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• Apple needs to act against fake app-privacy promises

  24-09-2021 18:09
  
  Apple will need to become more aggressive in how it polices the privacy promises developers make when selling apps in the App Store. What can enterprise users do to protect themselves and their users in the meantime?What’s the problem?
  Some developers continue to abuse the spirit of Apple’s App Store Privacy rules. This extends to posting misleading information on App Privacy Labels, along with outright violation of promises not to track devices. Some developers continue to ignore d
  
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• Chris Cuomo apologises for incident with female executive but denies it was ‘sexual’ - The Independent

  24-09-2021 17:30
  
  Chris Cuomo apologises for incident with female executive but denies it was ‘sexual’  The Independent
  
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• The problem with the subscription economy

  24-09-2021 13:00
  
  If I hadn’t decided to browse through the promotions tab in Gmail one day last week, I probably would have missed it: a receipt from PayPal for an $85 payment to the Apple App Store. The charge was unfamiliar, and the receipt contained little information, so I had to call Apple to resolve the mystery.It turned out the fee was for a language-learning app my daughter had downloaded and forgotten to uninstall before its two-week free trial period expired. This situation is not uncommon; near
  
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• 10 top file-sharing services: Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, OneDrive, and more

  24-09-2021 12:00
  
  Back in the pre-cloud days, sharing files involved using file transfer protocol applications or else copying files to a disc and then mailing it or walking it over to a colleague (affectionately known as ‘sneakernet’). Emails could also be sent (and many people still use email as their main “file-sharing” option), but size limits on attachments and security concerns discouraged this practice.Today’s world of file sharing offers nearly endless options. Giants like D
  
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• Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Studio: The perfect Windows 11 laptop?

  24-09-2021 11:51
  
  Disclosure:  Microsoft is a client of the author.When the Microsoft Surface line was created, I thought then-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was making the same mistake he made with Zune — and, in a way, he was. But at least with the Surface, it was a market he understood. The Surface did better, but was plagued by the lousy strategy of copying a competitor with a clone-like product. The first Surface tried too hard to be a better iPad, and the iPad itself wasn’t the success the iP
  
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