Новости за 18.01.2016

NEW YORK -- Since retailers - even major ones - tend not to spend money on research and development, many need guidance to keep up with the changes technology is bringing to the industry.

It usually doesn’t work out very well for a group that attempts to silence dissent, but the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) is giving it a try nonetheless.

I’m sure most Mac users know Command-C means copy and Command-V means paste, but there’s a host of other useful shortcuts that make a Mac user’s life much easier – I’ve assembled this short collection to illustrate this truth:

What a difference three years makes. In 2012, when Computerworld first looked at containerization technologies that help organizations manage their bring-your-own-device programs, the landscape was quite different from what it is today. Now, all the issues about information security, app wrapping and data wiping have gathered under one umbrella: management.

When Salesforce announced its $300 million acquisition of SteelBrick at the end of last year, one could almost hear the groans from those vendors who are both SteelBrick competitors and a part of the broader Salesforce ecosystem.

In 2025, a shopper will walk into a store, try on clothes, pick the colors and a clerk will use a handheld device to have those items shipped to the customer's home address.

The smartphone we all carry every day is arguably the most important invention of all time.

Worldwide IT spending fell nearly 6% last year -- the largest one-year decrease research firm Gartner says it has ever seen. The global forecast for 2016 is for an improving, but relatively flat, $3.54 trillion. That would be a 0.6% increase.

Pilot fish's wife has been bugging him for a few weeks about an image that seems to be stuck in her color laser printer -- and keeps printing at odd times.

Retail marketers have known for years the critical nature of social media communications. But every now and then, one retailer takes it up a notch and shows some of the huge potential in up-to-date social campaigns. This time, it's 1,139-store apparel chain Victoria's Secret and an impressive rollout on Instagram.