Thanks to falling demand for PCs and increased competition from rival chip makers, it looks like Intel may be planning to layoff thousands of employees soon.  In addition to the introducing the new Surface Pro 9 and Surface Laptop 5 today, Microsoft has unveiled a Surface Studio 2+ for creative professionals… but it’s a kind of […]
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Apple launches new iCloud app for Windows 10
Apple’s smartphones, tablets, computers, and TV boxes are all designed to work well together. But Apple doesn’t always make life easy for folks that want to use its devices and products running non-Apple operating systems. Case in point: Apple is killing off iTunes for Mac and replacing it with Apple Music, Apple TV, and Apple Podcasts […]
Apple unveils iCloud Drive online file storage service
Apple is unveiling OS X 10.10 Yosemite, featuring a refined user interface, updates apps, and more. One of the most wide-reaching changes is support for a new way to use Apple’s iCloud online storage system: iCloud Drive. Apple iCloud Drive is basically Apple’s answer to Dropbox or Google Drive, giving you a way to store […]
Apple takes on Google Docs with iWork for iCloud
Apple is taking its office suite to the cloud. The company is rolling out a developer preview of iWork for iCloud today, and plans to make its browser-based spreadsheet, text, and presentation apps available to all iCloud users later this year. Basically, Apple is trying to take its existing office suite and turn it into […]
Asus working on a “ubiquitous” cloud solution
Asus plans to unveil a new cloud computing “total solution”  at the Computex trade show in Taiwan in June. The company has been offering online storage and web-based game and entertainment services to computer and tablet customers for a while, but at a recent event Asus Chairman Jonney Shih said the company is working on something […]
Meet AcerCloud: Acer’s answer to iCloud
Acer is launching a new cloud-based service for synchronizing photos, media, and documents across multiple devices. You can also access your files from a web browser. If the whole thing sounds an awful lot like Apple’s iCloud, that’s because it is an awful lot like iCloud. The difference is that AcerCloud works with Windows and Android […]
Dell Stage software now automatically syncs your media
Dell has released a new version of its Stage UI software for Android tablet sand Windows computers including the Dell Inspiron Duo convertible tablet-style netbook. The new software includes a feature called SyncUP which automatically uploads your photos, music, and videos to the cloud and synchronizes your data between devices. In other words you […]