Apple announced numerous enterprise-focused enhancements in its operating systems at WWDC, all of which business users will get to use this fall. But some we’ve not looked at too closely yet include tools to balance privacy with managed IDs. Managed Apple ID improves dramatically Appe’s most important improvement is its all-newContinue Reading
Plenty of firms have been busy over the past year building new products or enhancing existing ones to support a distributed workforce, virtual collaboration, and socially distanced office space. Over the next two newsletters, I’ll be looking at a few of their inventions that particularly impressed me. This week weContinue Reading
(Disclosure: most of the companies mentioned are clients of the author.) The pandemic has had a fascinating impact on the speed of change in IT. We connect remotely now more than ever before. We have a real chance for videoconferencing to finally do what it always promised — eliminate mostContinue Reading
“You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it,” Scott McNealy said of online privacy back in 1999, a view the former CEO of the now-defunct Sun Microsystems reiterated in 2015. Despite the hue and cry his initial remarks caused, he’s been proven largely correct. Cookies, beacons, digital signatures, trackers, andContinue Reading
The semiconductor shortage has wreaked havoc on manufacturers, and Apple will soon feel pinch. In the company’s Q3 earnings call, chief executive Tim Cook said that supply constraints around “legacy nodes” will affect iPhone sales. These “legacy nodes” include chips for the display, ports and audio, not the A- andContinue Reading
Sundar Pichai, Google and Alphabet CEO, has had enough. Yesterday, he told his workforce and the world that “anyone coming to work on our campuses will need to be vaccinated.” Period. Sure, most Google employees are bright enough to have already gotten a COVID-19 shot. Google doesn’t hire dummies. AsContinue Reading
Apple shared the dark side of digital transformation during then pandemic when it confirmed this week that component shortages will affect its business. The distress signal came during the company’s Q3 results call. A multi-billion dollar nose bleed Apple CFO Luca Maestri said supply constraints would affect company revenue to theContinue Reading
Google has released Chrome 92, an upgrade that boosts the browser’s performance during anti-phishing calculations, expands the reach of its site isolation technologies and adds some new “Chrome Actions” to its repertoire. The California-based search giant also paid out more than $133,000 in bounties to those who reported some ofContinue Reading
Apple has gotten very serious about building its enterprise business, with an updated enterprise website explaining the many reasons to move to Mac, supported by a Forrester report that shows using M1 Macs will save enterprises $843 over three years when compared to a PC. Apple’s growing TCO advantage TheContinue Reading