---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20190827212152.GA569@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 21:21:52 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: 50% of All Businesses Have Shadow IT - So How Are You Impacted? by Peter Vogel HelpNetSecurity.com reported that "Gartner's estimates that anywhere between 20-50 percent of enterprise app spending takes place without IT's knowledge or consent - aka, shadow IT." The August 20, 2019 article entitled "With shadow IT running rampant, how can IT keep pace?" included these comments: http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=839582&email_access=on -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.1908302223490.7925@panix5.panix.com> Date: 30 Aug 2019 22:26:10 -0400 From: "danny burstein" <dannyb@panix.com> Subject: new NYS law: folk fleeing domestic violence exempt from cancellation fees Subject: NYS Gov. Cuomo pulls out his stopped clock [Westchester (NYC northern suburb) news] Domestic violence victims in New York no longer have to pay these cancellation fees Albany - Survivors of domestic violence fleeing their batterers can now cancel multiyear cable contracts without paying cancellation fees in New York. Gov. Andrew Cuomo this week approved legislation waiving cancellation fees on multi-year cable and satellite packages for victims of domestic violence. ====== rest: https://www.lohud.com/story/news/politics/albany/2019/08/30/domestic-violence-victims-new-york-no-longer-have-pay-these-cancellation-fees/2164208001/ despicable that this required legislation.. _____________________________________________________ Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key dannyb@panix.com [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded] ------------------------------ Message-ID: <FD1AC2FF-E5D7-4A90-9C78-4ECEC39E913D@roscom.com> Date: 27 Aug 2019 19:29:18 -0400 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Fairphone 3 Gives Us the Smartphone Repair Options That Big Tech Won't Say what you will about modular smartphones - and there's certainly plenty to say - they do have one very clear benefit over the phones folks most commonly carry around in their pockets: reducing electronic waste. Throwing our gadgets away simply because we do not know how to fix them or simply can't continues to take a huge toll on our global waste crisis, with potentially disastrous outcomes. It doesn't help that the manufacturers who make the majority of these products aren't doing much to help us lessen our impact. https://gizmodo.com/fairphone-3-gives-us-the-smartphone-repair-options-that-1837629044 ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sun, 01 Sep 2019