Category: Featured

HP scales down enterprise tools, aiming at small businesses

Text and photos by Ted Kritsonis

Las Vegas – The desktop PC isn’t dead. That was part of the messaging behind HP’s Discover business-focused event, as it unveiled a number of tools and services made for enterprises, but also scaled down for small businesses.

WWDC 2013 – Apple’s year of OS Reboots

Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla   San Francisco, CA: Trading the old for the new. Apple has aggressively introduced a revamped mobile OS in iOS 7 and a new OS X Mavericks.

Amazon’s Ubiquity – Why their eReader ecosystem works

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla Ubiquity. By making its eBook reader software available across multiple devices and platforms has made Amazon’s Kindle reader ecosystem one of the most formidable examples of how to anticipate user’s needs.

BYOD Convenience Comes at a Cost

Cost analysis of ‘bring-your-own-device’ workplaces by a major mobile solutions company shows that companies can shift operational costs directly to their employees.

By Lee Rickwood

New wireless code of conduct essentially ends 3-year phone contracts

By Ted Kritsonis

It took months of consultations, hearings and visceral consumer feedback, but the new wireless code of conduct released today by the CRTC has put an end to the carriers’ practice of sticking to three-year contracts and clarified some rules about unlocking and roaming. The new rules take effect on December 2.