May 29, 2020
The latest news and analysis on business technology
Microsoft Teams was designed for collaboration with colleagues in your own company, but that makes it harder to meet with other people. Read more â¶
Every time Google updates its browser, it publishes release notes aimed at enterprises to highlight upcoming additions, substitutions, enhancements and modifications. Here's some of what's coming. Read more â¶
As governments consider COVID-19 contact tracing and its privacy implications, it's not a bad idea for companies to take the opportunity to look more closely at their mobile agreements with employees.
Google doesn't like to talk about it, but there's one type of Android hardware you really shouldn't be buying.
At this writing, it is impossible for anyone to predict the full extent of the COVID-19 pandemic, or its full impact on businesses â and certainly not on individual supply chains.
Google and Apple delivered their contact tracing app API to public health agencies across the globe. The apps would allow Bluetooth pings between smartphones within six and a half feet of each other. And in theory, these apps would notify you if you had been in close contact with someone diagnosed with COVID-19. In practice, public health authorities will have to encourage around 60% people in a given state or country to download the app in order to meaningfully conduct contact tracing/exposure notification. Computerworld executive editor Ken Mingis and PCWorld/Macworldâs Michael Simon join Juliet to discuss Apple and Googleâs unprecedented collaboration, privacy concerns and how state and federal governments will utilize the API.
The company's Cliq messaging app gets a raft of features designed to help employees and managers keep track of workers in a virtual office.
The biggest and greatest companies in the country are now being attacked on a regular basis. When IT teams are given budget and the green light to upgrade and secure their corporate infrastructures, the clock gets reset and the next attack vector begins. The hacker will find their way in, itâs just a matter of how and when. Thatâs the reality today, so what about tomorrow?
The company hopes to solve the age-old problem with data and AI: junk in, junk out.
