Oct 24, 2013 | Amazon, Android, Apple, Google, iPad, Microsoft, shopping, tablet
The holiday shopping season is nearly here. You’re faced with quite a selection of tablets and no obvious way to choose one over another. – The level of engineering is so high that almost all of the new tablets are gorgeous and strong and light,...
Oct 20, 2013 | Microsoft, software, updates, Windows tips, Windows8
Windows 8.1 is a free upgrade to Windows 8 that is now available for all computers and laptops running Windows 8, and all Surface Pro and Surface RT tablets. In a few days, Windows 8.1 will be the version of Windows that ships on all new computers and tablets....
Oct 10, 2013 | Microsoft, Office, security, updates, Windows7, Windows8
For ten years Microsoft has released security updates for Windows and Office on the second Tuesday of each month, the fabled “Patch Tuesday.” This week Microsoft patched two particularly nasty Internet Explorer bugs, so-called “zero day exploits” that are already...
Oct 8, 2013 | Amazon, Android, Apple, iPad, Microsoft, shopping, Surface
Although specific sales numbers aren’t available, we know that Amazon is selling millions of its Kindle Fire tablets to people who want a tablet for the lowest price and who are happy living in the Amazon ecosystem. Last month Amazon announced the next generation of...
Oct 7, 2013 | hardware, Lenovo, Microsoft, shopping, Surface, tablet, Windows8
Windows tablets have a lot to offer business users whose time is spent using Microsoft Office programs on Windows computers and notebooks. If you slip into Microsoft’s ecosystem, your files will follow you onto the tablet along with your settings and your Internet...
Oct 1, 2013 | Microsoft, shopping, Surface, tablet
The landscape for tablets has been straightforward for the last year. — Apple supports a rich echosystem of apps with the 10” iPad and increasingly popular 8” iPad Mini, elegant and responsive and expensive. — Android is available on tablets from a...
