Microsoft has announced that Teams has topped 44 million users as more individuals work from home and rely on virtual interactions during the coronavirus pandemic. Microsoft has been locked in a rivalry with Slack for the business chat market. In…
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Coronavirus: Amazon Taking Drastic Action to Meet Demand
Amazon is prioritizing shipments of essential items to its warehouses, as it struggles to keep up with demand in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. As governments, schools and companies take drastic measures to stop the spread of the virus,…
Coronavirus: Facebook Bug Has Been Blocking Legitimate News
Facebook has admitted to a bug that has been blocking legitimate news about the coronavirus pandemic. The issue appears to have been related to Facebook’s anti-spam algorithm. Users have been seeing the dreaded “Your post goes against our Community Standards…
Coronavirus: All Apple Stores Outside China Closed
Over the weekend, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced that all stores outside of Greater China would be closed till March 27. With declining numbers of cases in China, the company has reopened stores there. As the pandemic sweeps the rest…
Coronavirus: Google Scrambling to Catch Up to Trump’s Announcement
President Trump surprised Google Friday, saying the company was working on a coronavirus web portal. Now the company is scrambling to catch up. During Friday’s briefing, wherein he declared a national emergency, Trump said that Google was working on a…
France Will Not Ban Huawei From Networks
Despite U.S. pressure, France has decided to allow Huawei equipment in its 5G networks. According to sources who spoke exclusively to Reuters, French cybersecurity agency ANSSI will tell wireless providers to what degree they can use Huawei’s equipment. “They don’t…
Facebook Horizon Enters Closed Beta Testing
Facebook is accepting applications for a closed beta test of its Horizon virtual reality (VR) environment. Horizon is the company’s attempt to merge social media with VR. Horizon offers “an ever-expanding VR world where you can explore, play, and create…
Schneider Electric Unveils Rack Mounted Cooling Solution
Schneider Electric has announced the release of the Uniflair Rack Mounted Cooling Solution, specifically aimed at edge computing and micro data centers. The solution is aimed at freeing up floor space by using the bottom of an IT rack. This…
Fight For Bronze: IBM Disputes Google Cloud Is Third Cloud Vendor
While Amazon and Microsoft are the undisputed first and second U.S. cloud vendors, IBM is disputing that Google is the company sitting in third place. When Google reported its Q4 earnings, it also revealed Google Cloud’s earnings for the first…
Brazil Sides With Apple In iPhone Throttling Case
Brazilian courts have sided with Apple against accusations the company improperly throttled the performance of iPhones with weak batteries. Apple has faced worldwide criticism for an iOS update that slowed down iPhone performance if the phone’s battery was below a…