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Someone is selling your personal details—can you stop them?

19-11-2021 13:00

Your reputation and privacy matter, particularly if you have a high-profile business role. But the details of your life are very likely more exposed than you know. To prove that, just search your name (and company or location if you have a common name) on any search engine, and, amid the usual Facebook and LinkedIn links, you’ll find an assortment of results from sites with names like Spokeo, Yellowbook, BeenVerified, LocatePeople, and MyLife.Clicking through might get you a partial addre

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The Android 12 Quick Settings trick you've been missing

19-11-2021 12:00

We've seen lots of significant changes to Android over the past decade. For the first time in a long time, though, Android 12 actually feels like a whole new smartphone experience.That's because Android 12 is the first Android version in years to introduce sweeping changes to the software's front-facing appearance. The new Material You design standard represents a gigantic evolution for the way Android looks and what a device running the operating system is like to use.By and large, that evolut

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Edge and Windows 11 — the return of Microsoft's IE fiasco?

19-11-2021 12:00

Today, Microsoft dukes it out with the FAANG stocks for top place in the tech stock market. But 20 years ago, Microsoft let out a big sigh of relief when it dodged a bullet.US District Court judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, who oversaw the Department of Justice vs. Microsoft, had ruled in 2000 that Microsoft was a monopoly that should be broken up into two companies. This part of his decision was overturned in 2001, or we'd be living in a very different technology world.To read this article in fu

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Remote work and the collapse of the social network (no, not that one)

19-11-2021 11:47

We’ve been practically living (and working) on video for the past 20 months or so and I’ve written about some of the problems that have cropped up involving employee engagement, management, and the need for side conversation tools. When thinking about the “Great Resignation” and the massive number of employees looking to leave their companies, I see another issue emerging. To read this article in full, please click here

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