Beep…beep…beep…
COMPUTER WORLD It’s two days before Christmas shutdown, and this IT pilot fish happens to step into a lab —…
Pixel 2: The year’s best smartphone
COMPUTER WORLD It was that biannual time again when I must buy a new smartphone. My Samsung Galaxy 7’s battery…
Collaboration trends 2018: Expect Microsoft Teams to gain ground, enterprises to embrace group chat
COMPUTER WORLD After several years of swift uptake by users, collaboration software has become an increasingly integral part of how…
Definitely not something to make light of
COMPUTER WORLD Contractor pilot fish comes back from lunch one afternoon in early December to a corporate data center that…
The top 10 stories of 2017: Security woes, autonomous machines – and a very cool phone
COMPUTER WORLD Top 10 stories of 2017: Autonomous machines, fake news and a very cool phone Image by Google; bitcoin.org;…
A Christmas carol
COMPUTER WORLD Administration department — it’s in charge of this company’s cube farm — gets several complaints after Halloween about…
It's all about getting into the holiday spirit(s)
COMPUTER WORLD It’s the early 1980s, and this outsourcer’s mainframes have to run 24/7 — and one computer operator pilot…
Dual-screen clamshell devices will kill the tablet
COMPUTER WORLD Phones have on-screen keyboards. Laptops have clamshell designs. The next-generation enterprise mobile device will have both. A dual-screen…
Useful R functions you might not know
COMPUTER WORLD Almost every R user knows about popular packages like dplyr and ggplot2. But with 10,000+ packages on CRAN…
Time to install Microsoft patches, except KB 4054517 for Win10 Fall Creators Update
COMPUTER WORLD December has brought a few surprises in Windows PatchLand, but by and large, the coast is clear. “Clear,”…