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Xbox chief makes dig at Google Stadia streaming service ahead of launch tomorrow
Phil Spencer, head of Xbox, said that he doesn't think game streaming will become mainstream for years - despite the face that Google is launching its own service tomorrow
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Claris launches workflow automation tool beta

Apple-owned Claris has opened beta access to Claris Connect, its new tool for linking third-party apps such as Slack and Mailchimp to automate workflows.

FileMaker started life in 1986 as Claris, an Apple subsidiary set up to develop software products for the Mac, with responsibility for applications such as MacPaint and AppleWorks. In 1998 the company became FileMaker, named after its flagship database management system product, as most of its other offerings fell by the wayside.

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Mobile security perceptions don't approach reality. And that's a problem.

In general, security vendorslove consumer surveys where consumers say that they would never, ever, ever do business with a retailer or a bank with poor security practices. But consumers have historically been terrible predictors of their own behavior, and they also tend to tell retailers and banks what they want to hear, rather than the truth.

And the truth, based on the public financial filings of plenty of companies that have suffered public data breaches, is that consumers — partially thanks to zero liability programs from the payment card companies — tend to not change retailers or banks when such data breaches happen. Why? Quite a few reasons. First, zero liability sees to it that they don't lose any money (it actually limits losses to $50, but almost no business enforces that, and they tend to simply eat all of the consumer losses). If consumers lost large amounts of money from breached retailers or banks, yes, they'd flee, but that doesn't happen.

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Salesforce announces new iOS enterprise apps

One year since Apple and Salesforce joined forces to make it easier to use the CRM platform with iOS, the two companies have announced new apps and a new SDK.

Swift, Siri, SDK and more

With around 80% of Fortune 500 companies making use of Salesforce, the move to introduce better iOS support on the CRM platform was pretty much inevitable as enterprise adoption of iOS hits critical mass.

Last weekJNUC 2019 was a great illustration of just how far Apple has comein the sector, with some of the biggest names in enterprise IT now using iOS, and Apple tech used at every Fortune 500 firm.

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But isn&t that better than the actual goal?

At the company where this pilot fish is working as a contractor, forms are scanned, reviewed, edited, corrected and uploaded to a database. None of this is relevant to what fish is working on, but heinterested when he learns that the link between the database entries and the scanned images isn&t working.

So even after the contract ends, he manages to find out what was going on: The manager of data entry misunderstood the turnaround time requirement. They had to upload documents within 48 hours of data entry, but the manager got the notion that it was 48 hours after receiptof the documents. No matter what, he told the data entry clerks, they had to upload those documents within 48 hours of receiving them.

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Windows 10 1909: 7 oddities, quirks and inconsistencies

Microsoft last week released Windows 10 version 1909, the strangest feature upgrade yet for the four-year-old operating system.

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