A bloated range of applications poses challenges and, according to a recent Gartner survey, 48% of application leaders said maintaining legacy applications was one of their top three challenges when implementing innovative technology. Applications and software engineering leaders must implement a campaign to cleanse the portfolio of “dead” applications and free up resources that […]

What is a USART (universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter)? A USART (universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter) is hardware that enables a device to communicate using serial protocols. It can function in a slower asynchronous mode, like a universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART), or in a faster synchronous mode with a clock signal. USARTs are no longer common in consumer PCs […]

For virtually all companies in all territories, 2022 has been a year of global change and uncertainty – and IT priorities are shifting as businesses adapt to the new environment, according to the Cisco 2023 Global networking trends report. The report surveyed more than 2,500 IT decision-makers in 13 countries on the role of […]

The AI Act, a proposed European law on artificial intelligence (AI), will require governments to actively participate in developing technology to ensure public values and citizens’ rights are incorporated into any use of AI. Key to the collaboration with society will be citizens’ understanding of the technology, and so the Netherlands AI Coalition (NL AIC) […]

The weaponisation of cyber space and ongoing geopolitical turmoil may lead to a “fundamental breakdown” of global networks into distinct regional or national architectures, increasing cyber and operational risks to organisations, according to a new forecast from risk consultancy Control Risks, which looks ahead to 2023 and beyond. In its 2023 Risk map, Control […]

We have been fighting an onslaught of ransomware attacks for a long time, yet we are still far away from a victory. In fact, it seems we are losing the battle. Although our defences are getting better, ransomware claims more victims today than in most previous years. Most for-profit cyber crime is concentrating on […]

Women are more likely to leave their roles in the technology sector than men are, according to research by InnovateHer. The education platform, which for the past five years has been working towards getting more girls interested in tech careers, found that 45% more women than men leave technology roles, and half of the […]

What is a coulomb (C)? A coulomb (C) is the standard unit of electric charge in the International System of Units (SI). It is the amount of electricity that a 1-ampere (A) current carries in one second (s). A quantity of 1 C is equal to the electrical charge of approximately 6.24 x 1018 electrons […]

SAP is launching a low-code application platform aimed at business users at its TechEd conference in Las Vegas, dubbed SAP Build. At a joint media and analyst pre-conference briefing held at the same time in San Francisco and Las Vegas, ahead of the supplier’s TechEd developer event, Julia White, chief marketing officer for SAP, […]

By 2024, 80% of technology products and services will be built by people who are not full-time technical professionals. This is one of the findings revealed by Gartner during its annual Symposium in Barcelona. Combined with robotic process automation (RPA) and the concept of composable business, in which teams across IT and the business […]