For $80 a year, you can access all the programs on your Mac or PC remotely from your iPad with the new Parallels Access service. Parallels Access has received favorable reviews from the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. The $80 annual fee is a sticking point though Read More
Google’s Hangouts video chat service has started letting users chat with friends and family in HD (high-definition). HD is being rolled out to the live streaming Hangouts on Air service initially. Google intends to extend HD to all desktop Hangouts video calls in the coming weeks. Google is ditching the Read More
Say what you will but I think a lot of consumers in North America and Europe have developed iPhone fatigue. iPhone upgrades increasingly bring few substantive improvements to justify their premium prices. Apple has relied on gimmickry like Siri voice control (introduced in the iPhone 4S) or the anodized aluminum Read More
To help banks and other financial institutions thwart the plague of cybercrimes, IBM is strengthening its cybersecurity business with the acquisition of Israeli startup Trusteer. IBM is setting up a new cybersecurity software lab in Israel that will bring together its researchers as well as Trusteer’s 200 security specialists. The Read More
The fate of Microsoft’s Surface tablets, be it the low end Surface RT or the high-end Surface Pro, is like the chronicle of a death defined. Surface tablets are doomed and the only way consumers will pick them up in large numbers is if Microsoft holds a fire sale. In Read More
Canadian startup Mover offers hosted cloud storage migration and backup services that promises to make changing cloud storage operators easy for small and medium sized companies. Mover says it supports the major cloud storage providers including Box, Dropbox, Copy, Egnyte, SharePoint, Google Drive, Amazon S3, (S)FTP and WebDAV. The small Read More