Oct 6, 2015 | Android, Apple, computers, Google, hardware, HoloLens, iPad, Microsoft, shopping, Surface, tablet, Windows10
Executives at Dell and HP and Lenovo put their head in their hands and moaned as they watched Microsoft’s presentation of new hardware on Tuesday. It was Microsoft’s best presentation in years, showing off new phones that can turn into computers; a Hololens augmented...
Sep 21, 2015 | Apple, business, Chrome, Google, IE, Internet, mobile, phone
Ads on websites are out of control. An online debate has been raging all week about ad blocking – programs that run on your computer or your phone to remove ads from web pages so they load faster and you have fewer distractions. I’ll try to tell you briefly why it’s...
Aug 10, 2015 | Android, Apple, Google, Microsoft, security
The security hacks into our computers have turned out to be the tip of the iceberg; a constant stream of new vulnerabilities are teaching us that developers and manufacturers have not given security the attention that it requires, even as technology spreads to our...
Aug 6, 2015 | Apple, audio, Google, Spotify, web_services
Each week, Spotify creates a personalized playlist with thirty songs on it, tailored specifically to my taste in music. I’m starting to look forward to my “Discover Weekly” playlist on Monday morning, knowing that it will have a lot of names I’ve never heard before...
Jun 22, 2015 | Chrome, Google
I’ve been using Chrome as my primary web browser instead of Internet Explorer for the last few months. I’ll have more stories to tell you about what that’s been like but today I just want to mention a few cool tricks for Chrome users. There are hundreds! These are...
Jun 19, 2015 | Android, Apple, Google, Microsoft, phone, Skype, video, web_services
Microsoft wants Skype to be everywhere. It got a little over-zealous with a poorly-designed version of Skype for Windows 8 that never caught on and is being discontinued, but it rallied this week with a new version of Skype that runs in a web browser. Skype was...
