Hacking reports aren’t new. However, events like the hacking of celebrity accounts on iCloud, NSA surveillance and Facebook’s (Finally!) changing the default for new posts from “public” to “friends” have people re-thinking the storing of private and confidential information in the cloud. Believe it or not, the younger generation is concerned about privacy and looking to moving off the cloud. Although Millennials have grown up [...]
The recent hacking of private iCloud accounts may have you asking: Is Akruto safe to sync Outlook? We developed Akruto with safety and privacy in mind. With Akruto, you have complete control over your own data. No company — including Akruto — can access your personal information when you sync Outlook devices using Akruto. The first thing we did was make sure your information doesn’t [...]
The trend of decreasing cloud use and increasing privacy and security are expected to grow as cloud hacking continues making the news. First, we heard about the celebrity photo thefts, which were stolen from private iCloud accounts (and some were deleted!). Then, we saw proof that Gmail can be hacked with 92 percent success rate. And now we come across this story by Mashable [...]
To bolster the protection of its citizen’s private information, the new EU General Data Protection Regulation goes into effect next year. Yet ComputerWeekly reports that only 1 in 100 cloud providers meet the requirements in the new directive. University of California researchers say that Gmail can be hacked with a 92 percent success rate — regardless of phone model or software platform. No doubt, you’ve heard [...]
Are you looking for an easy but secure and automatic way to sync your Android phone with your Outlook calendars, contacts, notes and tasks? AkrutoSync is a top-selling, rich-featured application that will sync Outlook with Android and Windows mobile devices. It’s easy, automatic, and secure. AkrutoSync Syncs Automatically There’s no need to worry if that appointment made it to your phone or computer. AkrutoSync will sync your [...]
You have many third party software options to help you sync Outlook calendar and contacts with your phone. The synchronization solution that best meets your needs depends on what you want to sync and what method you use to sync. The method is a big one for many people, as some don’t want to go through the cloud. Some want to use cables and [...]
By RICK COUSINSCorrespondent If you’re into tech cool, you’ll want an Android Wear watch as soon as you get to experience a demo model. As I look at my wrist, I see a colorful and detailed, Star Trek-style, clock display (provided free by a third-party developer). Swiping down over the watch’s face brings up a long line of miniature Google Now cards. The cards might display [...]
C’t Magazin, a top German magazine for computer technology, recommended AkrutoSync in its August 9, 2014 issue. You’ll find the mention in the 30-year-old magazine’s special Windows 8.1 section titled “Sync without cloud.” In the article, writer Jörg Wirtgen discusses the disadvantage of synchronizing through cloud servers. He also explains the process of how AkrutoSync syncs Outlook and Windows Phone 8.1. The software syncs Outlook [...]
A friend told the story of how she spent too much time updating her calendar in multiple places to keep the information in sync with Outlook and her Android devices. She and her husband share a Google calendar while each has a personal Outlook calendar. If she entered a new event on her Android, it’d show up in her shared calendar, but not Outlook. So [...]
The comments below are from a number of Samsung and Android forums, leaving many looking for a Samsung Kies alternative. “Samsung Kies not working.” (This shows up a lot.) “I am having problem Samsung Kies not connecting.” “Can’t get Kies firmware upgrade working.” “I have the latest version of Kies, but it won’t connect to my phone. I get the message ‘Your device does not support Kies v2.0.’” These [...]
Those who sync calendars and contacts with their phone through Google Calendar Sync need to find an alternative solution as it sunsets on August 1, 2014. We split the alternatives into two options: Sync Outlook calendar and contacts.Sync Google calendar and contacts. Those using Windows Phone and Android devices can use AkrutoSync to automatically, directly and securely sync Outlook calendar, contacts, tasks and notes with their [...]
Google has announced that its Google Calendar Sync will no longer work as of August 1, 2014. No doubt, it’s frustrating to be forced to find another solution to sync Outlook with your devices and change how you work. Fortunately, AkrutoSync makes it easy as it syncs Outlook calendar, contacts, tasks and notes with all your devices. It’s automatic, secure and cloudless. Finally a Google [...]
AkrutoSync automatically, cloudlessly and securely syncs Outlook on a Windows PC with Windows Phone and Android devices. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Akruto, Inc. Press Release Newton, Mass. – July 22, 2014 – According to Google, Google Calendar Sync will no longer sync events on August 1, 2014. Users who switch to AkrutoSync™ will not only be able to sync Outlook calendar across all of their devices, but also [...]
Automatically sync Outlook Contacts, Calendar, and Tasks between PC and Android. Direct, reliable, cloud-free. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Akruto, Inc. Press Release Newton, Mass. – July 16, 2014 – Google has announced that Google Calendar Sync, an application that syncs events between Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook Calendar, will no longer be supported as of August 1, 2014. AkrutoSync™ from Akruto, Inc. comes to the rescue by offering [...]
AkrutoSync is a secure alternative for Google Calendar SyncGoogle has announced that its Google Calendar Sync will no longer work as of August 1, 2014. No doubt, it’s frustrating to be forced to find another solution and change how you work. Fortunately, AkrutoSync makes it easy as it syncs Outlook calendar, contacts, tasks and notes with all your devices. It’s automatic, secure and cloudless. AkrutoSync is a secure alternative for Google Calendar [...]
By Meryl K Evans I was working with an app in which I could update notes on any computer or device and it’d sync across the board. When there’s a conflict, the app lets me know. Not this time. Long story short, I lost half of the information in one of the notes. There was no getting it back. My brain — overwhelmed with remembering many [...]
Microsoft has started rolling out the Windows Phone 8.1 OS upgrade in select countries. Even with the update, Windows Phone still doesn’t natively sync with Outlook. No worries! AkrutoSync will automatically sync your Windows Phone with Outlook. Supposedly, the Windows Phone will receive two general distribution release updates in 2014: GDR 1 in July and GDR 2 in November. This, however, doesn’t mean you’ll see [...]
On July 8, we’re celebrating the two-year anniversary of AkrutoSync’s public release! To celebrate, we’ll give away two free copies of AkrutoSync. To enter the drawing, circle us on Google+ or follow us on Twitter by 11:59pm on July 13.
By Rick Cousins The long-rumored Amazon phone has at last hit the desks of reviewers nationwide. Known as the Amazon Fire, the $199 handset follows in the footsteps of the original Apple iPhone by being both pricey and only available (beginning in July 2014) from A T & T. With a heavily customized Android OS, the Fire phone offers two major features not available on other [...]
Samsung Kies, an app that syncs Outlook, music and photos with the Android phone and updates software, comes up often in discussion forums. But not in a good way. Most of the time, people are asking for help because Kies is not working. They're either doing Kies troubleshooting or they want to find a Kies alternative that can sync Outlook contacts, calendars and tasks [...]
You’d think you could sync Android with Outlook right out of the box considering the abundance of Microsoft Outlook users. Yes, it’d make customers happy, but that’s not how companies think. Google is behind Android. And what does Google have that competes with Microsoft Outlook? Yep, Gmail. And it wants you to use that along with Google Calendar and Google Contacts. That’s why Android phones [...]
Automatically synchronizing Outlook calendar and contacts with a smartphone keeps things simple as you no longer have to update your information in multiple places. However, many solutions go through the cloud to sync Outlook with phone contacts. Using the cloud to synchronize data is riskier than you might think. The Cloud Security Alliance recently wrote about the “Notorious Nine” serious security threats in cloud computing. Here [...]
Synchronizing your Outlook calendar, contact and other data in the cloud can make it easier for you to manage it and access it from anywhere on any device. Unfortunately, file sync and share applications like Dropbox that use the cloud could put your sensitive information at risk. One company was doing an analysis of Google AdWords and Google Analytics data. It wasn’t looking for sensitive [...]
By Rick Cousins When Apollo 11 ventured to the moon, none of its various computers had as much memory or processing power as today’s smart watches do. When the space shuttle flew, it carried five computers arrayed in a complex, redundant voting system to translate its pilot’s flight commands, but none of those five cpu’s approached the power of your current PC or even that [...]
