The Hottest Phones for the Next Billion Users Aren’t Smartphones (www.wsj.com)
Feature phones are back, but they’re much more capable than a decade ago. Millions of people can’t afford a smartphone and are flocking to cheap phones running KaiOS, a fork of B2G, which was an open source community-driven successor of Firefox OS.
Google Posts Strong Profits as Hazards Mount (www.wsj.com)
Google Cloud, specifically, now has an $8 billion annual revenue run rate, up from $4 billion in early 2018.
Google’s docs․new shortcut can now create files in other signed-in accounts (9to5google.com)
I personally didn’t know about this convenient way to quickly open a blank Google Doc. Entering docs.new into your browser will open a blank Google Doc, while sheets.new, slides.new. sites.new, forms.new, and website.new will also open the corresponding G Suite apps. And now you can append /1, /2 etc to switch between various G Suite or Gmail accounts. Very useful!
Google for Education adding free ‘transformation reports’ to track G Suite usage (9to5google.com)
These reports will help IT admins track adoption and work patterns for G Suite for Education.