Jan 3, 2013 | Android, Google, mobile, phone, tablet
If you have a new Android phone running the latest version of Android (“Jelly Bean,” Android versions 4.1 or 4.2), you can turn on Google Now, one of the most interesting and forward-looking smartphone apps available on any platform. I don’t have a Jelly Bean phone,...
Dec 21, 2012 | Android, Apple, bruceb, Google, iPad, Microsoft, Office, Office 365, OneDrive, phone, Surface, web_services, Windows Phone 8, Windows8
Season’s greetings! I hope you all get lovely new technology for the holidays and have a wonderful time poking and clicking and pinching and zooming! I’ve been looking ahead to 2013, trying to guess what will fill our time in the technology world next year. Here are...
Dec 17, 2012 | Android, Apple, Google, Google Drive, iPad, mail, Microsoft, Office, Office 365, OneDrive, phone, Surface, tablet, web_services, Windows Phone 8, Windows8
Previously: Clash Of The Titans – The Battle Over Skydrive On iOS War has broken out. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Amazon have been building walled gardens, ecosystems of services that work best if you have multiple devices on the same platform. Example: once you buy...
Dec 10, 2012 | Apple, Facebook, Google, mail, Office 365, web_services
Gmail was down today for most users for at least an hour, with Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Play and some other Google services remaining down for another hour or more. A side effect: attempts to access Google services during the outage was causing Google Chrome...
Oct 30, 2012 | Android, Apple, computers, Google, hardware, iPad, laptops, Lenovo, Microsoft, phone, shopping, Surface, tablet, Windows Phone 8, Windows8
Let’s catch our breath for a minute and do a quick recap of where things stand as we head into November. COMPUTERS Windows 8 is becoming available, at least as an option, on new computers from the major manufacturers. At the moment everything is in transition, so you...
Oct 16, 2012 | Android, Apple, computers, Google, iPad, laptops, Microsoft, mobile, Office, phone, software, Surface, tablet, Windows7, Windows8
Windows 8 is a term that will be used to refer to several different things. It is the next operating system for Windows computers, but you’ll also see the name used loosely to describe a tablet operating system, a phone operating system, the environment for apps that...