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Coronavirus: Microsoft Throttling Non-Essential Office 365 Features to Cope With Demand

As more work-from-home users rely on Office 365 during the coronavirus pandemic, Microsoft is scaling back and throttling some features in an effort to keep up. Microsoft has already had issues keeping up with demand, as users in Europe experienced problems Monday with Teams...
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Coronavirus: iFixit Creating Medical Device Repair Database

iFixit is working to create a database of information on how to repair medical equipment. iFixit is well-known for their detailed and informative breakdowns of various phones, tablets, computers and other electronic devices. The company also publishes repair guides for...
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Coronavirus: Apple’s WDDC Goes Online Only

Apple has just announced that its biggest event of the year, WWDC, will be online-only as a result of the coronavirus. WWDC is Apple’s developers conference where the latest changes to iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS and watchOS are previewed, giving developers insight into what to...
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U.S. Senate Committee Investigating 5G Supply Chain Security

U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, who serves as chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation is convening a hearing to investigate 5G vendor security. The hearing will investigate “the security and integrity of the telecommunications supply chain and efforts...
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New Apple Maps Rolls Out Nationwide

Apple has been working on improve Maps since 2018 and the company announced the new version has rolled out to all U.S. customers. Image Source: Apple Apple Maps has lagged behind Google Maps since its introduction, but Apple began an intense effort to close the gap, deploying...
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Nikola Motors May Have Found ‘Holy Grail Of Batteries’

NBC News is reporting that Nikola Motors claims to have found the “Holy Grail of batteries,” promising to double the range of electric vehicles and the number of recharge cycles, while cutting costs in half. Nikola is not going into much detail about how the new technology works,...
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Telefonica Germany Has Selected Huawei to Help Build Its 5G Network

CNN Business is reporting that Telefonica Germany has decided to use Huawei equipment to build its 5G network. Huawei has been fighting allegations that its equipment can be used by the Chinese government to spy on companies or governments using Huawei’s equipment. The U.S. has...
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Nokia Defends Its 5G Position: ‘We Don’t Have a 5G Problem’

Nokia has faced criticism that it is falling behind competitors Huawei and Ericsson in the 5G market. In an interview with Reuters, Nokia’s software business head Bhaskar Gorti, defended the Finnish company. “I don’t think we have a 5G problem,” Gorti told Reuters in the...
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Google Hires Former VP of Microsoft’s Office Product Group

Business Insider is reporting that Google has hired Javier Soltero, a former head of strategy for Microsoft Office. Soltero had left Microsoft in late 2018 amid internal reorganization. In his new role with Google, Soltero will take over as Vice President of G Suite. Google’s...
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If It’s a Streaming War We’d Like To Be an Arms Dealer, Says IAC CEO

“If it’s a streaming war we’d like to be an arms dealer,” says IAC CEO Joey Levin. “We want to send the product and services to people who are making video. Video is relevant not just to people building streaming services, which there are now endless amounts of that and endless...