In this everything-from-home era, work, learn and play activities are stressing home networks like never before.

Wouldn’t it be great if, when the kids’ online schooling grinds your Zoom presentation to a halt, you could just solve it by sending them – and their laptops and tablets – to their room? That day is coming – and sooner than you think, thanks to a new mesh Wi-Fi technology called Qualcomm Immersive Home. You’ll find it in mesh routers soon.

Find out more in my latest column in the Tech section of USA Today HERE.

Your smartphone will be faster, for sure. But 5G is about so much more than speed. And those new features, which enable seemingly instantaneous response for thousands of times more devices, will pave the way for a whole new class of applications that help cut costs, save energy and keep us safer.

Nowhere, perhaps, are the innovations more evident than in healthcare. Like what? Find out. Check out my column on what 5G will enable in health on Medium.

Since the start of the pandemic, we’ve heard plenty of CIO war stories about the Herculean lifts IT performed to enable work-from-home for desk workers. But for those who absolutely, positively had to show up for work, businesses also had to be sure those front-line workers were safe.

How did they do that? And what are they iterating to ensure that work-from-work environments are safe for front-line workers, and that safety measures are as seamless as possible?

Find out what several companies did – and how they’re planning to iterate what’s already in place – to ensure a safe #WFH environment in the age of COVID-19. Read my latest in USA Today. And for a more comprehensive view, check out my column in CIO Magazine.

Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop Go is available starting today. It’s the company’s first laptop offering under the Go sub-brand. And it comes at a great time. Because many consumers in the ongoing everything-from-home reality are looking to add a new PC or two to their family fleet.

So how well does the Surface Laptop Go fit into this hot PC segment this fall? Look no further than my latest analysis. I’ve been evaluating the new system for the past week.

Read my analysis now. On Medium.

This year, it’s not just about $400 premium smartwatches. Now that Apple and Garmin have introduced models designed specifically for the mainstream, devices under $300 are getting plenty of attention as well.

In my column in the Tech section of USA Today, I examine four models from Apple, Fitbit, Garmin and Samsung. And this week, I published on Medium an expanded analysis with even more models.