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Uncommon Scents Is A Near-Future SF Novel By Brilliant Young Authors
Uncommon Scents is a novel by – why, it’s by me! And by Jim Rowson, a former Google software engineer, who has joined me in writing a a cautionary frolic that has more humor and 80% less dystopia than the average near-future thriller. Jim should not be held...
Smartphone Wars: Google Blocks Windows Phone From Accessing Google Maps
Previously: Clash Of The Titans: The War Of The Ecosystems Google did something evil. It will get undone shortly, but the fact remains that Google directly attacked a group of...
Google Now: Android’s Ambitious App Pulls You Into The Google Ecosystem
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...
Windows 8 Tip: What You Need To Know About Windows 8 Security
Windows 8 includes antivirus software built into the operating system. You don’t have to install anything additional for malware protection on a Windows 8 computer. Microsoft has...
Happy Holidays From Bruceb Consulting!
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...
Clash Of The Titans: The War Of The Ecosystems
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...
Clash Of The Titans: The Battle Over Skydrive On iOS
Microsoft is embroiled in a conflict with Apple that is part of a bigger story. Today I’ll tell you about the details of the standoff over whether Microsoft will be allowed to...
Microsoft Surface To Be Sold In Best Buy, Staples
If you’re curious about the Microsoft Surface tablets, you’ll be able to look at them in Staples and Best Buy next week. Microsoft’s original plan was to sell them only online...
Gmail Goes Down! And Other Tales Of Outages
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...
Verizon Brings 4G LTE Coverage To Santa Rosa
An email arrived tonight from Verizon announcing that 4G LTE service has officially arrived in Santa Rosa and nearby areas in Sonoma County. Verizon actually turned on LTE up...
Microsoft Surface Pro And The Windows 8 Ecosystem
In late January Microsoft will start shipping the second version of the Surface tablet, the one with the full version of Windows 8 Pro. There are two models, a 64Gb version for...
Windows 8 Tip: Turn On File History
Windows 8 includes a feature that lets you recover older versions of documents or photos easily and flexibly. File History is an improved version of “Previous Versions,” a...
Windows 8 Tip: The Five Things You Need To Know For Your First Windows 8 Computer
When you sit down at your first Windows 8 computer, you will be disoriented. Important controls are hidden, toolbars appear and disappear in ways that are unintuitive, and the...
Some Fine Print About Windows 8 Upgrades
Previously: Upgrading To Windows 8 For the next couple of months, the cost of a license to upgrade your existing computer to Windows 8 is almost nothing. The real cost, though,...
Upgrading To Windows 8
Should you upgrade to Windows 8? Funny you should ask. I’ve been hearing that a lot lately. Let’s see if we can figure out which question you’re really asking. -- Does...
Microsoft Responds To Office 365 Outage
The engineering team at Microsoft responsible for Office 365 published a lengthy blog post about the outage on Tuesday. Microsoft is not always very transparent so it is...