TECHNOLOGY

By Digiday Awards  •  April 2, 2024  •  5 min read  • This year’s Digiday Video and TV Awards finalists focused on measuring results and proving ROI, crafting successful partnerships and collaborations, curating content experiences and utilizing emerging technologies. The shortlist entries showcase creativity, engagement and results, using audience understanding to produce impactful campaigns.  Adobe emerged as…

Budgets cannot stretch to accommodate infinite cost increases, not least to meet expanding cloud security requirements By Fleur Doidge Published: 05 Apr 2024 With Gartner forecasting another 20% jump in public cloud services spending and a 7% rise in overall IT spending for 2024, keeping the lid on budget sub-categories such as security for cloud…

Five key principles for using data to grow your organisation By Ian Bobbett, Crimson, and George Lynch, NashTech, part of Nash Squared Published: 05 Apr 2024 In today’s business environment, one thing that is not in short supply is data. But managing that data, and turning it into accurate decision-useful insight, is much harder to…

A disaster recovery plan is only effective if you can restore data. But despite the growing risks – especially from ransomware – not all organisations are sure they actually can recover from their backups. When it comes to backup and recovery, regular and rigorous testing should be a core part of any plan. But there…

When up to 90% of startups fail, tech entrepreneurs must do something different to get a different result and to be part of the 10% By Raihan Islam, defineXTEND Published: 05 Apr 2024 Consumer preferences and market trends shift at an unprecedented pace making tech entrepreneurs constantly challenged to stay ahead of their competition. The…

Image: StackCommerce The world is an expensive place, and we’re all looking for ways to cut back. One of the best ways to do that is by locking in everyday savings when you shop for groceries and other necessities. At Sam’s Club, you can find unparalleled value on all kinds of everyday items, and for…

Image: Markus Spiske Part of this week’s news includes yet another major data leak — this time involving AT&T, which announced that account information for 7.6 million current and 65 million former customers was released on the dark web in mid-March. Details consist of full names, email addresses, home addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth,…

Image: HP Finding a gaming PC on a budget is a struggle — finding a gaming laptop on a budget, even more so. Today HP is closing out one model in its Victus sub-brand for $699.99, $300 off its regular price. While a 13th-gen Core i5 and an Nvidia RTX 3050 aren’t going to plow…

Image: Acer Chromebooks have undergone the most dramatic transformation over the years. No longer are they used to just running Google apps or accessing the internet. Nowadays, in addition to running everyday tasks like browsing the web and checking e-mail, you can also play the latest triple-A titles with cloud gaming. Because there’s such a…

Image: Michael Crider/Foundry ChromeOS has been adding capabilities to bring it up to speed with other operating systems for…well, for as long as Google has been working on it, which is about 12 years now. The latest update might be of particular interest to anyone who switches between a Chromebook and other devices regularly. It…