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Microsoft today launched Office 365 , its cloud-based productivity and collaboration suite, in 40 countries around the world. Office 365 combines access to Exchange e-mail, Lync messaging, SharePoint collaboration, the Office Web Apps, all into one monthly subscription. Seven different price plans are available; one for small businesses and individuals, at $6 per user per month, four enterprise plans from $10 to $27 per user per month, and two for kiosk workers, priced at $4 and $10 per person per month. The small business and enterprise plans all offer 25 GB of e-mail, SharePoint access, and Lync messaging; the more expensive price tiers then add Office Web App access, the full desktop Office suite, and Lync voice capabilities. There's also an à la carte option allowing mix-and-match selection of features if the standard plans don't fit an organization's needs. The enterprise plans are more expensive than the comparably featured small business plan, but offer better support—the … [Read more...] about Office 365 goes live, gives SMBs a taste of the enterprise

On the heels of Google laying off 12,000 employees in January , a series of protests took place last week in New York, California and Texas that showed mounting worker unrest. On Wednesday, Google's raters, which evaluate the quality of ads, submitted a petition at the company's headquarters in Mountain View, California, demanding better pay. The following day, a protest erupted outside Google's offices in New York criticizing the search giant over mass layoffs. Capping off the work week on Friday, more than 40 YouTube Music workers with Cognizant, a company that contracts under YouTube owner and Google parent Alphabet, went on strike in Austin, Texas, over a new return-to-office policy. These mark the latest incidents in a series of contentious issues between the search giant and its workers over the years. In 2018, more than 20,000 workers walked out of 50 offices to protest the company's handling of alleged sexual assault and misconduct. The next year, protests took place at … [Read more...] about Google Is Feeling the Heat From Its Own Employees

Google CEO Sundar Pichai recently announced that the company would cut 12,000 jobs or 6% of its global workforce as it braces to face “difficult economic cycles.” As a result of this, a number of departments, including FuchsiaOS, and Area 120, among others, will see a thinner workforce. Now a report has claimed a group of employees staged protests in the US this week at the company’s headquarters in California and New York. As per a report by Bloomberg, a group of employees protested outside the company’s offices in Mountain View, California, on Wednesday in a bid to attract attention to labour conditions for sub-contracted workers and to support thousands of their recently laid-off co-workers. The second rally took place near Google's corporate offices in New York City on Thursday. In this demonstration, nearly 50 Google employees protested shortly after its parent company Alphabet announced fourth-quarter profits of $13.6 billion. Read Also Google … [Read more...] about google: Google may have an employee ‘problem’ in the US

I returned to my former neighborhood Wednesday evening to check out ground-zero of the latest attraction in the Biden traveling circus of migrant misery, an area once mostly populated by corporate professionals and tourists — but when I pulled up and stepped out onto a block strewn with vagrants sitting in squalor, I saw a place I could no longer recognize. The Watson Hotel is right by my old apartment, located a few blocks away from Central Park, on the border of Hell’s Kitchen and the Upper West Side. I have memories there, like when my wife took me to the annual New York City Gem Show the hotel hosts when we had just started dating. We got our first place together just around the block — and I broke the “Laptop from Hell” series at the New York Post from that apartment’s kitchen table. I once crawled to the City MD next door to the Watson, convinced I was deathly ill, only to be told I actually had a hangover. I had my first cigarette-free breakfast when I technically quit … [Read more...] about Morris: My Evening at the Watson Hotel Biden Migrant Block Party

The 2000s ushered in a period of intense interest in productivity methods and strategies. Not all of them stood the test of time, but one certainly did—and if you’re not using it, you’re missing out. Ubiquitous Capture Is a Superpower Way back in 2001, David Allen published a personal productivity book called Getting Things Done . To say it had an enormous influence on the burgeoning “life hacker” movement would be an understatement. You can check out the book if you’d like, but there are plenty of good summaries online these days (like this summary from The Process Hacker or this run-down from the folks at Todoist ). It might not get as much press time these days, but back then and well into the 2010s, it was A Very Big Deal in productivity circles, and it influenced a whole generation of life hackers and optimizers. The Getting Things Done system is all about time management, optimizing what you do when, and ensuring that the small day-to-day actions you take … [Read more...] about You Need an “Idea Bucket”

Audio player loading… Meta has taken the lid off its 2022 end-of-year finances (opens in new tab) , uncovering a reasonably small 1% drop in annual revenue compared with the year prior, at a time when other companies are reporting significant losses. The company explained a number of decisions it took to “pursue greater efficiency and to realign [its] business and strategic priorities”, which included a heavy review of its facilities that saw it open up subleases, early terminate, and even abandon a number of its offices. The report also details the layoffs that affected around 11,000 of its workers, but it’s the company’s plans for its data centers that are likely to be most talked about. TechRadar Pro needs you! (opens in new tab) our survey (opens in new tab) and telling us your opinions and views about the tech industry in 2023. It will only take a few minutes and all your answers will be anonymous and confidential. Thank you again for … [Read more...] about Meta is making some big changes to its data center plans

Audio player loading… Cisco has released updates to address a dozen high-severity flaws in its Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) software and its Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) software. If left unpatched, these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to cause a memory leak, disclose information, view and delete sensitive information, bypass authentication or create a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. The most severe of these flaws is a path-traversal vulnerability in Cisco's ASA and FTD software tracked as CVE-2020-3187. This vulnerability in WebVPN, which can be exploited even by a low-skilled hacker, could allow an unauthorized external attacker to perform DoS attacks on Cisco ASA devices by simply deleting files from the system and this could possibly lead to VPN connections in Cisco ASA being disabled. Cisco launches billion-dollar business resiliency program Cisco Webex phishing attack wants to steal your logins Cisco kit … [Read more...] about These critical Cisco bugs need patching immediately