Mujjo has just added a new colorway to their line-up for iPhone 11 Pro’s case lineup. The colorway is Slate Green. It got introduced on Wednesday.
It’s named Slate Green because the desaturated green blends the graphite-like appearance with cooler forest greens and warmer khaki tones arriving at a complex finish.
Check it out on their website.
Jasper Wong is not only an artist, curator, art director, and known as one of the best illustrators worldwide. He is the founder of Pow Wow Art Movement which provides urban beautification through murals and art installations in cities throughout the world. He has worked with a wide variety of high profile brands including Mercedes-Benz, Neiman Marcus, Tokidoki, and Jamba Juice just to name a few.
This fun, bright collection from HEX features Jaspers custom exterior print on three wet/dry bags coated with water resistant material making these ideal for spring break festivities or summer hang outs.
The Cooler Waist Pack has an insulated and waterproof pocket for beverage and food storage keeping it cool right at the ease of your waist. Great for parties, theme parks or taking your food and drinks on the go.
The Wet/Dry Tote is an easy on-the-go bag with padded grab handles and detachable shoulder strap as well as a separate waterproof compartment for wet items. Add this to your summer bag collection for a pool day or beach day.
Not a Tote Bag fan? Well, This Wet/Dry Backpack is also coated with water resistant materials and a separate waterproof compartment for wet items. You can store up to a 13″ laptop with ease. Who says you can’t work and have fun?
Zoho Corporation is launching its Small Business Emergency Subscription Assistance Program (ESAP) to help Zoho customers worldwide weather this global crisis. A recent study by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business has found that half of Canada’s small firms have already seen a drop in sales due to the economic effects of COVID-19, with 4 in 10 of those affected businesses also reporting a decrease greater than 25 per cent1. ESAP is one way Zoho is committing itself to helping its small business customers. For up to 20,000 qualified paying customers with 25 employees or less, Zoho is waiving the cost of every single application they currently use, for up to three months.
Zoho is a 24-year-old, bootstrapped, privately held company with more than 50 million users located in over 180 countries. Since the beginning, Zoho has owed its existence to its small business customers. While Zoho now has grown significantly upmarket, serving mid-market and enterprise customers in addition to small businesses, the company believes that for the broader economy to stay healthy, SMBs must first stay healthy and viable. ESAP is intended to lighten the financial burden put upon our small business customers during this chaotic and difficult period.
Earlier this month, Zoho launched Remotely, a virtual productivity platform of 11 collaboration applications, provided to businesses of all sizes around the world for free, so that companies could effectively make the transition to remote work. Since its release two weeks ago, more than 5,000 new companies are running on the platform, and that number is increasing every day. We have seen an average of 500 per cent growth in usage of our collaboration apps and 1,000 per cent growth in daily new users of Zoho Meeting.
Between this global program and the no-cost availability of Zoho Remotely, a full virtual collaboration platform, Zoho is committed to helping as many businesses as possible. We are encouraging other companies in a position to help businesses survive to join us in supporting the small business ecosystem.
Please see a video announcement of the Small Business Emergency Subscription Assistance Program from our CEO Sridhar Vembu: https://youtu.be/ZxSrdGeEG1M
To help contain the spread of COVID-19, remote work has been advised by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and companies worldwide across all industries and sizes have implemented working from home as a temporary workplace policy. As the definitive resource on remote work, Remote.co offers insight and advice on critical topics and challenges that businesses transitioning some or all of its workforce to a remote environment may face.
Remote.co’s Q&A section features direct feedback from 140+ remote-forward teams and companies on key topics impacting virtual work environments. Each section below is elaborated on using extensive interviews from fully virtual companies/or teams.
FlexJobs, Remote.co’s sister site, has also created an Emergency Preparedness Section to supplement these resources and is hosting a webinar on Tuesday, March 24 at 12pm ET: How Employers Can Prepare for Remote Work. This will be recorded.
Remote.co’s section featuring insights from remote workers themselves may also be useful to employees who are new to working from home.
The coronavirus has triggered the world’s biggest work-from-home experiment. Millions of people have been asked to self-isolate to stop the virus from spreading. Entire regions in China and Italy were put under full or partial lockdown. With the virus spreading, major companies in the US and Europe, including Facebook and Amazon, are also asking employees to stay at home.
The current situation has reignited the discussion on the effectiveness and security of remote work. While many modern workplaces allow and even encourage working from home, opponents argue that remote work is less effective or even risky for business, as companies face many challenges. They need to ensure that employees have all the right access to the required documents and information. Besides, staff connecting from out of office may make mistakes that could cost companies millions. While working remotely, often on public Wi-Fi and on personal laptops, employees pose a severe threat to companies’ cybersecurity.
“According to Google Trends, the search term “VPN” has drastically grown since the beginning of March all over the world. The interest in NordVPN Teams services has increased by 165% as well. We can see that companies are exploring various cybersecurity options to ensure both safe and productive work from home. Security is crucial, as hacks and data leaks don’t only bring financial loss — they may also mean lost customer trust and, in some cases, even bankruptcy. It’s important to note that employees’ errors are usually not deliberate. When working from home, people tend to be more relaxed and browse personal sites, which might not be secure,” says Daniel Markuson, digital privacy expert at NordVPN Teams.
Technological advancements have also made working from home more accessible across all sectors. “Nowadays, compared to 10 years ago, it is a lot easier to access emails, cloud-based filing, dial-in to calls and video conferencing remotely. All that makes work from out of office more accessible,” says Daniel Markuson from NordVPN Teams.
Need to work from home because of the Covid-19 outbreak? Here’s a brief rundown of the tech tools you might find useful to replicate your office.
Sonos has posted a FAQ that details an upcoming app and OS called Sonos S2. It’s going to power their next generation of products and services. One key feature is that Sonos S2 will allow for higher-resolution audio which is beyond the CD quality audio that they currently offer. There’s other functionality that Sonos S2 will offer, but there are not a whole lot of details on that just yet. I suppose that we will hear more in June when this is supposed to ship.
Now to facilitate this, Sonos is leaving some hardware behind. Specifically:
The company has said that these devices will no longer receive new features as of May since they lack the necessary processing power, though they’ll still get bug fixes and security patches.
I think this is a necessary move. Sonos has to move forward and they can’t do it by having to try and support hardware that can’t do what they want it to do. So unlike their shambolic trade up program, which they eventually had to walk back, this is something that I support. I for one will be interested to see the capabilities of Sonos S2. Hopefully Sonos will share those details soon.
Across industries and geographies, companies are implementing work from home policies to prevent the spread of COVID-19, resulting in a spike in the number of teleworkers. At such times, it’s imperative for devices to be secure.
Below are best practices from Trend Micro that organizations can undertake, in order to mitigate potential risks of a cyberbreach:
Also, in an effort to help reduce the security risks of computers connecting to corporate networks, Trend Micro is also offering businesses a 6-month free trial of their Maximum Security product to be installed on home computers so employees can work securely during this unfortunate crisis.
At Gryphon, it is their mission to safeguard the online experience. For those who are parents, Gryphon is providing extra support needed right now to manage screen time during school closures.
Gryphon allows parents to:
Screen Time Management Tips to help maintain a regular routine at home using Gryphon Guardian:
You can turn on “Homework time” to limit distracting apps like YouTube or Instagram while they do school work:
Make sure to adjust the daily Internet time limits. In many cases your child may need more Internet time as schools start to offer online learning:
You create regular Internet breaks during the day by adding “Suspend” time in the schedule:
At any time, you can also just click on “Suspend” on the main dashboard to pause the Internet for some quality family time together.
Gryphon Online Safety, Inc:
Digital security and parental control solutions to safeguard the online experience. The new Gryphon® Guardian, a compact all-in-one mesh WiFi security router and parental control system, retails for $119 making online security and digital parenting accessible to all. Available directly from Gryphon Online Safety or on Amazon.
Gryphon Online Safety wants to help parents prevent their kids from being exposed to inappropriate content, and to equip them with the tools needed to promote healthy screen time as well as protect their homes’ devices from hacker intrusions and malware threats.
Smaller + More Affordable:
Gryphon Guardian weighs 6.5 ounces and can fit in the palm of your hand at 4″ x 4″ x 1.5″. It is a smaller, more affordable version of the original Gryphon with all of its features. Its estimated Internet coverage reaches over 1800 square feet, using advanced gigabit WiFi AC1200 dual band (2.4Ghz and 5Ghz) technology with 2×2 MU-MIMO. Gryphon Guardian comes with WPA3 security and six months of Gryphon’s Advanced Internet protection.
I am used to covering low life scumbag patent trolls. But this is the lowest of the low when it comes to patent trolling. This will take a bit of effort to explain so hang with me here. The patents in question ended up in the hands of this patent troll via this route:
Back in 2018, the disgraced biotech company Theranos sold its patent portfolio to Fortress Investment Group, a division of Softbank. Now two of those patents have wound up in the hands of a little-known firm called Labrador Diagnostics—and Labrador is suing a company called BioFire Diagnostics that makes medical testing equipment.
The testing equipment that is in question are machines that test for COVID-19. Yes. The pandemic that is sweeping the planet, putting millions into lockdown/social isolation/. and has resulted in the deaths of thousands. I’m going to go out on a limb here, but I am going to say, and I think that you would agree, that suing a company who is trying to help to stem the greatest medical crisis in a generation for patent infringement is a really bad idea.
Needless to say, the blowback was epic:
Facing an avalanche of bad publicity, Labrador announced on Tuesday that it would grant royalty-free licenses to companies developing COVID-19 tests. The company also claims it didn’t know that BioFire was working on a coronavirus test when it filed its lawsuit last week. The company seems to be going forward with the lawsuit.
I find the possibility that they were unaware to be completely implausible. The fact is that they tried to cash in on the pandemic, got slapped silly with all the bad press from trying to do so, and backed off as fast as they could. But in a strange way, I’m not shocked by this. Why? Just look at the players involved:
This has epic gong show written all over it.
IAITAM Opens Up No-Cost, Full-Day Course for Companies, Agencies Dealing With Work-From-Home Laptop, Phone, Data Problems
Posted in Commentary with tags IAITAM on March 23, 2020 by itnerdAs more and more U.S. companies and government agencies send workers home to use personal smartphones, computers and tablets to do their work, the International Association of IT Asset Managers (IAITAM) has warned that many organizations are not taking proper precautions to track devices and safeguard sensitive data. Now, IAITAM is doing something about it by offering free passes to its full-day online course about how to manage mobile devices and the data they contain.
Up to 1,000 people can take the online Certified Mobile Asset Manager (CMAM) course on March 24th and March 26th from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. ET by registering online. The course normally is available only at its full cost of $2,000. The only difference between the free access and the full registration is the availability of offline course materials and the CMAM exam.
IAITAM’s CMAM course prepares individuals and organizations responsible for the management of mobile devices. The course encompasses both organizational owned assets as well as BYOD (employee-owned). The CMAM course has the IAITAM Best Practice Library as its foundation and encompasses financial viability, risk mitigation, policy enforcement and lifecycle management of mobile assets.
Last week, IAITAM warned: “Many companies and government agencies have already sent employees home to work remotely in response to concerns about the coronavirus. This week, thousands of additional employers will likely follow suit until concerns about the contagion ease. The International Association of IT Asset Managers is warning that most employers may have rushed into making their decision without thinking through how to secure their most sensitive data.”
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