Unified Communications

Does your home or office use a VOIP based phone system? Wouldn’t it be great if you could use your cell phone as a VOIP phone instead of running back and forth to your desk whenever the phone rings? It turns out that this can be a reality quite easily, provided you can wrangle the proper details from your IT folks.

Mobile phone makers were in agreement that the security and privacy of their customer was their top concern. But that was about all they could agree on

iPhone and Android phones can't always see the tiny Japanese icons they send each other. Unless they use Google Hangouts.

Yesterday, Google announced its release of a Realtime API for Google Drive. If you’ve ever collaborated on a document using Google Drive, you know how cool this technology is. You can see the other users typing, their cursor position, their highlights, comments, and more.

Get ready to ditch the cables in your conference room. The business world has suffered long enough at the hands of the video cable for presentations. No more being tethered to a finicky VGA cord, no more panic attacks when you're missing a DVI adapter, it's time to evolve.

Jump back in the time machine to see a time when people still needed to talk with a human being before using their phone to talk to another human being.

Music streaming services have been around for some time. With the arrival of Spotify and Google Play Music in the US, the average user is able to listen to a huge amount of music on the go. There is an overlooked segment of users that these services do not cater to however, those with vast music collections stored on their hard drives. True, Google Play Music allows you to upload your tunes to their servers for streaming purposes, but that is not the best option when you're dealing with 100GB+ of music.

Time Tech recently announced their Best Inventions of 2012 list and included in the list is Google Glass, Google’s augmented reality eyewear project. This almost cliche looking piece of futuristic hardware has the potential to become as ubiquitous as cell phones or laptops. At least that’s the plan.

The Apple TV might be the perfect media center for the average tech connected home. It's tiny, it's powerful, but unfortunately aside from streaming music, it's useless.

Amazon has The Avengers on row after row of servers, in building after building in Northern Virginia, ready to stream to you as fast as you can receive its Marvel-y excitement. The price? $14.99, but the New York Times would like you to consider the batteries, diesel, disk space, and national power grid modifications necessary for that instant video.

Verizon thought it could strike down unofficial Android tethering, but the DIY hotspot movement became more powerful than it could imagine.

Keeping a journal is good; some think keeping a handwritten journal is even better