Author: Rob Russell

Also announced today was Windows Phone 8 by Microsoft. Last week, they announced Windows 8 and their new Surface tablets, and today comes the phone version of that. I’ve …

Continuing from all the announcements from last week from Apple and Microsoft, Google had a press event scheduled for today, which was unfortunately cancelled due to hurricane Sandy. That …

With all of the announcements this week, I decided to sit down and look at the future of personal computing, both as a consumer and as an enterprise. I …

First up, we’ll talk about the most anticipated device of this announcement, the iPad Mini, which comes with a 7.9″ display, is “as thin as a pencil” and weighs …

As one of my favorite mobile blogs, PocketNow, points out, Google Wallet is teasing some changes coming to the app. The main Wallet page advertises the new version coming …

An apparent issue with Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute network caused partial outages of several popular sites on Monday afternoon. Sites included Reddit, Netflix, Foursquare, Imgur, Pinterest, and Minecraft, among …

We’ve heard a great deal about Windows 8, especially considering this is launch week. In this video interview by Steve Clayton, Bill Gates talks about Windows 8, Windows Phone …

1. Intelligent screengrabs If a Metro application is showing something interesting and you’d like to record it for posterity, then hold down the Windows key, press PrtSc, and the …

The Windows Metro interface is a major change, and it’ll probably take quite some time before you’re familiar and comfortable with the new way of working. In the meantime, …

1. Mastering Metro Internet Explorer Metro apps don’t always work as you’d expect. Click the Internet Explorer tab, for instance, and you’ll launch a full-screen version without toolbars, menus …