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.
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.
Hashtag Trending – South Korea fines Facebook; France come down hard on big tech; Slack acqusition?
South Korea is fining Facebook for $6M US, France applies a digital tax to the tech giants, and lots of chatter about a potential Slack acquisition.
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.”
Hashtag Trending – Elon Musk surpasses Bill Gates in wealth; Snapchat VS TikTok; Comcast’s data caps
Elon Musk overtakes Bill Gates to become the world’s second-richest person behind Jeff Bezos, Snapchat takes aim at TikTok, Comcast will impose a data cap.
A look at an Intel Evo laptop: Acer Swift 5
“Marketing” and “technicality” go hand in hand when companies try to grab your money. While what’s written…
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 – China launches 6G satellite; Loblaws’ self-driving delivery fleet; WFH tips
Forget 5G, China launches a 6G satellite, Loblaw’s will launch Canada’s first self-driving delivery fleet, and tips for setting boundaries for yourself while working from home.
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.
Hashtag Trending – Bill Gates on the future of business travel; Airbnb bounce back; Cleaning robots
In-person meetings are not the go-to anymore says Bill Gates, Airbnb is bouncing back, and robot cleaners for the workplace.
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…