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What a long, strange trip it's been. From its inaugural release to today, Android has transformed visually, conceptually and functionally — time and time again. Google's mobile operating system may have started out scrappy, but holy moly, ha...

Microsoft today unveiled Windows 365 Frontline : a Cloud PC option aimed at frontline, shift, and part-time workers. The new subscription to Windows 365 allows organizations to purchase one license that can be shared by up to three workers on mobile devic...

While iPhones are seeing increasing use in the enterprise , most users could be getting a lot more productivity from their devices . That's the essential argument made in a Deloitte report , which points out that while most of us have become accustome...

A group of influential and informed tech types recently put forward a formal request that AI rollouts be paused for six months. I certainly understand concerns that artificial intelligence is advancing too fast, but trying to stop it in its tracks is a re...

It's time to ensure any older Apple devices still in use by you or your company run the most recent version of the operating system available. That's because Apple wants users to upgrade to the latest version of the device OS as the company works ...

It's easy to overlook, but Google's ChromeOS platform is in a near-constant state of evolution. The software inside Chromebooks gets updates and improvements multiple times a month — more than any other operating system out there — and...

It feels as if practically everyone has been using Open AI's ChatGPT since the generative AI hit prime time . But many enterprise professionals may be embracing the technology without considering the risk of these large language models (LLMs). That...

Windows may get all the press coverage, but when you want to get real work done, you turn your attention to the applications that run on it. And if you use spreadsheets, that generally means Excel. Excel is, of course, part of Microsoft's Office suite...

Office 365 and Microsoft 365 subscribers get more frequent software updates than those who have purchased Office without a subscription, which means subscribers have access to the latest features, security patches, and bug fixes. But it can be hard to kee...

Apple's decision to support MAC Address Randomization across its platforms may provide some degree of protection against a newly-identified Wi-Fi flaw researchers say could let attackers hijack network traffic . iOS, Linux, and Android devices may be ...

More than 1,100 technology luminaries, leaders and scientists have issued a warning against labs performing large-scale experiments with artificial intelligence (AI) more powerful than ChatGPT, saying the technology poses a grave threat to humanity. In an...

Apple shipped the latest point upgrades to its operating systems for Macs, iPads, and iPhones this week, with the inclusion of 31 new emojis suggesting all the benefits are aimed at consumer users. That's not really the case. You need to get people up...

The UK government has today published a white paper outlining its plans to regulate general purpose artificial intelligence. The paper, published by the newly formed Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), sets out guidelines for what it...

When you think about hidden tricks and little-known features on Android, the Google Play Store probably isn't the first place that comes to mind. And why would it? The Play Store seems like a simple utility — a place where you go when you've...

Among the various changes that Windows 10 brought to desktop environments, perhaps none has been as profound as its changes to basic update mechanisms. Introduced in 2016 , Microsoft's Unified Update Platform (UUP) applies to the Windows Update servic...

Well, this is something you don't see very often: secrets about a still-unannounced product — shared only with a small, hand-picked group of senior managers — that somehow leak. Ruining the surprise That's what's happened regarding...

Microsoft has unveiled a new app for its collaboration platform Microsoft Teams that it said will deliver faster performance and streamline the user experience. First launched in 2017, Microsoft Teams is a collaborative workspace within Microsoft 365/Offi...

Video conferencing platform Zoom plans to expand its smart companion, Zoom IQ, and will work with OpenAI to bolster a more flexible approach to AI, it said Monday. In addition to adding new features in Zoom IQ, Zoom said it will take a federated approach ...

In April, 2021, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins announced he would let all 75,000 employees work remotely indefinitely , even after the COVID-19 pandemic ended. The company had seen no drop in productivity by allowing employees to work from home and expected to s...

Thank you for your interest in Computerworld's Best Places to Work in IT . We're excited to announce plans for Best Places to Work in IT 2024! The program will continue to be open to companies worldwide this year. The program will be open to all c...

Everyone in tech circles may be goin' gaga over artificial intelligence at the moment, but here in the land o' Android, we've got plenty of other interesting stuff on the horizon. Believe it or not, Google's already hard at work on the nex...

Disclosure: Microsoft is a client of the author. In a sense, Microsoft Office and I grew up in this industry together. We both entered tech at around the same time, and I was one of its first users — when it had a problem that continues to plague it...

Microsoft has launched its Loop app in public preview. The productivity application combines elements of documents, spreadsheets, and presentation apps in a single collaborative space. Microsoft Loop was first unveiled at Ignite in 2021 and has been in be...

It's been a while since we last came across a story that shows how iPads continue to evolve into perfect machines for mobile enterprise pros, so it's appropriate to note that Webex by Cisco has introduced something special in the form of multi-win...

Ah, PowerShell. A simple blue window and some text has transformed the world of Windows administration from a point-and-click GUI to scripts that automate everything, as well as provide log rotation and identity lifecycle management and govern which serve...

Visual communication platform Canva has announced a host of new AI-powered design tools and brand management features to help creatives to work more efficiently and produce content at scale. The AI-powered tools will be available to users of Canva's V...

Search and hyperscale computing giant Google said today that it has opened up access to Bard, a generative AI chatbot meant to compete with similar services offered by Microsoft and OpenAI, among others. Bard, like similar advanced chatbots, is powered by...

Reality? What reality? Soon, apparently, everything from brand assets to corporate videos to illustrations will be created differently using Adobe's creative and enterprise apps and its generative AI tool Firefly . You'll literally be able to spea...

Russia's Kremlin ordered officials to stop using iPhones , apparently over concerns the devices could be vulnerable to Western intelligence agencies, Reuters reports. When surveillance-as-a-service firms sit exposed for brazenly undermining device sec...

Once you've mastered the basics of Google Docs , it's time take your documents up a notch. Some documents need to include citations, while some can benefit from charts or a table of contents. Others may require a watermark for security or branding...

Microsoft has resolved 80 new CVEs this month in addition to four earlier CVEs, bringing the number of security issues addressed in this month's Patch Tuesday release to 84. Unfortunately, we have two zero-day flaws in Outlook ( CVE-2023-23397 ) and W...

The hype machine is real with Generative AI and ChatGPT , which are seemingly everywhere in tech these days. So it's not surprising that we're starting to hear chatter about a new, improved Siri. In fact, 9to5Mac has already spotted a new natural ...

(Microsoft is a client of the author.) Microsoft has unveiled its 'Copilot' generative AI for Office and I believe it is as big a game changer as the launch of Windows (and I was the launch analyst for Windows when I started my career). With any a...

After a run that lasted for a decade, the end has come for Google Glass, with the announcement this week that the tech behemoth will discontinue the enterprise version of the augmented reality (AR) glasses. Sales of Google Glass Enterprise were halted as ...

After announcing its Microsoft 365 Copilot chatbot to automate various tasks in multiple Microsoft office apps, Microsoft on Thursday demonstrated the tool's capabilities and introduced a new extension called Business Chat. Microsoft 365 Copilot is ge...

With the arrival of the iPhone 14, Apple has only sold smartphones with eSIM support in the US . But that may be about to change. At least one analyst thinks Apple plans to extend eSIM use to Europe and some Asian markets by next year, when SIMs will be r...

Applications aimed at helping office workers do their jobs more effectively in a remote or hybrid work environment — such as videoconferencing, project management, and other collaboration software — have surged during the pandemic era. But man...

India is trying to emerge as a competitive alternative to China in the semiconductor sector amid heightened the intensifying chip war between the US and China. India and the US last week signed a memorandum of understanding on establishing a semiconductor...

India is set to announce its first semiconductor fabrication facility in the next few weeks, as the country moves to become more self-reliant for its chip supply in the wake of pandemic supply chain disruptions and the ongoing US semiconductor restriction...

Clean Energy Charging is not a conspiracy to reduce the speed or efficiency of charging when you plug in your iPhone. It is a harbinger of how most future electronics will consume power. What is Clean Energy Charging? Announced with iOS 16 and introduced ...

Tableau, a subsidiary of Salesforce, has launched new AI-powered capabilities to help make data more accessible to business users and improve support for data-driven decisions and analysis. The announcement comes a week after Salesforce revealed plans to ...

The US government, worried about the continuing growth of cybercrime, ransomware, and countries including Russia, Iran, and North Korea hacking into government and private networks, is in the middle of drastically changing its cybersecurity strategy. No l...

Computing giant Google announced today that it will release previews of three new AI features, including AI composition for Google Workspace, developer prototyping and coding via PaLM and MakerSuite, and validated models for its Vertex AI service. The Wor...

Artificial intelligence (AI) research firm OpenAI today revealed the latest version of its computer program for natural language processing that powers ChatGPT , the wildly hyped chatbot with a fast-growing user base. ChatGPT creator OpenAI announced the ...

A Windows launch isn't the end a process — it's really just the beginning. As with Windows 10, Microsoft continually works on improving Windows 11 by fixing bugs, releasing security patches, and occasionally adding new features. In this stor...

The global value of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) will grow dramatically from $100 million today to $213 billion by 2030, once the virtual money gains greater adoption for domestic payments, according to new data from Juniper Research . By 2030,...

Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in Santa Clara, CA, billed itself as "the financial partner of the innovation economy" and had more than $342 billion in deposits — including money from many influential venture capitalists, start-ups and tech firms...

I'm sure you've seen the ads: "Get Perpetual Office for a dirt-cheap price that's so cheap it's too good to be true." It is, though they don't phrase the pitch quite like that. Instead, the advertisement says: "One-time pur...

Is there a turf war between Apple's operations and design teams over the first-generation Apple AR glasses? Or are we now hearing about old news being rehashed as competitors spread negative gossip in fear of Apple's looming AR launch? What we thi...

Microsoft Forms is a web app that allows users to create various types of forms that gather information from people online and store that data in the cloud for review. Why is this useful? Surveys, questionnaires, and other interactive forms are a vital pa...