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My daily Apple blog for Computerworld

• How apps can help you build a healthier WFH office January 22, 2021
  Still working from home? Many of us are. What follows is some advice and a selection of apps that should help you optimize your workspace to protect your health during the remote work day.What are ergonomics? The Mayo Clinic explains how good office ergonomics can help mitigate work-related neck and back pain and potential problems […]
• What's the business case for UWB, which Apple supports in iPhones? January 20, 2021
  Apple appears to have kick-started development and implementation of the Ultra WideBand standard first deployed in a mass market product in iPhone 11 — and now available in smartphones from Apple and other manufacturers.This technological deployment is beginning to transform into new business cases, so what do we have so far?In the heat of the […]
• 14 items of office equipment replaced by iPhone January 19, 2021
  “An iPod, a phone, and an Internet Communicator,” said then-Apple CEO Steve Jobs when introducing the iPhone on Jan. 9, 2007. But thanks to apps, it’s turned into so much more than that, replacing numerous items of office equipment.The phone system Remember telephone systems? Smartphones replace them, though if you really want to recreate the […]
• Apple Watch may help in the fight against COVID-19 January 18, 2021
  The Apple Watch and other smart wearables may have an important part to play in the struggle against COVID-19 and should help businesses provide better healthcare protection to staff.Wearables can predict infection Two recent independent studies from Mount Sinai Health System and Stanford University show that Apple Watch and other sensor-packed fitness wearables from Garmin […]
• Apple makes welcome change to 'Big Sur' security for Macs January 14, 2021
  When Apple shipped macOS Big Sur in November, researchers quickly spotted a strange anomaly in the system’s security protection that could have left Macs insecure. Apple now seems to be dealing with this problem, introducing a fix in the latest public beta release.What was wrong? For some strange reason, Big Sur introduced a controversial and potentially […]