Powered by MX’s industry-leading data platform, First Foundation Bank will enhance the way it supports personal banking clients by delivering, through the new MXmobile-powered app, a single secure location to manage and interact with all of the bank’s financial relationships. The new mobile…
Link: First Foundation Bank Launches New Mobile App with MXmobile, Simplifying the Way Clients Get Financial Insights
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Google is warning millions of Android users when apps might be spying on them.
The new feature alerts users when the microphone or camera has been activated.
It’s very similar to a warning that already exists on Apple’s rival iPhone.
The Google feature was added to phones in the latest Android 12…
Link: Urgent Google warning for millions of Android users
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Microsoft has reversed the Windows 11 changes that made switching default browsers more difficult. Now, users who prefer Chrome, Firefox or other browsers can change their default with a single button. The changes were noted by Rafael Rivera, developer of the EarTrumpet Windows volume control app, early last week and were first reported by The Verge.
Link: Microsoft adds simple default browser change option after receiving criticism
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Apple is set to launch five new Mac machines in 2022, including a new MacBook. In a world of critically acclaimed Pro laptops and commercially successful Airs, who needs this new laptop that is stranded in the middle of Apple’s powerful pair.
Mark Gurman points out (in Bloomerg’s latest edition…
Link: New Apple Leak Reveals Inexplicable MacBook Pro
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The iPad Pro and Apple Pencil 2 are my favorite art tools, hands down. (Learn all about iPads here.) They’ve replaced all of my traditional art supplies. I curl up on the couch with my iPad to chill and watch Netflix almost every day. I use it more than I use my phone by far, and that’s because…
Link: The Best Drawing Apps for Every Kind of iPad Artist
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The year is almost over … and, wow, did it fly by. It seems only yesterday I was writing about the 2020 year in review and here I am, another year older and another year … older. I could say the same holds true for Android. It’s another year (and release) older, but has it become any wiser than it already was?
Link: Android 2021: A year in review
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Choosing between a public or private cloud depends on your organization’s needs. If you have the resources to devote to private cloud hosting, you have more capability and control over your infrastructure. However, if you can’t devote time and money to developing, managing, and monitoring your…
Link: Which Cloud Is Better? Public or Private?
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Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more about the event. . Imagination Technologies has announced Catapult, a new family of RISC-V central processing unit (CPU) designs aimed at the next generation of computing.
Link: Imagination Technologies unveils Catapult RISC-V CPU family
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Social video generates more shares than text and images combined, and consumers who end up on an ecommerce site through a user-generated video are more likely to purchase and spend more. That’s according to WordStream. For online merchants, video is one of the best ways to promote a business, especially when you can shoot and edit video from nothing more than a smartphone and a simple app.
Link: 11 Apps for Creating, Editing Videos
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The Big Tech reckoning gained momentum in 2021, as U.S. regulators accused behemoths like Google and Facebook of abusing their market power to gain an illegal edge over competitors.But one major name in tech avoided not only the ire of the public but also the reach of antitrust regulators in…
Link: Why Microsoft avoided antitrust scrutiny that plagued other tech giants in 2021
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Microsoft (MSFT) is Yahoo Finance Company of the Year for 2021. And while analysts point to the company’s cloud platforms as key to its $2.5 trillion market cap, it has a slew of business segments that have helped propel the tech giant to such stratospheric heights.One of those businesses?…
Link: How Microsoft saved itself from social media scrutiny
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As with so many little disasters, this was all my fault. New year, new laptop? These are the devices that should be at or near the top of your shortlist. I left my MacBook Air perched on the armrest of the sofa. I turned to my right to grab a drink. I turned back to my left. Down went the MacBook Air.
Link: My Apple MacBook Air wouldn’t close anymore. Then I got one surprise too many
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