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Thu Aug 13 2020: “Now criminals can franchise. Epic.”

Today Americans weigh in on data privacy https://www.axios.com/exclusive-poll-reveals-americans-data-privacy-frustrations-16514f76-ff5e-4df1-929e-6ba259268023.html Let’s look at Smartphones and Chromebooks https://www.cnet.com/news/us-phone-shipments-rebound-following-covid-19-closures-analyst-says/ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-13/apple-readies-apple-one-subscription-bundles-to-boost-services AND Let’s learn about Ransomware as a service https://www.ciodive.com/news/security-phishing-attacks-national-strategy/583158/…

Wed Aug 12 2020: “Beyond the work from home pivot, don’t rest on your laurels”

Today How are those cloud businesses doing? https://www.geekwire.com/2020/filing-shows-microsoft-really-making-money-reveals-m-adds-netflix-hulu-tencent-list-rivals/ https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/partners/new-research-the-opportunity-ahead-for-google-cloud-partners Banking industry spend data is out https://channellife.co.nz/story/banking-and-securities-it-spending-down-gartner-forecasts-2021-rebound https://www.ciodive.com/news/cio-leadership-coronavirus-gartner/583282/ AND Blocking and tackling https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/office-365-will-let-you-manage-phishing-simulation-emails/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-august-2020-patch-tuesday-fixes-120-vulnerabilities-two-zero-days/ https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2020/new-conversation-settings-coming-to-a-tweet-near-you.html

Tue Aug 11 2020: “Balance sheets are armored against sudden financial damage”

Today Which businesses are doing well in the pandemic? https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/08/10/recession-coronavirus-pandemic-winners/ Which technologies will show growth in the next six to 12 months? https://techaisle.com/blog/418-smb-midmarket-digital-transformation-fast-forwarding-adoption-of-several-technologies AND How…

Mon Aug 10 2020: “Big numbers are harder to grow”

Today The new Infrastructure as a Service sector, per Gartner https://www.ciodive.com/news/Gartner-Iaas-PaaS-2019-AWS-Microsoft/583082/ DNS over HTTPS appears! https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-adds-windows-10-dns-over-https-settings-section/ CompTIA weighs in on the job data https://www.comptia.org/newsroom/press-releases/2020/08/07/tech-employment-gains-pause-for-the-month-comptia-analysis-shows AND…

Fri Aug 7 2020: “Well played stock bump.”

Today Executive order against ByteDance One more company stays home https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/8/6/21357686/facebook-work-from-home-july-2021-covid-19 Solarwinds may spin out MSP https://www.channele2e.com/investors/solarwinds-msp-spin-out-explored/ https://www.channele2e.com/channel-partners/msps/solarwinds-msp-software-revenue-disclosed/ https://www.channele2e.com/investors/thompson-pagliuca-potential-solarwinds-msp-spin-off/ https://www.channele2e.com/investors/solarwinds-msp-potential-spin-off-10-things-to-know/ AND iOS and XCloud –…

Thu Aug 6 2020: “Let’s not pat ourselves on the back too much on how well this whole work from home thing is going”

Today How is remote work going? Maybe not as well as we think. https://hbr.org/2020/07/remote-managers-are-having-trust-issues https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/08/04/remote-work-longer-days/ SaaS adoption increases https://techaisle.com/blog/417-global-smb-and-midmarket-digitalization-appetite-fast-tracking-deeper-use-of-saas AND How many events will survive?…

Wed Aug 5 2020: “Staggeringly large number of misconfigurations”

Today How bad is the misconfiguration problem? https://www.ciodive.com/news/misconfigurations-cloud-deployments-report/582910/ Open source security gets a boost https://siliconangle.com/2020/08/03/linux-foundation-announces-new-initiative-secure-open-source-software/ The first standalone 5G network https://www.t-mobile.com/news/network/standalone-5g-launch AND The first COVID…

Tue Aug 4 2020: The opportunity after the rush to work from home

Today More insights into the rise in tablet use and how we can leverage it https://venturebeat.com/2020/08/03/canalys-surging-tablet-sales-offset-desktop-pc-declines-in-q2-2020/ https://www.ciodive.com/news/employee-IT-satisfaction-awareness/582764/ The UK government goes more local https://www.channelweb.co.uk/news/4017106/government-signs-ukcloud-multi-cloud-alternative-azure-google-cloud https://www.thurrott.com/hardware/238530/nvidia-is-in-talks-to-acquire-arm…

Mon Aug 3 2020: Bested by teenage hackers, or why you should care about Chromebooks

Today Microsoft may buy TikTok https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tiktok-trump-exclusive/exclusive-trump-gives-microsoft-45-days-to-clinch-tiktok-deal-idUSKBN24Y0UD https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/07/11/tiktok-seriously-dangerous-warning-delete-app-trump-ban/#695ac37c2b0e https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/3/21352309/microsoft-tiktok-acquisition-deal-why-us-countries-data An Arrest in the Twitter breach https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/31/21349920/twitter-hack-arrest-florida-teen-fbi-irs-secret-service Google is adding apps to Chrome OS https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/31/21348963/google-chrome-os-windows-apps-chromebooks-features-interview AND Tablet…