Pedro Hernandez

The smart speaker scene is going to get a little more crowded this fall. Harman today officially took the wraps off the Invoke, a new speaker that will join Amazon Echo and Google Home in an increasingly competitive market for voice-activated virtual assistants. Late last year, Microsoft and audio equipment maker Harman, a subsidiary of […]

Marketing folks who use Excel to analyze the performance of their social media campaigns now have a new reporting tool to help make sense of their Facebook advertising data. And there’s a good chance these days that more marketers are keeping a close eye on their Facebook stats. Last week, media planning firm ZenithOptimedia reported […]

Microsoft followed up the return of the My People contact feature with new ways of working with PDF (Portable Document Format) files in the Edge browser and a security feature that blocks zero-day threats. The software giant this week released build 16188 of Windows 10 for the PC to participants of the Windows Insider early-access […]

In another hybrid-cloud move involving Microsoft’s cloud this week, the software giant announced that its on-premises data gateway for Azure is now generally available, along with a handful of new features. “This gateway helps you securely connect your business apps in the cloud to your data sources on-premises. You can use the gateway to move […]

Microsoft Ventures, the Redmond, Wash. software giant’s venture capital arm, announced this week that it had helped fund two artificial intelligence startups, Agolo and Bonsai. The technology titan is bullish on AI lately and that zeal is extending beyond its own product portfolio and into its investment strategy. Late last year, Microsoft Ventures invested in […]

Power BI Premium isn’t the only major new addition to Microsoft’s cloud-enabled business intelligence and analytics portfolio. This week, the company also announced Power BI Apps, a new low-maintenance way of sharing the insights generated by the platform with large work forces. Currently, organizations wanting to provide their users access to Power BI data must […]

Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop running the Windows 10 S may be all the buzz following yesterday’s media event in New York City, but the company also made several new announcement that may have a significant impact on how educators and their students interact with technology at many school districts. Among them was a preview of […]

Microsoft today unveiled a new licensing option for Power BI, the company’s cloud-enabled business intelligence (BI) and analytics service, that offers organizations more user licensing flexibility along with performance-tuning options. A new service tier for large-scale deployments, called Power BI Premium, will slot above Power BI Pro when the service is switched on later this […]

Microsoft today unveiled the newest device in its Surface lineup, the aptly named Surface Laptop. Aimed at students, the sleek portable runs the newly introduced Windows 10 S operating system and features a 13.5-inch PixelSense display in the now-familiar 3:2 aspect ratio that has become a distinguishing characteristic of the Surface portfolio. The touch- and […]

NEW YORK—Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella kicked off an education-themed media event here in New York City today with a personal story of how his grandfather’s educational journey changed the course of his family’s future. Nadella said it is part of Microsoft’s mission to promote positive outcomes in today’s classrooms using technology and making that technology […]

Windows 10 Creators Update includes many new features and enhancements but watchful users may have noticed that one feature was missing when Microsoft began rolling out the operating system upgrade on April 11. First announced last fall, Windows 10 Creators Update was slated to ship with My People, a feature enables users to pin contacts […]

Depending on one’s attitudes toward change, it’s either and exciting or exasperating time to be a SharePoint developer. Microsoft’s popular enterprise document management software is used by countless corporations to store, disseminate and collaborate on business information. Naturally, no two businesses are the same, so an army of SharePoint developers are helping organizations tailor the […]