Aug 6, 2015 | Apple, audio, Google, Spotify, web_services
Each week, Spotify creates a personalized playlist with thirty songs on it, tailored specifically to my taste in music. I’m starting to look forward to my “Discover Weekly” playlist on Monday morning, knowing that it will have a lot of names I’ve never heard before...
Jul 26, 2015 | Apple, Microsoft, Office, Office 365, OneNote, Outlook, software
Microsoft has released Office 2016 For Mac, a long overdue refresh of the Office programs that makes the Mac programs visually and functionally identical to the Windows versions. The updated Office programs are available now to anyone with an Office 365 subscription...
Jul 19, 2015 | Android, Apple, laptops, Microsoft, Office, phone, Skype, Surface, tablet, Windows Phone 8, Windows10
In 1980, Bill Gates declared that Microsoft’s goal was to put a computer on every desk and in every home. In 2015 Microsoft will announce that it can put a computer in every pocket. Later this year, Microsoft is going to introduce smartphones that turn into computers,...
Jul 19, 2015 | Apple, audio, HoloLens, Microsoft, mobile, phone
Technology news has been a bit negative recently. The death of Windows Phone got the most attention last week but Apple and Samsung have their own problems, and there are many other companies and products that are either failing or not living up to...
Jul 12, 2015 | Android, Apple, business, Microsoft, mobile, phone, Windows Phone 8, Windows10
Windows Phone is dead. Last week Microsoft announced that it will lay off almost all of the remaining employees inherited from its purchase of Nokia, and write off $7.6 billion from the Nokia deal – more than it paid for Nokia last year. Although Microsoft will still...
Jun 19, 2015 | Android, Apple, Google, Microsoft, phone, Skype, video, web_services
Microsoft wants Skype to be everywhere. It got a little over-zealous with a poorly-designed version of Skype for Windows 8 that never caught on and is being discontinued, but it rallied this week with a new version of Skype that runs in a web browser. Skype was...
