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| | | | | Google Buys Neverware to Turn Old PCs Into Chromebooks | | PCWorld | Google has quietly acquired Neverware, a developer that can take an old Mac or PC and essentially retrofit it into a Chromebook via its CloudReady technology. Adding Neverware is a powerful addition for Google's ChromeOS team, which had previously invested in the technology. Neverware offers three editions of CloudReady, including a free Home edition that Neverware said won't go away. | | SaaS Operations and the Road Ahead for Enterprise IT | | BetterCloud Monitor | Last week, BetterCloud’s Chief Strategy Officer talked with special guest Bill Martorelli, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, about their latest market report. If you missed the live event, don't worry: We wrote up a quick recap of it on our blog. | | Firefox’s Latest Update Brings Native Support for Apple’s Arm-Based Macs | | The Verge | Firefox’s latest update brings native support for Macs that run on Apple’s Arm-based silicon, Mozilla announced on Tuesday. Mozilla claims that native Apple silicon support brings significant performance improvements: the browser apparently launches 2.5 times faster and web apps are twice as responsive than they were on the previous version of Firefox, which wasn’t native to Apple’s chips. | | Google Sees Major Services Outages Two Days in a Row | | Ars Technica | Google has been having a rough time this week with service outages. It has now had two days, maybe even three days depending on who you ask, of major downtime. Google's Gmail status dashboard says any problems were resolved yesterday (12/15) just before 10pm ET, but this morning there are still reports of disrupted service in the comments on DownDetector. |
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| | | How to Show, Hide, and Pin Teams and Channels in Microsoft Teams | | How-To Geek | Microsoft Teams is great for splitting work areas into different teams and channels, but it’s easy to have far too many things in the sidebar for easy navigation. Here’s how to clean things up a bit. | | Leaving Your Computer On All the Time: The Pros and Cons | | MakeUseOf | It's been one of the most long-running discussions in computing: Is leaving your PC or laptop on overnight bad, or should you always turn it off? There are actually some pretty solid arguments for either approach, meaning the answer depends on how you use and how much you use the computer. |
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| | | How Do You Assign Access to Shared Drives? | | SaaSOps Community | A few days ago, the SaaSOps Community chatted about the best scripts to assign access to shared drives. If you're also looking for one, good news: The community came to a consensus on one solution! Check it out by clicking the link above. |
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| | | Adding More Data Sources and New OU Controls to the Security Investigation Tool | | Google Workspace Updates | The security investigation tool is a resource in the Google Workspace security center that can help you identify, triage, and take action on security and privacy issues in your domain. Google is now enhancing the tool with new Google Chat, Google Meet, Google Groups, Google Voice, and Google Calendar logs. |
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