Organizations are grappling with the dual challenges of their legacy infrastructure and rapidly evolving technological demands to operate. A business case and contract request shared by London’s Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), for example, revealed that when it comes to core back-office platforms such as enterprise...
The biggest tech show in the world, CES 2025 next month in Las Vegas, is landing squarely on the connected economy next month with innovations expected in connected homes, digital health, and mobility leading the charge. “AI [artificial intelligence] has to be one of the...
Old-fashioned technology is coming back into fashion, and we’re talking more than just dumb phones. Take pagers, for instance. Earlier this month, Sega’s Japanese toys division announced on its YouTube channel the launch of an emoji-only toy pager. The device, dubbed Emojam, allows users to...
PayPal experienced a global outage that affected multiple products for about two hours Thursday (Nov. 21). The incident lasted from 10:53 UTC to 12:59 UTC Thursday, the company said on its status page. The outage affected account withdrawals, express checkout, cryptocurrency, the receive money function...
Google Quantum AI is using the Nvidia CUDA-Q platform and the Nvidia Eos supercomputer to help develop its next-generation quantum computing devices. The firm is using the platform to simulate the physics of its quantum processors as it works to overcome “noise” — a limitation of...
In the financial world, nothing is more critical than getting payments right. A simple error or untested integration can turn transactions into a logistical nightmare. In a global economy where delays mean dollars lost, payment testing becomes a critical function. “Typically, 2 in 10 digital...
Technology industry treasurers face different challenges than their peers in other sectors. For example, only 50% report having strong influence in decision-making, far below other sectors like consumer goods. Their limited involvement affects key financial outcomes, such as cash flow predictability and revenue optimism. Tech...
What is necessary for organizational success isn’t always easy. And as the U.K. National Health Service’s (NHS) recent 2.5 billion pound procurement request for its Digital Workplace Solutions 2 mega-framework shows, doing what’s necessary to bring critical infrastructure into the 21st century isn’t always cheap, either....
Global trade, at its heart, is about receivables. One company owes another for the goods or services it has purchased. While that may sound simple enough, businesses engaged in international trade contend with a range of factors, from geopolitical risks to environmental hazards, that can...
