Disney pushes past Netflix in streaming battle
It had staked its future on building a streaming service to rival Netflix as audiences moved to online viewing from traditional TV. Walt Disney Co edged past Netflix Inc with a total of 221 million streaming customers and announced it will increase prices for customers…
Google working on fixing its information verification issue
In 2014, if you were to Google “King of the United States,” you would have seen a picture of Barack Obama, yelling passionately into a microphone while at a podium. That’s not true, of course. But Google proclaimed it with authority after surfacing a Breitbart…
Microsoft 365 version 2206 update halted due to crashing apps
Microsoft has pulled the Microsoft 365 version 2206 update after users report their Office applications are crashing when viewing a contact card or hovering over a user’s name or photo. The bug was introduced with the Monthly Enterprise Channel version 2206 (build 15330.20298), released Tuesday…
Video Indexing Report Now Available on Google Search Console
Google’s new report in Search Console identifies issues Google ran into when crawling webpages with videos. Google is adding a new report to Search Console that will help you understand how your videos perform in search results. Previewed in May at Google I/O, the Video…
Microsoft redesigns OneDrive for 15th Anniversary
Microsoft’s marking OneDrive’s 15th anniversary with a new landing page, called OneDrive Home, and it should make it easier to keep tabs on your work. Instead of arriving on the My files tab when you first open OneDrive, you’ll find yourself on the new Home…
Adoption of Cloud computing use is growing rapidly
The majority of European businesses have adopted cloud for IT infrastructure but its mostly being deployed on US cloud technologies. European firms are reaching a new scale of public cloud usage, with 92% of companies in the UK, France and Germany saying they have adopted…
Google can now share your private videos without your consent
Arlo, Apple, Wyze, and Anker, owner of Eufy, all confirmed to CNET that they won’t give authorities access to your smart home camera’s footage unless they’re shown a warrant or court order. If you’re wondering why they’re specifying that, it’s because we’ve now learned Google…
Twitter starts rolling out its new ‘Status feature’
A new Twitter feature is appearing for select users in the US and Australia. This new feature lets you assign one of several pre-written labels to tweets. A spokesperson for the company confirmed the limited test in a statement given to TechCrunch, while Twitter users…
Google reinstates app permissions section back to the Play Store
Google says it’s rolling back its decision to remove a section from the Play Store that listed which permissions an app uses. The company had more or less replaced that info with its Data Safety section, which is supposed to give you an idea of…
AWS Announces its Cloud WAN for Centralized Workload Management
Recently AWS announced the general availability of its Cloud WAN solution allowing enterprises to set up and manage a complete WAN environment from a single cloud-based console. AWS Cloud WAN, which has been in preview since last year, is a cloud-based managed WAN service that…