Author: InfoForTech

Don’t let your CRM become an open book. Lock down customer data, integrations, and every deal in motion with stronger CRM security. What does a CRM actually hold? The obvious answer is customer data, but that barely covers it. A CRM contains conversations, purchase histories, internal notes, contact details, deal values, support issues, and future sales opportunities. It records what the customer has done and what the business plans to do next. Companies often call it their single source of truth. That phrase carries more weight than most teams realize. If the data is manipulated, teams act on false information.…

Reflecting on my time judging the recent HP Future of Work Accelerator Pitch Fest in New York, something kept gnawing at me. As I sat alongside my fellow judges—Antara Lahiri, Catherina Gioino, and HP’s Michele Malejki—we watched five remarkable organizations pitch brilliant, targeted solutions to the AI employment crisis. Produced with strategic precision by Conspiracy of Love and amplified by Good Is The New Cool, the event successfully showcased the heroic efforts needed to save the next generation from the “price parity trap” of AI. But in the tech industry, we know that point solutions, no matter how innovative, eventually…

So will Newt Gingrich, for some reason. Jeremy Christensen/Getty Images The US Department of Defense announced a new initiative that it says will identify the technological needs for future wars. According to the commissioning note from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Project Meridian “will study the battlefields of the future, identify which weapons and technologies warfighters will need to harness to dominate in these environments, and propose actionable solutions to start developing, testing and fielding these capabilities such that America will have overmatch for the 21st century and beyond.” The endeavor will be led by Elon Musk,…

President Donald Trump has told aides that he thinks Republicans could still outperform expectations in the midterm elections this November, seemingly unwilling to confront the worsening political climate for the GOP.But aides acknowledge privately that the national polling for Trump is shockingly bad, and the White House, in recent weeks, has begun to contemplate for the first time losing both the House and Senate majorities.One longtime Trumpworld operative, who correctly predicted weeks before the 2024 presidential election that Trump was on course to win every battleground state, summed it up for Inner Loop: “Oh, yeah, we’re going to get creamed.”Trump’s…

Google.org announced on Sept. 15 that the MIT Transit Lab is a recipient of $2.1 million in funding — one of only 15 projects selected in the worldwide Google.org Impact Challenge: AI for Government Innovation. The funding from Google’s philanthropic arm will support NGOs, social enterprises, and academic institutions as they integrate artificial intelligence-powered solutions across topics like health, resilience, and economy.The Transit Lab’s winning project, the Public Transit Intelligence Hub (PTIQ), aims to unify public transportation agencies’ real-time monitoring, operations control, and passenger communication systems into a single centralized AI-orchestrated platform that will allow transit control center staff to make…

October is a month filled with longer nights, spooky ghost stories and plenty of ghouls and monsters. If you subscribe to any PlayStation Plus plan, you can enjoy those things from the comfort of your cozy home by playing Hunt: Showdown 1896 starting on Oct. 6. PlayStation Plus, which is Sony’s version of Xbox Game Pass, offers a large, constantly expanding library of games. Subscribers can choose from the Essential, Extra and Premium tiers, each with unique perks and benefits. Starting at $11 a month, the plans give subscribers access to monthly games and rewards, and each month, all subscribers…

Threat actors have weaponized a now-patched security flaw in Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) to deploy web shells and access mailbox data, according to findings from the Microsoft Security Research team. The attack exploits CVE-2026-73570 (CVSS score: 8.9), an unauthenticated operating system command injection flaw that can lead to remote code execution when Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) notifications are enabled and the optional zimbra-snmp package is installed. Exploitation of CVE-2026-73570 can be triggered by a specially crafted SMTP request (i.e., email against exposed Zimbra servers without requiring authentication or user interaction. The vulnerability was patched by Zimbra in July 2026…

Revenue intelligence startup Gong is expanding its platform with third-party account and contact data, deeper artificial intelligence analysis and tools for building agents that automatically execute sales workflows. The company today launched Mission Callisto, a new feature of its Gong Enrich data enrichment platform that brings information from outside data providers into its Revenue Graph analytical and reporting engine. The release also adds deep research to Gong Assistant and expands dashboards beyond forecasting to track performance across sales, marketing and customer success. Gong, the business name of Gong.io Ltd., said the updates address a common problem facing revenue teams: Customer…

The AI conversation is coming to Cleveland. And this year, you can listen to it in real time. MAICON 2026 brings some of the biggest voices in AI, marketing, technology, and business together October 13–15. But the conversation doesn’t stop when a keynote ends. For the second year, the MAICON Podcast Studio will give some of the industry’s leading podcast hosts a front-row seat to the action. Across two days, eight shows will record live from the conference, bringing fresh conversations and perspectives directly to their audiences. Attending MAICON? Stop by the studio and catch a live recording. Listening from home?…

Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, any opinions expressed below belong solely to the author. All information comes from official government sources. Two years ago, the Singapore government launched OMIP: Overseas Markets Immersion Programme, a generous support scheme which provides state financing for workers looking to gain skills and experience overseas. This is an excellent opportunity, designed specifically for those who lack sufficient experience and would benefit from a posting abroad, whether you’re a recent graduate or a middle-aged worker seeking a career boost. OMIP is very generous, as it covers up to 70% of the candidate’s salary (capped at S$5,000 per…