Weekly Issue: 2024-19

We’ve been on the lookout for the arrival of the ChromeOS App Mall for a few months now. First discovered back in March, the new App Mall is arriving to do one, simple task: put the apps users want in one place to be found a Chromebook.

Apple’s Let Loose event saw the company introduce an iPad Pro equipped with a next-generation M4 chip, an iPad Air running an M2, a new Apple Pencil Pro, and powerful updates to the company’s pro apps on iPads. There’s a lot to like about all these announcements.

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Beta 125 (125.0.6422.34) for Android. It’s now available on Google Play.You can see a partial list of the changes in the Git log. For details on new features, check out the Chromium blog, and for details on web platform updates, check here.

While the early parts of this week saw most Chromebook deals wither up and fade away, there are still a couple deals worth your time. One in particular happens to be on my favorite Chromebook at the moment: the Acer Chromebook 516 GE.

A web browser is almost certainly the most popular application on a Windows PCs. And while there’s a lot of competition, all the big browsers — Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, and even Brave — have similar interfaces.

Google’s latest mid-range smartphone, the Pixel 8a, has officially arrived and boy does it pack a punch in this category. Although much of the details about his phone leaked already, there’s still a lot to get excited about here.

Over the last year, there’s been a lot of change in the commercial image and video asset industry: New generative AI applications let users create their own still and live images based on prompts, and traditional stock-media asset providers are offering customers richer search experiences that have a deep understanding of the image/live image content…

As a device that is already set to get one unique key we’ve never seen on a non-Google-made Chromebook, it would appear that ‘Xol’ is now getting yet another interesting addition on its keyboard: a dictation button.

After a few days of teasing shoppers in select stores, Walmart has finally brought the Onn. 4K Pro to its online shelves. The upgraded yet budget-friendly streaming box with the Google Assistant on board comes in at just $49.

Google’s debut smartwatch, the Pixel Watch, remains a popular choice for Android users even after being on the market for a year and a half. And while the second iteration boasts improvements like better performance and battery life, the original Pixel Watch still packs a punch in 2024.

It feels like we can’t be too far from the launch of the next wave of more-powerful Chromebook tablets. Yes, I know there’s a new ASUS Chromebook CM30 tablet that launched back in January, but that isn’t what I’m after at this point.

Data protection firm BigID Inc. today announced a new hybrid scanning solution for cloud native workloads that helps organizations manage and protect cloud data.

One of the new features that surprisingly arrived in ChromeOS 124 is the new split-screen overview that gives you a quicker way to set up your side-by-side windows each time you snap a window to the side of your display.

I’m generally not one to say I told you so, but in this case, I’m going to be that guy. I told you so.

In the generative AI-era, security teams are looking for a fully-operational, high-performing security operations solution that can drive productivity while empowering defenders to detect and mitigate new threats.

For decades, threat intelligence solutions have had two main challenges: They lack a comprehensive view of the threat landscape, and to get value from intelligence, organizations have to spend excess time, energy, and money trying to collect and operationalize the data.

The modern workplace relies on web-based applications and cloud services, making browsers and their sensitive data a primary target for attackers. While the risks are significant, Chrome Enterprise can help organizations simplify and strengthen their endpoint security with secure enterprise browsing.