Windows 10: Google announces Orion Wifi to improve cellular coverage

Brink · Sep 8, 2020

When I visit a grocery store or a doctorsâ office, I sometimes have weak cellular coverage. I know there might be a public Wi-Fi network that could help, but itâs a pain to figure out which networks are high-quality and available to me. And then itâs another often-frustrating process to get connected.

What if my cellular carrier could give me the best of both worlds?

Orion Wifi helps solve this problem. Orion Wifi is a new platform from Area 120, Googleâs in-house incubator for experimental projects. Weâve designed an easy way for public venuesâlike that grocery store, a medical office or a mallâto sell Wi-Fi capacity to cellular carriers.

With Orion Wifi, when you walk into that grocery store, your carrier can automatically and securely connect you to the Wi-Fi.

Although you donât lift a finger, thereâs a lot happening in the background. As you walk into the grocery store, Orion Wifi helps the local network tell the carrier about its price and quality. If the carrier decides the connection is good enough, weâll auto-connect you. If the quality is too low, we wonât. When you are connected, Internet traffic flows over the Wi-Fi network just as if you had connected directly to the Wi-Fi; Orion cannot access usersâ Internet traffic.

That means more connectivity in more placesâseamlessly and automatically.

Public venues: more revenue, happier visitors

Whatâs in it for the grocery store? Poor connectivity is a problem for them, too. Disconnected visitors are unhappy visitors. So places like downtown districts, office buildings, stores, malls, restaurants, transit hubs and hospitals invest heavily in high-quality networks so that you can make a video call, send a picture and check your email.

Orion Wifi uses those existing networks to connect more visitors, and to provide a new revenue stream to the venue owner.

Orion Wifi works with most commercial and enterprise Wi-Fi systems, usually with no new hardware or software. Orion Wifi helps improve connectivity even for venues that have already deployed Distributed Antenna Systems or Small Cells to improve coverage. But unlike those systems, Orion Wifi is incredibly quick and easy to turn on.

Partnering across cellular, Wi-Fi and real estate

Weâre working with industry leaders across the telecommunications industry to make this happen.

Google Fi and Republic Wireless will be among the first cellular carriers to use this new technology. Weâre partnering with leading Wi-Fi manufacturers like Cisco Systems, CommScope (RUCKUS) and Juniper Mist to ensure that Orion Wifi is compatible and easy to deploy with their networking equipment. And weâre working with the Wireless Broadband Alliance on the emerging OpenRoaming standard to make Wi-Fi roaming even more powerful.

To ensure ubiquitous access, weâre also partnering with experts in Wi-Fi and real estate to deploy Orion Wifi widely. Boingo, the leading carrier-grade Wi-Fi provider, is using Orion Wifi to expand its connectivity offering to travelers and visitors across their U.S. footprint. And weâre working with leaders in commercial real estate like 5G LLC, GigaMonster, CA Ventures and Single Digits to enable Orion Wifi at premium venues across the United States.

Easy, quick and free

Starting today, Orion Wifi is available to United States-based public venues. Weâve made the sign-up process easy. Thereâs no cost to sign up, and no commitments or obligations. If you operate venues with high-quality commercial Wi-Fi networks, visit orion.area120.com, where you can use our self-service portal to try it out for yourself.
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Source: Orion Wifi: Wi-Fi roaming made easy for venues

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Brink · Sep 8, 2020

Spelling and grammar improvements in Google Docs for G Suite

Quick launch summary

Earlier this year we introduced a BETA for new grammar suggestions in Google Docs. Now we’re making this feature available for G Suite Basic, Business, and Enterprise users.

The new features enhance existing spell check functions and highlight possible grammatical errors in your text. We’re also introducing a revamped interface for reviewing spelling and grammar suggestions which makes it faster and easier to spot and correct errors in your text.

Some improvements you’ll see are:

Grammar

Possible grammar corrections will be underlined in blue. To see a suggested correction or dismiss the alert, simply right-click.

You will also see possible grammar errors when running a spelling and grammar check through the Tools menu.

New language review interface

You can easily review all language suggestions for your document with the updated spelling and grammar check tool. Access it through the “Tools” menu or right-click on a suggestion and select “Review more suggestions” — you’ll see each suggestion and actions to correct any errors.

To learn more about how we’re using machine learning to recognize errors and suggest corrections to improve your writing, see here.

Availability

Rollout details

Rapid Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) starting on March 5, 2019.

Scheduled Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) starting on March 5, 2019.

G Suite editions

Available to G Suite Basic, G Suite Business, G Suite Enterprise, and G Suite for Education.

Not Available to G Suite Enterprise for Education, and G Suite for Nonprofits.

On/off by default?

This feature will be ON by default.
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Source: G Suite Updates Blog: Spelling and grammar improvements in Docs for Enterprise

Brink · Sep 8, 2020

Spelling and grammar improvements in Google Docs for G Suite

Quick launch summary

Earlier this year we introduced a BETA for new grammar suggestions in Google Docs. Now we’re making this feature available for G Suite Basic, Business, and Enterprise users.

The new features enhance existing spell check functions and highlight possible grammatical errors in your text. We’re also introducing a revamped interface for reviewing spelling and grammar suggestions which makes it faster and easier to spot and correct errors in your text.

Some improvements you’ll see are:

Grammar

Possible grammar corrections will be underlined in blue. To see a suggested correction or dismiss the alert, simply right-click.

You will also see possible grammar errors when running a spelling and grammar check through the Tools menu.

New language review interface

You can easily review all language suggestions for your document with the updated spelling and grammar check tool. Access it through the “Tools” menu or right-click on a suggestion and select “Review more suggestions” — you’ll see each suggestion and actions to correct any errors.

To learn more about how we’re using machine learning to recognize errors and suggest corrections to improve your writing, see here.

Availability

Rollout details

Rapid Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) starting on March 5, 2019.

Scheduled Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) starting on March 5, 2019.

G Suite editions

Available to G Suite Basic, G Suite Business, G Suite Enterprise, and G Suite for Education.

Not Available to G Suite Enterprise for Education, and G Suite for Nonprofits.

On/off by default?

This feature will be ON by default.
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Source: G Suite Updates Blog: Spelling and grammar improvements in Docs for Enterprise

cswKOP · Sep 8, 2020

Lumia 925 (WP8) will not search/connect to cellular network after extended period without coverage

I have a Nokia Lumia 925 through T-mobile and have no cellular coverage at work so am using WiFi calling/data for most of the day. The problem is that after work when I return to a cellular coverage area the phone will make no apparent effort to
detect and connect to the cellular network until I cycle "airplane mode". I assume this is part of some power saving feature that I don't have access to; it makes sense that if the phone doesn't detect a cellular network in XX minutes/hours it will stop searching
so as not to drain the device battery, but it's somewhat inconvenient to have to cycle airplane mode every day...
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I have the same problem too after 3 hrs connection to WiFi. The method mentioned to "cycle airplane mode" worked.

I hope this can be fixed by next OS patch release.

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