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Google’s dominance in the search arena has given rise to two major antitrust lawsuits from the US government alleging the company has manipulated the market to maintain that dominance, to the exclusion of competitors and the detriment of the public at large. The first lawsuit, targeting Google’s search business, kicked off in mid-September 2023 and drew to a close in May 2024 with the delive

Microsoft 365 (and Office 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 keep track of the changes in each update and know when they’re available. We’re doing this for you, so you don’t have to. Following are summaries of the updates to Microsoft 365/Office 365 for Windows over the past year, with the latest release

Are you confused about what President Donald J. Trump is doing with tariffs? Join the crowd; we all are. But if you’re in charge of buying PCs for your company (because Windows 10 officially reaches end-of-life status on Oct. 14) all this confusion is quickly turning into worry.  Before diving into what this all means, let’s clarify one thing: you will be paying more for your technology gear — peri

Apple and Google know that smart glasses will replace the smartphone as the main device people use the most, according to recent news. And the two leading smartphone platform makers don’t want Meta to own the future of mobile computing, but they know Meta is leading the race so far.  Meta is the current and surprising leader in AI glasses that don’t show a screen to the user. The best rough estimates are that Meta has shipped 2 milli

In a landmark decision, a US District Judge has ruled that Google illegally monopolized the ad tech market. A federal judge in Virginia has found that the tech giant established “monopoly power” for two online advertising markets: publisher ad servers and ad exchanges that sit between buyers and sellers. The ruling in the second-largest antitrust case of the century could mean that Google will have to break up its advertising products or change its business practices. Google is said to have earned nearly

There’s a lot of finger-pointing going on between providers trying to explain this week’s two-hour outage of Zoom’s American service. On its website, Zoom says its zoom.us domain wasn’t available on Wednesday because of a “communications error” between Zoom’s domain registrar, Markmonitor, and GoDaddy Registry, “which resulted in GoDaddy Registry mistakenly shutting down zoom.us domain.” For its part, a spokesperson for GoDaddy said the problem was between Markmonitor and Zoom. “The GoDaddy registry team notified an account person at Markmonitor of an inquiry, and Markmonitor failed to no

OpenAI has released o3 and 04-mini, two reasoning AI models designed to be extra good at programming, math, and science and that can use images to “think,” according to

Things are getting serious regarding Apple security. This shouldn’t really surprise you, given the normalization of chaos we’re enduring, as confusion always makes people more vulnerable. It’s easier to be hoodwinked into clicking that particular malware link when your head’s all over the place, you can’t think, and you don’t know whether you’ll still be in business tomorrow. That’s because threats don’t need to be aligned or even harmonized to work together. Insecurity in one space breeds less security elsewhere, and then the whole ho

AI agents are more than a productivity boost; they’re fundamentally reshaping customer interactions and business operations. And while there’s still work to do on trust and accuracy, the world is beginning a new tech era — one that might finally deliver on the promises seen in movies like Minority Report and Iron Man, according to Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff.

Enterprise users are receiving unprovoked offers to upgrade to Windows 11 due to an issue in Microsoft’s device management tools. The issue is with Microsoft’s Intune software, which typically allows system administrators to manage mobile devices. Intune governs the use of Windows, macOS, and Android devices attached to enterprise environments. The news was first reported by Bleeping Computer, which also noted that a code-fix was being deployed to systems. The problem was a “latent code issue,” which was then being fixed. It is unc