Apple Business Essentials with AppleCare+ Options are being rolled out now for all small businesses in the U.S.
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Gaming Platform 'Backbone' Raises $40M Series A Funding
Backbone has announced a US$40 million capital raise in Series A funding on Wednesday, led by Index Ventures.
Civicom Data Leak Affects Over 100,000 Files
Video conference company Civicom has had a data leak, found by the Website Planet Security team. Over 100,000 files were included.
NFT Company 'Unblocked' Valuation Rises After $10 Million Seed Round
Unblocked rises to a US$90 million valuation following a US$10 million seed round led by Tiger Global and Penske Media Corp.
Peloton Pauses Production of Bikes, Treadmills Over Decreasing Demand
Peloton is pausing production of its bikes and treadmills in February-March, according to internal documents obtained by CNBC.
Peloton has essentially guessed wrong about how many people would be buying its products, after so much demand was pulled forward during the coronavirus pandemic. It’s now left with thousands of cycles and treadmills sitting in warehouses or on cargo ships, and it needs to reset its inventory levels.
US Antitrust Enforcement Opens for Public Comment by Agencies
The U.S. Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) want to improve the currently antitrust enforcement in the country.
Microsoft Teams Now Supports Walkie Talkie Feature for iPhone, iPad
Microsoft released a report about how technology can help frontline workers. One update includes Microsoft Teams support for Walkie Talkie.
Unstoppable Domains and Alchemy Launch API for Enterprise NFT Domains
On Thursday, Unstoppable Domains announced a partnership with Alchemy. The companies have launched an API for NFT domain name integrations.
Apple Business Essentials – TMO Daily Observations 2021-11-10
Andrew Orr joins host Kelly Guimont to discuss the announcement of Apple Business Essentials and why this is a big deal for a lot of users.
New Apple Business Essentials Brings Device Management for Small Businesses
Apple announced Apple Business Essentials, a subscription for small businesses. It covers device management, Apple Support, and iCloud storage.
New Wikimedia Enterprise API Enables Public Data Access
The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, launched Wikimedia Enterprise on Monday. Its API was first announced in March.
Wikimedia Enterprise makes the process of leveraging, packaging, and sharing content from Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects more efficient for large scale content reusers. In most cases, commercial entities that reuse Wikimedia content at a high volume have product, service, and system requirements that go beyond what Wikimedia freely provides through publicly available APIs and data dumps. The information panels shown in search engine results and the information served by virtual home assistants are examples of how Wikimedia content is frequently used by other websites.
Jamf Announces Same-Day Support for macOS Monterey
Jamf, a company that provides device management solutions for businesses, announced its support for macOS Monterey.
Move to Hybrid Working Boosting Apple Enterprise Adoption
New research has found that the move to a more hybrid workforce has boosted the adoption of Apple products in the enterprise space.
Apple Joint Venture Program Ends on February 22
Apple’s Joint Venture support program for businesses is ending on February 22, but an AppleCare program will be able to replace it.
Apple and Verizon Partner on iPhone 12 ‘Fleet Swap’ Enterprise Program
Fleet Swap lets a business trade in its entire fleet of iPhones at once and upgrade to any iPhone 12 model without an upfront cost.
Apple Now Supports Custom Apps for Enterprise
Apple revealed on Tuesday that it now supports custom apps for businesses and educational institutions within certain Apple tools.
Apple Works to Make BYOD Company Programs Private
It isn’t just consumer technology. Apple is also working to make enterprise technology more private, like BYOD programs.
Google Currents is the Reanimated Corpse of Google+
Google+ is sort of back. Google still has the code and is resurrecting the service into Google Currents. It’s Google+ for enterprise.
Companies Affected by Box Enterprise Oopsie
Dozens of companies—including Apple—have been affected by a Box enterprise leak. Data stored in Box enterprise accounts are private by default. But people can share files and folders, which makes the data publicly accessible.
The discoveries were made by Adversis, a cybersecurity firm, which found major tech companies and corporate giants had left data inadvertently exposed…Using a script to scan for and enumerate Box accounts with lists of company names and wildcard searches, Adversis found more than 90 companies with publicly accessible folders.
Like Facebook, Google Also Has a Data Collecting App
Although Google is more transparent than Facebook about what how the programs work, it’s still in violation of the App Store.
Inside Look at MacStadium's Mac Mini Server Farm
Remember at Apple’s keynote where we saw that a company had created a Mac mini server farm? That was MacStadium, and YouTuber Snazzy Labs visited the place. Besides Mac Minis, the company also has racks of the 2013 Mac Pro, and MacStadium recently added some iMac Pros. Since there aren’t a lot of companies doing this, MacStadium had to build custom server racks to house the minis. The company uses VM software in order to avoid needing expensive internal storage. The Mac Pros have had their internal storage removed entirely, and the minis boot off of the Mac Pros to create a giant external storage enclosure. The video is a fascinating glimpse into MacStadium, which is a company that provides the server farm as an “infrastructure-as-a-service.”
TMO Background Mode Interview with Technology Journalist Ryan Faas
Ryan Faas is a technology journalist and author who has been writing about Apple, business, enterprise IT topics, and the mobile industry for over a decade. He also spent a large portion of the past 15 years in the systems/network engineering and IT management fields as an IT director and systems administrator. He’s worked for MTV Networks as well as being a former Apple Genius. Today, he is also a Contributing Writer for Computerworld. We chatted about how he became such an expert in enterprise matters as well as knowledgeable in multiple OSes. He told me why the wireless carriers decline to push Android updates as often as Apple, and he filled me in on what really going on with macOS Server. Finally, Ryan also predicted when Apple will go to ARM processors in the Mac.
StorCentric Buying Storage Solution Companies Drobo and Nexsan
Drobo and Nexsan are being bought by StorCentric, a new company formed to combine the storage device makers.
Apple Integrates IBM's Watson Services into iOS for Images, Models, and Machine Learning
This allows enterprise developers to tap into Watson’s advanced machine learning technology, including the ability to tag and classify images, create new models, and train models with continuous learning.