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Five things you probably don't know about Bluetooth

Posted May 6, 2013 - 4:12 pm

Danish runes, tricky terminology, and Polish marketing firms that try to pair you up in malls. Bluetooth is a hoot.
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Where are the BYOD phone commercials?

Posted May 6, 2013 - 2:31 pm

Why aren't phone manufacturers trying to sell to the BYOD consumer?
Give your Wii Balance Board a second life with FitScales for Android

Posted May 3, 2013 - 8:30 am

If you've left the Wii Fit fad behind but still have the hardware, here's a way to put the Balance Board to use that doesn't involve the Wii or a television.
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Mobility could be the CIO savior

Posted May 2, 2013 - 6:34 pm

Tech expertise in all things mobile could increase CIO value
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Will You Give the BlackBerry Z10 a Chance?

Posted May 2, 2013 - 6:31 pm

CIO.com's Al Sacco finds '10 things an iPhone can't do' -- is that enough to give BlackBerry another look?
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Is BYOD Inevitable?

Posted May 2, 2013 - 6:28 pm

Surveys, research point to greater adoption of BYOD and mobile strategies
Turn your dust-catching Wii Fit board into a smart scale with an Android app

Posted May 2, 2013 - 2:23 pm

Someone made an Android app that turns your Wii Fit board into a new-fangled, web-connected "smart scale." Awesome.
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Like a fine wine, programmers get better with age

Posted April 30, 2013 - 11:17 am

A new study finds that older developers know more about programming than younger ones, including new technologies
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If You're Not Using Cloud, You Will Be Soon

Posted April 29, 2013 - 7:02 pm

Surveys can't really measure cloud adoption rates since there are so many variables
A brief history of the White House on social media

Posted April 29, 2013 - 11:48 am

By joining Tumblr, the Obama White House is continuing its own tradition of participating in social media networks
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Google Now arrives on iPhone/iPad. So how do you make it useful?

Posted April 29, 2013 - 11:26 am

Google Now promises "just the right information at just the right time." But how do you "use" it?
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Your weekend homework: review the apps you love, fight the jerky types

Posted April 26, 2013 - 5:27 pm

Fight the system that listens to hair-trigger angry reviewers but allows quietly happy users to be unheard. Write a good review for an app you use, unprompted.
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Can Apple Compete in the Enterprise Cloud?

Posted April 26, 2013 - 4:39 pm

With 300 million iCloud users, is Apple already making enterprise cloud inroads?
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Hard Stat to Believe: Only 20 Percent of Tablet Owners Use Them for Business?

Posted April 26, 2013 - 4:36 pm

J.D. Powers survey says 20 percent of tablet owners use them for business purposes. Anyone else think the number is higher?
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Twitter Chat on Wednesday: The 'OSSM' Cloud

Posted April 26, 2013 - 3:41 pm

CloudCamp co-founder Dave Nielsen joins us to talk cloud on Twitter next Wednesday
The Weekly Hash - April 26, 2013

Posted April 26, 2013 - 11:19 am

Having a few laughs at the expense of this week’s top tech newsmakers, this week including Apple, Facebook and Pizza Hut
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Google Keep is just a notepad, so use it that way

Posted April 25, 2013 - 4:00 pm

Google Keep is the equivalent of Notes on the iPhone: a space in which to write quickly, with online backup and access as the only real feature.
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Tablet, Smartphone Sales Continue to Surge

Posted April 24, 2013 - 10:28 pm

AT&T quarterly results show that move toward mobile devices is still growing
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HR and IT as Partners? Great Idea, but Can it Really Happen?

Posted April 24, 2013 - 10:24 pm

New mobile workforce demands make a partnership between IT and HR necessary. But can the cultural challenges be overcome?
Big data beats mobile and cloud as expected growth driver

Posted April 24, 2013 - 2:30 pm

A new KPMG survey shows shifting priorities but also growing concern with long-term worries like security
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Kickstarter: Using personal power to charge your smartphone

Posted April 24, 2013 - 8:30 am

A pair of Kickstarter projects turn the kinetic energy you generate into a source for charging your smartphone, whether you get around by bike or on foot.
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Aereo ruling could impact Pandora

Posted April 23, 2013 - 11:50 am

If the courts keep ruling that Aereo doesn’t violate copyright laws, it could affect other services that stream content, and might prompt Congress to step in
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Transfer music, photos, and other files from Android to your computer

Posted April 22, 2013 - 3:43 pm

Here are the best tools, in a short list, that I recommend for transferring music, photos, and files between Android and systems.
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Visit famous tech sites via Google Street View Hyperlapse

Posted April 22, 2013 - 11:57 am

Using a fun new tool to take virtual trips to the headquarters and birthplaces of famous technology companies
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Get phone notifications about actually cool things with IFTTT and Pushover

Posted April 19, 2013 - 4:57 pm

Your phone dings all the freaking time. Why not have it tell you cool stuff? WIth these two tools, that's very possible.
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