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Twitter video app dying on the Vine

With Twitter offing Vine, that's one less social app to worry about

Face-off: SharePoint vs. Confluence for content management

The PDF format finally reaches 2.0 release

Long after Adobe gave up ownership of Portable Document Format (PDF), the group behind the format is finishing up a revision. It is expected to be available in 2017.

Google is trying to reinvent the whiteboard

Jamboard is a cloud service and 55-inch display aimed at enhancing collaboration

Beyond 911: Other N-1-1 codes you should know

In addition to 911, there are eight other special short-code numbers.

Verizon may back out of Yahoo deal due to email snooping

Yahoo’s data breach and reports of email spying may cause Verizon to enact a clause in the contract between the companies that lets it cancel the deal

Google is turning spreadsheets, documents and presentations into to-do lists

Action Items help remind people what they're supposed to be doing

Facebook’s 100-gigabit switch design is out in the open

The Open Compute Project has accepted the Wedge 100 design, opening up a hardware-software ecosystem

Down the rabbit hole, part 4: Securing your email

Want your email to be secure and private? Stay away from mainstream email and consider one of these options.

Slack CEO describes ‘Holy Grail’ of virtual assistants

Stewart Butterfield wants to build a super bot that retrieves and correlates information from any enterprise application to find employees answers to sophisticated questions.