Oct 27, 2021 | Android, Apple, Google, phone, Privacy, security
The more powerful your phone gets, the more privacy you have. Strange but true! Things have taken an unexpected turn when you weren’t looking. For years “the cloud” has been a magical phrase that means all the heavy lifting in our tech lives is happening online. Our...
Oct 20, 2021 | Android, Apple, business, Google, phone, Samsung
This was an exciting week for technology, filled with announcements of new devices. Given the supply chain problems this fall, I hope you’ve already got your order in for the one new phone that really stood out. Demand will be high. Yup, the picture shows the Fisher...
Oct 10, 2021 | Android, Apple, augmented reality, business, Facebook, Google, HoloLens, Microsoft
I’m curious – when I talk about “augmented reality,” do you know what that is? I feel like it might not be part of the general consciousness yet. I don’t have any new development to point to, nobody introduced new products last week or anything like that. But it’s...
Sep 6, 2021 | Android, Apple, business, Chrome, Facebook, Google, law, Microsoft, news, Politics, Windows11
Since it’s a short week, here’s a collection of brief updates about stories you thought I had beaten to death already. Apple postpones CSAM features After criticism and pushback on its plans to scan photos for Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), Apple said...
Jun 30, 2021 | Android, Cortana, Microsoft, OneNote, Skype, Teams, Windows10, Windows11
Now that you’ve seen the big picture of why Windows 11 exists, let’s go through some of the fascinating details. This could be the most interesting technology article you will read this year. Okay, probably not, but isn’t it better to go into it with an open...
Mar 24, 2021 | Android, Apple, Chrome, Google
Chrome is the web browser used by 7.9 billion people, more or less, plus it’s starting to be adopted by schools on planets orbiting distant stars. Google does not make big changes to it because of the people who use Chrome, approximately all of them hate change. But...
