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| | What to Expect From Apple’s iPhone 12 Event | The Verge | Apple’s next fall event kicks off at 1PM ET, when the company is widely expected to reveal its new iPhone 12 lineup of smartphones. Rumors have given us a pretty good picture of what we can expect to see with these new phones, and Apple’s official “Hi, Speed” tagline for the event suggests that one of the iPhone 12’s main features could be support for fast 5G cellular speeds. | A Brief History of SaaSOps (And Why it Matters) | Onix | Let’s take a look at the brief, but insanely interesting history of SaaSOps. We’ll explore just how rapidly SaaS became a driver of innovation, the external threats against it, and how the benefits of SaaS helped IT discover a need for a more centralized way to manage all of the products its employees use in this latest installment of SaaSOps 101. | Microsoft Disrupted Trickbot, a ‘Prolific’ Ransomware Distributor and Election Security Threat | Geekwire | In a blog post, Microsoft calls Trickbot “one of the world’s most infamous botnets and prolific distributors of ransomware” that has infected more than one million computing devices since 2016. The “malware-as-a-service” is used to serve nation-states and criminal networks, Microsoft said. | Lenovo Announces the ThinkPad C13 Yoga Chromebook Enterprise With AMD Ryzen Processors | Neowin | Today, Lenovo announced the ThinkPad C13 Yoga Chromebook Enterprise. Yes, it's a ThinkPad running Chrome OS for businesses, and it includes AMD's recently announced Ryzen 7 3700C processors, which are made for Chromebooks. The C13 Yoga comes in an aluminum chassis, and the color is called Abyss Blue, so this is actually pretty unique. |
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| How to Properly Disable Microsoft OneDrive in Windows | MakeUseOf | Microsoft's cloud stores your photos, videos, and documents, usually without any problems. It offers various upgrades to storage limits (sometimes free) and can be accessed from any device. But if you're abandoning OneDrive, take the time to move the data you'll need to your new preferred cloud drive. | Why iPhone Apps Ask for “Devices on Your Local Network” | How-To Geek | iPhone and iPad apps must ask for permission “to find and connect to devices on your local network.” This request was iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 updates, Here’s what this message means and how you should answer it. |
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| New Look and Feel for the Google Meet Android Mobile App | Google Workspace Updates | Google is updating the user interface (UI) of the Google Meet Android mobile apps. The new mobile UI will have the same look and feel as that of the meeting experience in the Gmail app and was previously rolled out to the Meet app on iOS. |
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