Evan Schuman
Computerworld
New York, NY, United States
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IT’s lovefest with GPT-3 needs to meet reality now
As we’ve seen with other highly-hyped technologies — such as the Web back in ‘95 and blockchain more recently — companies can get ahead of themselves when they jump into investments based on things other than strategic goals. → Read More
A compliance fight in Germany could hurt Microsoft customers
A compliance fight between Microsoft and German regulatory authorities has gotten white hot, though it looks as though any penalties might bypass the company and take aim at its customers. → Read More
This would be a good time to test your cloud ROI
As the COVID-19 pandemic slowly fades — and the rush to cloud solutions it hastened now seems less critical to business success — a question arises: Has anyone on your team recently run an ROI analysis to see whether the cloud truly saves your company money? → Read More
Sadly, IT can no longer trust geolocation for much of anything
This goes beyond simply not trusting location data for cybersecurity authentication. Geolocation is now used for a wide range of business reasons — but it shouldn’t be. → Read More
Planned ‘fixes’ for credit-card interchange fees will actually make fraud easier
The US Federal Reserve and the US Senate are both looking to lessen restrictions on retailers — ostensibly to rein in card fees. What they actually are doing is inviting more fraud. → Read More
Are banks quietly refusing reimbursements to fraud victims?
There are disturbing reports that some major financial institutions are no longer crediting back all fraudulent transactions, even when the victim has filed a police report. This move by these financial institutions will soon come back to bite them. → Read More
Apple quietly stops meaningful auto-updates in iOS
Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, acknowledged Apple has dramatically slowed down auto updates — by as much as a month. → Read More
Apple’s latest right-to-repair trick is delightfully evil
I’ve always been impressed by how clever Apple can get when trying to protect its repair revenue. A new report from MacRumors doesn’t disappoint. → Read More
On app tracking, both Android and iOS have to do better
While Google has announced plans to reset permissions for older, rarely used Android apps, Apple’s app-tracking-transparency efforts in iOS have fallen short of the company’s grand vision. → Read More
How bad can text security be? One company just showed us.
A massive number of text messages were stored in plaintext, with no security at all. → Read More
Forrester: Bank mobile apps frustrating, confusing
Mobile banking should be effortless, but Forrester Research says far too many banks offer frustrating apps and give little thought to how consumers should interact with their financial institutions. → Read More
Apple is learning why shortcut security is a bad idea
With its enterprise developer certificate program, Apple chose convenience over security. You can guess what happened. → Read More
Next Android OS might allow app downgrade. This is a BIG deal.
Making apps downgradable would give IT just a little of its environment controls back. Just a little bit, but it's a start. → Read More
The enterprise ROI/TCO argument for mobile is getting a lot more interesting
In 2019, executives need to look anew at mobile and figure out what technology displacements make sense. For example, do companies need to buy expensive dedicated barcode scanners? → Read More
Apple's App Store privacy efforts are backfiring big time
Although Apple is trying to position itself as the consumer-privacy-friendly company, some have complained that it is doing it in far too heavy-handed a way. → Read More
eBay's ApplePay stats show why mobile payments are struggling
When eBay recently started giving customers the option to move away from paying with PayPal, something interesting happened. → Read More
When it comes to mobile, you pretty much have no privacy rights
Police are very persistent in trying to gain access to suspects' devices. → Read More
Stats make iOS a hard OS to ignore
Users are jumping to the latest iOS version faster than ever before. That means many things from an Apple marketing perspective, but for IT, it means far greater security. → Read More
Apple finally shares its automatic NFC launch capabilities, albeit in a very limited way
With iOS 12, Apple wants to share the ease-of-use magic of Apple Pay with the industry, via an SDK. Well, not quite, but it's starting along that path. → Read More
Apple's mobile privacy letter to Congress omits an awful lot of context
Apple's letter was designed to alleviate congressional fears about the company invading its customers' privacy. But a close reading of the letter does the opposite. → Read More