Technology expert Evan Schuman takes an authoritative look at the faults and foibles of enterprise IT.
And a very different bug, planted by cyberthieves, presents even more frightening camera-spying issues with Android.
Although this decision should end the debate and make it clear to companies that sites must be coded to be fully compatible—and, no, throwing in a toolbar option doesn't do it—it's astounding that companies ever resisted it.
Google confirmed that cyberthieves had managed to pre-install malware into the Android framework backdoor. In short, the malware appeared to be blessed by Google at the deepest point within Android.
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.
Amazon has confirmed that one of its Echo devices recorded a family's conversation and then messaged it to a random person on the family's contact list. The implications are terrifying.
Amazon quietly updated its app last week and confessed that its iOS shopping cart would freeze when a shopper tries to switch between apps. It makes one wonder how extensive mobile app testing is these days when this kind of glitch gets by the usuall....
On Monday, Chase quietly stopped asking for passwords for sensitive transfers on its mobile app, concluding that a fingerprint-scan is quite sufficient.
When Walmart said that it was buying Jet.com for $3 billion, it was widely interpreted as it getting serious about competing with Amazon. That's not what is happening.
Visa has new stats showing that nearly three-quarters of U.S. merchants still can't handle chip cards.
An appellate court ruled last week that sites can legally ban people, with a subsequent visit to the site punishable by federal criminal law.
When Starbucks announced this month that its software had rolled out a price increase weeks before it was supposed to, it exposed how easily such a mistake can happen. That's a critical lesson for all of retail.
On Wednesday, Walmart announced that its trial of Walmart Pay would go national. This is good news for Walmart shoppers who want to pay with a mobile device, but the news would have been very different had Walmart instead embraced NFC payments.
After 12 years of operation, shouldn’t NRF be able to point to better and more concrete examples?
Online product reviews are one of the most powerful e-commerce sales tools, and it's in the interest of every major e-tailer to keep them credible. That's why Amazon has gone out of its way many times to track down and try to punish —....
When shoppers at Walmart ran into a wide range of problems using their Green Dot/Walmart MoneyCard cards at Walmart—including checking balancing and accessing funds—last week, it was a grim reminder of how interconnected the payments worl....
When Visa introduced its Quick Chip for EMV on Tuesday, it placed retailers in an awkward — but interesting — position. The good news: Quick Chip removes the most hated part of the EMV process, the part where the shopper has to leave the ....
When the FTC on Monday announced a probe into how PCI operates, it threatened to shine a light into how merchants deal with payments security. Even for merchants — who typically express bitter resentment about the paperwork-intensive and labor-....
One of the longtime problems that Walmart has had with its many e-commerce efforts is that the retailer has a very healthy heritage of being physical-store-centric and that perspective colors the thinking of many Walmart execs.
Note to all retailers: No matter how much you fear Amazon, regardless of how many sales you think you've lost to it, I am here to tell you that it's about to get much worse.
Was this project really just an effort to flag shoppers who had previously been suspected of shoplifting?