| | The Verge | After a busy fall announcement season, Apple has unveiled what’s expected to be the last of its hardware refreshes this year with the introduction of a new iPad Pro, MacBook Air, and Mac mini. All new devices are available for preorder with a ship date of November 7th. Here’s a look at them all. | | BetterCloud Monitor | Halloween might be over, but security threats like insider threats are still keeping IT professionals up at night. Here are four terrifying tales from implementation sessions with new customers where we uncovered both malicious and negligent employees jeopardizing confidential business information. | | The Verge | Could the new MacBook Air be better than the 13-inch MacBook Pro? | | The Register | "Radisson Hotel Group has told members of its loyalty scheme that their personal details were exposed in a data breach. The hotel chain and conference center fave said it 'identified' the security foul-up on 1 October, weeks after it happened on 11 September, but only emailed holders of the Radisson Rewards cards that are affected on 30 October," writes Paul Kunert. |
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| | PCMag | Forget attaching docs to email. With Google Drive, you can share Docs, Sheets, and Slides with just a few clicks, and specify whether recipients can edit or just view them. | | Quartz at Work | The search giant announced a new time-saving trick that lets you open a blank document, presentation, spreadsheet, or form simply by typing .new as the domain name in the URL bar. For example, instead of having to navigate to Google Drive, click “New,” and select “Google Docs,” you can now type doc.new (no www.) in the browser and a new doc will appear. |
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| | The Enterprisers Project | Time for a bump in pay? Use these strategies to prove that it’s time for a raise. |
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| | Wired | Opinion: The fact that voter information is left on devices, unencrypted, that are then sold on the open market is malpractice. |
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| | BetterCloud Monitor | Lots of exciting updates this week! You can now view emails from multiple accounts at once in the Gmail iOS app. Google is rolling out a new interface for the Activity dashboard in Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. Also, the GData Admin Settings API shut down on October 31, so Google published a list of all the features that were shut down or replaced. Google also released a timeline for the new Google Contacts (aka Contacts preview) as well as the ability to delegate contact management to someone else. Plus, there are a few updates for Microsoft 365, Slack, Zendesk, Dropbox, and Asana. |
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