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Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 03:00:00 -0800
IT leaders who’ve taken the plunge into blockchain are mainly deploying it in proofs-of-concept tests to address the same problems a conventional database could handle, according to research firm Gartner.
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Ken Gagne| Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2018 03:00:00 -0800
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Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 03:11:00 -0700
More than one organization has been working on solving a major blockchain conundrum: how to improve sluggish transaction performance.
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Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 12:29:00 -0800
Microsoft is working to create a blockchain-based, decentralized digital identity management platform that would allow users to own and secure access to their online persona via an encrypted database hub.
Over the past year, Microsoft said it has been exploring how to use Blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies to create new types of digital identities designed to enhance personal privacy, security and control.
Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 12:29:00 -0800
Microsoft is working to create a blockchain-based, decentralized digital identity management platform that would allow users to own and secure access to their online persona via an encrypted database hub.
Over the past year, Microsoft said it has been exploring how to use Blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies to create new types of digital identities designed to enhance personal privacy, security and control.
Credit to Author: Ken Mingis| Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 11:30:00 -0800
When it comes to tech trends we’re likely to see in 2018, nothing would likely be more welcome than the end of passwords. With companies looking for ever better ways to protect data, it seems clear that “password123” has no indefinite future. (Nor does you pet’s name, if that’s what you use.)
But just how quickly passwords will be shunted aside, and by what technology – biometrics? two-factor authentication? algorithms? – remains unclear.
That was topic No. 1 for our panel of tech experts – CSO‘s Michael Nadeau, Infoworld‘s Serdar Syegulalp, Computerworld Executive Editor Ken Mingis and Macworld‘s Michael Simon – as they peer into the near-future to discern what’s coming in 2018 and what’s not.
Our tech panel envisions the end of passwords, looks at how blockchain is evolving, details why 'serverless' computing is a boon to devs and wonders why Apple's HomePod seems late to the game.
