A snapshot of links shared on my Twitter account @WinObs for today
- SwiftKey announces Photo Themes, partnership with National Geographic contributing photographer
- Brad Smith takes his call for a Digital Geneva Convention to the United Nations
- Coding Made Me Learn How to Learn Again
- Generation at risk of falling behind in tech skills unless computing education funding improves, report finds
- Introducing our Sydney Community Reporter Adam Fowler!
- Accelerating the adoption of enterprise blockchain
- Salesforce’s IoT Explorer exposes IoT data to lines of business
- Whitelisted IP addresses lost for Tier 1 and Tier 2+ Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise edition environments
- SharePoint Online Search Overview
- EA buys out a game studio after shutting another one down 3 weeks ago
- Time for a change—meet the new Sway.com
- The New York Times is launching a monthly kids' print section with puzzles, an advice column, and stories starting November 19 and lasting through 2018 (Ricardo BiltonNieman Lab)
- Time Inc. misses with Q3 net income of $13M on $679M revenue, below $694M estimated and down 9.5% YoY due to print declines; magazine revenue fell to $433M (Sonam RaiReuters)
- Electronic Arts to acquire Titanfall maker Respawn Entertainment for $315M in cash and stock, plus a possible bonus of $140M (Dean TakahashiVentureBeat)
- How to run Windows apps on your Chromebook
- Disney misses with Q4 net income of $1.75B, down 1% YoY, on $12.78B in revenue, down 2.8% YoY and below $13.2B estimated (Paul BondHollywood Reporter)
- GIGABYTE’s GC-AQC107 10G Ethernet PCIe Card Launched and Listed
- Bigfoot says it was swindled in celebrity website purchase
- Sources about 100 layoffs expected at ESPN after Thanksgiving, affecting on-air talent, executives, producers, and digital and tech staffers (Richard DeitschSI.com)
- Source Snapchat redesign coming Dec. 4, app will still open to camera, all friend-based comms move to left, all crowdsourced, partner, celeb stories to right (Alex HeathBusiness Insider)
- IBM Cloud Hands German Users Control of Their Data
- 10 Fastest Growing Tech Companies in the US
- Microsoft Releases Security Advisory on Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)
- Domainer files lawsuit claiming Roxi.com is stolen
- Auto Attendants and Call Queues Holidays, Agent Opt InOut and Serial Routing in Preview
- Cheddar plans to launch a second channel, Cheddar Big News, by the end of Q1 2018, broadcasting from 6am to 10pm daily, modeled after CNN's Headline News (Sahil PatelDigiday)
- This Week on Windows Surface Book 2 now available for pre-order, Samsung HMD Odyssey availability and more
- The Verge ‘Microsoft integrates LinkedIn with Word to help you write a resume’
- Flagship Microsoft Store in New York to host the Gears Esports Fall Regionals tournament Nov. 11-12
- Xbox and Under Armour partner to create the Xbox One X Curry 4 ‘More Power’ VIP Kit
- Microsoft's Surface Precision Mouse is available for pre-order
- Upcoming Security Updates for Adobe Reader and Acrobat (APSB17-36)
- Lite-On Launches CA3 M.2 NVMe SSDs Up to 1TB, 2.9 GBs, Marvell 88SS1093
- Windows Mixed Reality headsets get SteamVR games and apps November 15
- Xbox One X nearly sold out at GameStop within 24 hours of launch
- Research report on the state of IoT implementation Experience counts
- Microsoft’s Brad Smith Tech giants must be the first line of defense in cyberspace arms race
- Files Go app on Android helps keep your device tidy
- Nielsen to include data from Comcast's set-top boxes in local TV ratings; Nielsen now has access to viewing information four major cable and satellite providers (Jon LafayetteMultichannel News)
