Google Docs may be known as the "lightweight" word processor, but that doesn't mean it's lacking in advanced productivity features.Even with the once-touted add-ons for Android program apparently in limbo, Google Docs has some handy and easily overlooked … [Read more...]

I doubt you’ll miss every tech reporter in the industry with their “10 years of iPhone” reports this morning, (I wrote my take earlier this week), but while there is no argument the product has changed some parts the world, Apple’s iPhone future still need … [Read more...]

Ten years ago today, the first iPhone arrived, sporting an all-new user interface built on a multi-touch screen and a virtual keyboard that soon replaced all that had come before for mobile devices.Combined with internet access and, later, an online app … [Read more...]

It's the mid-1990s, and this programmer pilot fish has just been hired as a manager at a company where most employees are still learning how to use their new desktop computers."At best, my boss's knowledge of how to use a PC was limited to e-mail and web … [Read more...]

Cisco is a company in transition as it looks to move beyond its networking roots into areas as diverse as security, mobile, the Internet of Things and the now "intent-based networking."(That last one isn't quite as futuristic as it sounds.)Network World's … [Read more...]

A San Francisco-based start-up is creating a line of Linux-based laptops and mobile devices designed with hardware and software to safeguard user privacy.Purism this week announced general availability of its 13-in. and 15-in. Librem laptops, which it … [Read more...]

I used to think the best way to protect a computer hosting sensitive data was by not connecting it to any network, a process known as air gapping. Ah, the good old days.WikiLeaks recently revealed that when a computer with the sensitive data is running … [Read more...]

Collaboration isn’t just something you want to happen in your office. Our economy, the political system and civilization itself may be productively analyzed as a series of collaborations. (Not to be confused with the late Sen. Ted Stevens’ virally rid … [Read more...]

[Story updated 6/28/17]I don't know if you've noticed, but Google announces an awful lot of stuff. So it's sometimes easy to see something new, get cautiously excited, and then kinda forget about it a few months later.That's exactly what happened to me … [Read more...]