Google Knows So Much About You That It’s Creepy, But It Might Not Be An Invasion Of Privacy

Nov 4, 2018 | Android, Apple, Chrome, Facebook, Google, security, web_services

The term “invasion of privacy” is distracting us from understanding important issues. Invasion of privacy is frequently thrown around as a core issue where consumers need protection against tech companies. Apple has made it the cornerstone of its marketing. The...

The End Of New Product Announcements

Oct 29, 2018 | Amazon, Android, Apple, computers, Echo, Facebook, Google, HP, laptops, Microsoft, phone, shopping, Surface

In the last two months, there have been major announcements of new products by every computer and phone manufacturer on the planet. You don’t know about any of them, do you? On September 12, Apple put on its annual presentation of new iPhones for hundreds of tech...

Something You Know, Something You Have: Better Security With Two Factor Authentication

Oct 14, 2018 | Chrome, Google, LastPass, Office 365, security

Two factor authentication adds an extra step to the process of logging into your accounts. It’s inconvenient. It makes you safer. Until recently two factor authentication was only used by techies and high value targets in government and enterprises. The world...

Saving Passwords In Google Chrome Is Better Than Nothing (And That’s A Good Thing!)

Oct 7, 2018 | Android, Apple, Chrome, Google, LastPass, security, web_services

Google has improved the password management built into the Chrome browser. It’s . . . okay! Not bad! Better than nothing, absolutely. Saving passwords in Chrome is easy and kind of secure, as long as you take a couple of precautions that we’ll talk about below. First,...

Security Alert: Chrome Extensions And Notifications Are Being Used For Adware

Sep 9, 2018 | Chrome, Google, security, Windows10

Adware has started to turn up again, using Chrome extensions and notifications as a way to display annoying ads and muck up the time we spend on our computers and phones – as if we didn’t have enough to worry about. In the old days, we installed adware on our Windows...

The Samsung Ecosystem: When Technology Is Driven By Jealousy

Sep 4, 2018 | Amazon, Android, Apple, Chrome, Chromebook, Cortana, Echo, Google, Google Home, home assistants, Microsoft, phone, Samsung

Samsung is a global electronics company with hundreds of thousands of employees. It is the world’s largest information technology company, consumer electronics maker and chipmaker by revenue. Samsung sells more smartphones than any other manufacturer by a large...