CIOs and IT leaders should partner with digital disruptors that can help them maintain a pace of innovation that is at once high and sustainable, says tech research group Gartner, Inc. The company's 2017 Cool Vendors research examines disruptive vendors that are helping companies to solve long-established problems and stay ahead of the competition in a rapidly changing world.

By design, blockchain resists regulatory oversight, but maritime regulators still need to understand the technological potential of a trail of records that payment and other applications can be built upon and keep an eye on how the industry adopts this, shipping and tech experts argue.

Think about the last three seafood dinners you've had. Let's say you ate fresh Coho salmon flown in from the Pacific Northwest, perhaps some tasty red snapper sourced from the Gulf of Mexico and some ahi tuna from Japan.

Computers soon could deliver smarter healthcare to patients at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).

Brazil's federal government recently announced results from a national Internet of Things (IoT) plan that the country has been developing since December.

Like the way in which the Enron fraud scandal led to the development of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, recent cyber scandals - which resulted in huge financial losses - may motivate the development of a new cybersecurity-focused corporate accountability movement and/or consumer protection laws.

A new low-cost, digital seal has been developed for the CORE (Consistently Optimised REsilient Secure Global Supply-Chains) European Research Project by Dutch software company Itude Mobile.

A rash of recent, politically-motivated cyberattacks has thrust cybersecurity and spear phishing into the spotlight. But as we watch this global political drama unfold, we may be distracted from a much more urgent threat within our own organizations.