Mullenweg ‘would love to go back to negotiating table’ with WP Engine

Mullenweg ‘would love to go back to negotiating table’ with WP Engine

While lawyers argue in the WP Engine versus Automattic litigation whether the hyperbole should be believed, the continuing battle of words, almost all nasty ones, is starting to raise doubts how much an enterprise should rely on open source. And even if open source can be avoided at all in late 2024. The latest legal…

If you care about business continuity, get a Mac (or iPhone)

If you care about business continuity, get a Mac (or iPhone)

As Delta goes to litigation to try to claw back some of the money it lost as a result of the Crowdstrike disaster, a new report on enterprise IT shows once again that if you care about business continuity, you should invest in Apple’s products. Conducted by Dimensional Research and paid for by Apple device management company Kandji, the annual Apple…

Slack adds templates to help users kick off projects quicker

Slack adds templates to help users kick off projects quicker

Slack users can now access pre-configured templates to help start projects faster when using the collaboration app.  The collaboration software maker has built out its app functionality in recent years, expanding its focus from instant messaging to include  task management, workflow automation, voice and video, and document editing features.  The added functions can also introduce more complexity for those…

Microsoft and OpenAI: Goodbye bromance, hello open warfare

Microsoft and OpenAI: Goodbye bromance, hello open warfare

If ever there were a bromance that seemed made in tech heaven, it’s the one between Microsoft and OpenAI. Microsoft was an early investor in OpenAI, initially putting $1 billion into the company, which allowed the upstart firm to develop and release the groundbreaking generative AI-based ChatGPT to effectively launch the current genAI boom.  That…

The world’s smallest, powerful AI PC? It’s a Mac mini

The world’s smallest, powerful AI PC? It’s a Mac mini

Amazon might have accidentally broken the story early, but as anticipated the introduction of Apple’s all-new, M4-processor-powered Mac mini is making big waves. The tiny but incredibly powerful desktop exemplifies all the advantages of Apple Silicon — smaller, faster, and cheaper than we could have seen before, a new building block in the Apple Intelligence ecosystem. All the rumors…

Meta, Apple say the quiet part out loud: The genAI emperor has no clothes

Meta, Apple say the quiet part out loud: The genAI emperor has no clothes

Amidst the mountains of vendor cheerleading for generative AI efforts, often amplified by enterprise board members, skeptical CIOs tend to feel outnumbered. But their cynical worries may now have some company, in the form of a report from Apple and an interview from Meta — both of which raise serious questions about whether genAI can…

Google Workspace explained: Google’s answer to Microsoft 365

Google Workspace explained: Google’s answer to Microsoft 365

Workspace is Google’s suite of productivity software tools, the main competitor to market leader Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365). Formerly known as G Suite, Google Workspace includes well-known apps such as Gmail, Docs, Sheets, and Slides — apps that are also used for free by billions of people globally. Google has been selling productivity apps…

Apple defines what we should expect from cloud-based AI security

Apple defines what we should expect from cloud-based AI security

Apple will introduce new Macs and the first services within its Apple Intelligence collection next week. To protect cloud-based requests made through Apple Intelligence, it has put industry-beating security and privacy protecting transparency in place around cloud-based requests handled by its Private Cloud Compute (PCC) system. What that means is that Apple has pulled far ahead of the…