Galen Gruman
Executive Editor for Global Content
Galen Gruman is executive editor for global content at IDG Foundry Co.’s enterprise sites, currently focused on our non-English-language properties.
3 signs of an AI snow job
Technology may appear to be smart, but in most cases it merely has great logic. That’s not the same as intelligence or the ability to learn
Hands-on: Microsoft Teams fails in its debut
Once again, Microsoft cuts corners on user interface, functionality, and cross-platform support. Will it ever learn?
The Android Wear 2.0 terror and other fake news
The facts about wearables' fit in and risk to the enterprise are a far cry from what the security fearmongers would have you believe
2 web technologies you need to dump now
Too many sites block or restrict users using modern technologies. You can easily avoid this suicidal path
Mobile is still the safest place for your data
IT likes to fret about smartphones and tablets, but more established technologies—even paper documents—are where the data-breach risks lie
Android won't fix the Chromebook conundrum
High-quality Chrome OS laptops are coming to run Android apps, but there's no real reason to choose them over today's laptops or tablets
5 lessons from a Chromebook deployment
Subsidized management and apps plus supersimple administration let schools manage fleets of devices and users at a low cost
11 home IoT devices actually worth getting
In the internet of things are many poor home-automation products, but that doesn't mean they're all bad
Celebrate 2016’s mobile gems
Cool, useful innovations were few and far between last year, so these five mobile breakthroughs deserve extra credit
Smartphone and PC? Microsoft just might pull it off
The technology approach is proven, and the ambition has long been there, so there's a chance this time for the merger of PC and mobile to actually happen
2016: The year Apple lost its magic
Trivial product upgrades, a few bizarre new features, executives in fantasy land, cracks in its ecosystem make Apple fans worry, not lust
Not so crazy after all: 4 Silicon Valley notions IT really likes
It takes a few years for the tech industry's cool ideas to get traction in mainstream IT, although many still don't
CIOs may finally get a seat at the grown-ups' table
A recent framework called TBM promises to bring finances, utilization, and operational effectiveness into a whole to get IT focused on strategic value
Samsung's unwinnable Android AI dilemma
Nearly every app or service that Samsung offers competes with a Google version that users and developers already know -- so how does it break through?
Review: Google Pixel hobbled by Android 7.1
The Pixel is a major step up for Google's Android hardware, but Android 7.1's networking woes overly complicate corporate usage
As Apple fiddles, Microsoft reaches for Apple's discarded creative crown
Inertia, more than any other factor, now binds creative and power users to the Mac
For mobile, PowerPoint still can't match Apple Keynote
The reason: Microsoft hasn't taken the vagaries of on-the-go-environments seriously enough
At the mercy of AI: Your job, your health, your money
The focus on loss of privacy from Watson, Cortana, Google, Facebook, DeepMind, and Siri risks us missing an even greater threat
Imagine no new Macs -- it isn’t hard to do
It's been three to five years since the last major Mac overhauls, so Mac owners are feeling unloved. But maybe they should love what they have