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| | | This Is Samsung’s Foldable Smartphone | | The Verge | Samsung has been teasing its foldable smartphone for weeks, and now the company has unveiled it for the first time. Samsung calls its foldable phone technology the Infinity Flex Display, and the phone itself has a tablet-sized screen that can be folded up to fit into a pocket. | | The 2019 State of IT Careers Report | | Spiceworks | Spiceworks has just published its 2019 State of IT Careers report. Key findings? Nearly one in three organizations plans to increase their IT staff in 2019. Behind cybersecurity skills, AI tech expertise is the number two skill large enterprises are seeking. In 2019, one in four IT pros plans to seek new employment; millennials are most likely to job hop. | | Top 20 Application Vulnerabilities in the Enterprise Are Dominated by Adobe and Microsoft | | TechRepublic | Among the 20 application vulnerabilities, half were for Adobe Flash and 20% were by Microsoft Office. | | Why Password Management and Security Strategies Fall Short | | Dark Reading | Researchers say companies need to rethink their password training and take a more holistic approach to security. |
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| | | 9 Slack Tips and Tricks You Should Be Using | | Thirsty Agency | Here are some Slack tips and tricks to make your work life a little bit better. | | Useful VPN Features | | Hacker Noon | "I don’t want to write an article on how to set up a VPN, as there are thousands of them on the internet, each for different tastes and specific needs. Today, I just want to talk about just a few simple things that bring a lot of misunderstandings and tons of questions (even from geeks)," writes David Balaban. |
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| | | Why SaaS Cannot Be Ignored by Today’s Businesses | | InformationWeek | The competitive edge gained by organizations transitioning to SaaS — from compliance, security, scalability, redundancy, and cost efficiencies — cannot be ignored. Companies that are not leveraging SaaS will struggle to compete with the ones that do (73% of 1,800 recently surveyed IT professionals say nearly all of their apps will be running via SaaS by 2020). |
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| | | You Already Email Like a Robot — Why Not Automate It? | | The New York Times Magazine | I love the intro to this article. "In 1996, Microsoft unleashed Clippit, better known as Clippy, on users of Microsoft Office. The legendarily irritating mascot-helper spent the following years hovering around the edges of documents, blinking dumbly under his lascivious eyebrows and blurting out, 'It looks like you’re writing a letter,'" writes John Herrman. "What does the tech industry want to assist us with now? Email. If you use Gmail, you’ve probably interacted with either Smart Reply or Smart Compose, whether or not you know them by name." |
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