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Podcast: 5G C-Band Auction, T-Mobile Magenta Max, HPE Open RAN, Intel-Google 5G

This week’s Techpinions podcast features Mark Lowenstein and Bob O’Donnell discussing a host of 5G-related news items from the past week including the results of the critical C-Band auctions for mid-band 5G radio spectrum, the announcement of T-Mobile’s new unlimited Magenta Max 5G data plan and what it implies, and the debut of HPE’s new … Continue reading Podcast: 5G C-Band Auction, T-Mobile Magenta Max, HPE Open RAN, Intel-Google 5G

Podcast: Amazon and Google Earnings, Poly P Series, Microsoft Viva

This week’s Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O’Donnell analyzing the recent quarterly earnings from Amazon and Google, chatting about the release of a new range of videoconferencing hardware and software from Poly, and discussing Microsoft’s new Viva employee experience platform and the potential impact on hybrid work environments.

Podcast: Cisco WebexOne, Marvell Open RAN, Facebook Antitrust, T-Mobile 5G, Windows Arm 64, Google Workspace

This week’s Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O’Donnell analyzing the news from Cisco’s WebexOne conference, discussing new chips from Marvell for the 5G Open RAN market, debating the Facebook antitrust news, talking about T-Mo’s new 5G Mobile hotspot and related plan, Microsoft’s addition of support for 64-bit Windows app emulation on Arm-based PCs, … Continue reading Podcast: Cisco WebexOne, Marvell Open RAN, Facebook Antitrust, T-Mobile 5G, Windows Arm 64, Google Workspace

Podcast: Nvidia GTC, Arm DevSummit, Google Workspace, AMD Ryzen 3, Big Tech Antitrust

This week’s Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O’Donnell analyzing the news from Nvidia’s GTC Conference and Arm’s Developer Summit, as well as the potential impact of a merger of those two companies, discussing the latest version of Google’s productivity suite, chatting about the latest desktop CPU introductions from AMD, and pondering the potential … Continue reading Podcast: Nvidia GTC, Arm DevSummit, Google Workspace, AMD Ryzen 3, Big Tech Antitrust

Google Workspace Elevates Collaboration by Focusing on the Task at Hand

In July, Google gave us a taste for a more integrated collaboration experience when it brought Meet and Chat into Gmail. This week the metamorphosis continued as G Suite becomes Google Workspace. Back in July, I looked at the news from a communication vs. collaboration perspective, making the point that communication is really at the … Continue reading Google Workspace Elevates Collaboration by Focusing on the Task at Hand

Google’s Refined Strategy with Google TV

For a recent project around streaming TV platforms I worked on, I had to analyze a number of different platforms and interfaces. While I had seen Android TV demos at Google and had minimal hands-on time with it, after purchasing a TCL Android TV and spending more time with the Android TV platform, I was … Continue reading Google’s Refined Strategy with Google TV

Whose Home Is It? Amazon? Google? Apple?

In the tech world, September has been synonymous with Apple for many years. Over the past couple of years, however, Amazon has also started to claim the month as its big device reveal. Last year Amazon introduced fifteen new products with Alexa integration and focused on privacy. This year the number of devices was a … Continue reading Whose Home Is It? Amazon? Google? Apple?

Podcast: Microsoft Surface Duo, Qualcomm Court Decision, Fortnite Battle with Apple and Google

This week’s Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O’Donnell analyzing the news around Microsoft’s Surface Duo mobile device, discusses the positive legal outcome for Qualcomm’s IP licensing business, and debates the issues around Epic’s Games’ Fortnite-driven battle with Apple and Google’s app store policies.

Podcast: AMD Earnings, Congressional Hearings, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google Earnings

This week’s Techpinions podcast features Ben Bajarin and Bob O’Donnell analyzing the quarterly financial results from AMD and what they say about the semiconductor industry overall, discussing the congressional anti-trust hearings with major tech CEOs, and chatting about the earnings from those same companies as well.

Podcast: Microsoft Inspire, Google G Suite Essentials, Netflix, Microsoft and Intel Earnings

This week’s Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O’Donnell analyzing the Azure and Microsoft M365 news and diversity and leadership sessions from Inspire, discussing the addition of Google’s G Suite Essentials offering, and chatting about the quarterly earnings from Netflix, Microsoft and Intel and what they say about the current state of the tech … Continue reading Podcast: Microsoft Inspire, Google G Suite Essentials, Netflix, Microsoft and Intel Earnings

Podcast: Google Cloud Next, G Suite, IT Priority Study, Twitter Hack

This week’s Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O’Donnell analyzing the announcements from Google’s Cloud Next event, including new offerings for GCP and G Suite, discussing a new study on IT prioritization changes from the pandemic, and chatting on the big Twitter hack.

Google Buys North, Amazon buy Zoox, Lulu Buys Mirror

Google Buys North You may not be familiar with North and their Focals product, but today Google officially announced they are buying the company and absorbing them into their Made by Google hardware group. North is possibly the closest thing on the market to a future augmented reality/ambient computing solution consumers can get their hands … Continue reading Google Buys North, Amazon buy Zoox, Lulu Buys Mirror

The Importance of Apple and Google’s Contact Tracing Collaboration

The deeper we go with COVID-19, the more I’m thinking about what the future looks like post-virus. About a month ago, I saw articles that sought to look at the world post the 1918 flu pandemic. Authors seemed to insist that because you could not find much-published material, in newspapers and other media, about the … Continue reading The Importance of Apple and Google’s Contact Tracing Collaboration

Podcast: Tech Earnings from Facebook, Alphabet/Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple

This week’s Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O’Donnell analyzing this week’s big tech quarterly earnings reports from Facebook, Google’s parent company Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon and Apple, with a focus on what the numbers mean for each of the companies individually and for the tech industry as a whole.

Google Anthos Extending Cloud Reach with Cisco, Amazon and Microsoft Connections

While it always sounds nice to talk about complete solutions that a single company can offer, in today’s reality of multi-vendor IT environments, it’s often better if everyone can play together. The strategy team over at Google Cloud seems to be particularly conscious of this principle lately and are working to extend the reach of … Continue reading Google Anthos Extending Cloud Reach with Cisco, Amazon and Microsoft Connections

Podcast: Apple Google Contact Tracing, iPhone SE, OnePlus 8, Samsung 10 Lite

This week’s Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O’Donnell analyzing the surprising announcement from Apple and Google to work together on creating a smartphone-based system for tracking those who have been exposed to people with COVID-19, and discussing the launch of several new moderately priced smartphones and what they mean to the overall smartphone … Continue reading Podcast: Apple Google Contact Tracing, iPhone SE, OnePlus 8, Samsung 10 Lite

Google and Custom Silicon, China Tech Market Rebounding

Google and Custom Silicon Interesting news from Axios that has uncovered a collaboration between Google and Samsung to create customized silicon for Made by Google hardware, including Pixel smartphones and Pixel Chromebooks. This always seemed inevitable to me, given how much success custom silicon brings Apple. However, I put this move in a much more … Continue reading Google and Custom Silicon, China Tech Market Rebounding

Apple Google Contact Tracing Effort Raises Fascinating New Questions

In a move that caught many off guard—in part because of its release on the notoriously slow news day of Good Friday—Apple and Google announced an effort to create a standardized means of sharing information about the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Utilizing the Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) technology that’s been built into smartphones for … Continue reading Apple Google Contact Tracing Effort Raises Fascinating New Questions

EU Antitrust Push, Apple Watch vs. Swiss Industry, Chinese OEMs vs. Google

EU Antitrust Push The EU looks like it is stepping up its anti-trust efforts and is going after Google (over ad-click), Facebook (over its data practices, and Qualcomm (over anti-competitive practices). None of this is shocking, as the EU sees plenty of opportunities to pursue given some of the FTC’s initial work in these areas … Continue reading EU Antitrust Push, Apple Watch vs. Swiss Industry, Chinese OEMs vs. Google

Cloud Study, Microsoft Edge Browser, Google Cookies, NBC Peacock

This week’s Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O’Donnell discussing the results of a new study on hybrid and multi-cloud computing, analyzing the impact of the official launch of Microsoft’s Chromium-based Edge Browser as well as Google’s plan to remove cookies from Chrome, and chatting about the launch of the NBC Universal/Comcast streaming service … Continue reading Cloud Study, Microsoft Edge Browser, Google Cookies, NBC Peacock

Google Brings More Intelligence to G Suite

Now that we’re several years into the AI revolution, people are starting to expect that the applications they use will become more intelligent. After all, that was the high-level promise of artificial intelligence—smarter, more contextually aware applications that could handle tasks automatically or at least make them less tedious for us to do. The problem … Continue reading Google Brings More Intelligence to G Suite

Podcast: AT&T and Verizon 5G, Google Cloud Next, HPE Container Platform, Earbuds, Apple, Tesla

This week’s Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O’Donnell discussing the new 5G offerings from AT&T and Verizon, announcements from Google’s latest event covering GCP, GSuite and more, the launch of HPE’s Open Container Platform, and commenting on earbud news from Microsoft and Apple, the Tim Cook Austin factory visit, and the launch of … Continue reading Podcast: AT&T and Verizon 5G, Google Cloud Next, HPE Container Platform, Earbuds, Apple, Tesla

Google’s Offer for Fitbit, Spotify Earnings, AirPods Pro

Google Makes Offer for Fitbit This is one of those synergy type deals that should have been easy to see. We have long written here at Tech.pinions about the challenges of being a one-trick pony business and how competitive threats remain more difficult to ward off when you have only one main revenue stream for … Continue reading Google’s Offer for Fitbit, Spotify Earnings, AirPods Pro

Google and Partners Push Chromebooks Beyond the Education Market

There have been several Chromebook-related announcements in recent weeks, signaling that Google and its partners see new opportunities for the platform outside of its traditional stronghold in the U.S. education market. Updated enterprise-focused features, commercial and prosumer-focused hardware, and competition within the silicon space all point to a strong push for Chromebooks in 2020. The … Continue reading Google and Partners Push Chromebooks Beyond the Education Market

Podcast: Made by Google Event, Poly and Zoomtopia, Sony 360 Reality Audio

This week’s Tech.pinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O’Donnell analyzing the announcements from the Made by Google hardware launch event, including the Pixel 4 smartphone, discussing new videoconferencing hardware from Poly and collaboration tools from Zoom’s Zoomtopia conference, and chatting about Sony’s new multichannel audio format release.