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April, 2012: Apple’s Siri may have started it but you no longer need an iPhone 4S to get a smooth-talking, super-helpful, voice-controlled personal assistant. Check out these worthy Siri copycats for smartphones. They work with other apps to leap to your rescue when you ask them questions: 1. Speaktoit Assistant Earns notable accolades, including a …
APRIL 2012: If you thought “there should be a law against that” when you heard about employers making applicants provide Facebook passwords or about apps secretly uploading users’ private information, you’re not alone. Members of both houses of Congress are leaping in to protect app-loving, job-seeking tech users. (And that’s a lot of us!) …
APRIL 2012: Do you want to know the temperature in Beijing? Your flight status? The answer to 5*17/3(6-3)+18? Just type your question directly into your search engine! Here’s how it works. For many types of simple questions, Google, Bing and Yahoo! deliver the actual answers on top of their search results — no need to …
MARCH 2012: Do you think you can leap around the Internet in complete privacy? Not even our brainiac frogs can do that! With all the recent attention on Google’s new unified privacy policy, people are asking: How can I be more private online? Google’s new unified privacy policy that went into effect on March 1 …
MARCH 2012: Drive-by malware gets into your computer without your clicking on anything or opening an attachment — merely visiting an infected website or opening an infected email is enough. In fact, this type of malware can even start downloading from your email preview window, making it particularly difficult to avoid. What initiates …
MARCH 2012: Remember when making decisions about technology was an IT department responsibility? Back then, IT revolved around physical hardware — how to chose the best components, where to put them and how to connect, cool and fix them — and software that needed to be written or bought, installed and updated. Then, in …
MARCH 2012: Microsoft took two giants leaps forward on leap day, February 29: it released its Windows 8 Consumer Preview and opened its new Windows Store for mobile apps. (As you might expect, Leapfrog thinks their leap day timing is impeccable.) One million people downloaded the preview in the first day alone, making them …
Imagine 37 football fields of new technology. That’s what you and your fellow 153,000 attendees got at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) — gadgets for as far as the eye can see. Where’s a businessperson to start? Right here! In a few short paragraphs and nine “best of” and round-up links, you can hop …
It happens to thousands of us each day: we lose our smartphones! Now what? Make it easy for people to reunite you with your beloved tech tool by planning ahead and leaping into action immediately. Here are five things you can do to get your smartphone back, plus three tips on what to do if …
Let’s say you want to keep up on a news story, follow the hottest sports stars or be the first to know anything new about your favorite topic. You can keep searching online (tedious) or subscribe to website RSS feeds (time-consuming to find) or you can simply let your search engine alert you when something …
