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by Sarah Perez (@sarahintampa)
The big Twitter news currently may be the expansion of tweets to support 280 characters instead of just 140, but a number of Twitter users recently spotted another notable change, as well: the Twitter Apple Watch app has disappeared. The app’s iTunes App Store page no longer notes compatibility with the Apple Watch, and users who have updated to the latest versions of iOS and watchOS note the Twitter Watch app is no longer available on their smartwatch.
As I write this, Air Force One has landed nearby at the McCarran Airport and the President is enroute to UMC hospital. But I’m here to provide an update that captures the spirit of Las Vegas nearly three days after the shooting tragedy.
If I had to offer an update for today,
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I’m reporting from the surreal scene this Monday morning called the Las Vegas Strip where I’m here at The Cosmopolitan for the first day of the annual Continuum Navigate conference. Continuum is a major remote management and monitoring (RMM) vendor in the SMB Managed Services Provider (MSP) segment.
It feels a lot like the sunny fall day long ago called 9/11 where people
BY NAT LEVY on September 25, 2017 at 6:00 am
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner. (Microsoft Photo)
More than a year after Microsoft announced its plans to purchase LinkedIn for $26.2 billion, the technology giant is rolling out some of the first integrations with the business social network.
At its Ignite conference in Orlando this morning, Microsoft plans to announce that Office 365 will include a new “profile card” that can display LinkedIn information.
GoDaddy published the results of a study looking at page load speeds across four website builders: GoDaddy’s GoCentral, Wix, Weebly, and Squarespace.
Siri screenshot. (Apple Image)
Apple is ditching Bing and will now use Google to power the default search engine for Siri, Search within iOS (iOS search bar), and Spotlight on Mac.
TechCrunch reported Monday that Apple users will now see search results powered by Google, instead of Bing, when using those tools.
For example, when an iPhone user asks Siri a question that needs a search engine result, the voice assistant will now pull from Google, not Bing.
I have a dog in this fight. In graduate school my MBA concentration was in project management from a construction industry vantage point (fortunately my skills easily transferred to IT and the rest is history). So when Smartsheet announced its first ever user conference, I marked it as a must do. It was time well spent and, yes, I’ll yelp that I will repeat. Heck 1,000 attendees can’t be wrong (note this was an IT Pro audience with 55% self-selecting as super users).