Science & Technology

Facebook Phishing Surges, While Microsoft Is Often Impersonated

Baiting the Hook By Jenna Finn Vade Secure, a global leader in predictive e-mail defense, recently published the results of its Phishers’ Favorites report for the second quarter of 2019. […]

UMass Amherst Looks to Be a World Leader in Water-technology Innovation

Pipeline to Progress When the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center released a study last fall examining potential locations for water-technology demonstration centers in Massachusetts — thus raising the Bay State’s profile […]

When it Comes to Cyberattacks, Prevent, Detect, and Respond

Attack the Problem By Sean Hogan Over the course of my time as a business owner, I’ve been asked many times, ‘what keeps you up at night?’ In the early […]

FIRST LEGO League Sends Kids on a Journey of Learning

Blasting Off Seeing a group of middle-schoolers design, build, and program robots that perform specific, detailed tasks on cue is an impressive sight. But the impact of the FIRST LEGO […]

Ambitious Project will Address Workforce Needs, Security Issues in the Supply Chain

Creating Cyber Solutions A group of regional partners, led by Bay Path University, has been awarded a $250,000 grant from the Mass. Technology Collaborative for a pilot program that will […]

Financial, Physical, and Educational Improvement Is in the Palm of Your Hand

Better Living Through Apps Today’s smartphone apps are countless, with uses ranging from entertainment to enrichment. In the latter category, apps help users manage their personal finance, improve their fitness, […]

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Normandeau Technologies Embraces a New World of Communication

Call Forward Brett Normandeau recalls the early days of the company his father started 28 years ago, when installing telephone systems was simpler, and even voice mail seemed revolutionary. Those […]

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Mobile Devices Find New Frontiers of Speed, Power, and Quality

Innovation at Hand An on-the-go society demands on-the-go technology, and the array of smartphones, tablets, wristband health sensors, and portable game systems only continues to expand as the major players […]

NetLogix Aims to Reduce Stress, Keep Clients Focused on Growth

Human Touch Information-technology solutions providers can easily get lost in a maze of technical jargon, but that’s the last thing Marco Liquori wants to throw at customers. Instead, the technicians […]

UMass Awards $735,000 in Science and Technology Grants

Banking on Breakthroughs Three UMass Amherst campus research initiatives are among nine projects across the five-campus system that are sharing $735,000 in grants from the President’s Science & Technology […]

Technology Allows Women to View Breast-surgery Results in Advance

Virtual Breakthrough Dr. Glen Brooks, who runs a cosmetic-surgery practice in Longmeadow, says he was initially “awed” by a virtual-reality device that allows breast-surgery patients, using 3D goggles, to view […]

UMass Amherst Project Boosts Deep Learning Research

View to the Future By Janet Lathrop With a new cluster of specialized graphics processing units (GPUs) now installed, UMass Amherst is poised to attract the nation’s next crop of […]

Simple Password-protection Policies Can Help Keep Businesses Safe

The Best Defense By Sean Hogan Hogan Technology recently announced it is educating small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) on password-protection policies to help safeguard their businesses from a variety of […]

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Pioneer Training Makes Clients’ Lives Easier

Data Delivery Don Lesser wasn’t planning on a career in computers, but the field found him through a series of opportunities that arose during the 1980s. Those became the basis […]

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Baystate Phishing Attack Serves as Wake-up Call for Companies

Won’t Get Fooled Again? The trouble with a phishing scam, Brendan Monahan says, is that only one person in an organization has to fall for it to put information at […]