SmartPhone

Transfer Photos from Cell Phone to PC

Sometimes you need to get photos from your phone to your computer. This article offers a variety of options for getting your photos from where they are to where you want them to be, with some suggestions around how you can make sure they don’t get lost along the way.

Productivity Tools

Using Bluetooth for Laptop Internet Sharing

When you need Internet access in a pinch, your smartphone might be the most reliable option available. Most iPhones and Android phones have an option where you can share the LTE or 4G connection on the phone with other devices, like your laptop or tablet. This is fairly easy to setup and this article shows you how to do it.

Hardware

EliteBook Folio 1020 First Look

In the quest to find the perfect notebook computer to meet my demanding requirements, I got a sneak preview of the HP EliteBook Folio 1020. The comparisons to the MacBook Air are obvious thanks to a slim case design and sub 13-inch form factor, but the EliteBook 1020 goes above and beyond with an impressive screen resolution and an Intel Broadwell processor inside.

Dev

Business Intelligence APIs from Clearbit

Are your customers raving about you on social media or are they complaining? If you don’t know where your customers hangout on social media, you can’t possibly know what they are saying. Plenty of solutions allow you to track keywords like your business and product names, but making the link between an existing customer and social accounts can be tricky, particularly if you have hundreds or thousands of customers. One company is trying to simplify this process by making it easy to connect your data to public APIs.

SMB

In-Memory Computing and Data Analytics

One of the recurring themes I’m hearing at tech conferences this year is in-memory computing. At the core of these discussions is the need to make data-informed business decisions more quickly. Instead of taking a snapshot from your data sources and loading the data into a data warehouse for analysis, which can take hours or days to get a a number of solutions are promising analytics side-by-side with your transactional workloads in the form of in-memory computing.