Mark Vena
Contributor at Forbes
CEO and Principal Analyst at SmartTech Research
Technology Leader, @TechNewsWorld @Forbes contributor, featured #CNBC, #WSJ & #NYT Subscribe to my podcast: https://t.co/MgEkM5zLgQ
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1 week ago |
forbes.com | Mark Vena
Mark N. Vena, CEO and Principal Analyst, SmartTech Research. Despite the sleek design of modern gadgets and the rise of wireless solutions, both businesses and consumers still live in a frustrating tangle of cables. From USB-C confusion to legacy devices requiring obscure connectors, the cable mess hasn’t gone away—it’s just evolved. Even in 2025, most people (including myself) keep a box (or several) of old cables. Some are afraid to throw them out.
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markvena.medium.com | Mark Vena
In the modern digital landscape, security threats are persistent, increasingly sophisticated, and disruptive. The recent RSAC webinar, hosted with support from Google Cloud Security, brought together experts Kaitlin Drape and Stephanie Gass to explore how organizations can transition from a reactive security posture to a proactive one. The key insight? Disaster can often be avoided — if organizations anticipate threats, align security with business objectives, and act before risks materialize.
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2 weeks ago |
markvena.medium.com | Mark Vena
At Microsoft Build 2025, Satya Nadella and his leadership team laid out a clear, ambitious roadmap for the company’s AI strategy, centered around a fully integrated platform that fuses developer tools, agents, infrastructure, and partnerships to drive the next era of intelligent software. Across two keynote days, Microsoft introduced a slew of new offerings that turn GitHub Copilot from an assistive AI tool into a full-fledged agentic development platform. The major theme?
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2 weeks ago |
technewsworld.com | Mark Vena
Applications https://www.technewsworld.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2025/05/Meta-Llama-4.jpg https://www.technewsworld.com/story/meta-llama-2025-the-open-source-ai-tsunami-179721.html Meta Llama 2025: The Open-Source AI Tsunami Audio/Video https://www.technewsworld.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2024/12/holiday-gifts.jpg https://www.technewsworld.com/story/5-tech-gifts-to-brighten-their-holidays-179490.html 5 Tech Gifts To Brighten Their Holidays Chips...
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2 weeks ago |
markvena.medium.com | Mark Vena
By all indications, Qualcomm is making its most aggressive and promising play yet to secure leadership in the Windows PC ecosystem — an ecosystem it has long pursued but only recently disrupted with conviction.
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