Kindle Fire And Exchange ActiveSync

While we’re talking about the Kindle Fire, it’s worth noting one strange omission: the Kindle Fire does not have a built-in connection to Exchange mailboxes. The picture on the left shows all the built-in mail connectors: Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, and “other” (which...

Amazon Kindle Fire WiFi Connection Problems

Amazon’s $199 Kindle Fire is a fascinating device! We got ours last week but this isn’t a review – opinions are still forming over here at the global headquarters of Bruceb Consulting. For now I want to point out a single issue: some people are having trouble...

Comparing The Tablet Home Screens

Here are representative screen shots of what tablets present and future look like side by side. Apple iPad 2 Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (standing in for all the Android tablets) Amazon Kindle Fire Microsoft Windows 8 (a preview look at Microsoft’s tablet interface)...

Amazon’s New Kindle Fire Tablet

With its announcement of the Kindle Fire tablet on Wednesday, Amazon did something worthy of Apple: it invented a niche that it is likely to control, not directly competitive with anything currently on the market. You will see endless discussion about how the Kindle...

Gorilla Glass And Your Phone

You jangle your keys in your pocket next to your Motorola phone and the screen isn’t scratched. You drop your iPhone and the glass doesn’t break. You jab with an icepick over and over at a Thinkpad X1 laptop and for goodness’ sake, I hope you stop to wonder what in...