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• Podcast: iPhone 14 rumors and Apple’s hardware subscription service

  31-03-2022 20:25
  
  According to Bloomberg, Apple is working on a hardware subscription service that would allow users to lease its devices like people lease cars. This program would differ from the 12- and 24-month loan programs currently available. And while its release date is months away, specs have already leaked about the upcoming iPhone 14. Computerworld executive editor Ken Mingis and Macworld executive editor Michael Simon join Juliet to discuss why a hardware subscription service could benefit enterprise
  
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• Apple Business Essentials exits beta, adds AppleCare

  31-03-2022 20:18
  
  There's big news today for 31 million small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the US who are among the growing number of companies to deploy Macs, iPhones, or iPads for work: Apple Business Essentials has exited beta and now offers plans that include AppleCare support.Apple nurtures the enterprise
  Regular viewers will recognize that Apple Business Essentials has been available in beta in the US since it was  introduced in November 2021. The service is now available
  
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• BCG shows how to use AI the right way

  31-03-2022 18:09
  
  Most artificial intelligence (AI) efforts fail. They don’t fail because of the tool, the core software, or bad data. They fail because they don’t integrate with business and wind up being more of a hindrance than a help.This isn’t just an AI problem; it’s true of most forms of automation. Projects fail because the people building the solution have no clue about the actual goal, the nature and dependencies of their current operations, or even whether those operations are
  
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• #Disney Has Announced That It Has Roped in Former #Google Executive Jeremy Doig as the New ... - Latest - LatestLY

  31-03-2022 16:16 via latestly.com
  
  #Disney Has Announced That It Has Roped in Former #Google Executive Jeremy Doig as the New ... - Latest  LatestLY
  
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• Apple can support sideloading, while protecting the rest of us

  31-03-2022 14:50
  
  Apple has improved on the arrangement it’s trying to reach with authorities in the Netherlands and adjusted its deal for reader apps. But the company may have another way to get regulators off its back while protecting its customers' user experience and privacy – enable sideloading as an option.Apple is under pressure to open up
  There’s been a tumult of regulatory activity aimed at Apple. The gist of this is that the company now faces what looks like an unstoppable tidal wave
  
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• Lawmakers join growing push to create a 'digital dollar'

  31-03-2022 14:02
  
  Lawmakers have introduced a bill that would allow the US Treasury to create a digital dollar.The electronic dollar, a virtual representation of a US dollar, would allow people to make payments using tokens on mobile phones or through cards versus cash.ECASH (electronic cash), as the bill calls it, would be a bearer instrument that wouldn’t require payment processing intermediaries, such as SWIFT, the world’s largest payment messaging network. That means payments using ECASH would be
  
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• Intel lays out its flexible working policy

  31-03-2022 13:32
  
  Intel is looking to bring employees back to its office campuses as the world continues to emerge from lockdown and work-from-home mandates.Intel will be “embracing flexibility” according to a LinkedIn post from chief people officer Christy Pambianchi, with the multinational company establishing a work policy that takes into account “the specific needs of different business units, teams, employees and geographies, and the different work each of us do throughout the year.”
  
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• How to stop worrying and love zero trust

  31-03-2022 12:00
  
  Countless articles have been published in the past few years about zero trust, most of them explorations and expositions for security professionals.But I want to write for remote workers on the other side of the so-called "trust" equation — the people who will deal with the changes and inconveniences as zero-trust strategies are implemented and refined over the next few years.Welcome to this jargon-free explanation of zero trust.To read this article in full, please click here
  
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