Babbel Language Learning: Lifetime Subscription (All Languages) Deal price: $199 | Original price: $499 The program helps your pronunciation to stay on point with speech recognition. And the bite-sized lessons are so easy to conveniently fit into your daily schedule with 10- or 15-minute practice sessions. All skill levels can benefit, from beginner to advanced and the lessons cover a wide range of useful topics, such as family, food, business, travel, and a whole lot more....

The platform, Lexmark Optra IoT Solutions, was announced at the virtual IoT Tech Expo North America event. Lexmark CEO Allen Waugerman said managing printers, predictive maintenance and ingesting data have been hallmarks of Lexmark. Waugerman noted that “workgroup printers were among the first shared, connected devices” and argued that Lexmark’s evolution was organic. “We’re known for printers and advanced services, and this is a natural expansion,” he said. What is the IoT?...

As business users build more of their own interfaces and even back-end apps, software developers will see their roles increasingly elevated from coders to advisers to their businesses on digital strategy. As every company evolves into a software company, those adept at software will guide their businesses into this new state of existence – a software culture, if you will. With more application development going to the business, software developers should expect to see the following changes in their job descriptions:...

With this laptop, you’ll get 512GB of storage to take your most important documents with you on the go. Apple may have announced the M2 chip a few months ago, but the M1 chip built into this model still offers a powerful processor for all of your computer needs, be it streaming, editing video content, or just surfing the web. The 13.3-inch screen comes with Apple signature Liquid Retina Display, promising beautiful imagery on-screen....

The American Marketing Association-New York’s 2021 Future of Marketing Survey canvased the marketing technology landscape relative to 2019’s report. Overall, consumers are beginning to accept new marketing technology, but worried about privacy. What caught my eye in the survey was dream-tech, which was opposed by 32% of consumers, supported by 39% with the remainder falling in the don’t know category. Given this dream-tech concept wasn’t around in 2019, the favorability rating is a bit stunning....

FireEye announced the sale of its FireEye Products business to a consortium led by Symphony Technology Group (STG) in July, separating the company’s network, email, endpoint and cloud security products from Mandiant’s software and services. In March, McAfee sold its enterprise security business to STG in a deal worth $4 billion, paving the way for the two to be merged. The two companies now boast a combined customer base of 40,000, about 5,000 employees and almost $2 billion in revenue....

Be warned: Mediacom consistently ranks far below average in surveys from J.D. Power, and the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), with users citing billing issues and frequent outages. However, if you do sign up and are unhappy with your service, Mediacom has a 90-day money-back guarantee for your peace of mind. Features Mediacom’s “customization” really just entails selecting from its speed options. It has a range of high-speed choices: 60 Mbps, 100 Mbps, 200 Mbps, 500 Mbps, and 1,000 Mbps....

Today sees the Pico getting a highly requested feature – Wi-Fi. And the price tag is still tiny, with the new Raspberry Pi Pico W coming in at only $6. Not much has changed with the Pico W if you compare it to the Pico. The RP2040 microcontroller is unchanged, and still features a 133MHz dual-core Arm Cortex-M0+ chip, 264KB of SRAM, and 2MB of QSPI flash storage. And this all fits onto a board measuring 21mm x 51mm....

Meetquo is not your standard video conferencing app. While other tools just allow you to communicate in real-time, Meetquo lets meetings take place asynchronously. That means no wrangling schedules and trying to make sure everyone is on time, no relying on a single person to lead the conversation, no worrying about interruptions and distractions derailing the conversation, and no messages being immediately forgotten as soon as the meeting ends. Here are the top three reasons why your meetings feel unproductive:...

Azure was up 51 percent (from some undisclosed base number) for the quarter and Dynamics 365 was up 49 percent from some undisclosed base – its third consecutive quarter of growth. There’s a lot of headroom for upselling customers to Microsoft’s most expensive E5 SKU of Microsoft 365/Office 365, since only eight percent of Office 365 users are currently on Office 365 E5, Hood noted. Microsoft 365/Office 365 consumer subscribers are now at 51....

In a blog post, Microsoft general manager of global industry product marketing Kees Hertogh said the tool had been renamed and now allows customers to measure the impact of Microsoft cloud usage on a company’s carbon footprint and drill down into emissions by month, service, and datacenter region. The tool also lets users enter un-migrated workloads and get an estimate of emissions savings from migrating to the Microsoft cloud while also giving users a chance to calculate and understand the carbon impact of cloud workloads across scope 3 emissions....

The two key Defender for Cloud services are Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and Cloud Workload Protection (CWP) – two categories of security products that address cloud misconfigurations. SEE: Cloud computing is the key to business success. But unlocking its benefits is hard work Eric Doerr, corporate vice president of Cloud Security at Microsoft, noted there are no dependencies on Google’s own tools, easy onboarding from GCP workloads, and more than 80 recommendations to harden an environment in GCP or AWS....

As noted by Neowin, this Dev channel release marks the first time Microsoft has put out a new build of Edge in line with Google’s shorter four-week update cycle. The Edge preview build 94.0.992.1 is the last build for version 94 and brings support for the downloads pop-up in PWAs and websites that are installed as apps. Edge users can also open local HTML or web files on iPhones and iPads, and there’s a new interface for WebView2 to launch the Browser Task Manager and listen for browser exits....

Microsoft officials recently said Teams now has 250 million monthly active users but have not shared any information on how many of those are using Teams consumer features.

Do they try so very hard to change, yet their old foibles return again and again to annoy and destroy everyone’s mood? Is one of your friends Microsoft? I only wonder because I’m becoming increasingly baffled by Redmond’s behavior in one specific area of its business. It has an excellent product called Edge. Yet it doesn’t advertise it. It doesn’t show customers just how excellent it is. Instead, Microsoft chooses to force it upon them like a cruel school nurse in a 1950s British horror movie....

Microsoft’s vertical clouds are meant to give partners and customers a set of industry-specific components upon which they can build and customize their own solutions. The common data model underpinning all of its vertical clouds is Dataverse, the technology formerly known as the Common Data Service.

The Salesforce app for Teams has been available in preview since October. It replicates the Salesforce CRM app for Slack, allowing joint Teams and Salesforce customers to mention various Salesforce records in Teams channels and chats, such as opportunities, accounts, cases, contacts, and leads. Service teams can also improve coordination and response times to open cases to help keep customers happy, reduce the support loads, and cut out productivity barriers caused by switching between Teams and Salesforce....

This includes a redesigned landing page with better categories of curated apps. The new store is rolling out over the next month, according to a Microsoft blogpost. Microsoft has struggled to make the Microsoft Store for Windows 10/11 appealing, but it’s pressing ahead with a visual revamp of the Teams desktop client’s app store to make new apps easier to discover and install. The first change is a new carousel at the top of the page displaying apps that users might find interesting....

Teams has become an important app for video meetings and chat for millions of Office users who could soon be gaining a leisure-focused social option with casual games integrated with Teams. The games for Teams idea follows a plethora of more serious group-meeting enhancements Microsoft has rolled out in the last couple of years like Together mode, background scenes, echo cancelation and anti-interruption features, and background noise cancelation and music detection....

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) kicked off its own investigation into an April 2022 report by security vendor Recorded Future about a “likely Chinese state-sponsored” threat actor targeting the Indian power sector for the past two years. Recorded Future listed over a dozen network indicators of compromise (IOCs) it had observed between late 2021 and Q1 2022 that were used in 38 intrusions against multiple organisations in India’s energy sector....