Amazon Alexa Frailty: Syntax Fragmentation in the Skill Ecosystem Amazon Alexa has a frailty problem and it's me. I can’t remember all of the special syntax required to make its skills work. Unlike an app, where I click and am brought into an environment that offers visual clues and instructions, I’m stuck with Alexa either not understanding me or lecturing me. Neither of … [Read more...] about Amazon Alexa Frailty: Syntax Fragmentation in the Skill Ecosystem
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Windows 10s for Education: Microsoft Not Giving Schools to Google
Featured images: Dell Latitude 3189 designed for education Windows 10s for Education: Microsoft Not Giving Schools to Google With the release of Microsoft Windows 10s laptops Microsoft makes a bid to compete, if not reclaim, the mindshare in education. Long-tested theory suggests that the machines people learn on in school become the machines they want to not only use but to … [Read more...] about Windows 10s for Education: Microsoft Not Giving Schools to Google
2018 CES VR: Still Waiting for the Cool
2018 CES VR: Still Waiting for the Cool Once you are inside VR you forget how ridiculous you look to people in the real world. 2018 CES VR didn’t make this any better, in some ways, it made it worse. Contact CI’s haptic glove prototype looked like something right from a Star Trek Borg assembly kit. The dangling wires and conduits did little to assuage the fear of … [Read more...] about 2018 CES VR: Still Waiting for the Cool
Avoid Microsoft Teams Front-End for Curated Microsoft SharePoint Sites
Microsoft Teams SharePoint Front-End? Microsoft Team’s continues to evolve. Teams offers some good basic collaboration features, but one thing the product has not evolved into is a knowledge management front-end to SharePoint. It is true that Teams is built on SharePoint. While, Teams is a major advance over the simple Team Sites that existed in previous versions … [Read more...] about Avoid Microsoft Teams Front-End for Curated Microsoft SharePoint Sites
8 CES 2018 Untrends
CES 2018 Untrends This year I am writing about CES 2018 from the sidelines, but with the number of press releases that have flowed into my inbox, I don’t feel like I’m missing much. And my feet have already sent me a thank you note from the future. Top-line: The biggest underlying shift at CES 2018 comes from it turning into a software show rather than a hardware show, at … [Read more...] about 8 CES 2018 Untrends