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| | | Did You Forget To Reply to an Email? The New Gmail Will Remind You | | Android Authority | Google announced that the new Gmail will now “nudge” users if they forget to reply to an email. The AI-powered notification tool is on by default for users with the new Gmail enabled. Google says that this new reminder feature will help prevent emails from slipping through the cracks. But nudging goes even further than that. Google will also search through your Sent folder and find messages that someone else didn’t reply to, and remind you that you should follow up with them. | | Microsoft's Surface Hub 2 Is an Insanely Cool 50-Inch Rotating Touchscreen | | CNET | You'll want it, but will it be yet another piece of conference-room tech no one can figure out? "I could try to describe Microsoft's upcoming Surface Hub 2 — a scalable, 4K, 50.5-inch touchscreen display, videowall collaboration conferencing system that you can roll around, but I bet you already yawned halfway through that sentence. Just watch the video. I'll wait," writes Lori Grunin. | | 5 Reasons You Can’t Miss Altitude 2018 | | BetterCloud Monitor | It's that time of year again! Our annual customer summit, Altitude, will be held October 2-4 in Denver, Colorado this year. Altitude isn't like most IT conferences. Here's what makes it unique — and why you can't miss it this year. | | SaaS Identity + Security Operations Management with BetterCloud and Okta | | Okta Security Blog | After nine months of hard work, we’re excited to launch our new baby into the world: BetterCloud’s technology integration and partnership with Okta. With over 200 mutual customers using both platforms, we had the opportunity to collaborate with ten of these joint customers at Oktane17—where our product teams gathered extensive feedback and requirements in a roundtable discussion. Based on this input, we’ve built our Okta integration from the ground up. Together, Okta and BetterCloud provide unique and complementary "systems of controls" around managing identity and security operations for SaaS applications. |
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| | | Google Tasks vs Google Keep: Should You Switch to the Standalone Tasks App? | | Guiding Tech | Google has a bizarre history of launching two apps that do almost the same thing – Gmail/Inbox, Allo/Hangouts and more. When Google recently launched the standalone tasks app for Android and iOS, regular Google Keep users were surprised. They now had two similar apps for the same thing: Creating to-dos. Is Google Tasks really that similar to Google Keep? Should you switch to Google Tasks from Google Keep? Let's see. | | How to Prevent Your Emails Being Forwarded in Outlook and Gmail | | MakeUseOf | As Gmail and Outlook are rolling out new features to their users, they are both offering a way to prevent your emails from being forwarded. If this is a feature you’ve been waiting for, here's how to use it with either email provider. |
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| | | The Only 5 Questions CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, CMOs, COOs, CFOs, And CEOs Need To Ask About Technology | | Forbes | Executives spend trillions of dollars every year on digital technology. Where does all this money go? Here are the only 5 questions managers and executives need to ask (and the answers they should receive) to make sure they’re spending all that money the right way. Said a little differently, there's an excellent chance you’re spending too much money on the wrong technology with the wrong vendors stuck in the past – and you need to know why. |
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| | | SaaS Updates Summary: May 14 – May 18 | | BetterCloud Monitor | Last week's biggest news: Microsoft unveiled the new Surface Hub 2, which has a 50.5-inch 4K display with a rotating mount. In other news, Gmail will now “nudge” you to respond to emails you may have missed, and Google is making Admin Quarantine easier, quicker, and safer for admins. Google also introduced data export, a new feature that lets you export and download a copy of your data securely from G Suite services. Zendesk introduced Connect (a new product to automate and scale proactive support) and a bundled product called Zendesk Suite. Okta released the Okta Product Roadmap, now Generally Available to all. |
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