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Apple hit with EU antitrust charges over Apple Pay exclusivity

Apple will settle.

Why?

Because of this little bit: ".....Apple could be fined up to 10% of annual revenues..."

That's not peanuts, and a cudgel like that should make Apple *want* to settle.

Think about this: the EU has laws governing this sort of exclusion by an OEM. Plainly, it is illegal; *according to EU rules.

As I understand them, and fair warning, IANAL, you cannot exclude other manufacturers from utilizing standards-based functionality that the customer/consumer - in this instance, the iPhone owner - has already paid for.

For example: it would be like Apple requiring iPhone owners to only connect to Apple-branded Wi-Fi access points.

Which would be insane.

As this situation is.

Apple Pay's use of NFC compounds Apple's problem, IMO.

Because it isn't an Apple-created technology, and is standards-based.

Moreover, Apple has had enough time to come up with the security framework and privacy scheme that it would have posited would benefit iPhone owners.

It didn't do so.

Therein lies their problem: their (Apple's) steadfast refusal to even consider 3rd-party payment processors' use of NFC has been exposed for what it is: Apple not wanting any competition.

That is a clear violation of EU antitrust laws. I think.

What do you think I am missing?

What Apple is doing with Apple Pay isn’t new, their thing, or an Apple innovation.

Apple just took NFC payments to a whole new level with Apple Pay.

They also did so using basically available technology that they repackaged magnificently.

iPhones may not be the dominant devices numerically; they are so in terms of buying power.

The iPhone demographics skew firmly towards the well-heeled, and that is why everyone wants in.

Suffice it to say, While Apple has about 20% of the global smartphone market, Apple banks over 80% of available profits for ALL phones.

That really means that, yes, Android phone OEMs deliver crappy devices and crappy user experiences.

What I think though, is that other payment system operators such as PayPal just want access to the iPhone ecosystem without having to share both profits and customer data with Apple.

I hope Apple can come out with a scheme whereby other pay processors can use iPhone NFC, but cannot harvest customer data.

That, to me, would be the ideal middle ground.

Original story at The New York Times.

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Ads in Windows Explorer? Say it ain't so, Microsoft!

There are bad ideas, and there are BAD IDEAS.

Then, there are EFFIN’ BAD IDEAS!

This though, is the mother of all bad ideas!

Listen, I know that Microsoft has generously made Windows® literally free for registered/registered users, and with Windows 11, provided what is no doubt the most hassle-free and most capable Windows update ever.

However, even with that solid, ads in Windows Explorer are really, way too far.

As Steve Jobs might have put it,

Microsoft, please let sanity return to Redmond, and stop this nonsense immediately.

Thanks you.

Original story:

https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/15/22979251/microsoft-file-explorer-ads-windows-11-testing

Can Microsoft even create a touch-first operating system, or even a touch-first version of Windows?

Over the past several months, I have been subjected to several news reports about the Microsoft Surface Duo 2, the ‘lost’ Microsoft Windows Version S operating, the new Surface devices, and quite happily, the magnificent Windows 11.

I also use the iPad as a tablet. Daily.

What does that have to do with anything?

Plenty.

While the Surface line really shows off their hybrid chops, they aren’t touch-first devices like the iPad is.

Resultantly, they cannot be used as pure tablets, and that’s a darned shame! Because, into this breech steps the iPad, which is a very good media consumption device. Only.

Which does everything well in that realm, as long as you desire to live in Apple’s walled garden.

I don’t.

I don’t want anything Android either. Ever!

I just want a Microsoft touch-first, preferably windows-based operating system for all my Surface tablets.

So that I can ditch the keyboard and the mouse.

That can’t too much to ask now, can it?

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Microsoft announced a couple or so new Azure things at MS Ignite 2018

Seems like Microsoft has been hard at work on Azure, if this list is any indication.

In a blog post, the zookeeper for Azure outlined a list of new Azure infrastructure products, classifying them around the following nests: infrastructure for every workload, hybrid offerings, and security & management. In all, it is a lot of stuff to digest.

Thanks for sharing, Mike Baz

The following, in order of importance to Logikworx and our clients, are most pressing to me.

Item verbiage is by Microsoft, since I have not had the time to parse them):

  • Windows Server 2019 (GA in the coming weeks) – I am incredibly excited about the newest release of Windows Server 2019! Windows Server 2019 is an OS built truly for the cloud with hybrid management, Linux containers, and many more amazing features. You can find more details on this exciting release on the Windows Server 2019 blog.
  • Standard SSDs (GA) – Standard SSDs are a cost-effective disk offering optimized for low IOPS workloads that need consistent latency. Standard SSDs deliver better availability, reliability, and latency compared to HDD Disks, and are well suited for Web servers, low IOPS application servers, lightly used enterprise applications, and Dev/Test workloads. Read the engineering blog to learn more.
  • Secure score, improved threat protection, and network map (preview) – Microsoft secure score makes it easier for you to understand your security position and potential risks in your environment. Azure Security Center now shows your secure score with clear recommendations on how to reduce risk and strengthen your security. We are also extending our threat protection capabilities to include Azure Storage, Azure Postgres SQL, and containers running on Linux VMs. Finally, we have added a new network map to help you visualize and get quick insights on network related vulnerabilities. You can find more details about these improvements in this blog.
  • Azure Firewall (GA) – Azure Firewall is a managed cloud-based network security service that protects your Azure Virtual Network resources. It is a fully stateful firewall with built-in high availability and cloud scalability. Check these links for documentation and pricing.
  • Virtual WAN (GA) – Virtual WAN provides a simple, unified, global connectivity, and security platform to deploy large-scale branch connectivity. You can utilize your favorite SDWAN and security technology vendor. Also, we now offer support for client-side connectivity using OpenVPN.
  • Azure Blueprints and Azure Policy in Azure DevOps (preview) – Today, we are announcing the preview of Azure Blueprints. These blueprints make it incredibly easy for you to deploy and update Azure environments in a repeatable manner using composable artifacts such as policies, role-based access controls, and resource templates. This ensures you can configure your different environments to be compliant immediately after they are created. It also allows developers to be completely self-reliant in the creation of new environments. Furthermore, you can now include your Azure Policy definitions in the release management pipeline of Azure DevOps, ensuring that policy compliance is a part of shipping rather than considered after release.
  • Azure cost management in the Azure portal (preview) – One year ago, we announced that Azure was the first cloud platform to provide free cost management capabilities to help you reduce your costs in the cloud. Today these capabilities are now integrated natively into the Azure portal for an improved experience. We are also providing an API so you can access cost management from PowerBI or directly from your own custom applications. Azure cost management in the Azure portal preview is available for EA customers today with all other customers on-boarding by the end of year.
  • Migration. We recently announced support for Hyper-V assessments in Azure Migrate. We also announced GA of Azure SQL Database Managed Instance, which enables you to migrate SQL Servers to a fully managed Azure service. We also now support many new migration scenarios as part of the Azure Database Migration Service. Azure migration center.
  • If you migrate Windows Server or SQL Server 2008/R2 to Azure, you will get three years of free extended security updates on those systems. This could save you some money when Windows Server and SQL Server 2008/ R2 end of support (EOS). If you combine the savings from with Azure Hybrid Benefit and Reserved Instances, running these servers on AWS will be 5 times more expensive than on Azure.

A more expansive list is below, and you can find descriptive information by following the link to the blog post, which, in turn, has links to all sort of relevant information.

Enjoy, and if need be, contact me directly.

MS Ignite 2018 New Azure Products List

  • NVv2 VMs (preview)
  • NDv2 VMs (preview by end of year)
  • HB VMs (preview by end of year
  • HC VMs (preview by end of year)
  • Azure Firewall (GA)
  • Virtual WAN (GA
  • ExpressRoute Global Reach (preview)
  • ExpressRoute Direct (preview)
  • Front Door Service (preview)
  • Ultra SSDs (preview
  • Standard SSDs (GA)
  • Larger managed disk sizes (preview)
  • Azure Data Box Edge (preview)
  • Windows Server 2019
  • Azure Stack
  • Confidential Computing DC VM series
  • Secure score, improved threat protection, and network map (preview)
  • Azure Blueprints and Azure Policy in Azure DevOps
  • Azure cost management in the Azure portal
  • Azure Migrate
  • Azure SQL Database Managed Instance,
  • Azure Database Migration Service

Read the entire blog here: A crazy amount of new Azure infrastructure announcements

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Why not Surface Go or Surface as a rental?

This is a highly-requested product/service?

While it is true that I don’t have the number that Microsoft probably has, it seems unreal.

If you look at Microsoft’s hardware inventory, what product, or products scream out for a subscription service?

Did you utter “Surface Go”? And/or scream “The Entire Surface line, dodo!”?

Aaah! So, you know.

I have been totally verklempt trying to understand why an LTE-equipped Surface Go was not offered on Day One, and at that same price.

(The glacial pace of hardware developments and refreshes from Microsoft expose it as a software company. Nothing is wrong with that, for Microsoft mints more bars of gold-pressed Latinum than many sovereign countries. However, it does not show an undeniable commitment to hardware.)

In fact, is there any reason why the entire Microsoft Surface line does not have LTE-equipped models at launch?

And subsequently bundled with a rental+cellular subscription?

Even if you remove LTE from the devices for cost reasons, why aren’t Surface/Surface Go subscriptions available?

If low enough, it would be a fantastic K12 offering.

But, nooooo.

Xbox.

Unless this is a test case for Microsoft coming up with a Surface Go subscription service, or a completely BS rumor, I wouldn’t

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The Circle of Trust Reject: Uber

Confession: I have only been in an Uber as a guest of a rider once.

Just once.

I have never basically, Uber’d.

Initially since I never had to, as I have always had the privilege of riding in town cars and the like whenever I need a ride, and primarily because well, LA.

Friends who lived in highly urban areas such as London, Silly Valley, New York etc., loved them.

Uber provided a service, and it both exposed, and disintermediated the municipal scams we know as taxi medallion licensing.

In all, Uber was a Good Thing!

Initially.

As they got more successful, they got a lot more nasty, more despicable, and finally – just before Kalanick got run – went completely cray-cray!

I mean, they checked all the boxes: they were nasty to customers – “surge pricing” during natural disasters; utterly disrespectful to their employees/drivers/’contractors’, stupidly an unnecessarily combatant with regulatory authorities, and more. They veered into criminality by developing a virtual environment overlay for city officials charged with possibly regulating them.

They openly yearned for the day when they’d finally be rid of the very factor that got them to success: their drivers. They talked up their foray into autonomous vehicles, thoroughly discounting current employees.

But, they stepped on the live wire of the Otto buy, which came with supposedly fraudulent proprietary IP belonging to Google.

When the merde hit the aerator, Uber realized it had no friends.

Every few days seemed to bring another revelation of dubious criminal, or outright unethical behavior.

So much so, that sometime last year, I started using the hashtag #YearOfLivingDangerously to describe Uber’s failings, and predicting an implosion.

I also made the decision never to use Uber.

Neither personally, nor professionally.

Uber’s co-founder Travis Kalanick was replaced by Dara Khosrowshahi who seems to be a more level-headed guy.

He smartly helped resolve Uber’s London mess, and adroitly steered Uber through the autonomous vehicle fatality disaster in Tempe. I seriously shudder to think of how Travis would have reacted to that!

While Uber’s future still looks bright, I am still a skeptic.

As a result, I will leave them in my NEVER List until I am convinced.

I want Uber’s good works and corporate citizenship to show me.

Once Uber presents as a company with good ethics as part of its corporate DNA, I’ll reconsider.

Then, and only then, will I be a Belieber!

My tweets about Uber, from January 1, 2017 to now can be found here.

© 2002 – 2018, John Obeto for Blackground Media Unlimited

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The Circle of Trust

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Every day, we entrust our private and professional lives in these United States, and for most of the world actually, to basically these 6 companies, namely Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft and Starbucks. To a lesser extent, Snapchat, and Twitter. I have to add Uber and AirBnB as well. Facebook’s Instagram and WhatsApp will also be talked about under Facebook, as would YouTube under Google.

We do so mostly willingly, but mostly because of some vestigial connections still using that specific service or resource.

However, are these companies deserving of our trust, and our business, at all? Are they practitioners of ethical computing? Is our data safe with them? Can they be trusted in the future?

Over a series of blog posts, I will give you my thoughts on the firms listed above, and why I either have increased, stagnant, decreased, or zero engagement with them.

Believe me, some of these companies are not, and will NEVER be, in my Circle of Trust!

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The incredible madness that is 'dockless personal transportation'

Why would any municipality agree to this nonsense?

$10 to start. But, how do the batteries get recharged?

$10 to start. But, how do the batteries get recharged?

How also, would they be paid for it?

Listen, spare me the horsecrap explanations, and just solve this for me: if a legally-rented bicycle is left dockless by a paying customer at La Cienega & Rosewood, and then ridden illegally by someone else to Sunset & Fairfax, who is financially responsible for that additional ride?

Right?

Now, we come to dockless EV conveyances.

In addition to the previous question, I have just one more: how and where do these dockless EV devices get their catteries recharged?

Solar?

While cities have all these visions of millions of dollars from startups in this field dancing before their eyes, the reality is, these schemes have every indication of being just this side, legally, of a con.

And not even a long con, either.

Mix in cultural differences, and now, you have a problem.

Just because a pilot program worked in some Euro nation, doesn’t mean it would work here. Not at all.

Then, you have the ridership.

In every promotional media for these ‘creations’, it seems to target a certain demographic.

And unless that demographic can produce profits, these schemes are doomed.

Now, let us move on to societal concerns.

Ride this bike in certain gang territory, and you're just asking for it!

Ride this bike in certain gang territory, and you're just asking for it!

Can you see some rando millennial safely tooling around on an EV scooter in the C-P-T, Compton?

Or on the Eastside?

Me neither.

The perp of this flagrant millennialness would probably get #$%@&^ for being a complete doofus in the neighborhood, bringing down home prices in the process.

Homie just won’t survive.

Source: Citylab.

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Just about all Android phones ship with firmware vulns

“Pssst! Would you like a side of malware with that Android phone?”

Sounds harsh, but hey, that’s the reality of using Android devices.

Remember when it was discovered that almost all Android phone came with an app that phoned in customer data to a server in mainland China?

That app, though it could be deleted by users, would automagically resurrect itself, prompting emergency updates by wireless providers.

Well, this is even more insidious.

As discovered by security research firm Kryptowire, these Android problems just aren’t user-fixable at all. They’re embedded in the firmware, for goodness sake!

So, as a side dish to your Android phone, you get to have an increased malware attack area that attackers can use to surface your data wherever they can monetize it.

Ain’t that something?

I’m going to resist making a droll comment here.

Source: The Verge

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The AbsolutelyJohn Startech.com Thunderbolt 3 Docking Station for Laptops Review

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London, Ontario-based Startech.com is well known, and rather celebrated for their line of hard drive docks, which, unlike most of the swill out there, are extremely reliable.

In fact, I had 4 hard drive docks here at The Orbiting O’Odua before I snagged this review opportunity….

….which is rather fortuitous because I have two lappers here that can take advantage of the dock.

One of the things we all run into right quick, is screen space on our laptops.

Though I have the privilege of using two of the three best laptops in existence*, I always find myself needing more screen space with all the productivity applications I have opened.

Unfortunately, all of the desktop docks I had sampled or tested were found wanting. The most egregious of them always caused a BSOD/STOP event whenever I undocked a lapper! Moreover, they all were HD devices, barely able to drive my 2560x1600 HP ZR30w monitor.

Not good. Not good at all.

Into this breach, comes the Startech Thunderbolt 3 Dock.

Startech.com Thunderbolt 3 Docking Station for Laptops – Win & Mac**

The unit here, is feature-packed.

It sports, a USB-C port, count them – SIX – USB 3.0 ports with power delivery, an SD slot, A DisplayPort, and an ethernet port!

A true dock, if you will.

Let’s plunge in.

O.O.B.E.

Sometimes, a bad unboxing, or OOBE (Out-Of-the-Box-Experience) is a portend of disaster.

In fact, rarely is a bad OOBE not followed by a bad product, or user experience.

The OOBE for the Startech Dock was very good.

I cracked open the seals on the package, and found the surprisingly diminutive dock safely nestled in the box. Good.

What was included in the package took it away: in addition to the power supply cable, there was a USB-C cable, there was also a USB-C charging cable, a USB-c-to-DisplayPort cable, and an international (I’m assuming Canada) power supply.

Everything I needed.

Again, cool.

Test Setup

I basically used the same monitors for both tests: two Dell 4K monitors, and my trusty old HP ZR30w monitor. I also used the beta 4K monitor I am testing here from time to time. I also connected it to a projector driving a 125” screen.

Test devices were an Apple MacBook Pro, and a Dell XPS15.

Testing the Startech Thunderbolt 3 Docking Station

Dell XPS15

Connect, and go. Fini.

That’s it.

No software to be loaded, no (included) manual to peruse. Just connect-and-go.

I had zero connection and config issues. The dock drove both monitors seamlessly, only needing me to ID and set monitor positions in order to reach my optimal workflow.

I could drag and position any application on whatever screen I wanted to without fuss, and they all moved snappily.

One of my buddy Markham’s pet peeves with PC laptops and external monitors is that removing them from the monitor(s) almost always causes a STOP event. As opposed to when he does the same without errors on his Macbook Pro.

While I know this isn’t an apples-to-apples comparison – pun, but using the Thunderbolt 3 dock as an interlocutor produced zero STOP events or errors with the Dell XPS15.

Finally, I use it to display media on a projected screen that I, in turn, broadcast to my staff. Pretty kewl, of me! 😉

Apple Macbook Pro

This past Christmas, I scored a Macbook Pro which I have so far used sparingly. Primarily because it has that smallish – compared to the XPS15 screen, and because I am me, and it is not Windows!

However, I use it for quickie email triage and troffing off emails where brevity is needed.

It is though, a perfect platform to test the Startech.com Thunderbolt 3 Dock on.

It worked. Perfectly.

What I liked about it was that with the MBP, I just used the two 4K screens, not even looking at that weak play Apple called the MBP screen.

Microsoft Office is the app, and I found myself able to do more on MBP when docked than I have been able to do since December 25 of last year!

I max’d out the USB 3.0 slots on the device with external hard drives, and no worries.

Everything worked.

I am thinking of amp’ing up the ante by ordering up a LaCie Thunderbolt 3 external hard drive just to test performance***. Maybe portable external SSDs, it there’s such a thing.

Conclusions

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I must confess that I generally put peripheral devices in the “Someday, Sometime” category, for reviews.

Why?

Because there are so many of them across several usage scenarios.

However, this is different.

I used it entirely in a business environment to great success. Secondarily, I was able to use it to consume Netflix and Amazon Prime Video consumer content.

The flicker-free video and zero-latency mouse movements need to be seen to be believed, and everything just works out of the box.

This is, without a doubt, the most able peripheral device I have attached to a computer in a very long time. it is immediately useful; has the most pleasant OOBE – ‘featureless install’, included cables; and the user experience for connected devices is superb.

Resultantly, we are bestowing the SmallBizWindows Business Ready Award of Excellence on the Startech.com Thunderbolt 3 Docking Station for Windows & Macs.

I look forward to other scenarios, and to testing other good stuff from Startech.

-John

*The top 3 laptops commercially available are the Dell XPS15 – in all models, especially the one with the 4K screen, the Dell XPS13, and Apple Macbook Pro. We have tested them. We have reviewed them. We have placed several hundred of the first two devices to great success, so you won’t waste your time replication it. You’re welcome.

**Somebody at Startech.com needs to quit going full IBM in product nomenclature!

***If I do so, I will post an update to this review detailing my experience.

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The Incredibly ‘Hot Mess’ that is the Microsoft News app

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This is something I didn’t see coming!

For one thing, Microsoft is not known as a company which creates upgrades that completely mess things up further. Which makes the new Microsoft News app even sadder.

If you overlook the one-time misstep that was Windows Vista, you really wonder how Microsoft got here.

For years, especially since Windows 8 dropped, the MSN News app plodded along.

The app was never improved upon. Not  a single iota.

Even the basics people want in their news apps, weren’t there: customizations were not possible, news sources were limited, and the UI sucked major.

However, there were two things the app excelled in: it was relatively quick, and no matter what the prevailing thought of the day was, the news was laid out chronologically.

Over the years, it became quite useless, and most folks moved away from it.

However, it was sorta crammed down your throat when you initiated a new Windows ‘X’ install, and also when you used any Microsoft property in iOS. After a while, you got completely worn out by the nag screens asking you to install the News and companion MSN Sports app, that you basically capitulated.

I actually liked the Sports app because it was about the only app that would bring me timely Formula 1 news. Apart from that, it was rather useless for every other sport. Or, I didn’t even try after version 1; I don’t remember which….

My greatest pet peeve with this app was that it would neither let you select news sources, nor let you block and/or deprecate news sources.

What good is that?

Worse yet, you couldn’t even make the minor customizations allowed without creating a Microsoft Account, signing in to MSN.com from a [desktop] browser, and making customizations there. Which would then be propagated to all devices and apps linked to your Microsoft account.

Yes, some Redmondian Mensa came up with this merde!

Totally, uncharacteristic for Microsoft, if we discount the one-time swill called Windows ME.

Since Microsoft is integral to my business life, I had to dogfood it, so to speak.

So, with apps like Apple’s formerly excellent News, and Flipboard, I was able to endure.

Sadly, Flipboard removed their little news age notification, so I don’t know, at-a-glance, how old the proffered news tidbit is without reading the entire article. And iOS News app has resorted to some algorithmic kaka in order to bring you Siri “AI-powered” news. Moreover, on my ipad, iOS News seems to trail my iPhone in synching/updating the news. Crazy, right?

Aaaah! I almost forgot my 3rd pet peeve with the old MSN News app: you can’s select an news article for sharing without opening up the story.

And since I’m here: 4th peeve: you cannot dislike any story. 5thpeeve: you cannot dislike, downvote, or block a story topic.

Yes: why bother [with it], right?

Well, I still maintain that this is very unlike Microsoft, especially if we ignore the abominable Windows 8.

A week or so ago, Microsoft fanboy sites started shillin’ about the Microsoft News app which was going to replace the MSN App.

I took the bait, and installed it on two iOS devices: an iPad and an iPhone.

Incredibly, this product has gotten worse!

Wow!

Where can I start?

  • It now has ads embedded into everything, completely FUBAR’ing your reading experience. I am talking about ads at the top, the middle, and everywhere else within a story!
  • It is no longer chronological, with stories coming at you from whenever.
  • You still cannot select a landing tab without signing it.
  • You still cannot restrict news sources.
  • You still cannot block or deprecate a news topic.
  • You still cannot select your desired news sources.
  • It now has infinite scrolling! Either in the headlines, or after a story!

The graphics are blocky, and all over, sadly, eerily, and scarily reminiscent of the Duplo-esque UI that was the failed Windows Phone/Windows Mobile debacle!

People, this is Windows 98 all over again!

If this, after a decade or more, is the best Microserfs can do, I shudder.

© 2002 – 2018, John Obeto for Blackground Media Unlimited

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Shiny New Thing: Startech.com Thunderbolt 3 Dual-4K Docking Station

I am in possession – have been for over 3 weeks! – of the Startech Thunderbolt 3 Dual 4K Docking Station.

 

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This thing is a beauty.

It comes with SIX USB 3.0 ports, as well as an SD card reader.

Windows & Mac compatible, this device is driving two 4K mobitors here with serious aplomb.

I have been using it with both a Dell XPS15 and my Macbook Pro, and it is doing the job very well.

Full review follows shortly.

Product page here:

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Google allows 3rd-party humans to read your email

This is bad. Very bad.

Like ELE-level bad!

Think about it:

Your startup, with all your best ideas and innovations, sends all your email via Gmail.

Then, your startup's email, containing all your best ideas and innovations, is read by some 3rd-party yob, in the name of ‘app development’.

This 3rd-party yum-yum, with access to emails containing all of your startup’s best ideas and innovations, now decides to literally use you for his or her personal R&D. Reading all you good stuff. Cataloging all your good stuff. Maintaining a shadow company for all your good stuff. Registering, trademarking, or patenting all YOUR good stuff.

By the time you’re ready to goto market, guess what?

Your game-changing innovation is now owned by some thieving mofo.

All because you trusted your email to Google.

Dare I ask how sunny your days going forward would be?

© 2002 – 2018, John Obeto for Blackground Media Unlimited

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