Messaging and Collaboration Tools are Most Valuable Enterprise Apps

Messaging and Collaboration Tools are Most Valuable Enterprise Apps

CIO | Messaging and collaboration applications are the most mission-critical mobile apps in enterprise today, according to a new survey of executives. More than half of the professionals surveyed said mobile apps for messaging and collaboration are critical to their organizations' success, and a similar number of respondents said such apps will continue to be critical in 2019.

Beyond Silicon: Squeezing More Out of Chips

NY Times | For decades, computer designers have been able to count on cheaper and faster chips every two years. Two years ago, with manufacturing costs exploding and severe technical challenges growing, the cost of individual transistors stopped falling. But if silicon has its limits, ingenuity may not.

The Science Behind All the Best Halloween Party Tricks

Wired | Yes, this is about Halloween (and a day late), but I promise you won't find a single Ken Bone, creepy clown, or over-exaggerated politician. Instead, this article takes a look at the physics behind your favorite Halloween effects.

Toby: A Better Way to Manage & Organize Your Chrome Tabs

BetterCloud Monitor | "I love having 40 Chrome tabs open," said no one ever. Try Toby, a Chrome extension that lets you drag and drop your tabs and organize them into neat visual lists. Toby’s interface is remarkably clean, simple, and easy to use.

ICYMI: 3 Strange Things You Can Do With Google Docs That Are Actually Super Useful

BetterCloud Monitor | Some of Google Doc's best features are also some of its strangest. From allowing you to create pre-made templates to transcribing images right into text for you, there are definitely some functions you probably aren’t using in Google Docs.

SaaS Updates for November 1, 2016

Google announced a couple of Android related updates, including the ability to bulk enroll company-owned devices, and transfer data from one user to another within the Google Admin app for Android. Microsoft introduced a series of updates to Office 365, including significantly enhanced control over third-party apps and their permissions. DocuSign introduced multiple "recipes" for Salesforce, which are hosted on Github and described in their blog post below.

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