Slack could host your next conference call
Get ready to start fielding voice calls in Slack. The company announced Tuesday that all users of its popular chat…
Invasion of the tabtops: The new hybrid tablets reviewed
Tablets were the big thing a few years ago, purportedly soon to displace PCs. It didn’t happen, and tablet sales…
Yahoo to sell patents relating to search, advertising and the cloud
Yahoo is selling more than 3,000 patents and pending applications that the pioneering Internet company believes could be the most…
These three virtual assistants point the way to the future
We all need a little help sometimes. After all, what are cloud-based, artificially intelligent software agents for? By now we’re…
Hey Siri? Call 911 for GG. She'll be right
Apple Siri “helped save” a toddler in Australia, who’d stopped breathing. Her mom yelled at her iPhone to call an…
What’s going on with IT hiring?
CompTIA, an industry group, said about 96,000 IT jobs were lost last month across all industries, not just the technology…
Downsides to wearables: Limited functions, inaccurate data, no cellular connection
One-fourth of new users of smartwatches and other wearables say their devices failed to meet their expectations, according to a…
Good news: No flood problems! Now the bad news…
It’s 1999, and this engineer pilot fish has been dispatched to investigate a flood — in the upper floors of…
Salesforce targets 'citizen developers' with new tools and training
If there’s an overriding trend in the world of enterprise software lately, it’s democratization, as tools previously reserved for experts are…
Emergency responders might share their LTE network with the rest of us
A national LTE network for U.S. public-safety agencies would also give consumers better mobile service if a startup gets to…