Новости за 01.08.2017

Microsoft just announced a new financing option for Surface Laptops, Surface Pro 2017s, Surface Books and Surface Studios. On the, uh, surface, the Surface Plus plan for individuals looks quite inviting: A new Surface Pro 2017, for example, only costs $34 per month for 24 months; Surface Laptops run $42 per month, and Surface Books $63 per month. But before you take the plunge, be aware of the footnotes.

In the past couple of days, your Surface Pro 4 likely installed a new set of driver updates known as “Surface - System - 7/21/2017 12:00:00 AM - 1.0.65.1.” Many Surface Pro 4 owners now report that after installing that driver, their camera refuses to log in with Windows Hello. Microsoft hasn’t yet responded, but a user has come up with a fix that seems to work most of the time—manually uninstall the driver.

I've been thinking a lot lately about productivity.

In a way, it's become a bit of a theme for me over the past couple years: figuring out ways to tame the technology around us and make it work for our needs as opposed to just getting in our way. From the second we wake up in the morning, after all, we're surrounded by stupendous technology -- but by default, it doesn't always operate in a manner that actually enhances our lives.

That's why I'm putting together a guide to taming Android... Читать дальше...

The mobile device management (MDM) market is crowded, giving companies numerous options for locking down both devices and data. But picking out the best solution isn't always an obvious choice.

Ever since Microsoft introduced live collaboration to its Office suite with the release of Office 2016 in September 2015, Excel has been left out in the cold. Word, PowerPoint and OneNote were given collaborative editing tools, but Excel was not.

One of the top marketing analytics goals for retailers has, for years, been the single view of the customer. That means being able to identify shoppers as they move from desktop to mobile to in-store and when they phone a call center. A mobile device that typically stays with a person at almost all times has been seen by many as the answer — and it is.

After working for two years on an enterprise version of its smart glasses -- Glass Enterprise Edition -- Google says its head-mounted display is now "fully available" for business use.

Flashback to 1981, when this pilot fish and everyone else in his university computer science program is learning Cobol, and they submit their decks of punched cards on the honor system.

News about the iPhone 8 and it’s weird design -- one that features a strange vertical protrusion for the cameras on the upper left -- spilled out today. In what looks like a fairly legitimate mock-up, there are two cameras next to each other, a sure sign that there will be some augmented reality on board.