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• Apple’s BYOD improvements will save time for IT

  30-07-2021 17:36
  
  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-new declarative device management system. The big idea behind this is to move device management from being reactive to becoming declarative, which gets
  
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• Tech innovators pivot to support the post-COVID workplace

  30-07-2021 13:00
  
  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 we look at how technology will change the way we meet.The Brady Bunch modelOne thing Covid has taught us is that the technology we used to use to accommodate remote participants in
  
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• 3 near-term tech advances that could change the future

  30-07-2021 12:00
  
  (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 most business travel, including the morning commute. Tech companies in Silicon Valley have turned this into a massive hiring advantage: by hiring people who work remotely, they pay less than they otherw
  
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