OS X Mountain Lion vs. Windows 8: Apple and Microsoft Mobilize | PCWorld Business Center. (No longer available online. Original text included below.) With smartphones and tablets quickly gaining popularity, even IBM is calling this a “post-PC era”. It’s a world of portability, apps and touch-enabled devices. This is clear not only in the dominance […]
Five Ways Apple Should Make iCloud Business-Ready | PCWorld Business Center. (No longer available online. Original text included below.) Apple announced on Thursday an update to its OSX operating system, called Mountain Lion. Notable in the updated features is much tighter integration with iCloud, its cloud based file, apps and settings syncing feature. For businesses, […]
Five Important Ways Windows 8 Will Embrace Mobile Broadband | PCWorld Business Center. (No longer available online. Original text included below.) Windows 8 will run not just on your desktop, but also on laptops, ultrabooks, and even tablets, so access to mobile networks is important. On its Engineering Windows 8 blog on Friday, Windows president […]
Will Intel and Microsoft Use Netbook Lessons to Compete with iPad? | PCWorld Business Center. (No longer available online. Original text included below.) Apple is winning the tablet battle in business, and the only way for the competition to succeed is to have better functionality, or to have similar features to the iPad but beat […]
OnLive Desktop Brings Windows 7 and Microsoft Office to the iPad | PCWorld Business Center. (No longer available online. Original text included below.) Tablets are great for consuming content, but so far have been lacking in the ability to create it. Whether it’s the limited hardware capabilities, the touchscreen interface, or just that software vendors […]
Three Benefits of Windows 8 Storage Spaces | PCWorld Business Center. (No longer available online. Original text included below.) Small and medium sized businesses often can’t afford file servers, and struggle with the best way to provide their users with enough space to store data, while ensuring it is safe from hardware failure. Windows 8 […]
What to Watch from Five Tech Giants in 2012 | PCWorld Business Center. (No longer available online. Original text included below.) With 2011 almost behind us, it’s time to look forward to 2012, and ponder what the top tech companies might have up their sleeves. Though a few of them have made announcements, most of […]
The Best Hope for the Future of Firefox | PCWorld Business Center. (No longer available online. Original text included below.) The clock is ticking. Mozilla confirmed that Google has extended its revenue agreement with them for another three years. Last year 98 per cent of Mozilla’s funds were from Google, and without it, development on […]
Windows 8 Updates Are Missing One Crucial Improvement | PCWorld Business Center. (No longer available online. Original text included below.) Microsoft says Windows 8 will make Windows Updates less annoying. It’s a tenuous trade off, being more secure and reliable verses having to spend the time to reboot, or worse yet, finding you lost work […]
Why Windows Phone 7 Is Too Late | PCWorld Business Center. (No longer available online. Original text included below.) Before smartphones were mainstream, Microsoft’s Windows Mobile was the “business smart phone”. RIM’s Blackberry stole away the market by becoming a better communication hub. iPhone and Android have buried Blackberry by extending a phones functionality with […]