Consumer Tech
Want to Shop In-Store? Do It Online
In-store shopping is back. And a lot of it is happening online. It may sound confusing. But it’s not. Learn more in my column in […]
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Enterprise
The Metaverse, and Nvidia’s Place in It
Nvidia has attracted a lot of attention from investors lately as a stock to place bets on the metaverse. Find out why. Read my MarketWatch […]
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All’s Fair in Love and Zoom
If you’ve done everything you can think of to improve your work-from-home communications but Zoom calls still cut out, then check out my latest column […]
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Minimum Wage Fuss Is Much Ado About Nothing
There’s a lot of noise over whether the US should raise the minimum wage to $15. But the actual impact would barely be noticeable. Find […]
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Intel Tackling US Supply Chain Issues
Intel’s new CEO is hitting the ground running. For starters, he just launched a $20 billion investment in new Arizona manufacturing facilities. And that wasn’t […]
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Pivot or Perish: Post-Pandemic Realities on Main Street USA
It’s not all gloom and doom on Main Street USA. Because out of the trauma of lockdowns and social distancing a playbook is emerging for […]
Enterprise
New Business-Class PCs Designed for Work-from-Home
As if on cue, Dell, HP and Lenovo all unveiled new business-class laptops at CES that seem custom-designed for working from home. They’re not only […]
Enterprise
Webinar: The Future of Work
It’s no secret that the acceleration of the distributed workplace is driving adoption of new technologies. It’s a trend that will far outlive the pandemic. […]
Enterprise
XCover Pro Pushes All the Right Buttons
The Samsung Galaxy XCover Pro is everything you could want in a device for your front-line workforce. Learn why in my review on Medium.
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When #WFH Is Not An Option
Since the start of the pandemic, we’ve heard plenty of CIO war stories about the Herculean lifts IT performed to enable work-from-home for desk workers. […]
Consumer Tech
Well-Timed Surface Laptop Go for #XFromHome
Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop Go is available starting today. It’s the company’s first laptop offering under the Go sub-brand. And it comes at a great […]
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Brick-and-Mortar Responds to COVID with Tech
Call it The Three Stages of COVID. Many face-to-face businesses have struggled to stay open and still meet safety guidelines. At first, they responded with […]
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Is Contact Tracing Doomed?
Big Tech has a privacy problem. And now, just when their innovation, presence and pervasiveness could do some good, it’s getting in the way of […]
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Squeezing 3 years of work into just 2 months
The enterprise has been on a path to IT modernization for several years now, converting to cloud-based frameworks to make their networks more capable, flexible […]
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6GHz Wi-Fi: Home Networking for the New Normal
With so many of us working from home to stem the spread of COVID-19, the demands from doing-it-all-in-place are taking a toll on our wireless […]
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Tomorrow: A New Wi-Fi for the New Normal
The internet is listing. It started about a month ago, when social isolation orders sent everyone home who could work or learn remotely. Which means […]
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Can Wearables Help Detect Coronavirus?
Wearables have always been about trying to keep us healthy. Increasingly, they’re also being used to help detect when we’re sick. And now, with the […]