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| | | Another Google+ Data Bug Exposes Info for 52.5 Million Users | | Engadget | Google's semi-defunct social media platform Google+ has suffered its second data breach in three months and, as a result, will be completely shuttered in April, four months earlier than previously planned. | | Microsoft Teams Usage Passes Slack in New Survey; IT Pros Expect Its Presence to Double by 2020 | | GeekWire | Microsoft Teams is now being used by more organizations than its rival Slack, according to a new Spiceworks survey that shows how far the Redmond tech giant’s collaboration app has come in less than two years. Looking ahead, Spiceworks projects that Teams will double its market share, growing faster than every other chat app, including Skype for Business. | | How to Watch Google’s Sundar Pichai Testify Before Congress Today | | Fast Company | Google CEO Sundar Pichai is going to testify before Congress today — the first time he’s ever done such a thing. Pichai has avoided this kind of scrutiny for over a year now, but Congress has finally called him in. He will be testifying at a House Judiciary Committee hearing entitled “Transparency and Accountability: Examining Google and Its Data Collection, Use, and Filtering Practices.” The hearing starts at 10 a.m. EST. Here's how to watch. | | Microsoft Edge Will Support Chrome Extensions After the Move to Chromium | | How-To Geek | "Last week Microsoft announced plans to move Edge away from the EdgeHTML engine and over to Chromium. Edge will support Chrome extensions after the transition. That’s pretty huge because the Chrome Store is loaded with excellent extensions that will take Edge to the next level," writes Cameron Summerson. |
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| | | Alas, Poor Lotus/IBM Notes, We Knew Ye Well | | ZDNet | "Lotus (and then IBM) Notes was way ahead of its time — it was enterprise software before enterprise software was cool. As ownership transfers to HCL, we reflect back on all Notes meant to a generation of IT professionals," writes David Gewirtz. "Notes was Salesforce before Salesforce. It was Dropbox before Dropbox. It was SharePoint before SharePoint. It was Atlassian before Atlassian. It was Zendesk before Zendesk." |
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