The PC market rebounded last year, sporting the highest growth rate in a decade, industry analysts said this week, pinning credit (or blame) on the coronavirus pandemic. Research firm IDC pegged 2020’s global shipments of personal computers at 302.6 million devices, a 13% increase over the year prior, which... Read more
The biggest story in the Android universe this week is the pending arrival of Samsung’s latest and greatest Galaxy flagships — the Galaxy S21 and its various cousins, expected to be unveiled at a virtual event later this morning. The phones will almost certainly be the de facto standard... Read more
Facebook hopes to make it easier to get work done within Workplace via new productivity features — some natively built, others from third parties — and other changes it has in mind this year for Workplace, its enterprise social network. The Workplace platform, which jettisoned its free tier last month,... Read more
Android may be Google’s highest profile platform, but Chrome OS is the arguably the place where the fastest and most exciting progress tends to go down these days. Every year as of late, we see leaps and bounds being made in how Chromebooks work and what they’re capable of... Read more
In some offices, computers are shared between two or more employees or temporary workers. That sounds like a recipe for disaster, but Windows 10 has great tools for allowing multiple people to share a single PC without letting them read, edit, or delete each other’s files and folders; use... Read more
If you’ve known me for long, you know I’m not a fan of those hollow, wide-reaching predictions people love to make this time of year (well, with one noteworthy exception). But trends — now, trends are something I can get behind. Trends are less about pretending to have some... Read more
Doors are opening for IT pro’s with cybersecurity training throughout nearly every industry. But adding this particular specialty to your skillset isn’t as cut and dry as you might think. That’s because the field is often broken down into different disciplines, each with its own specific training criteria. And... Read more
Happy New Year! I don’t know about you, but I find the start of a fresh voyage around this shiny ol’ sun of ours to be a fine time for tidying up, optimizing, and getting good and organized for the months ahead. And while I’d love to pretend I’m... Read more
Taking notes is serious business, and having the right note-taking app for your Android device can make a world of difference in your ability to stay organized. That’s because a good note-taking app doesn’t just help you take notes; it also makes it easy to find what you’ve saved... Read more
More than any other platform, Chrome OS is in a constant state of evolution — and if you blink for a minute, you’re bound to miss some significant new improvement or addition. I mean, heck, this past year alone, Chrome OS has gained support for Windows apps, in the... Read more