Don Reisinger

There’s More Than Meets the Eye in Amazon’s Echo Look Style Assistant Amazon continued to expand its line of smart internet of things devices with the April 26 introduction of a new device it’s calling the Echo Look, a home camera that connects to the network over WiFi and snaps a picture of a person […]

Why AT&T’s 5G Evolution Has Little to Do With Real 5G Wireless AT&T this week announced that it was launching a new service to select markets across the United States called 5G Evolution. But its name is the closest to 5G as the technology will ever get. While it will deliver faster speeds than users […]

HP ZBooks Deliver High End Features for Enterprise Road Warriors HP is pushing the boundaries of what a lightweight, compact notebook can deliver in its new ZBook models. These Windows 10 computers, the ZBook 15, ZBook 17 and the ZBook Studio, which HP calls mobile workstations, offer server-grade processing power and impressive graphics performance to […]

10 Takeaways From My Early Use of Samsung’s Galaxy S8 As a longtime iPhone owner, I didn’t know what to expect when my new Samsung Galaxy S8+ arrived at my doorstep. I’m a longtime user of Apple products and have come to rely on the company’s hardware and software. Still, I found the Galaxy S8+’s […]

Amazon Shows Off Many New Cloud Apps Services at AWS Summit Amazon Web Service’s AWS Summit in San Francisco touched on everything from artificial intelligence to improved image recognition. Arguably the biggest announcement was Amazon Lex, a new tool for companies to integrate Alexa’s digital assistant features into their applications and cloud services. Amazon also […]

F8 Conference Shows How Facebook Plans to Deepen User Engagement Facebook’s F8 conference demonstrated that the company has grown beyond building a social network and moved into creating a social application platform. Now Facebook is staking its future on becoming a development springboard for augmented reality and virtual reality applications. It introduced Facebook Spaces to […]

How Facebook Spaces Enables Social Interaction in Virtual Environments Facebook is beta testing a new service called Facebook Spaces designed to enable people to interact socially in a completely virtual environment. Facebook Spaces, which was announced April 18 at the company’s F8 developers’ conference in San Jose, Calif., works with the company’s Oculus Rift and […]

10 Things to Expect From Facebook’s F8 Conference When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg takes the stage at his company’s annual F8 Developers Conference on April 18, competition will be on his mind. With Snapchat posing a competitive threat, Zuckerberg is expected to discuss his plans for boosting the advertising appeal of its rapidly growing Instagram […]

What to Know About Apple Self-Driving Car Development Efforts Apple’s autonomous car ambitions are among the worst-kept secrets in Silicon Valley. The company has for years been rumored to be working on car technology, and some of its executives have even hinted at it. Apple has hired hundreds of car engineers and there are reports […]

10 Reasons Why an iPhone Owner Bought a Samsung Galaxy S8+ When Samsung announced its Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ in March, for the first time, I felt compelled to try something new. As a longtime Apple iPhone owner who purchased a new iPhone every two years since 2007, I’m firmly entrenched in Apple’s mobile […]

10 Products, Services Apple is Working on Besides the Next iPhone Apple is the subject of countless rumors mainly focused on what its next iPhone might offer. But behind the scenes, the company is said to be working on much more. In the last several days, alone, Apple has been rumored to be working on […]

Gartner IT Spending Report Finds Server Vendors Losing Sales to Cloud The worldwide IT market is set for growth this year and next after coming off a relatively quiet 2016, according to new data from research firm Gartner. The company, which releases regular updates on the IT market’s status, believes the industry will grow 1.4 […]