This week, there was news from one company that pretty much drowned out all the rest, and that company goes by the name of Apple. This week was the first virtual World-Wide Developer’s Conference (WWDC), the annual meeting where Apple announces new software updates, and developers can meet and listen to Apple engineers describe
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The Friday Tech Fix – May 22, 2020
Welcome to the Memorial Day Weekend edition of The Friday Tech Fix, featuring three stories from the consumer technology world lawyers need to know about. Although it was a pretty quiet week overall, there were nevertheless three stories that I think were pretty big. So let’s get started!
If you Virtually “Build” It, Will They
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The Friday Tech Fix – May 15, 2020
It was another pretty quiet week in technology, which is probably why my newsletter, The Extra Mighell, is full of goats running wild and episodes of The Office appearing in Slack (you have to see it to understand it). But there were two stories that I think are important for lawyers, so here goes:…
The Friday Tech Fix – May 8, 2020
Welcome to your Friday Tech Fix for May 8, 2020! In the Tech Fix, I focus on what I consider to be the top technology news of the week, and why lawyers need to pay attention. For me there were two big stories this week – let’s dive in:
Microsoft Dives Deep with Surface. While…
The Friday Tech Fix – May 1, 2020
Welcome to your Friday Tech Fix for the first day of May, 2020. From a news perspective, there were the usual landslide of stories about virtual meetings, Zoom, working from home, and the like. You can catch up on some of the other stories I found interesting at my “extra” newsletter, The Extra Mighell.…
Getting and Using a Password Manager, Part 2: Requirements
In my first post, Getting and Using a Password Manager – For Real, This Time, I made the case for why all of you should be using a password manager – at least until something better comes along. In Part 2, having assumed I have convinced you of the need, it’s time to talk…
The Friday Tech Fix
It was a pretty quiet week in the world of consumer technology, although everyone is still finding ways to get bent out of shape about using Zoom (see below for more). Here are my top tech stories of the week:
Welcome to Microsoft 365! In the biggest non-story story of the week, Microsoft officially changed…
Introducing the Friday Tech Fix
I will wager that most of you don’t have a lot of time to keep up with the latest tech gadgets, apps, sites, and services. While I probably don’t have a lot of time for that either, I have come to recognize my tech addiction for what it is, and have accepted my need to…
Back to Blogging, and a Pivot
From the looks of it, this is my first official blog post in over 6 months, and only the second post in more than a year. From the days when I used to track law bloggers, I definitely qualify as an “inactive.” I’ve been trying to get back into the blogging swing of things during…
The iPad Pro vs. Windows Surface Pro 3: An Early Look
If you happened to be sleeping or otherwise absent last week, you may have missed that Apple announced a few products. Being an iPad fan, I was of course interested to see the much-rumored announcement of the iPad Pro, a much larger tablet that Apple says “lets you be more creative and productive…