The proposed plans aim to bring “enterprise-grade capabilities” to small and medium-sized businesses, which may give Microsoft the edge over the top business phone systems currently available for SMEs. Teams Phone with Calling Plan: Explained Microsoft is effectively creating a single, cloud-based phone service that will allow businesses using Microsoft Teams to make publicly switched telephone network (PSTN) calls to both landline and cell phones. There are a number of features that Microsoft is planning to include in the package that businesses of all sizes will find useful, such as auto-attendants, call queues, and voicemail transcription....

Lewinsky went on to share stories of cyberbullying like that of Rutgers freshman Tyler Clementi who was recorded kissing another man and was publicly ridiculed when his roommate released the video to the Internet. Clementi, only 18-years-old, jumped off the George Washington Bridge to his death in 2010. Lewinsky went on to say: With tragic stories like this and even more recently, the widespread bullying and online harassment of feminist social critic Anita Sarkeesian, society must find ways to curb cyberbullying....

Online shopping has become increasingly popular over the last few years, particularly with the pandemic spurring shoppers to stay home and click their way to a new product. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what scammers want to hear, as it allows them more opportunities to take advantage of vulnerable users inputting credit card information into any website they can get their hands on. Subsequently, you may want to do a quick audit of your financial situation, because a security firm has discovered a large malware attack that is affecting nearly 500 ecommerce stores across the web....

That’s right, according to data from multiple studies, 64 percent of managers know that they need to address their own downfalls when it comes to leading their team. That means that more than half of the time, your bosses knows how terrible they’re being and they just don’t care. Or they care so much that they have no intention of fixing themselves. How nice. Further data showed the 60 percent of government employees describe their bosses as self-oriented, 49 percent insisted they’re too stubborn, and 43 percent claim they’re overly demanding....

Actors have started to pop up on screen even after their deaths, and the problem will only get worse as the cost to create CGI versions of actual human people get lower. It’s basically that one plot point in Bojack Horseman, but in real life. Don’t believe me? Let’s look at recent history. Recent CGI Performances and Their Costs The big one: Paul Walker’s untimely death in the middle of filming Furious 7....

The battle for net neutrality was a brutal one a few years ago. Massive protests and significant backlash to the Trump administration’s decision to do away with protections simply weren’t enough to keep the measures in place. Even public opinion, which was strongly in favor of keeping net neutrality laws, couldn’t keep them in place. Fortunately, California quickly put the wheels in motion to set up its own net neutrality protections, and it looks like they are finally going to be enacted....

The Nintendo Switch is going to have a little buddy on the way, as the Japanese gaming company has confirmed their plans to launch a miniature version of the gaming console called the Nintendo Switch Lite. The incredibly popular console is one of the most successful gaming devices on the planet, propelling Nintendo to heights they could only dream of in the days of the N64. Since its launch in early 2017, almost 200 games have been released and sales continue to soar for the Japanese gaming company....

Apple events have become a spectacle all their own. Forget a simple press release, these occasions seemingly come with the excitement Woodstock. Has the hype been justified this time around? Aside from its headline-grabbing new iPhone XS, larger XS Max and cheaper iPhone XR, Apple has unveiled a new Apple Watch Series 4. We run through the key specs, boasts and killer features below. Apple Unveils New Apple Watch The Apple Watch, as Tim Cook gleefully stated, is not only the number one smartwatch in the world, it’s the number one watch in the world too....

The game was purchased by the New York Times for a ‘low seven figures’, and while the NYT is remaining cagey about the actual price it paid, we would imagine that the man behind the game, Josh Wardle, is very happy indeed. However, questions are now being asked about the future of Wordle, with the NYT stating that it will remain free ‘initially’ – worrying language for any Wordle-heads out there....

The Stats After the duopoly, Twitter drives the most clicks on mobile and tablet, according to data from media analytics firm Parse.ly reported on by Axios. Twitter got 249.7 million clicks across March and June 2017. But Flipboard was in second place at 79.9 million clicks in the same time period, blowing away far more well-known competition including Yahoo, Google News, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and Instagam. Founded in 2010, Flipboard just recorded its first cash-flow positive month in Feburary, which is what makes this growth impressive....

In addition to Internet accessibility, the Visioweb offers a 19 inch screen and other exclusive functions featured for the first time ever on a treadmill machine, such as: an iPod/iPhone connection for using iPod audio and video features directly on the screena USB port for viewing/listening to multimedia plugs-in like films, mp3s, photos, videos, etc.an online Personal Trainer offering interactive exercise guidancegames for training your mind while you train your bodyPlug&Train: offers you the ability to save your favorite training exercises on a USB key and activate the machine automaticallyIPTV, the first interface that can receive a TV signal via the PC networks...

Since last year’s hack on Sony, Obama has been outspoken about creating a framework to protect the country amid the threat of a “cyberwar.” In the President’s view, there needs to be more collaboration between private tech companies and the government to continue to protect important infrastructure systems. Here’s what you need to know about the order signed, which is advisory in nature, and how it affects you: Major Tech Companies will be Sharing information According to Motherboard, a few companies are signing up to the order....

Today’s generation has a wealth of options at their disposal. Leading sports consumption into the next century is entrepreneur Nish Patel. This man has created ClutchPoints, which is a platform designed to bring fact-based reporting and the emotional crockpot of a full stadium together. Patel has placed the NBA at the heart of ClutchPoints, and the early success of this platform has indicated there’s a huge amount of potential for growth in this category....

Thiel, who was the first outside investor in Facebook and also cofounded Palantir, is known lately for creating the Thiel Fellowship. It awards $100,000 to students who want to drop out of college and start a startup, do scientific research, or work on social impact. Y Combinator now has 14 full-time partners and 10 part-time partners, including Groupon founder Andrew Mason and Stripe cofounder Patrick Collison. The partners hold office hours and give advice to startups who participate in the three-month accelerator program....

Samsung’s soon-to-be-released, productivity-focused, range-topping Galaxy Note 10, for example, looks set to do away with the headphone jack. The brand’s “lesser”(but still pretty top-tier) Samsung Galaxy S10 series phones all get headphone jacks. So, why do so manufacturers struggle to work out whether they want their devices to have headphone jacks? Even when they know their decision will be met with the rancour of consumers? Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Dongle Leak According to a “hot dongle leak,” the upcoming Note 10 won’t have a headphone jack....

Here’s a brief overview of the companies and festivities and a photo gallery with highlights from the night. See more photos from the event here. All photographs by photographer Liang Shi. The Startups… Supporting Sponsors: LiveShare by Cooliris had a slew of photographers taking pics of guests with cowboy and cowgirl models, then displaying them on the walls around the event. One luck winner walked away with a new iPad2!...

To put it simply, Pixtr makes you look amazing in photos. The team has given their app the market advantage via built-in autonomy: click one button and lighting, coloring, face structure, and symmetry are all fixed. As photography shifts towards the mobile platform, our conceptions of photography shift with it: you have to have the most megapixels in your camera, or else suffer poor photos. But Gadot and his team think differently, and they were kind enough to give us the inside scoop about how anybody can look great in a photo despite how many megapixels are jammed into your camera....

2020, on the other hand, basically just has Cyberpunk 2020. Which isn’t to say that’s not an accurate picture. If the raft of experts we’ve compiled to unpack all the upcoming tech trends, challenges, and phenomena of 2020 have anything to say about it, our cyberpunk dystopia will only kick into gear during the upcoming year. In the near future, big data is getting bigger, security risks are growing, and state-sponsored hackers are hellbent on crippling our national infrastructure....

It’s also clear that mobile apps are driving the way the internet is consumed and designed. Again according to TechCrunch, 88% of our phone usage is spent using apps. The modern web is built both on and for apps, and the app market is a mammoth industry, raking in billions of dollars per year. The Apple App Store alone just passed 100 billion total app downloads, with countless new apps being released every day....

The records were compromised after Battelle for Kids, a not-for-profit organization that handles student data, was targeted on December 1st last year. Names, dates of birth, and grades are just some examples of the leaked information. News of this breach comes just weeks after the 157-year-old Lincoln colleague was forced to close its doors in response to a similar cyberattack. As ransomware attacks against both public and private institutions continue to surge across the US, conducting best cybersecurity practices has never been so important....