speed, capacity and management of their storage environments.

We've all been there: You're casually surfing the web when your speakers suddenly start booming with the sound of a video you never asked to play.

So-called customer experience management (CXM) is a general term for technology solutions that help companies deliver all of the stuff that faces their customer -- marketing, advertising, support services and the actually commercial transaction functions.

The Creators Update to Windows 10 hasn’t begun wide rollout yet, but already Microsoft is pushing out test builds of Redstone 3, the next major update to the operating system due sometime this fall.

If you're a Unix admin, it helps to know how password aging is managed and how you can determine when a password was last changed or force a change in the near future. The key to understanding how password aging information is stored on Unix systems is knowing how and where information about dates related to user passwords is maintained.

The latest Trendforce data shows Samsung beat Apple in smartphone sales as the euphoria around iPhone 7 is replaced with excitement and anticipation at the $999.99 (?) iPhone 8.

Once you reach the senior level of your career, the time comes where you need to change how you approach the resume writing process. As a seasoned professional in a leadership role, you need to focus less on your technical skills and more on defining your value proposition.

The most effective cyberattacks turn the tables on the security measures we take to ward off attacks. We’re always countering the attacks that have worked in the past, rarely thinking about the opportunities our countermeasures might open up.

Cord cutting is not just for television.

It is for VR and AR experiences, also. That is why AMD has acquired Nitero, and company that provides technology to connect VR headsets wirelessly to PCs. This isn't the first time wireless VR headsets are making a splash in this space, but it is still big deal. 

In IT Blogwatch, we think about the future. 

So what is going on? Jose Vilches shares some background:

When big companies want to outsource their hardware service calls for customers, they cut deals with the outfit where this IT pilot fish works as a data analyst.

Data centers are declining worldwide both in numbers and square footage, according to IDC -- a remarkable change for an industry that has seen booming growth for many years.