| | | Google Fined a Record $5 Billion by the EU for Android Antitrust Violations | | The Verge | Google has been hit with a record-breaking €4.3 billion ($5 billion) fine by EU regulators for breaking antitrust laws. The European Commission says Google has abused its Android market dominance in three key areas. Google has been bundling its search engine and Chrome apps into the operating system. Google has also allegedly blocked phone makers from creating devices that run forked versions of Android, and “made payments to certain large manufacturers and mobile network operators” to exclusively bundle the Google Search app on handsets. | | Here’s What Makes Altitude Different from Other IT Conferences, According to PopSugar’s Senior Director of IT | | BetterCloud Monitor | Our annual customer conference, Altitude, is happening October 2-4 in Denver, Colorado. If you haven't registered already, you should. We promise you it's unlike any other IT conference you've been to. "It says a lot about Altitude that the second I got the email about this year’s conference, I pretty much said, 'Yeah, of course I’m going to go again,' said Bjorn Pave, senior director of IT at PopSugar. He shared what makes Altitude a really “rad” IT conference — what he enjoyed the most, his major takeaways, and why attendees are guaranteed to get something out of it. | | Slack Acquires Missions to Help Users Automate Work Tasks Inside Chat | | TechCrunch | As Slack continues to grow its paid business users, the company is looking for ways to help customers build integrations that make sense for the work they do. Slack announced that it has acquired Robots and Pencils’ Missions, an app that allows Slack users to build tools to automate simple routines without code. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. With Missions, Slack hopes that users can help teams boost productivity by making things more simple for a variety of repeatable processes. | | Cuba Rolls Out Mobile Internet at Last | | TNW | Cuba has finally begun making mobile internet available to its citizens, reports Reuters. That’s huge for the Communist Caribbean island nation, which is home to some 11.5 million people. The plan is for the national telecom firm, ETECSA, to roll out access to its service nationwide by the end of 2018. Cuba has historically restricted access to internet services across the country. As Reuters notes, until 2013, you could only get online by visiting certain hotels that had connectivity for its international guests. |
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| | | How to Sort Gmail | | Umuse | From promotional emails to calendar reminders to business reports, if we leave our inboxes unattended for too long, we run the risk of having important messages buried under the clutter. This is where knowing how to sort your Gmail comes in handy. | | Made by Mozilla: 5 Cool Apps and Tools From the Developers of Firefox | | MakeUseOf | "You probably know that Mozilla also makes apps like Thunderbird, and recently bought the read-it-later bookmarking app Pocket. Those are pretty well known though. It’s the smaller Mozilla initiatives that don’t get much limelight, and we’re here to fix that. As you probably guessed, these apps and tools perform best with Mozilla Firefox, but they also work with Chrome, Safari, Edge, or any other modern browser," writes Mihir Patkar. |
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| | | How the Power of Communication Serves IT | | CIO | Communication is a key ingredient in IT efficiency, effectiveness, and value to organizations it serves. The former CIO of HBO, Michael Gabriel, explains how use this to your professional and organizational advantage. |
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| | | Is Your Venmo Set to Public? Here’s What Strangers Learn When Your Payments Are Broadcast Online | | Mic | If you’ve never touched your Venmo’s privacy settings, you might have been putting on quite the show with your finances. A recent study, Public by Default, catalogued hundreds of millions of public Venmo transactions the service makes available for anyone to see. “The problem, which I think is a larger issue with many apps, is that Venmo is set to the least private option by default," said the privacy researcher who completed the study. She gleaned lots of details — including drug deals, eating habits, and arguments between lovers — and was able to learn "an alarming amount" about users. |
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