Voice and Data Devices
When I travel I rely most heavily on tools for voice and data communications. Costs for these services can be in the extreme high when you are outside of the United States, especially in the Middle East, Far East, and Central and South America. More...
What iCloud Is, and What It's Not
In spite of all the hype around Apple’s iCloud, there has been some confusion about what it is and what it’s not. For starters, the iCloud stores user content on the cloud and pushes it to other devices, just as the iPad. More...
Skype for iPad coming next week?
If Facebook can have its dedicated iPad app, so can Skype. To all appearances the VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) giant is working on a new application that will fully take advantage of the big screen Apple’s tablet rocks. More...
The Future is Disposable
For a time we were until further notice able to keep our documents with us wherever we went. We moved from floppy disks to SyQuest cartridges and Zip disks, and at the time on to CD-Rs earlier ending up with USB drives in our quest to always have access to our information. More...
Full court press
Apple's taking its intellectual property case to Samsung's front door, taking HP to the cleaners, and taking its licks from professional video editors and comedians alike. More...
I'm dumping Telstra for the voluntary filter
commentary About a year ago, Telstra, along with Optus and iPrimus, agreed to "voluntarily" apply a version of the government's mandatory internet filter to the connections of all of their clients. More...
Yahoo, Alibaba in "constructive" talks
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Yahoo Inc. , Japan's Softbank Corp. and Chinese Internet company Alibaba Group say they remain in "constructive" talks and have made "encouraging progress" toward compensating the two Alibaba shareholders for the loss of Web payment service Alipay. More...
HR, financial systems next to the cloud
Information innovation managers around the world are being asked their thoughts on cloud computing and whether the companies they work for should use it. More...
New consumer-level cloud services likely cybercrime targets
MANILA, Philippines – The fever-pitch announcements of Apple and Google with their new cloud computing platforms has in short brought enterprise-level cloud computing services to the masses. More...
Equal Employment Possibility Commission
Information innovation managers around the world are being asked their thoughts on cloud computing and whether the companies they work for should use it. More...