Good software (or apps as they’re fashionably referred to these days) is not cheap. Whether you’re buying directly from the vendors or from AppStores like Mac, good quality software often runs upwards of $10 and can go up to even a hundred dollars. The majority of apps on Apple’s AppStore Read More
Eisenpower App is Now Quadranto – New Features and Higher Price
Eisenpower Interface I purchased the Eisenpower task manager app (version 1.1.3) from the Mac AppStore for $4.99 in March 2013 and have been using it on and off. The beauty of Eisenpower is its simplicity: there’s no learning curve to get started. Within a few seconds after downloading it to Read More
Microsoft has already started making life difficult for Windows XP users as the company gets ready to end support for Windows XP (and Office 2003) on April 8, 2014. I recently got a preview of Microsoft’s non-support vis-a-vis Windows XP will be like. I removed my hard drive from a Read More
Beware Limitations of Find My Mac
When Apple introduced the free Find My Mac feature in 2011, Mac users who forked out a hefty sum for their MacBook Pros and iMacs were elated. Mac owners’ thinking was that any thief making away with their precious Mac computers would soon be caught saving them the anxiety and Read More
No Flash in the Pan, Pure Storage Picks Up $150m in Pre-IPO Round
Pure Storage, which is at the vanguard of enabling the storage industry’s seismic transition from mechanical disk to flash memory, has raised $150 million in its Series E round. The latest round values the four-year-old Mountain View, California startup at a billion dollars. Pure Storage‘s FlashArray T. Rowe Price, Tiger Read More
IDC Errs in Tablet Shipment Forecast Cut
Market researcher IDC today modestly lowered its worldwide tablet shipment forecast for 2013 citing diversion in consumer spending on larger screen smartphones and new categories such as wearable devices like smart watches. IDC’s revised tablet shipments forecast for 2013 is 227.4 million units, down from its earlier estimate of 229.3 Read More