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I think it was 2018. I was curious to see how far one can go with a Chromebook. I use a full desktop at my desk, but replaced my Windows Laptop that I used for travel with a Pixelbook. The ...

https://talkingpointz.com/talkingheadz-with-raluca-monet-on-google-cer-ccaas/

I switched to a Chromebook for travel in 2018. It was a bit of a personal challenge to see if one can survive on such a limited device. I still use it exclusively on travel, and it’s not a limi...

https://talkingpointz.com/chrome-enterprise-ccaas/

I tried Google Fi. I really wanted it to work. The idea of just having a simple, straightforward plan was appealing. What I found was that it was expensive and worked very poorly on an iPhone. It...

https://talkingpointz.com/i-loved-google-fi-so-i-let-it-go/

I was very excited when I upgraded my iPhone 7 Plus to a new iPhone 12 Pro Max. The biggest, most exciting feature was dual SIM capability. It was exciting because I could use Google-Fi for inter...

https://talkingpointz.com/google-fi-fumbles-on-ios/

This was a really fun conversation. Javier didn’t hesitate or deflect any question we threw at him. Quite the opposite, he provided thorough and thoughtful responses. This is actually new for G...

https://talkingpointz.com/talkingheadz-with-javier-soltero-of-google-workspace/

Apple’s App Store monopoly is being attacked again! This time by Epic, last time by Basecamp, and previous times by Netflix, Match, Spotify, and I’m sure others. It’s a complex battle with ...

https://talkingpointz.com/epic-app-store-fight/

There is a great flow to this dialog, I think I will call it: Dialogflow. Also, the three participants sound really human. Most of the talk about AI is hype.  However, there are two areas in ent...

https://talkingpointz.com/talkingheadz-podcast-with-antony-passemard-of-google-ccai/

I just spent a few days with team Slack at its Spec conference. I’ve had pleasant conversations with both of its founders. They seem sincere to me, that is not a lot of spin. Everyone has heard...

https://talkingpointz.com/will-google-acquire-slack/

Should you switch to Google Fi now that it works on both Android and iPhone? It’s an enticing option: Pay a minimum of $20* a month and a maximum of $80* a month for “unlimited*”

https://talkingpointz.com/thoughts-on-google-fi/

I use a desktop at the office, but on the road I have always used a Windows laptop. I avoided the Mac vortex, and stayed mostly within a single Microsoft Ecosystem. Though, my adoption of Google ...

https://talkingpointz.com/life-on-a-chromebook/

It’s easy to summarize Google Next in just 10 minutes if you ignore most of it. The event had 30,000+ attendees. 500+ sessions. 400+ customer speakers. And thousands of conversations and ideas....

https://talkingpointz.com/my-thoughts-from-googlenext19/

Bonus, a post from Colin and a rebuttal from Dave. “Google put a microphone in Nest Secure and forgot to tell anyone.”This has been a frequent headline in the past week as it has been discove...

https://talkingpointz.com/nested-microphones/

2019 will be the year that RCS moves from tech punchline to reality. One never knows if a Google initiative is real or a lark (and to be fair we still don’t know), but Google’s efforts with R...

https://talkingpointz.com/rcs-is-coming/

“I believe whiteboards are an evil presence in meetings … Simply going to the board and picking up a pen changes the whole dynamic of meeting ownership, agenda, control and creates a power-dy...

https://talkingpointz.com/do-e-boards-foster-or-hinder-collaboration/

I think the whole thing about James Damore and Google is misunderstood. Damore hit a nerve that touches the right, left, male, and female portions of our society in different ways., and everyone ...

https://talkingpointz.com/james-damore-and-google/

I was considering purchasing a Nest Protect smoke detector system for my home until I turned my brain on. The Nest Protect smoke detector has a microphone in it. The purpose for this is to listen...

https://talkingpointz.com/is-the-government-listening/

We all know messaging is big right now – WeChat, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Slack, Spark, the list goes on. It really all started with good ol, obsolete SMS. SMS is one of the big three that...

https://talkingpointz.com/google-vonage-and-rcs/

Internet web searching still uses what is basically 1990s full-text searching technology. It’s time for an update. 1990s technology took every word in a search query and tossed out noise words ...

https://talkingpointz.com/google-search-is-obsolete/

I get asked quite a lot about Google FI. Google FI is a phone service where you pay $10 per gigabyte. This rate is effectively pro-rated into partial gigabytes. The great thing is that you can us...

https://talkingpointz.com/google-fi-is-faux/

Back in the days when I had the Director of IT title, the OS discussion was relatively limited. Windows. But it isn’t so simple any more. The server side has Windows, Linux, and hypervisors, an...

https://talkingpointz.com/the-os-for-the-enterprise/