Apple Thursday released the first public beta of macOS High Sierra, the desktop operating system slated for a fall debut. The beta lets anyone with a Mac — including workers with their BYOD MacBook Airs and MacBook Pros, and IT admins responsible … [Read more...]
The paranoid Mac traveler’s 10-point data protection checklist
Here’s an increasingly common scenario: You’re on a business trip, either entering a foreign country or returning home. As you go through customs, a border-control agent asks you to turn on and hand over your iPhone, then starts poking around, … [Read more...]
Lucky he was sort of dropping by, huh?
Flashback to the late 1970s, when this regional insurance company’s data center is all about its mainframe, according to a pilot fish on the scene. “My team was developing an agency software package to be run on a minicomputer,” fish … [Read more...]
Beach reads for techies 2017
As summer kicks in and professionals get a chance to kick back, some may find their thoughts turning to… books? That’s right: Compiling a summer reading list is an important ritual for many — from diehard bibliophiles to those just looking to e … [Read more...]
Which iPhones and iPads can run iOS 11?
When Apple releases iOS 11 this fall, it will, as it has in the past, drop support for some of its older hardware to permanently lock them into 2016’s operating system. More pressing, some four-year-old devices will not be able to preview iOS 11 … [Read more...]
Microsoft consolidates its mobile management tools under Azure
Microsoft has consolidated its Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS) suite of products under its Azure portal, combining its Intune mobile application management tools and its Azure Active Directory (AD) and Information Protection under a single … [Read more...]
Here’s what really matters when it comes to AI and mobile apps
The best AI stays out of the way. You don’t notice it is even working. The car swerves slightly to avoid moving out of a lane and you keep listening to Nirvana classics. Your email app blocks annoying messages that are not technically spam but sent by p … [Read more...]
AI and mobile apps: What really matters
The best AI stays out of the way. You don’t notice it is even working. The car swerves slightly to avoid moving out of a lane, and you keep listening to Nirvana classics. Your email app blocks annoying messages that are not technically spam but sent by p … [Read more...]
2 useful Google Docs features you probably aren't using
Google Docs may be known as the “lightweight” word processor, but that doesn’t mean it’s lacking in advanced productivity features. Even with the once-touted add-ons for Android program apparently in limbo, Docs has some handy and … [Read more...]
10 years on, iPhone still needs to change the world
I doubt you’ll miss every tech reporter in the industry with their “10 years of iPhone” reports this morning, (I wrote my take earlier this week), but while there is no argument the product has changed some parts the world, Apple’s iPhone future still need … [Read more...]