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• Podcast: What users can expect from Apple in 2022

  08-12-2021 21:30
  
  Apple leveled up its Mac game in 2021 by adding its M1 chips to new devices and introducing the M1 Pro and Max chips to its users. In 2022, even more Macs, like the Mac Pro, may get the Apple silicon treatment and receive the next generation of M-series chips (perhaps an M2?). Users can also likely expect a lower-cost, 5G-powered iPhone SE, a new Apple Watch, the iPhone 14 and maybe even some AR glasses. Computerworld executive editor Ken Mingis and Macworld executive editor Michael Simon join
  
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• Chief Executive Criticized For Firing 900 Workers Via Zoom - IT World Canada

  08-12-2021 16:10 via itworldcanada.com
  Chief Executive Criticized For Firing 900 Workers Via Zoom  IT World Canada
  
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• BrandPost: 5 Reasons Small to Medium Businesses Are Investing in New Networks

  08-12-2021 15:00
  
  Many small to medium businesses (SMBs) are facing growing pains: they’re under pressure to provide top-flight customer service, foster productivity for a hybrid workforce, and adopt robust digital tools to make both experiences possible company-wide. At the same time, SMBs need to keep an eye on the bottom line—boosting profits and maintaining data security with lean IT teams.A recent survey1 of business and technology leaders in U.S. small and midsize businesses (SMBs) reveals that
  
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• Designer smartphone hacks will trickle down in 2022

  08-12-2021 14:33
  
  What happens to state-sponsored smartphone hacks when they're uncovered? They get reverse-engineered and enter the cybercrime underworld, of course.There is no ‘safe’ back door
  The inconvenient truth is there is no such thing as a safe back door into smartphone security. Authoritarian governments may force smartphone platform developers to create them, but they make everyone less safe as those exploits will be identified and criminals – who are just as smart as government deve
  
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• Q&A: JLL exec sees no return to pre-COVID work routines, but a 4-day work week

  08-12-2021 12:00
  
  Commercial real estate and the workplace are intertwined, or at least they were — until the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted both last year. With companies worldwide re-evaluating how the workplace of the future should look, commercial real estate is feeling a pinch.Since COVID-19 was officially classified a global pandemic in March 2020, the US has shed 138.4 million square feet (MSF) of office space. That's 34% more empty offices than the nation saw during the Great Recession of 2007-2010, a
  
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• Give your Chrome OS interface an instant upgrade

  08-12-2021 12:00
  
  Google's Chrome OS software is in a constant state of evolution. And for the tinkering-lovin' tech nerds among us, that means there's always an opportunity to find and embrace something new — often long before it's officially released and available to the masses.Well, gang, we've got quite the tasty treat to tinker with today. It's a massive update Google's been cookin' up for its Chromebook app launcher for a while now, and it'll bring a significant change not only to how your device loo
  
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