Posted On 11 Dec 2021

Chromebooks may now be used as scanners, thanks to a new Chrome OS upgrade.
Google began rolling out Chrome OS 96 on Tuesday, and the cameras on Chromebooks have learned some fresh stuff. According to a Google blog post, the update adds the option to scan photographs using your camera and transform them to PDFs or JPEGs. You can utilize the functionality with both cameras if your Chromebook includes a front-facing camera and a webcam like the HP Chromebook x2 does.
You may send the produced file by email or other common methods. You can also use Nearby Share to share the scanned document with other Chromebooks and Android smartphones. Nearby Share, like Apple AirDrop, allows you to share data rapidly through Bluetooth, WebRTC, or peer-to-peer Wi-Fi. In June, Google introduced Nearby Share to Chromebooks for the first time. The business is also now beta testing a service that allows users to use Google Assistant to operate the Camera app, even launching it.

IT Spending Set to Reach $4 Trillion in 2022
According to Gartner, IT expenses are expanding at their quickest rate in ten years, primarily to infrastructure software and device acquisitions. Global IT expenditure is expected to reach $4.5 trillion in 2022, up 5.5 percent from 2021, according to the latest Gartner predictions, with IT budgets expanding at the quickest rate in ten years.
Gartner claims that all IT spending sectors will expand next year. However, infrastructure software investment is expected to deliver the fastest increase in enterprise software in 2022, at 11.5 percent. As remote work, telemedicine, and remote learning became more popular, global expenditure on devices increased by over 15%.
As organizations continue to rethink the future of work, they are focusing their expenditure on ensuring their infrastructure is robust and supporting increasingly complicated hybrid work structures.
Cyber and data security top the list of anticipated IT investments for 2022, according to a Gartner poll, with 66 percent of respondents planning to raise their spending. Business intelligence/data analytics (51%) and cloud platforms (48%) come in second and third, respectively.