Jun 29, 2016 | Android, Apple, audio
“Ambient music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.“ – Brian Eno, liner notes for Ambient 1: Music for Airports (1978) Ambient music and sounds can...
Jun 8, 2016 | Android, Apple, Google, LastPass, Microsoft, security, web_services, Windows10
We’re drowning in passwords. Slowly – slowly! – we are moving out of the Age Of Passwords. Better alternatives exist. Apple has integrated fingerprints deeply into iOS and fingerprint readers are turning up on many Android phones. Microsoft has built Windows Hello...
May 22, 2016 | Android, Apple, business, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, mobile
On a recent earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg said that “people around the world spend on average more than 50 minutes a day using Facebook, Instagram and Messenger.” Facebook has more than 1 billion active users every single day, more than 1.6 billion active users every...
May 18, 2016 | Android, Apple, Microsoft, mobile, Office 365, Outlook, phone, web_services
The Exchange mailboxes run by Office 365 are now standard in businesses of all sizes. They are supported on every device imaginable, from Windows and Mac computers to the native mail/contact/calendar apps on iOS and Android. Office 365 is one of the most commonly...
May 8, 2016 | Android, Apple, Microsoft, updates, Windows10, Windows7, Windows8
Microsoft says that the offer to upgrade Windows 7 and 8 computers to Windows 10 for free will end on July 29, one year after the release of Windows 10. The free upgrade was always described as a one-year offer but many people expected Microsoft to extend it...
Apr 6, 2016 | Apple, iPad, laptops, Microsoft, phone, Surface, tablet
Until recently, Apple’s business strategy was to release only a few devices but make each one special and highly anticipated. In the last few years the anticipation has been waning as Apple has failed to deliver the Next Big Thing, as described in the previous...