Welcome to the Tech Name Ride Home for Tuesday, October 6, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough today.

G Suite is no more, but don't worry, it's just a name change.

Apple is removing non-apple headphones from its stores,

and AT&T is killing DSL, why that last bit is a problem for a lot of people.

Putting interactive advertising on convenience store coolers

is sort of obvious.

But why it should be obvious to everyone

that an internet connected chastity belt is a bad idea. Here's what you missed today in the world of

tech.

G Suite is no more. But before you freak out, no, this is not another case of Google getting bored with one of its

thousands of projects and just ending that project at least that's not what

they're doing yet. No what I mean is that Google has rebranded G Suite as Google Workspace.

As a part of this, it has integrated meat, chat, and rooms across all its applications and it has introduced new logos for all

the apps in the suite. But again, it's not a suite anymore. Quoting Tech Crunch.

G Suite as the brand for Google's paid offering originally launched in 2016.

In a press briefing ahead of today's announcement,

Google's Javier Soltero, the company's VP and GM for what is now Google Workspace,

noted that the company wanted to ensure that the service

that people use is the same thing that people buy.

By selecting Google Workspace, we get the brand association with Google, which is really important

to us, he said these

products are flagship products for Google itself and the ability to actually describe the

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