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View Online Tech News Flash March 17, 2020 New Website Aims to Help People Access COVID-19 Testing Project Baseline, a new website to facilitate screening and testing of people potentially infected with the COVID-19 virus, became available on Sunday. Verily, a company owned by Google parent Alphabet, launched the site. Read More 3 Things the Tech Industry Could Do to Mitigate Pandemic Problems While the technology market could be devastated by COVID-19, there are several things tech players could do to mitigate the damage. This week, TechNewsWorld columnist Rob Enderle covers the top three from his perspective. Not things that every company can do, and many already are doing, like having people work from home and stand six feet apart. Instead, he focuses on aggressive steps the industry could take to mitigate the first manageable pandemic. Read More Microsoft Leaves Necurs Botnet in Shambles Microsoft and partners have disrupted the Necurs botnet group blamed for infecting more than 9 million computers globally. There are 11 botnets under the Necurs umbrella, all apparently controlled by a single group, according to Valter Santos, security researcher at Bitsight, which worked with Microsoft on the takedown. Read More COVID-19 and Computer Security, Part 1: Telecommuting Risks The U.S. Office of Personnel Management has urged agencies to prepare to allow federal employees to telework -- that is, work remotely. TechNewsWorld spoke with numerous cybersecurity experts to get tips on how to stay safe while staying healthy. Read More Report: Open Source Vulnerabilities Rampant in Popular Projects Open Source vulnerabilities rose by nearly 50% in 2019 over the previous year, based on a report released Thursday. Common vulnerabilities rated as high or critical severity were found in all of the most popular open source projects, according to the WhiteSource 2020 annual report, "The State of Open Source Security Vulnerabilities." The vulnerability rate is expected to continue rising. Read More Coronavirus Nerves: Whoa Horsey! What will be funny about our era? Perhaps it will have something to do with overreacting to the situation by reordering society, as some have suggested. Those suggestions include, but are not limited to, ending tradeshows, scrapping office cubicles, installing industrial strength HVAC systems to sterilize office air, and imposing untold additional torture on those who still agree to sit in airline seats. I am not so sure. Read More TRENDING ON TECHNEWSWORLD VPN, Ad Blocker Provider Caught With Hand in the Data Jar A number of VPN and ad-blocking apps owned by Sensor Tower, a popular analytics platform, have been collecting data from millions of people using the programs on their Android and iOS devices, according to a report. Read more www.technewsworld.com FEATURED RESOURCES 5 Ways to Modernize Your Business with Mobile Technology Free eBook: A Specialty Retailer's Guide to Migrating to Android. Read more technewsworld.tradepub.com NICE inContact | ICMI Agent Experience Toolkit To boost customer satisfaction and loyalty, your contact center agents need to stay engaged and motivated. Access the ICMI Agent Experience Toolkit and get the framework to help you assess your current agent experience. Read more get.niceincontact.com READER SERVICES News Alerts Get the day's top e-business and technology news from ECT News Network delivered to your inbox as stories break. Sign up today. Feedback We welcome your feedback. To share your thoughts or ideas, please use our online form. Manage Subscriptions This newsletter was sent in response to your request on an ECT News Network website. To update your settings, or to receive other newsletters from ECT News Network: Manage My Subscriptions. BUSINESS SERVICES How to Advertise To advertise in this newsletter or elsewhere on ECT News Network, please call our sales department (818) 461-9700 or follow these links: Contact Sales | Media Kit | Rate Card | Lead Generation ‌ ‌ ‌ © 2020 ECT News Network, Inc.

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View Online Tech News Flash March 11, 2020 VPN, Ad Blocker Provider Caught With Hand in the Data Jar A number of VPN and ad-blocking apps owned by Sensor Tower, a popular analytics platform, have been collecting data from millions of people using the programs on their Android and iOS devices, according to a report. Read More COVID-19 and the End of Daily Life as We Know It We apparently have no immunity to COVID-19, and a vaccine likely is around 18 months away. It takes a while to change human behavior, but if we go a full 18 months or more with people working from home and avoiding places like malls, big box stores, and other areas where people congregate -- like offices and events -- it will force a fundamental, permanent change in the way we work and interact. Read More Twitter Tiptoes Into Battle to Curb Social Media Misinformation Twitter on Sunday applied its "manipulative media" label to a deceptively edited video showing presidential hopeful Joe Biden saying, "re-elect Donald Trump." It was the first time the service enforced rules adopted last month to control synthetic and manipulated media. Read More Elive Beta With Enlightenment Is Brilliant, but Don't Get Lost in the Maze Elive Linux is an awesome integration of the Debian Linux base and the Enlightenment desktop. The combination provides a uniquely powerful and flexible computing platform. Check out Jack Germain's review on LinuxInsider. Read More COVID-19 and the Bleak Outlook for the Tech Supply Chain Consumers around the world already are seeing empty shelves in retail stores, and products from China likely will be in high demand. Shortages will disproportionately affect the tech sector, as tech firms typically do not keep large inventories of parts on hand. Read More TRENDING ON TECHNEWSWORLD Apple to Pay Up to $500M for Throttling iPhones Amid Disaster, COVID-19 Presents Opportunities FEATURED RESOURCES 5 Ways to Modernize Your Business with Mobile Technology Free eBook: A Specialty Retailer's Guide to Migrating to Android. Read more technewsworld.tradepub.com NICE inContact | ICMI Agent Experience Toolkit To boost customer satisfaction and loyalty, your contact center agents need to stay engaged and motivated. Access the ICMI Agent Experience Toolkit and get the framework to help you assess your current agent experience. Read more get.niceincontact.com READER SERVICES News Alerts Get the day's top e-business and technology news from ECT News Network delivered to your inbox as stories break. Sign up today. Feedback We welcome your feedback. To share your thoughts or ideas, please use our online form. Manage Subscriptions This newsletter was sent in response to your request on an ECT News Network website. To update your settings, or to receive other newsletters from ECT News Network: Manage My Subscriptions. BUSINESS SERVICES How to Advertise To advertise in this newsletter or elsewhere on ECT News Network, please call our sales department (818) 461-9700 or follow these links: Contact Sales | Media Kit | Rate Card | Lead Generation ‌ ‌ ‌ © 2020 ECT News Network, Inc.

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