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• Louisville's Fund for the Arts new executive director calls it a calling - WLKY Louisville

  25-06-2021 23:55
  Louisville's Fund for the Arts new executive director calls it a calling  WLKY Louisville
  
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• Cisco Future Cloud: one event, a world of opportunities

  25-06-2021 15:56
  
  Since early 2020, businesses have driven a program of digital transformation, at a scale and speed never previously experienced. For many organisations, cloud – and hybrid cloud in particular – has been key as they adapt to a rapidly evolving business environment. With cloud, they’ve been able to break down silos, help distributed teams cooperate, and benefitted from the flexibility and versatility that only multi-platform architecture and applications can deliver.Simultaneous
  
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• 12 hidden Pixel phone superpowers

  25-06-2021 15:23
  
  One of the best parts of using a Pixel is the way tasty little specks of Google intelligence get sprinkled all throughout the experience. Those small but significant morsels show off the value of having Google's greatest ingredients integrated right into your phone's operating system, without any competing forces or awkwardly conflicting priorities at play.And Goog almighty, does that make a world of difference. The features in question may not always be the most eye-catching or marketing-frien
  
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• Microsoft hits Apple with Windows 11

  25-06-2021 15:01
  
  Do you recall the olden days when Microsoft staggered under the weight of regulatory oversight and Apple put in motion its miraculous come-back story? History may be about to repeat itself the other way round.Microsoft smashes Apple with Windows 11
  Computerworld readers will know Microsoft at last announced Windows 11 on Thursday. While doing so, \ CEO Satya Nadella took a moment to smash a few windows in Apple’s direction: “Today the world needs a more open platform, one that
  
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• What enterprise needs to know about Windows 11

  25-06-2021 13:28
  
  So much for that promise.You know, the one Microsoft made six years ago when it told customers that Windows 10 was "the last version of Windows" they'd see.Instead, Windows 10 will end — also as promised by Microsoft, hence our confusion over the contradictory claims — in late 2025, its 10-year lifecycle the same as its OS antecedents, replaced by the next-in-line numeral and numeric label. Hail Windows 11.[ Related: Microsoft cheat sheets: Dive into Windows and Office apps ]
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• Don’t make yourself a social media target

  25-06-2021 13:00
  
  Ralph Northam and Alexi McCammond are two people at the center of similar stories that turned out very differently.Northam, the Virginia governor, was nearly forced from office two years ago after a photo from a 1984 medical school yearbook appeared on social media that showed him allegedly dressed in black face and standing next to a person in a Ku Klux Klan costume. Northam, who has questioned whether it was him in the photo, was widely vilified and called upon to resign. He persevered, thoug
  
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• Does Webex Legislate point to video-based collaboration's future?

  25-06-2021 11:38
  
  Disclosure: Most of the companies mentioned are clients of the author.The videoconferencing industry tends to go through 10-year cycles; companies jump in, spend a ton of money, and then exit the market disappointed. This, however, is the first time that cycle happened during a pandemic, forcing a level of development that pushed players like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Cisco Webex to quickly evolve.All three offerings look vastly different than before the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in 2020. 
  
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