BRUCEB NEWS
Cortana Daily Briefing & Schrodinger’s Cat
Microsoft Cortana is the Schrodinger’s Cat of personal assistants: it’s both alive and dead simultaneously. To be honest, after opening the door and observing Cortana, you’ll likely decide that the best word is “irrelevant,” which is fine; it means Cortana will keep...
EMAIL RANTING
The Wall Street Journal has a front-page story today following the path of an e-mail message by a 22-year old Kaiser employee criticizing the technology being rolled out by...
WINDOWS HOME SERVER FEATURES
I've mentioned Microsoft's upcoming Windows Home Server appliance before, but it bears repeating - this has the potential to define a new category of home appliance that will be...
SPINAL TAP TO REUNITE
An important announcement today: Spinal Tap is going to reunite and appear at Wembley Stadium on June 7, as part of the worldwide Live Earth concerts.Director Rob Reiner has...
LOGMEIN BACKUP
LogMeIn was one of the first remote control services, and continues to be one of the best. Like GoToMyPC and others, it relies on a small program running on a desktop computer,...
WHY CAN’T IT JUST WORK?
Here's a blog item that we can all sympathize with, written by a Microsoft employee. "Why can't it 'just work'?... "(subtitled - Isn't technology supposed to be making our lives...
GOOGLE RISES, YAHOO SINKS
Only two years ago, Google and Yahoo earned the same revenue and it wasn't obvious which one would predominate for Web searches.You probably saw the business news. Google's...
NETFLIX WATCH NOW
Netflix is rolling out its "Watch Now" service, for watching movies immediately on your computer. If you're a Netflix subscriber, the tab will appear with no fanfare on your...
OUTLOOK JUNK MAIL OPTIONS
Here's two good tips to configure the junk mail filtering in Outlook 2003 and 2007. There's an easily overlooked checkbox that will automatically add everyone you e-mail to your...
ADOBE vs. MICROSOFT
Adobe and Microsoft each announced new technology for playing back video on your computers, setting up yet another format war. As always there are appealing features promised in...
20 MOST ANNOYING TECH PRODUCTS
PC World has a marvelous article on the twenty most annoying tech products ever made.The number one slot is appropriately awarded to the carpet bombing of free AOL CDs, estimated...
GOOGLE ACQUIRES INTERNET (MAY 2017)
A prediction of things to come:MAY 12, 2017 - BUSINESSWIRE. Mountain View-based search giant Google Inc today announced they’ve acquired the internet for the astounding sum of...
MASSIVE SPAM BLAST
There's a massive spam blast in progress. ComputerWorld reports that the spam outbreak is setting records, 50 to 60 times the normal volume of spam, with subjects like Worm...
NETWORK SCANNING
I have long insisted that scanners had to be tethered to a computer because it wasn't feasible to control a scanner across a network.That began to be eroded by the floor-standing...
WEBMAIL ADVANCES
Many of us cannot imagine life without Outlook. In addition to e-mail, it handles our calendar and address book and to-do list; it fills our handheld devices and addresses...
MEDIA IN THE LIVING ROOM
Here's an article that describes the struggle to involve a computer in the living room, delivering photos, music and movies. The struggle is not going well. Hewlett Packard just...