As Google talks up privacy, Smart Canvas levels up its work suite
As Google evolves from exposing privacy options to enabling privacy defaults, its Smart Canvas option for Workspace represents its strongest effort to facilitate team workflows.
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How Google is continuing to chip away at Microsoft's productivity dominance
Dominant in search and Android, Google keeps advancing productivity-focused Chromebooks and web apps where they largely forfeit ad revenue in order to take on Microsoft.
Google beefs up Glass for modern workplace realities
The latest incarnation of the resurrected AR headset matches a well-supported Android platform with a powerful new processor.
Google has Pixel-perfect timing to advance in smartphones
The high bar and rapid leapfrogging of the smartphone state of the art carries a number of barriers to entry. But the sea of sameness is providing smooth sailing for Google's device efforts.
Google weaves machine learning into new Google Photos features
Google has stepped up the features and intelligence of Google Photos, even bringing ancient prints along for the ride. But it's also creating a picture of your behavior.
Apple and Google battle for the future of privacy
Both companies talk up the importance of protecting your data, but make opposite cases for whether you should share it.
Facebook vs. Google: Similar models, diverging perspectives
The two kings of internet advertising have employed different strategies in addressing recent threats, moves that indicate a growing shift in business focuses.
How Google's Smart Canvas fits into the workflow tools landscape
Straddling several competitor categories, Google's modular workflow layer provides a fresh take on collaboration and context and might even inspire Microsoft to achieve a long-sought dream.
Google One offers more online disk space, little else
Unlike other cloud storage vendors, Google wraps up extra capacity into a kind of membership program with a host of benefits, but it falls short of its promise.