Google is about to make it harder for Chrome extensions to collect your browsing data without letting you know about it, according to a new policy announced Friday. More of this latest news from PCWorld.com
Microsoft’s Project Madeira shows how the lines continue to blur between what an app is and what a service is. In this case, the Project Madeira basic business apps for Windows, iOS, and Android exist within Outlook, so users can access them without ever leaving Microsoft’s email program. Check out this article from PCWorld.com
Analyst firms IDC and Gartner said Monday that the PC market continues to sharply decline, as unit sales plunged between 10 and 12 percent during the first quarter. Of note, however, was Dell’s resurgence as the top U.S. PC vendor, after HP split into two business units. Check out this article from PCWorld.com
Something’s up with the latest version of Google+.
Android Police spotted several changes to the notification screen in the version 7.6 update, but now they all appear to have vanished. Closing and re-launching the app eliminated them in one fell swoop, which indicates the flip of a server-side off switch. Check out this article from PCWorld.com
Get ready to say farewell to Chrome’s merged tabs feature. The capability is no longer there in the latest build of the developer version of Chrome for Android, which offers a pretty strong gauge that it’s likely to be killed off. Check this article from PCWorld.com
Modern journalists always have an eye on social media to see which stories are trending and why. Do you want to track social media trends like the professionals do? More of this article from MakeUseOf.com
Smile Software is changing practically everything about TextExpander except what TextExpander actually does: Letting you save chunks of text or other data as “snippets” that are automatically inserted when you type an abbreviation. The new version of the beloved utility is aimed at more seamlessly sharing snippets among teams, there’s a new web portal at TextExpander.com to manage your snippets online, and it’s even expanding to a new platform with a beta version of TextExpander for Windows. Check out more of this article from MacWorld.com