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| | | Google’s New Gmail Aims to Hit Microsoft Where It Hurts | | The Verge | Google unveiled a new Gmail design this week, overhauling its free email service with some smart business-focused features and a fresh look. These are the types of features you’d usually find in rival software like Microsoft’s Outlook app that a lot of big businesses use for workplace emails. Microsoft is aiming to get two-thirds of its Office business customers over to the cloud (from standalone Exchange and Outlook) over the next 15 months so Google has a major battle ahead for big business. It’s not going to be quick or easy, but Google does have some important advantages over Microsoft. | | 72% of Enterprise Employees Choose Macs Over PCs, 75% Pick iOS Devices Over Android | | MacRumors | Among enterprise organizations that allow employees to choose their equipment of choice, Apple is becoming an increasingly popular choice, according to new survey information. More than half of enterprise organizations (52%) now offer their employees the ability to choose what type of computer they use at work. 68% said choice improves productivity. | | Terms of Service; Didn't Read | | ToS ;DR | With GDPR on the horizon, you're probably receiving lots of privacy policy and terms of service updates in your inbox lately. But who's actually reading them? “I have read and agree to the Terms” is the biggest lie on the web. ToS ;DR aims to fix that by providing short, easy-to-understand versions of many Terms of Service documents. It's important to understand what's in them — your rights online depend on them. |
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| | | Gmail Users, Here’s How (and Why) You Should Set Up Prompt-Based 2FA | | Naked Security | The beauty of the Gmail app is that it makes two-step authentication easier to use. Instead of waiting for an email or SMS to appear on your phone, or setting up an authentication code on a 3rd-party code generator, it’s just one touch to authenticate. In this case, you simply open the Gmail app, which will ask if it’s you trying to sign in on a new device. You just hit a button to confirm, yes, it’s actually me trying to sign in to my account on that computer. | | How to Turn Your Old Phone into a Home Security Camera You Can Watch from Anywhere | | CNET | If you have one or more old phones hanging around, here's a way to turn them into security cameras you can log into from anywhere. |
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| | | Event Details Now Supported by Calendar Interop | | G Suite Updates | Last summer, Google announced improvements to Google Calendar Interop for Microsoft Exchange. They simplified the setup process, introduced detailed logs in Admin console, and made free/busy lookups available on mobile as well as web. To continue enhancing the coexistence of these two systems, they're rolling out the support for event details in availability lookups. Now, G Suite admins can opt in to sharing event details when users use Calendar's Find a Time or Outlook's Scheduling Assistant. | | Display Your Organization’s Brand in the Google Bar | | G Suite Updates | Google is updating the Google bar to feature your brand. Along with some small changes to the bar’s look and feel, they’ll soon show your domain’s logo next to a user’s picture (or initials or avatar) at the top of many G Suite services, like Calendar and Drive. | | Save Time and Effort by Creating Your Own Dropbox Paper Templates | | Dropbox Blog | Dropbox is making your work easier by introducing one of the most requested Dropbox Paper features: the ability to turn any doc into a shareable template. Creating a template is simple: Open any doc, and you can “templatize” it with just a couple clicks. |
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