Michelle Maisto

The federal government wastes a reported $4 billion a year by poorly managing software licenses. Sens. Bill Cassidy, R-La., and Gary Peters, D-Mich., hope to remedy this through an act with an admirable intention and acronym, the Making Electronic Government Accountable by Yielding Tangible Efficiencies Act, or the MEGABYTE Act. But although MEGABYTE made it […]

Marwan Fawaz has yet to change his LinkedIn profile, but the executive adviser and former CEO of the Motorola Home business is the new CEO of Nest. Nest co-founder Tony Fadell announced his departure, and Fawaz’s appointment, in a June 3 blog post. “Marwan’s extensive technology and engineering knowledge, his experience with global service providers, […]

Salesforce is bringing some needed efficiency to the sales process with the introduction of Lightning Voice, new phone capabilities built directly into its Lightning Sales Cloud. The feature helps streamline the process of logging sales calls. Typically, a sales rep would use his or her desk or mobile phone, call a number, take notes in […]

Samsung introduced the Gear Fit2, an update to its fitness wristband, on June 2. At a glance, the biggest update between Samsung’s 2-year-old Fit and the new Fit2 is the latter’s curved display. While the Fit sat stanchly atop a wrist—a flat tabletop of a display—the Fit2 features a 322-pixels-per-inch, curved super AMOLED that’s bright […]

A coalition of concerned companies and civil rights, human rights and privacy advocates—including Uber, Lyft, Amnesty International and the America Civil Liberties Union—has sent a letter asking the U.S. Department of Justice to extend a deadline by which the public must respond to proposed privacy changes to the FBI’s Next Generation Identification (NGI) system. NGI […]

Nearly all of the nation’s hospitals are now using certified electronic health records (EHRs), according to a survey released at the 2016 annual meeting of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) in Washington, D.C. The meeting, which runs through June 2, brings together stakeholders from across the public and private […]

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft have made commitments regarding a “Code of Conduct” released by the European Commission and EU member states in an effort to curb online hate speech. “The recent terror attacks have reminded us of the urgent need to address illegal online hate speech,” Vĕra Jourová, EU commissioner for Justice, Consumers and […]

The same day the BBC reported that Apple manufacturing partner Foxconn had replaced 60,000 factory workers with a “robot workforce,” U.S. Joint Economic Committee Chairman Dan Coats, R-Ind., hosted a hearing titled, “The Transformative Impact of Robots and Automation.” The present “robot revolution” is contributing to “pressures arising within our changing labor force,” Coats said […]

Microsoft and Facebook have forged a partnership to lay an undersea cable from Virginia Beach, Va., to Bilbao, Spain, that they say will help them meet customer demand for reliable, high-speed online services. The project, called Marea—”tide,” in Spanish—will also involve Telxius, a subsidiary of Spanish telecom Telefónica, which will operate the cable and rent […]

The government of India apparently doesn’t consider Apple’s products to be “cutting edge” or “state of the art,” which could delay the opening of the company’s retail stores in a country that has one of the fastest-growing smartphone markets and is expected to be the fastest-growing large economy through at least 2018. Legislation in India […]