Hashtag Trending – Amazon Sidewalk; Banks extend WFH policies; Black Friday data
Amazon faces a privacy backlash for its Sidewalk feature, some of Canada’s big banks extend WFH policies, and we’ve got some Black Friday data from Shopify.
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Coffee Briefing, November 27, 2020 – Leadership changes, Dell’s Q3, and MSPs ask for help managing bad clients
Coffee Briefings deliver our entire audience – the IT administrators and channel partners as well as the…
Hashtag Trending – Amazon server outage; Shopify gets a shoutout in the NYT; Raspberry Pi hacks a Tesla
An Amazon outage knocks out connected vacuum cleaners and other “smart” objects, Shopify gets a shoutout in the New York Times as its compared to Amazon, and a Tesla gets hacked with a Raspberry Pi.
Pure Storage expands Pure as-a-Service offerings, unveils new service catalogue
Pure Storage dropped a major expansion of its Pure as-a-Service consumption-based offerings this week, including a new service catalogue providing public cloud levels of price transparency for partners.
New channel partnership will help partners build a ‘million-dollar experience’ without spending a million
Software solutions provider Benchmark Corp. and systems integrator Metsi Technologies are embarking on an ambitious journey to help enterprise clients “take cloud more seriously.”
Coffee Briefing, November 24, 2020 – Goodbye old Google Pay, brand refreshes, Telus earns global recognition for privacy, and more
A brand refresh for the OCE, the old Google Pay app is going byebye, plus the latest news from Telus
Hashtag Trending – Windows turns 35; Go SMS Pro removed from Google Play; Goodbye office perks
The internet takes a trip down memory lane as Windows turns 35, Go SMS Pro gets taken down from Google Play due to some serious security issues, and LinkedIn gets chatty about the death of office perks.
Coffee Briefing, November 20, 2020 – A licence-exempt spectrum proposal, news from HPE, Commvault, and MSPs on Reddit talk mental health
Coffee Briefings deliver our entire audience – the IT administrators and channel partners as well as the…
Hashtag Trending – Apple slashes developer fees and settles for $113M over phone throttling; Solomon Islands to ban Facebook
Apple is slashing developer fees on one end and putting fires out in the other, and the Solomon Islands is looking at banning Facebook.
It’s a ‘different kind of scramble’ now, Ingram Micro execs say
Evidence of a second COVID-19 wave and the ongoing challenges facing Canada’s economy is visible in the…
If ransomware doesn’t kill you, the downtime will, says Datto report
Managed services providers are reporting that the downtime cost per incident has increased by nearly 95 per cent from 2019, and a dizzying 486 per cent from 2018, according to a new report.
Hashtag Trending – HP removes free tier from payment plan; Massive data breach in Texas; Chaos at Ubisoft Montreal
People are not happy about HP’s latest decision to remove its print-free-for-life plan, nearly 28 million licensed Texas drivers have been hit by data breach, and a claim of hostage-taking at Ubisoft Montreal turns out to be a hoax.
Hashtag Trending – YouTube goes down for the count; New device puts music in your head; Arm-based MacBook Air speed controversy
YouTube experiences widespread technical problems playing videos, a new device can apparently inject the music into your…
Coffee Briefing, November 13, 2020 – MFA warning from Microsoft, news from OVHcloud and Google, and a new privacy bill
MFA warning from Microsoft, news from OVHcloud and Google, and ISED is set to enact the Consumer Privacy Protection Act.
Coffee Briefing, November 10, 2020 – Dell EMC Ready Solutions get a facelift, MSPs talk Azure, and more
Dell EMC Ready Solutions get a facelift, MSPs talk Azure, and more in today’s Coffee Briefing.