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Wednesday, June 03, 2015

Videoconferencing do's and don'ts (with video!)

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June 03, 2015

Videoconferencing do's and don'ts (with video!)

Whether you're an on-site presenter or a distant participant, here's how to do a remote meeting right. READ MORE

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Issue highlights

1. HP unveils new minimalist logo as it prepares to split

2. Microsoft goofs, leaks new Wi-Fi service for consumers and Office 365 Enterprise subscribers

3. Ford to roll out Blackberry OS-based entertainment systems this summer

4. Microsoft teases notebooks and tablets running Windows 10

5. Microsoft's update IE mandate pushes people to Chrome

6. AMD skips Chromebooks, bets on Windows 10 with new Carrizo chips

7. Apple's 12-in. MacBook won't reach Thunderbolt 3 data transfer speeds

8. AMD to launch next-generation Fiji GPUs on June 16

9. Senate approves bill to rein in NSA phone dragnet

10. Facebook mandates stronger digital verification of apps

11. IT Blogwatch: User privacy important to Apple -- except in China

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HP unveils new minimalist logo as it prepares to split

Hewlett-Packard, the last of the large monolithic IT enterprise firms for everything from supercomputers to Unix and tablets, was put to rest this week.The official split, the separation of its PC and printer unit from its enterprise division, will be completed by Nov. 1. Hewlett-Packard The company unveiled a new logo for HP Enterprise, a green rectangle that evoked the... READ MORE

Microsoft goofs, leaks new Wi-Fi service for consumers and Office 365 Enterprise subscribers

Microsoft is preparing to rebrand and expand its almost-unknown Skype WiFi service to make it both a consumer service and a perk for enterprises already subscribing to Office 365, according to a briefly available website. The draft site -- microsoftwifi.com -- was up for hours Tuesday, but was eventually pulled and a "coming soon" placeholder substituted. READ MORE

Ford to roll out Blackberry OS-based entertainment systems this summer

After announcing in December that it was dropping Microsoft's platform for Blackberry's QNX OS on its infotainment systems, Ford said the first of the new systems will launch in 2016 models. READ MORE

Microsoft teases notebooks and tablets running Windows 10

Part of the first wave of Windows 10 devices, some of these feature biometric authentication. READ MORE

Microsoft's update IE mandate pushes people to Chrome

Rather than follow Microsoft's mandate to update older editions of Internet Explorer (IE) by January, a significant chunk of IE's users switched to Google's Chrome browser instead, data released Monday showed. READ MORE

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AMD skips Chromebooks, bets on Windows 10 with new Carrizo chips

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Apple's 12-in. MacBook won't reach Thunderbolt 3 data transfer speeds

The super-slim 12-in. Apple MacBook brought a radical design change to laptops with its USB Type-C port, but it won't support faster Thunderbolt 3 data transfers. READ MORE

AMD to launch next-generation Fiji GPUs on June 16

Gamers, buckle up: AMD will launch its highly anticipated graphics processing unit, code-named Fiji, on June 16 at the E3 conference. READ MORE

Senate approves bill to rein in NSA phone dragnet

The U.S. Senate has passed legislation intended to rein in the National Security Agency's bulk collection of domestic telephone records, sending the bill to President Barack Obama for his signature. READ MORE

Facebook mandates stronger digital verification of apps

Facebook will require application developers to move later this year to a more secure type of digital signature for their apps, which is used to verify a program's legitimacy. READ MORE

IT Blogwatch: User privacy important to Apple -- except in China

Apple CEO Tim Cook recognizes an opportunity when he sees one -- especially when opportunity "no knocks" on the door like a FISA warrant... READ MORE

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