IDG Contributor Network: Adidas figures out how to win with physical stores
Physical retail chain executives routinely fret about their brick-and-mortar stores’ inability to effectively compete against e-commerce sites, including their own.…
Angry Shadow Brokers release password for suspected NSA hacking tools
Annoyed with the U.S. missile strike last week on an airfield in Syria, among other things, hacker group Shadow Brokers…
‘I expect to be able to tap my AirPods and ask Siri to get me a loan'
Thanks to Apple’s revolutionary iPhone and the imitators that followed it, banking is on the cusp of profound change and…
Labor Department accuses Google of underpaying women
The U.S. Department of Labor says Google discriminates against female employees in pay at a level that’s even worse than…
Enterprises get to work in the cloud
Enterprises are finding all sorts of reasons to moved their data and business processes to the cloud. Capital One Financial…
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Company hires a new senior-level employee away from its biggest competitor, and that would be big news — except the…
Windows Embedded's future looks rocky
Ah, Windows Embedded. The Microsoft operating system that millions of devices and machines are running, typically with a custom application…
Why smart stores don't check out
Cash registers are dumb. Why do we still have them? Invented in 1879 to keep saloon employees from stealing, the…
10 cities where IT pros aren’t paid what they’re worth
Cities where IT pros aren’t paid what they’re worth Image by Thinkstock While IT salaries continue to rise and many…
What Aerospike learned from testing Intel's superfast Optane SSDs
Intel’s large-capacity Optane is like the Ferrari of storage: It’s super fast, it’s cool and it’s expensive. Also, it isn’t…