Information Technology
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How to protect your Zoom calls
Apr 11, 2020 6:00 am - Millions of people are turning for the first time to the video-call app Zoom as the coronavirus lockdowns upend their way of life. But some are also making mistakes that...
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Internet working because Cold War-era pioneers designed it to handle almost anything
Apr 11, 2020 6:00 am - Coronavirus knocked down — at least for a time — internet pioneer Vinton Cerf, who offers this reflection on the experience: “I don't recommend it ... It's very debilita...
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CompTIA offers free Online IT trainingApr 09, 2020 1:00 am - DOWNERS GROVE - Illinois workers whose jobs have been eliminated or placed on furlough due to the COVID-19 pandemic can gauge their interest in pursuing a new career in ...
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Foxconn to start making ventilators at Wisconsin plantApr 08, 2020 1:00 am - Foxconn, the Taiwan-based company responsible for assembling most of the world's Apple iPhones, will aid the fight against the coronavirus pandemic by developing and mak...
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CDK funds scholarship program for minority studentsApr 08, 2020 1:00 am - HOFFMAN ESTATES - CDK Global is supplying a total of $150,000 in scholarship funding for the Fueling Careers Scholarship Program, in support of the National Association ...
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Paylocity acquires video platform companyApr 06, 2020 1:00 am - SCHAUMBURG - HR and payroll software company Paylocity said Monday it has acquired video platform provider VidGrid fro an undisclosed amount. VidGrid enables peer-to-pee...
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Zoom has become the movie of our lives, boxed for an occasion we didn't know was coming
Apr 04, 2020 6:19 am - Some cinematic languages are ahead of their eras. Others arrive just in time. Eons ago - also known as January - Zoom was a semi-obscure service known mostly as a busine...
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Analysis: We're all video chatting now. But some of us hate it.
Apr 04, 2020 6:16 am - It's no wonder Samantha Bergeson hates video calls. The 25-year-old's courses at NYU, where she's a senior in the journalism school, transitioned to online video amid th...
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Hackers 'without conscience' demand ransom from health providers
Apr 03, 2020 6:00 am - When hackers broke into computers at Hammersmith Medicines Research, a London-based company that carries out clinical trials for new medicines, it was a nightmare scenar...
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Everybody seems to be using Zoom. But its security flaws could leave people at risk.
Apr 03, 2020 6:00 am - When Georgetown University began advising faculty to use the video-call service Zoom to record their classes during the coronavirus lockdowns, professor James Millward c...