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    The Cloud: Still a Work in Progress

    June 26th, 2014

    News of an outage of from eight to 12 hours involving Microsoft’s Exchange Online email system came shortly after the company announced a huge expansion of the OneDrive cloud storage service. So you get 15GB free, and 1GB if you subscribe to one of the Office 365 services. There are also individual packages covering just the storage, but […]


    Do We Need Another Smartphone Platform?

    June 24th, 2014

    It has been rumored for several years, and last week, Amazon announced their first foray into the smartphone business. But unlike existing Kindle products, it is not being sold at or near cost. Instead the Fire Phone costs very much the same as the iPhone 5s and the Samsung Galaxy S4, which portends a decent profit. When […]


    The Apple/WWDC Disconnect Never Ends

    June 12th, 2014

    To some, Apple’s new announcements at the WWDC represented a coming of age for the company under the leadership of Tim Cook. It’s certainly more open, considering that developers have a little more freedom to talk about prerelease software. So now they can actually discuss what they’re doing with outsiders, although they aren’t able to actually […]


    More Annoying Ad Tricks

    June 11th, 2014

    Let me put my cards on the table. This site and my two radio shows are, in large part, funded by advertising. There’s no magnanimous purpose involved. I just want to pay the bills, and the same is true for others. While erratic, advertising is certainly an honest way to make a living, with the assumption […]