Three Cool Ways You’ll Benefit from SkyDrive in Windows 8 | PCWorld Business Center. (No longer available online. Original text included below.) Though DropBox is more popular, with over 45 million users, Microsoft’s SkyDrive, with 17 million users is a strong competitor. SkyDrive’s most desired feature has been it’s 25GB of free space, much larger […]
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, […]
Three Ways Windows 8 Will Boost Accessibility | PCWorld Business Center. (No longer available online. Original text included below.) According to the US Census, almost 50 million US citizens have disabilities, with the likeliness of a disability increasing with age. The Bureau of Labor estimates that nearly one-quarter of the workforce will be 55 or […]
Five Ways Windows 8 Will Make Apps More Power-Friendly | PCWorld Business Center. (No longer available online. Original text included below.) Windows 8 is coming soon, and much thought has gone into optimizing it to run well not just on desktops and laptops, but also on tablets and even smartphones. Part of making an operating […]
Want to Build an App? Consider These 7 Points First | PCWorld Business Center. (No longer available online. Original text included below.) Smartphones and tablets are dominating technology, and one of the selling points of these mobile devices is the apps they can run. With both Apple’s and Google’s app stores each having over 500,000 […]
Five Ways to Mix Business and Personal Data on Your Smartphone | PCWorld Business Center. (No longer available online. Original text included below.) Smartphones now make up almost half of all phone sales. In business, smartphone usage is even higher, with most people bringing their own personal phone to work with them. Few want to […]
Five Ways to Protect Your Email at Work | PCWorld Business Center. (No longer available online. Original text included below.) Despite the popularity of real-time communications like chat, and social networking communications like status updates, many workplaces still use and rely on email. Email can contain important business data, not only in the message itself, […]
Use Your Smartphone for Business Presentations | PCWorld Business Center. (No longer available online. Original text included below.) Smartphones sales are close to overtaking feature phones, and are even more common among mobile workers. Though not as powerful as laptop computers, they provide many of the same functions in a much more portable form. When […]
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 […]