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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
An Akruto Insight Column by Rick Cousins, technical reporter. Differentiation is key in any competitive selling environment and no market is more demanding than wireless phones. Small add-ons can steer sales worldwide, if they work well and especially if they are hard to find on models put out by other brands. The S5 offers a new health package that includes a pedometer and heart rate sensor. [...]
The handset market is crowded with new phones coming out almost every week. Flagship phones, though are rarer, with major models from Samsung, HTC and Apple coming closer to annually. At the rarefied end where these three compete over every millimeter, pixel and novelty, the new Samsung Galaxy S5’s HD screen stands out. Not to gush, but the just-launched S5 feels like a palm-filling HDTV. [...]
The Samsung Galaxy S5 has recently arrived at most U.S. carriers and the web buzz is that its expanded feature set will draw more users than the ho-hum response the S4 received last year. It’s large, bright display represents a definite improvement that is expected to attract a number of S3 owners and others to upgrade, especially given the surprisingly generous trade-in allowances several [...]
Samsung Galaxy S5 a top of the line Android phone needs to have – large brilliant screen, a quad-core 2.5gHz Snapdragon 801 processor to run apps without lag, a 16 Megapixel camera with lightning-fast auto-focus. The S5 is an incremental upgrade from the S4, not a redesign, and Samsung had good reasons for this. The Galaxy line is already the most popular line of smartphones [...]
Galaxy S5 goes on sale in the US on April 11. The S5 is available through the wireless carriers AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, and U.S. Cellular. AT&T Samsung Galaxy S5 sells for $199 with a two year contract ($649 without a contract) The Verizon Wireless Galaxy S5 matches AT&T's $199 price after a $50 rebate, also with a two-year agreement. Without a contract, the Verizon version [...]
The most popular line of smartphones on the planet has a new flagship - the Samsung Galaxy S5. There are not many radical changes (why mess with something that is already popular). But we think the new waterproff ability is quite interesting. Why waterproof smartphones? While you may not put your smartphone under a faucet, you would naturally want to keep your new expensive device [...]
Are you concerned about your privacy? A lot of apps out there allow you to store and sync your data via the cloud, but when you do this, you never know where your information ends up and what happens to it. AkrutoSync provides you with the ability to sync without storing data in the cloud. The main feature of AkrutoSync is the ability to direct [...]
Today Microsoft released a version of its Surface 2 tablet with 4G wireless capability. In the US the tablet will work on the AT&T LTE network. The tablet runs the Windows RT operating system and comes with Outlook 2013 and other office apps preinstalled. The hardware specs include a quad-core Tegra chip from Nvidia, 2 GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage. The screen is [...]
All phones sold in the EU are to use a single type of charger by 2017. Members of the European Parliament have voted in favor of a law to make all mobile phones sold in the EU use the same type of charger. The draft law is aimed at reducing waste, costs and hassle for users. "This serves the interests both of consumers and the [...]
Are you looking for a direct,reliable and very efficient synchronization between your smartphone and your computer or PC? Then you have come to the right place, as AkrutoSync is the only automatic, cloud-free and accurate program for synchronizing Outlook Contacts, Calendar, Tasks, and Notes on your PC and your smartphone. AkrutoSync supports all types of Windows and Android smartphones, such as Nokia Lumia 920, [...]
PC World Magazine discusses privacy in the mobile world. They compare the existing state of affairs to the Wild West. Read complete article in the PC World Magazine.
