Author: Geek Planet

Aruna Ravichandran leads marketing for Webex at Cisco with a 99% remote team, less than 1% attrition and what she calls “maniacal execution.” We caught up with her at the recent Webex One convention in San Diego to learn about her philosophy on thriving in the AI era and how she sees the future of work, marketing and tech evolving. How has AI fundamentally changed how your team works? I think about AI in three layers. Layer one: people who feel AI will take their job. Layer two: people who worry someone better at AI will take their job. Layer…

Last year, Apple released the new and improved AirPods Pro 3. The device launched three years after the AirPods Pro 2, with significant improvements in sound quality and noise cancellation. And while this is the usual cadence for the Pro-grade AirPods — once every two or three years — Apple is expected to break that trend this year. The Cupertino giant is reportedly working on a new, high-end version of the current-generation AirPods Pro 3, and it could go official alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and the first foldable iPhone at the September 2026 launch event. Why Vision Pro could…

The ad dollars are nice but the real prize for Amazon is the infrastructure itself – the rails on which the entire system runs. Up until now that’s been the quiet part of its ad strategy. Moving forward it’s saying it out loud. The company is launching a managed cloud network built specifically to handle the high-speed, data-intensive transactions that make programmatic advertising possible. It’s called AWS RTB Fabric, and it’s been quietly in beta for months.  At its core, it’s a specialized computing environment built inside AWS to host and move real-time bidding traffic – the trillions of bid requests…

Motorola appears to be gearing up to launch two new G series smartphones. While the company has yet to make an official announcement, early retail listings for the upcoming Moto G67 and Moto G77 have surfaced on a Greek retailer’s website, offering a detailed look at both budget-friendly phones ahead of the launch. The listings, published by Insomnia, include images revealing the designs for both models, which look nearly indistinguishable. The devices feature a textured back panel and a square camera module that tapers toward the top and left edges. On the front, the phones sport a slightly curved display…

Apple may be inching toward an iPhone-class chip MacBook, and the trail starts in a place most people never see: internal kernel debug kit files used by its engineers. MacRumors reports that Apple accidentally posted the kit on its website earlier this year, then pulled it after details began leaking. Inside the Mac-related listings, the files reference two unreleased MacBook setups. One uses the older A15, the other points to A18 Pro. The split matters because it suggests Apple tested the concept with whatever worked, then moved on to something that looks closer to a real product candidate. Two MacBook…

The latest thing keeping marketers up at night about AI isn’t deepfakes or disinformation — it’s SpongeBob. The cartoon character has become an unlikely mascot for the flood of AI-generated videos taking over feeds, blurring the lines between parody, harmless fun, copyright infringement and misinformation. In the ensuing panic, it’s made one thing clear: AI-generated videos like news and user-generated content before them, exist on a sliding scale — from harmless to outright harmful — and people are watching it.  The real question is where marketers draw the line. Because while it’s fashionable to lump everything under the label of “AI…

Over the past few months, rumors about the second-generation iPhone Air have been all over the place. While some reports suggested Apple had scrapped the model due to weak sales of the original, others pointed to a delayed launch in 2027. Last month, a leak contradicted both these claims, hinting that Apple could still launch the iPhone Air 2 this fall. Now, the same leaker has doubled down on this release timeline and offered a few more details. In a recent post on Weibo, leaker Fixed Focus Digital has claimed that information from Apple’s manufacturing supply chain points to a…

Regional department store Von Maur is on a mission to bring more brands to shoppers in the heartland.  The retailer, founded in 1872 in Davenport, Iowa, has been on a slow and steady growth trajectory at a time when other department stores like Macy’s and Nordstrom are closing stores or struggling to grow net sales. Von Maur typically opens one or two new stores per year, but it has been further investing in its footprint and entering new states over the past few years. The retailer now has 39 physical locations across 15 states and most recently opened its first…

Microsoft has rolled out a significant upgrade to its Phone Link system and the “Link To Windows” app for Android, improving cross-platform connectivity with Windows 11. First and foremost, there’s a new “Lock PC” toggle that lets you lock your Windows device remotely from your smartphone (provided the devices are connected). According to a new report by Windows Latest, locking a Windows 11 PC from an Android phone takes a couple of seconds. Once unlocked, the PC reconnects to your phone. Besides that, the app also gets a “Recent Activity” feed that shows file transfers and clipboard history shared between…

The Galaxy S25 series was “Qi2-ready,” so you’d need a magnetic wireless charger to use the handsets with Qi2-compatible accessories such as battery packs and wallets. However, that might not be the case with the upcoming Galaxy S26 series, which is rumored to be fully Qi2-compatible. All the smartphones in the S26 series should feature a built-in magnetic profile (circular in shape), underneath the back panel, that allows a convenient and secure connection with third-party Qi2-compatible accessories. 5,000 mAh wireless powerbank for $70.22 is quite expensive Now, a new report from the German publication WinFuture suggests that Samsung could launch…