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Amazon Doesn’t Want To Miss The Augmented Future
Amazon is quietly doing its own research into augmented reality glasses and apps. Evidence has been uncovered that Amazon is assembling a sizable team to work on some kind of AR/VR device. And in some sense Amazon is ahead of the others, because it has already...
Microsoft Reinvents Hotmail As Outlook.com
When Microsoft realized that it was on the verge of missing the implications of the Internet, it famously turned the company around in the mid-90s, building web access into all...
Introducing Bruceb Cloud Backup v.2
I am happy to announce a major update to Bruceb Cloud Backup, now offering monitored online backups for small businesses and home offices with increased storage and lower prices...
Smartphone Reality Check
The most successful smartphone manufacturer in the world sold more than twice as many phones as its nearest competitor in the second quarter of 2012. In fact, it increased its...
Alt Keyboard Shortcuts In Office 2010
Here’s a small tip that might open up some hidden secrets of Office 2010 and Windows 7. Some people prefer to use the keyboard as often as possible when they’re working in Word...
Microsoft Reinvents Office For The Cloud
When Microsoft Office 2013 is released early next year, it will cap off an exhilarating period in which Microsoft is showing an unexpected willingness to reinvent its entire...
Bruceb Leaves You Stranded 07/16-07/26
Loyal friends and clients know that each summer I leave them confused and helpless while I fly away to earn Continuing Technical Education credits. This year’s symposium promises...
How To Identify An Ivy Bridge Processor
The market for Windows notebooks has begun its transition to new models built on Intel’s Ivy Bridge processors. New products are appearing daily and older models are being...
Microsoft Reshapes The Server Market
Windows 8 will get all the press attention when it is released in October but Microsoft is also making deep changes to its server operating systems. Last week it announced...
DNSChanger Malware And Internet Doomsday
Lock the doors! Hide the children in the root cellar! Stock up on canned food! DNSChanger is coming and it’s Internet Doomsday! If you see any of this coverage - which is now...
Microsoft Will Offer Discounts On Windows 8 Upgrades
Microsoft announced today that almost everyone will be able to upgrade to Windows 8 for $39.99 for the first few months after it is released. That is far less than Microsoft has...
LastPass 2.0 Premium And Form Fill
Previously: LastPass 2.0: An Upgraded Version Of An Essential Program LastPass 2.0 And Secure Notes LASTPASS PREMIUM Almost all of the important functions of LastPass are...
LastPass 2.0 And Secure Notes
Previously: LastPass 2.0: An Updated Version Of An Essential Program The upgrade to LastPass 2.0 includes a meaningful improvement in “Secure Notes” to help you use LastPass to...
LastPass 2.0: An Upgraded Version Of An Essential Program
If you’re a LastPass user, you’re being prompted to install an updated toolbar. You’ll be installing LastPass version 2.0, with a few interesting new features and improvements to...
Microsoft Surface: The Business Tablet
Microsoft’s unexpected announcement that it will release two tablets later this year has the industry buzzing. The Microsoft Surface tablets will run Windows 8; the less...
Microsoft Announces Surface Tablets
Microsoft announced today that it will be selling two new Windows 8 tablets under its own name, taking on the iPad and competing with its own partners, the manufacturers who will...