Just as innovation in customer experience begins with a deeper understanding of the customer, understanding organizational financial drivers and investment goals can help every CIO be a more effective corporate leader. Still, creating a meaningful partnership with the CFO can be hard. Given the profound value of building a solid CIO/CFO partnership, I asked the chief financial officer of ServiceNow, Gina Mastantuono, to share advice for CIOs. She appears as a guest on episode #708 of the CXOTalk series of conversations with people shaping our world....

“The next big innovation for unified communications users will not be a technical innovation,” he said to reporters this week. “It will be a focus on the user experience.” There are whole segments of users, Middleton said, “that have more needs than the traditional back-office worker, but not so many needs that they require a fancy omnichannel contact center app.” That could include sales teams collaborating around opportunities, event staff organized and reorganized each day into project teams, retail floor staff that are tag-teaming curbside pickup SMS notifications, or caseworker teams serving constituents....

That’s my philosophical thought of the day. The more humans have become embedded in technology’s core, the more it’s turned them into paranoid spies. Spy cameras and other software now seem de rigueur for companies. They want to spy on you in the office. They even want to spy on you when you’re working from home. Trust you to do your job? What do you think this is, 1982? I was moved to significant raptures, then, by a story told by a warehouse employee....

While Honor likes to offer a range of different colour choices for its smartphones, the Honor Pad 8 is only available in one colour – the oddly named Blue Hour. It is a slate blue shade, with a matte finish that picks up fingerprints quite readily and is a little slippery. The Honor marque sits unobtrusively in the centre of the backplate, with the camera lozenge in the top right corner (viewed in landscape mode)....

Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month began in 1978 as a 10-day observance with a Congressional resolution. Congress expanded the observance to a full month in 1992. May is significant for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. The first Japanese immigrants arrived in the US in early May of 1843. And some 25 years later, Chinese immigrants played a key role in the laborious construction of the transcontinental railroad. Completed in May 1869, the rail line linked the Midwest and Eastern US with the Pacific coast....

The browser starts showing you stuff. And not just random stuff. It’s almost like it knows us. It does. But how does this work? How does the browser figure out what to show you? Well, there’s a setting that allows you to get a peek behind the curtains and get a glimpse at what’s going on. Must read: Buying a new Apple gadget? Here’s how to find the best deals (September 2021) To see what’s going on, type the following into Google Chrome’s omnibar and press enter: chrome://omnibox/ Note: This varies for other Chromium browsers....

The revenue number grew a healthy 16% year over year. Its Q3 revenue guide is $276M to $286M, the midpoint of which is in line with the Street’s expected $281.1M, where EPS is expected to be $0.16 to $0.21, also in line with the expected $0.18. Extreme has now exceeded its numbers for the past four consecutive quarters, showing an acceleration to the business, despite a tough macro environment slowed by supply-chain shortages and uncertainty about people returning to work....

The camera might be small, but it’s very capable. And it can be made even better by the addition of filters. There are neutral density (ND) filters that act like sunglasses for your drone, allowing you to capture cinematic shots or take amazing long exposure photos, or there are wide-angle lens that allow you to capture even more of the scene. Also: The 5 best surveillance drones But fitting filters is fiddly, and the camera is relatively fragile, so it’s a good idea to take things slowly and carefully....

Creating a LinkedIn Poll is one of the most effective ways to engage with current and potential members of your online community. Before you think, “That’s too much work,” here’s a little secret: Creating and managing a poll actually takes less brain power than curating the perfect post for both you and viewers. The process takes less than 5 minutes (especially once you become proficient) and after you hit “Publish,” the stress of it all is out of your hands....

For the general-purpose network, I can just have MacOS accept an IP address from the DHCP server. However, for the container network, I prefer assigning a static IP address. Is this possible? It certainly is. With the help of MacOS Network Locations, you can assign specific configurations for specific networks (or locations) and even define a particular network you want to connect to within a location. Let me show you how it works....

Once you have that server up and running, you’ll find it does a great job of helping your teams work together. But what if I told you that you could easily make it even more powerful? That’s right, with the installation of third-party apps, you can extend the feature set to include the likes of reminders, anonymizers, auto image moderation, custom emojis, polls, out-of-office responders, content filters, and tons of third-party integrations (such as Jira, BitBucket, ClamAV, Confluence, Bitbucket, Botpress, and more....

The problem is, not every photo or video is good. Duplicates and blurry shots are commonplace (here are tips on taking fewer blurry photos), and most people don’t delete them immediately, leaving that task for some point in the future. Also: How to buy more iPhone storage But trawling through thousands of photos and videos in the photo library is not most people’s idea of fun, which is why the photo library grows and grows and grows until it gets out of control and people end up buying a new iPhone with more storage space....

Having an impressive background is helpful, but Google is looking for workers who fit their company culture and align with company values like teamwork and leadership. We studied the Google interview process so you don’t have to. Here are our best tips on how to get your dream job at Google. Where to apply for Google careers You can submit your job application on many different websites, but Google’s built-in career search tool is your best choice....

I love those things, and the one attached to my keys has saved me no end of frustration trying to find my misplaced keys. But the AirTag is a disk, and you can’t attach it directly to your keys without some kind of holder. Apple makes no end of holders. Overpriced holders. Enter the KeySmart Air. Not only is this a holder for the AirTag, but it’s also a really cool key organizer....

Also: 8 things you can do with Linux that you can’t do with MacOS or Windows Did you know that you can do the same thing on your home network, regardless of what operating system you use. If you have several computers on your home or business network, and you want to be able to share files and folders from your Linux operating system, the process isn’t nearly as hard as you might think....

With Image Resizer, you can change the size of an image anywhere from small to large to a custom set of dimensions. You can control the quality of the image and the level of compression when you shrink it. And you can specify a certain filename for the resized image. Here’s how it works. If you don’t already have PowerToys, download and install the PowerToysSetup.exe file from the program’s GitHub page....

Also: Pixel phones may be getting a long overdue feature Huawei’s new Watch Buds give you the best of both worlds, with the goal of lessening the traditional burdens of wearable technology, like having to separately purchase earbuds and smartwatches, bulky and sometimes unattractive designs, and left and right earbud differentiation. At a base level, the smartwatch half of the Watch Buds closely resembles a traditional timepiece, sporting a full-grain leather watchband, a 47mm AMOLED color screen, and the standard suite of fitness-tracking features....

The pressure is on for organizations to support new forms of collaboration and reshape the employee experience, according to tech marketing firm Foundry’s 2022 Future of Work study. The firm surveyed 401 US IT and business decision makers and found that 94% of organizations have implemented some kind of hybrid-work structure, while 72% thought there was now a more positive attitude to hybrid work. SEE: Six ways to stay productive when working remote It also found that 69% of IT decision makers think that the work-from-home trend is impacting how they plan for overall office space, IT staffing and general staffing....

It made sense. Aside from the variables mentioned above, there was little about keyboards that gave an advantage in-game. Then, Wooting suddenly changed all that. The small company disrupted the entire gaming keyboard industry with its 60HE, forever altering the perception of how much a keyboard could benefit your gameplay. It does this by letting you customize the variables above to ridiculous extremes, while also supporting your desires for how the board behaves, looks, and feels....

IBM will be offering the groups a range of technological services – including cloud and AI technology – as well as teams of experts. “We believe that the power of science, technology and innovation can help tackle environmental issues while serving vulnerable communities exposed to environmental hazards,” said Justina Nixon, a vice president at IBM. “By pairing expertise and technology with the goal of improving the lives of populations most affected by environmental threats, we have the potential to make lasting, scalable impact....