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mattydread23 writes:
Windows On Devices, Microsoft’s Internet Of Things platform, is here. What’s it like to build on top of the new embedded Windows?
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mattydread23 writes:
The PC isn't dead. But Microsoft tried ambitious and ahead of the curve with Windows 8 and got a resounding "huh?" from the mainstream market. If the next version plays it safe, tones down the vision, and makes enterprises comfortable with the more secure and easier to mobilize WinRT runtime, while accommodating cheap tablets for people who don't want to pay for iPad and want something more powerful than Android, Microsoft can hold onto its 14% while it builds out cross-platform versions of its apps to take advantage of the services where it's actually doing something exciting — like Power BI and Project Spark and Skype Translator and Azure ML and lots of things that have nothing at all to do with Windows.
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rfran writes:
Microsoft's product shows how far voice recognition has come. An example is a phrase "how to recognize speech" and you could easily get a match to "how to wreck a nice beach," because the sounds are very similar. Microsoft's voice service can get the right term on the first try,
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Gamoid writes:
I got to talk to a nonprofit that built a cloud based on Salesforce with a UX that lets anyone with any level of sightedness — from visually impaired to fully blind — get to work in any part of the business. It's kind of a cool story about the importance of accessibility in tech, check it out.
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rfran writes:
It used to be CIOs would just say no to any new technology. But now users are smarter and have forced CIOs to find middle ground in accepting new technologies.
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mattydread23 writes:
Apple has added a list of rules about how developers can use HealthKit, HomeKit, and keyboard data, and they demonstrate Apple's commitment to ensuring that the most private and personal data of its users is respected and protected. In a year where Facebook admitted that it experimented with the mental state of hundreds of thousands of its users, it's refreshing to see a company that remains focused on what its users want and need, and doesn't rely on selling information about them.
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rfran writes:
These tips help you manage your selection of devices, OSes, apps, services, and content to move as fluidly and reliably across platforms as possible.
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rfran writes:
Microsoft is examining the 'experience' before flooding the market with another device.
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Gamoid writes:
At VMworld today, VMware introduced the Workplace Suite, a platform for securely delivering applications and content across desktops and mobile devices from the cloud. The really cool part, though, is a partnership with Google and NVIDIA to deliver even graphics-intensive Windows applications on a Chromebook. I was on the scene.
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mattydread23 writes:
Jawbone published a chart this morning showing its customers in the Bay area waking up during the recent earthquake. While many people thought that was a cool use of fitness data, it's a good reminder about how much data is being collected.
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rfran writes:
Consumer products will be far more than just inanimate objects. They will be part salesperson and part customer service rep. They'll even do a bit of cross-selling and upselling for you if the situation is right.
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rfran writes:
Nat Friedman, the CEO and cofounder of cross-platform mobile development tool vendor Xamarin, certainly has plenty of ambition. "What we are playing for is the application development space, an enormous opportunity."
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mattydread23 writes:
Google's decision means that's more work for web developers, as it forces them to write multiple versions of the same code.
They'll need to support Pointer Events, and whatever Google adds to Touch Events to support different input messages, and maybe Android's Motion Events if they aren't the same as Blink's version. The PC isn't growing much but it isn't dying off either. The future doesn't only look like touch — unless you're Google and all you see is Android. It would be nice if the web was ready for that future, and Google isn't helping.
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rfran writes:
Samsung is a threat to Google in the Android arena. Chris Nerney runs through three basic “Samsung threat” scenarios.
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rfran writes:
How easy is it to find a shared workspace of any whether you're on vacation, traveling for work, or need a coworking community in your hometown? Maybe it's easy in major cities, but what about the smaller cities and towns that dot the U.S. landscape?