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Major collaboration and video conferencing software vendors are now offering products to users at no extra cost in response to the spread of the coronavirus.

Concerns about the COVID-19 virus have led to a boom in remote working, as organizations encourage employees to stay home and a growing number of conferences are cancelled.

While many companies have seen their stock prices take a battering because of the disruption caused by the virus & the new York Stock Exchange was down sharply again Thursday & software vendors that enable remote work such as video conference software provider Zoom have seen stock prices climb dramatically.

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Well, I'll be: Just after we finished chatting about hidden Pixel features, Google went and dropped a whole new batch of interesting options in our laps.

The latest Pixel "feature drop," erm, dropped this week, and it's overflowing with potentially useful additions for your phone. Between the headlining elements and the smaller, less obvious touches, there's plenty worth exploring — and plenty that'd be all too easy to fail to embrace.

So don't let yourself miss out on something worthwhile. After spending the past few days with Google's freshest Pixel improvements, here's a breakdown of the most noteworthy new stuff making its way to your phone this week and what you can do to make the most of it.

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Microsoft this week opened a private preview of its all-cloud Universal Print service to customers running Windows 10 Enterprise or Windows 10 Education.

Those customers also require an available Azure Active Directory (AAD) tenant, to which the personal computers accessing the cloud printing preview must be joined.

Elsewhere, Microsoft described Universal Print as "a Microsoft 365 subscription-based service;" it was unclear whether that meant only customers licensing Microsoft 365 - the subscription bundling Windows 10, Office 365 and a host of management and security tools - would be eligible for the preview, the final when it debuts or both.

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The Computing Technology Industry Association, commonly referred to as CompTIA, sets the standard by which most budding IT professionals are judged. That makes earning one of their credentials extraordinarily important if you plan on making it in the IT scene. Looking for the most convenient path to success? Check out The Master CompTIA Training Bundle, temporarily discounted to $49.99.

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Apple settled a class action lawsuit as a result of alleged battery throttling issues in its iPhone 6, 6 Plus, 6s, 6s Plus, 7, 7 Plus and SE models. The settlement calls for Apple to pay consumers $25 per iPhone. MacworldMichael Simon joins Juliet to discuss how customers might get paid, who is and isn&t eligible and why Apple settled in the first place.

More about this in Mikearticle on Macworld: https://www.macworld.com/article/3530074/if-you-have-an-iphone-6-or-7-apple-owes-you-some-cash.html

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No matter how important this year'sWWDC 2020 might be, I don't see Apple, which strives to be a good corporate citizen, holding its big show in June amid the gatheringCoronavirus threat.

This is global warning

We&re in the containment phase at the moment, as governments worldwide seek to slow the spread of the infectionin the hope they can find some kind of solution.Itin everybodyinterest to hold that line for as long as possible.

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