Amazon Echo Show review: A smart speaker that shows up the competition
Amazon added a screen and a camera to the Echo -- and it's awesome.
Amazon added a screen and a camera to the Echo -- and it's awesome.
Twitpic has stopped showing full-sized images, so it's time to find an alternative. I've tried Yfrog, Flickr, SkyDrive and Twitter itself, but which is best?
Sync is the new black. Everyone and their dog now has a sync service as part of their platform: Apple's iCloud, Microsoft's SkyDrive (which we review here), Ubuntu's Ubuntu ONE, and Dropbox nearly everywhere.
The next version of Microsoft's cloud PC management service will add mobile device management, including sideloading enterprise apps to iOS and Android devices. That's not ready to try out in the pre-release version you can sign up for now, but you can check out the new user interface and see how the Windows Azure Active Directory sync will work.
The dream of the paperless office is ever present, but the reality is that most of us spend plenty of time dealing with paper. Portable scanners are popular with mobile professionals, but finding a sheetfed, duplex scanner that's light and versatile is not easy.
Cybercrime is now allegedly a bigger problem in the UK than street crime, but hackers may not be the biggest problem.
If your industry hasn't been disrupted by Google yet, observed the New Yorker writer Ken Auletta in his 2010 book Googled, it will be soon. Two recent books look at the next stage of those disruptions — one academic, one popular.
Most file sharing in businesses is done through email, which clogs up your mail server and multiplies versions of files confusingly. SharePoint is a runaway success, but there are plenty of alternatives that don't require you to run your own servers (or find ways of making them available to external partners).
"I came for the crack," a woman once said to me reproachfully at a party. She was miffed that I and the third person in the conversation had embarked on an impassioned discussion of…cryptography.
JavaScript isn't replacing Office macros anytime soon, but the Office Web apps (and the SharePoint-based enterprise equivalents) are improving regularly. For users that means simple but useful features like the Excel Web app letting you select a group of cells and show you the sum and average the way desktop Excel does.