It ended last Friday, March 24, the 2017 edition of CeBIT, an international exhibition dedicated to digitization, its potential and the best ways to achieve this status. The Hannover event counted 3,000 exhibitors from 70 countries, all united under the theme “d!economy – no limits”. The Partner Country of this year, Japan, certainly had a…
The evolution of the Internet of Things continues, with a focus on the wearables category. After smartwatches and smartbands, designed to better access functions such as displaying phone notifications or monitoring physical activity, the time has come for clothing. To get involved is Google together with Levi’s, a well-known clothing brand: a partnership created some…
Important news from the world of app technology: Apple has announced the arrival in Italy soon (official date not yet revealed) of Apple Pay, the contactless payment service for iPhone and Apple Watch. On the official website of the Cupertino company is just available in Italian language description of the service with an indication of…
We’ve found ourselves talking about safety in a number of circumstances, or rather, our work starts right there. What should be a basic aspect in the use of ICT tools is often underestimated by end users, whether they are companies or individuals. A situation that should be of particular concern if we consider that the…
What a great invention computers are! They have revolutionized the way we work in so many ways and continue to do so day after day by making the lives of their users easier or better, streamlined. Changes that are sometimes frightening but to which it is inevitable and at the same time quite easy to…
A recent analysis by Accenture found that manufacturing companies are not investing enough in new technologies, risking losing market share as a result because they are not yet able to integrate digital into their business models. In particular, Accenture opens the new year with the study “Technology Vision 2017” in which 102 executives from the…
From a couple of days to this part, the news is bouncing everywhere: what was a predictionuntil some time agoseems to have come true. Within a few hours, the digital infrastructures of half of Europe were put in crisis: it all started in England, where many of the computers of the National Health System, contracted…
In the aftermath of one of the most worrying Mondays in history from the cyber point of view, new developments are affecting the WannaCry affair: in particular, the first hypotheses regarding the culprits of this worldwide cyber attack are beginning to develop. On Monday, May 15, WannaCry started “shedding tears” even in Asia, infecting something…
In the midst of a global alert about the WannaCry infection, a scam update to one of the most popular apps that users access over and over again on a daily basis has come to throw further fuel on the fire. We’re talking about WhatsApp, the messaging app used by about a billion users around…
The WannaCry alert seems to be partly over: although the authors of this ransomware are not yet known, a French cryptography researcher has found a flaw in the malware itself to make it ineffective. This is a discovery that for now only affects PCs running the Windows XP operating system. This is a poor consolation…