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Microsoft Boosts Cortana Performance by 20%

Cortana now launches 20% faster with the latest update on the iPhone.

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Audiobooks Will Be the Next Google Service to Ignore (Premium)

Google is apparently launching audiobook support through its Google Play Books app. For some reason.

Amazon is Taking the Bold Step of Adding Alexa to its Alexa App

Amazon is Taking the Bold Step of Adding Alexa to its Alexa App

The word "courage" is often bandied about too easily these days. This is a great…

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PWAs are the Future of Apps. Period. (Premium)

I've written a lot about Progressive Web Apps being the future of apps in Windows…

Office 2016 for Mac is Now Aligned with Windows, Android, and iOS

Office 2016 for Mac is Now Aligned with Windows, Android, and iOS

A major new release of Office 2016 for Mac aligns the product with the versions…

Apple to Let Users Control CPU Throttling on iPhones

Your old iPhone will no longer be slow with the upcoming iOS update that lets…

A $350 Billion "Contribution" to the U.S. economy? No
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A $350 Billion “Contribution” to the U.S. Economy? No (Premium)

Apple this week announced that it will repatriate almost $252 billion in cash that it…

The Apple Paradox
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The Apple Paradox (Premium)

Open solutions always win in the end. Which does nothing to explain Apple's success.

Smart Speakers Point to Our Ambient Computing Future
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Today’s Smart Speakers Point to Our Ambient Computing Future (Premium)

Ambient computing is the next major wave of personal computing, and smart speakers are how…

Google Assistant Now Supports Over 1 Million Actions

Google Assistant now supports over one million actions, which are essentially things the Assistant can…

Google Reveals its Assistant Hardware Partners for 2018

With CES underway in Las Vegas, Google has announced a stunning list of partners that…

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Digital Assistants Loom Large Over CES, But Where is Cortana? (Premium)

I've just arrived in Las Vegas for CES 2018 but the biggest story of the…

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Death By A Thousand Digital Assistants (Premium)

With every new piece of hardware having a digital assistant crammed inside, we are about…

Thinking About Web Browsers and Stickiness
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Thinking About Web Browsers and Stickiness (Premium)

An experiment over the weekend provided a good example of why stickiness matters so much…

Paul's Tech Makeover: Here's to a Smarter 2018 (Premium)
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Paul’s Tech Makeover: Here’s to an Even Smarter 2018 (Premium)

In 2017, we moved to Pennsylvania and underwent what I think of as Phase 1…

Will a High Volume Strategy Win the Smart Speaker Market?
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Will a High Volume Strategy Win the Smart Speaker Market? (Premium)

Microsoft's high volume, low-cost strategy was the winner in the PC market. But will it…

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