Coronavirus prevention: The 'high-touch' areas you should disinfect in your home
From doorknobs to smartphones, herea round-up of the high-touch areas to focus on, as well as our top tips for keeping them clean

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Enterprise resilience: Backup and management tips for iOS, Mac

Applesolutions are seeingincreasing use across the enterprise, but do you have a business resilience strategy in place in case things go wrong?

If you&re one of the estimated 73% of SMBs that have not yet made such preparation, now might be a good time to start.

Your data is your business

Itchallenging enough when a consumer user suffers data loss as precious memories and valuable information go up in the digital smoke.Natural disasters, technology and infrastructure problems or human-made problems such as burglary, cyberattacks or civil unrest can all impact the sanctity of your systems, whatever platform you use. It matters because in todayconnected world, your data is your business.

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Coronavirus in dogs: Experts explain your pet's risk of catching the virus
The coronavirus is thought to have originated in animals, so itunsurprising that many pet owners are worried about their pet catching it

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Flashback Friday: Sheright — that doesn&t work

Support pilot fish handles a call from a harried user who tells fish her new laptop isn&t working.

&I opened the laptop up and entered her password and found everything completely normal,& says fish.

&I asked her again what the problem was. She said, ‘I told you: It doesn&t work.&

&I closed out normally and asked her to sit down and show me how she accesses the computer.

&The first screen came up for her to enter her password. She started trying to delete the word ‘Password.&

&Right then and there Lesson 101 began.&

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How the coronavirus is changing tech and 5 things to do about it
Due to the Covid-19 virus, some tech-culture trends are radically accelerating. Others are being reversed. And it's happening all at once. Here's what you need to know.

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Coronavirus prompts collaboration tool makers to offer wares for free

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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