Email is undergoing a renaissance, of sorts. Perhaps the oldest social tool, email has the hardiness of the cockroach, and now is rebounding due to the rise of mobile. Part of… Read more »
Satya Nadella has had a good first year as Microsoft CEO, pushing hard on his bet on a ‘mobile first, cloud first’ strategy. Quarterly (Q2 2015) results for the company were reported… Read more »
Immediately following my weekly update (see Google’s new Inbox goes beyond folders), which was focused on Google’s new Inbox, a replacement UI for Gmail, I learned that Amazon had just announced Amazon… Read more »
Email seems to be getting a second wind, even while the world seems to be doubling down on smartphone messaging apps. Maybe this is in part a function of the growing impact… Read more »
I read about a new Outlook for iOS, and had to install it myself, because some were saying it is the best Gmail client. I am convinced. It is. It is… Read more »
A new report by the Pew Internet Project shows that email is still the killer app for work. The study’s authors, Kristin Purcell and Lee Rainie, wrote: Six in ten (61%)… Read more »
Last week, I was interviewed by NPR show host Larry Mantle about the recent Sony hack. I was asked to speak about it, I believe, because I was featured in the… Read more »
It was a week in which Sony’s hacking by you-know-who dominated the tech news, and raised the question — once again — about email hygiene. The question is, how much email… Read more »
[Update 2 Dec 2014 — Microsoft’s Rajesh Jha confirmed that they have acquired Acompli, writing that Microsoft did so as a part of its commitment to mobile experience: In a world where… Read more »
Apple didn’t invent the smart phone, they just took the idea of a smartphone and jumped ahead a quantum leap. It’s a bit too much to say they perfected it, but they… Read more »