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Applesolutions are seeingincreasing use across the enterprise, but do you have a business resilience strategy in place in case things go wrong?

If you&re one of the estimated 73% of SMBs that have not yet made such preparation, now might be a good time to start.

Your data is your business

Itchallenging enough when a consumer user suffers data loss as precious memories and valuable information go up in the digital smoke.Natural disasters, technology and infrastructure problems or human-made problems such as burglary, cyberattacks or civil unrest can all impact the sanctity of your systems, whatever platform you use. It matters because in todayconnected world, your data is your business.

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Microsoft this week opened a private preview of its all-cloud Universal Print service to customers running Windows 10 Enterprise or Windows 10 Education.

Those customers also require an available Azure Active Directory (AAD) tenant, to which the personal computers accessing the cloud printing preview must be joined.

Elsewhere, Microsoft described Universal Print as "a Microsoft 365 subscription-based service;" it was unclear whether that meant only customers licensing Microsoft 365 - the subscription bundling Windows 10, Office 365 and a host of management and security tools - would be eligible for the preview, the final when it debuts or both.

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Support pilot fish handles a call from a harried user who tells fish her new laptop isn&t working.

&I opened the laptop up and entered her password and found everything completely normal,& says fish.

&I asked her again what the problem was. She said, ‘I told you: It doesn&t work.&

&I closed out normally and asked her to sit down and show me how she accesses the computer.

&The first screen came up for her to enter her password. She started trying to delete the word ‘Password.&

&Right then and there Lesson 101 began.&

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Apple settled a class action lawsuit as a result of alleged battery throttling issues in its iPhone 6, 6 Plus, 6s, 6s Plus, 7, 7 Plus and SE models. The settlement calls for Apple to pay consumers $25 per iPhone. MacworldMichael Simon joins Juliet to discuss how customers might get paid, who is and isn&t eligible and why Apple settled in the first place.

More about this in Mikearticle on Macworld: https://www.macworld.com/article/3530074/if-you-have-an-iphone-6-or-7-apple-owes-you-some-cash.html

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Major collaboration and video conferencing software vendors are now offering products to users at no extra cost in response to the spread of the coronavirus.

Concerns about the COVID-19 virus have led to a boom in remote working, as organizations encourage employees to stay home and a growing number of conferences are cancelled.

While many companies have seen their stock prices take a battering because of the disruption caused by the virus & the new York Stock Exchange was down sharply again Thursday & software vendors that enable remote work such as video conference software provider Zoom have seen stock prices climb dramatically.

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Well, I'll be: Just after we finished chatting about hidden Pixel features, Google went and dropped a whole new batch of interesting options in our laps.

The latest Pixel "feature drop," erm, dropped this week, and it's overflowing with potentially useful additions for your phone. Between the headlining elements and the smaller, less obvious touches, there's plenty worth exploring — and plenty that'd be all too easy to fail to embrace.

So don't let yourself miss out on something worthwhile. After spending the past few days with Google's freshest Pixel improvements, here's a breakdown of the most noteworthy new stuff making its way to your phone this week and what you can do to make the most of it.

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