Sep 19, 2010 | Google, mobile, phone, web_services
Previously: Understanding Google Voice Fully Committed to Google Voice – Part 1 Google Voice Interlude – Background About Voice And Data If you’ve been following along, you understand the tension between new services like Google Voice and Skype that move your voice...
Sep 16, 2010 | Google, mobile, phone, software, web_services
Previously: Understanding Google Voice Fully Committed to Google Voice – Part 1 Now things get really interesting. Well, they do to me, anyway. I’m odd. This is at best wildly simplified, and at worst completely inaccurate, but pay attention anyway – you’ll need...
Jul 13, 2010 | file_sharing, Microsoft, mobile, Office, phone, photos, software, web_services, Windows Live
Microsoft is finalizing a new version of Windows Live Sync, its free software for syncing files among different computers. The new version replaces the two overlapping programs available from Microsoft for the last few years, Windows Live Sync and Live Mesh, combining...
Jun 10, 2010 | Apple, Google, mobile, security, web_services
Previously: Sync Files With Dropbox Dropbox for iPad, Android Almost everyone should take a look at Dropbox, the service that syncs folders and files among your computers and mobile devices. If you have more than one computer (home/office/notebook) and you haven’t...
May 20, 2010 | Facebook, Google, mail, Microsoft, mobile, Outlook, SBS, web_services, Windows Live
It’s rare now to find traditional POP3 email accounts, where messages are downloaded to a single computer and are only accessible at that computer. We move between different computers freely (home/work/laptop/netbook) and want our mail to be available on all of them....
May 17, 2010 | Google, mobile, phone, search, web_services
While we’re talking about smartphones, I should mention another way that your phone can use its knowledge of your location to do something interesting. Google added an unassuming link named “Near Me Now” on the Google search page on iPhones and Android phones. Click...