Year: 2021

The ACCC is starting the debate on how Australia handles mergers, proposing a separate digital platforms approach to avoid market dominance.

New Google Chat shortcut may provide context for tasks, but the app is still not popular with Hangouts fans.

With the growing uptake, Wing said it plans to roll out to more cities in the coming months.

After a meeting at the White House, Google and Microsoft committed billions to specific cybersecurity investments while Apple, Amazon and IBM made their own promises.

Starting in mid-September, Microsoft will be advising Chromebook users who want to run Office to use the web-based Office apps and will no longer enable them to run the native Office Android apps.

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and other tech executives today attended the White House Cyber Security Meeting. Google announced that it’s committing $10 billion over the next five years to strengthen and “advance cybersecurity.”  more… The post Google commits $10 billion …

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A year by year summary of the most significant events in Linux’s history to date.

Collaborating on documents should get a little faster thanks to Smart Reply in the Google Docs comments section.

Google is working on a feature that lets you save Tab Groups for use in future Chrome browsing sessions.

US President invites CEOs of US tech giants to discuss how critical infrastructure can be protected from foreign cyber attackers.

Google will soon start breaking down app ratings and reviews by country and device type as part of its push to compete with Apple’s iPad and Watch.

The multinational automotive distributor is one of the first UK-based businesses to run SAP on Google Cloud as part of SAP’s RISE program.

OnePlus is known for challenging others when it comes to flagship smartphones. It’s latest entry is the OnePlus Buds Pro wireless earbuds with active-noise cancellation, personalized audio, water-resistance, and much more.

More granular information about toll charges may be on the way for Google Maps users.

Fortnite maker Epic Games illustrates the losses Google expected if Epic succeeded in distributing the game on Android devices outside of the Play Store.

More than 2,000 Google Pixel devices were issued to NAB’s customer contact teams to enable them to support customers remotely.

Number one on the list was the Google Certified Professional Data Engineer, which the survey found can bring in $171,749 annually.

As Epic Games continues its legal battles with Google and Apple, court documents are revealing a lot of interesting details regarding conversations behind the scenes. Today, an unredacted document sees a claim from Epic Games that, at one point, Google …

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In newly unredacted court documents from the Epic vs. Google case, a previously unknown program has come to light. Google’s “Premier Device Program” offered Android phone-makers an incentive to exclusively use the Play Store instead of third-party options. more… The …

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Google’s launch of the Pixel 5a was curiously muted. If only the company had muted one piece of its marketing.