Katie Deighton

Welcome to Tech News Briefing.

It's Friday, February 27th.

I'm Katie Dayton for The Wall Street Journal.

How many times have you opened your smartphone camera ready to capture a perfect moment, only to be told you're out of storage?

Today, we're looking into how to prevent that from happening once and for all.

Then, we're taking a snapshot of software stocks.

Shares of companies like Salesforce, Adobe and Intuit have been hit hard by the arrival of newer AI-powered rivals.

We analyze what's happening to an industry that was once a sure bet for investors.

But first, almost nothing in this digital age is more annoying than that storage full notification.

Apple and Google have for years now been charging users for extra cloud storage once their standard allocation has been filled with photos, videos, and other precious memories.

But very few of us have tried to do something about those ever-increasing fees.

Enter WSJ personal tech columnist, Nicole Nguyen, who's been looking into what else can be done when it comes to smartphone storage.

Nicole, let me start by asking you about some of your own cloud storage experiences.

How often have you been burned by that storage full notification?

Because you're not going to delete pictures of your precious baby.

I'm sure many listeners feel like this is a problem that's only gotten worse in the last few years, even though we've all been buying data storage from Apple and Google.

So why is this happening?

Your column is all about solutions.

So let's talk about some of those solutions to this problem, other than simply paying more and more for storage every single month.

You mentioned the idea of triaging your cloud account.