Amazon Echo talks to Google Calendar (and you)

Continuing its drumbeat of adding new features to its intriguing Amazon Echo product, Amazon has now linked calendar items to the Echo interface. Here's our quick review.








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Another view: sunset your enterprise architecture every two years

'Temporary EA' may be more adaptable to business changes, and continually inject fresh energy into enterprise technology.








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Enterprise startups: Is the fun about to end?

There are too many enterprise startups and they are starting to saturate various categories. What's a tech buyer to do when the music stops?








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Microsoft's Universal Keyboard and Arc Touch mouse make a great ultraportable work system

Cheap Windows tablets are a boon if you work in Microsoft Office. But Microsoft also supplies a portable Bluetooth mouse and a universal keyboard that works with Windows, Android and Apple iOS tablets for working on the go...








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Google I/O wrap-up, ZenFone 2, Android Wear update (MobileTechRoundup show #347)

Most of this episode focused on discussing the Google I/O 2015 event. Kevin is also quite impressed with a new low cost smartphone from ASUS.








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Online reseller leaks OEM prices and on-sale dates for Windows 10

A major software reseller in the U,S, has begun taking preorders for Windows 10 OEM software, in the process leaking prices and the apparent availability date of the software. Surprisingly, Microsoft is actually raising OEM prices in this cycle.








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Sitting back with the Surface Pro 3: Ten apps to use in tablet mode

My Surface Pro 3 spends all week in the dock with an external monitor, keyboard, and mouse. At night and on the weekends it pops out into tablet mode with these apps.








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Harvard medical professor: Big data and analytics help cure cancer

One of the world's top healthcare CIOs explains how data and predictive analytics can benefit patients and improve health care delivery.








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Top Windows Phone news of the week: Hyperlapse, Cortana, low-end phone woes

This week in Windows Phone we heard that Cortana comes to OneDrive, details of difficulties low-end phones will have with Windows 10 Mobile, and that Hyperlapse was released.








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