Don Reisinger

10 Boutique PC Makers Deliver Desktop Alternatives to Big-Name Brands PCs made by HP, Dell, Lenovo and other large manufacturers are purchased in huge quantities to equip corporate offices. While they all have fine features, some boutique PC makers shouldn’t be overlooked as alternative suppliers of PCs for enterprises. Companies like Velocity Micro, Maingear and […]

10 Best Apps for Enterprise Employee Productivity, Collaboration The corporate world is always looking for apps and tools of all kinds that will increase productivity. After all, helping employees work more productively should go straight to the bottom line, resulting in higher revenue and profits. But finding the right apps to make employees more productive […]

Google Glass Enterprise Edition Turns on the Corporate Appeal Google Glass was once the joke of the consumer tech market, smart eyewear worn by so-called “Explorers” that proved to be more a nuisance than enlightening its users with life-changing technology. Now, however, Google Glass is back—but with a new focus and a hope of dramatically […]

10 Versatile Devices Not Made by Amazon That Support Alexa Installation and use of Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant has soared in the past year, according to data from researcher Verto Analytics. That’s due in large part to the success of the company’s line of Echo devices. But Alexa is running on many more products than […]

10 Reasons Why This Isn’t a Good Time to Buy a Smartphone Smartphone sales are soaring around the globe, as people use smartphones as their primary device for communications and computing. Apple and makers of Android handsets are generating massive sums of cash. But with summer now in full swing and autumn a couple of […]

AMD’s Ryzen Threadrippers Promise High-End CPU Power—for a Price In May, AMD announced new processors that it said would dramatically improve computer functionality and ultimately put it ahead of its archrival Intel. And on July 13, the company provided more details on those processors, called Ryzen Threadrippers. The first is the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X and […]

PC Sales Continue to Decline Despite Shipment Growth at HP and Dell Gartner’s latest report of worldwide PC shipments shows that the steady decline in PC sales that started nearly three years ago continued in the 2017 second quarter. According to Gartner, PC shipments declined 4.3 percent year over year. Some of the industry’s most […]

Microsoft 365 Covers Business IT Needs From Desktop to the Cloud Microsoft has a new enterprise cloud service package for large and small businesses to enhance productivity and do a better job of connecting employees, customers and partners. Called Microsoft 365 the cloud package will come in two versions: Microsoft 365 Enterprise for big companies […]

The Best and Worst Companies for Defending Your Data Privacy Each year, the Electronic Frontier Foundation digital rights group releases a report outlining which major tech companies “have your back.” The study evaluates whether companies follow data privacy standards, tell users about government data requests, promise not to sell user data, resist National Security Letter […]

LG Q6 Delivers High-End Design at Midrange Prices LG Electronics’ G6 was called one of the best smartphones released this year. But it will soon have a lower-cost alternative sitting next to it on store shelves. That alternative is the LG Q6, which the Korea-based company unveiled July 11. The smartphone features the same design […]

Amazon Prime Day Offers Big Deals for Fast-Acting Customers For the third consecutive year, Amazon is holding its Prime Day July 11. The 30-hour event is the biggest shopping day of the year for Amazon and offers special deals on tens of thousands of products, giving shoppers access to Black Friday-like prices in midsummer. But […]

How Red Will Draw Buyers to Its $1,600 Hydrogen Smartphone Red is a company best known for making some of the world’s most expensive and visually stunning digital video cameras. But now the company is turning its attention to smartphones. In an announcement July 6, Red said it is planning to release a handset called […]