Businesses have had to adapt quickly to remote working during the COVID-19  pandemic, but this year’s shifts are only the start, says Box CEO Aaron Levie. The next phase will see office work processes digitized and automated to support workers – wherever they are – as a decade of... Read more

In my approximately 97 years of covering Android, I’ve heard it all: “You can’t have privacy if you use Android!” “You can’t have security if you use Android!” “You can’t get upgrades if you use Android!” “You can’t have a good user experience if you use Android!” “YOU CAN’T... Read more

Spending more time at home these days? Then this is an ideal opportunity to upgrade your skills. And that’s especially the case for IT professionals. Many technical courses, after all, can be taken via the web, so there’s no need to ever leave your house. If you want to... Read more

On the surface, Android and privacy might not seem like the most natural of bedfellows. Google is known for its advertising business, after all — it’s how the company makes the lion’s share of its money — and it can be tough to square the notion of data collection... Read more

Need a distraction from — uh, you know, everything? I sure do. And there’s nothing that puts me in a happy, temporarily oblivious place quite like finding underappreciated features for my favorite Googley gadgets. Earlier this year, we talked about hidden Pixel features — helpful yet out-of-the-way options just... Read more

Sometimes, it’s the smallest-seeming announcements that have the biggest real-world impact. And there’s no better example of that than a decidedly muted Android- and Assistant-related rollout plopped out by Google just before the U.S. holiday weekend. You’d be forgiven for failing to notice — or maybe for seeing a... Read more

Fact: Chrome rules the world. Now with 69.2% of the world’s browser user share – a measure of browser activity calculated by California-based analytics company Net Applications – Google’s Chrome has no equal, at least in popularity. Rivals like Microsoft’s Edge, Mozilla’s Firefox and Apple’s Safari eke out single... Read more

If you’re still trying to remember all of your passwords and then type ’em into sites by hand, let me tell you: You’re doing it wrong. With all the credentials we have to keep track of these days, there’s just no way the human brain can handle the task... Read more

Headlines scream that you should avoid the May patches. Pshaw. From what I’ve seen they’re largely overblown. Not to say that all is well in patchland – it isn’t. But the situation has stabilized, and I don’t see any reason to hold back on May’s patches. Of course, I’m... Read more