Software Reviews

Review: Rocketbook app and notebooks Kickstarters continue to drive innovation. The latest piece of technology to arrive at my desk for evaluation isn’t really technology at all, at least not as most people usually think of it. Rocketbook entered the market with the goal of creating the last notebook you …

Review: Updated GoToMeeting iOS Client GoToMeeting iOS Client. Updated GoToMeeting iOS Client remains free. Hosting a meeting requires a paid GoToMeeting account. LogMeIn GoToMeeting facilitates shared experiences: a file, a whiteboard, a web page or an active screen. Until recently, mobile devices were OK clients for connecting to meetings, but when it …

x.ai scheduling bot heads to the enterprise If you want to experience AI in a meaningful way, you need to look at x.ai’s meeting scheduling service. I have written about them before just as they were emerging from incubation (see Testing Amy: What it’s like to have appointments scheduled by …

  Amazon Alexa Frailty: Syntax Fragmentation in the Skill Ecosystem Alexa has a problem and its 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 …

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 …

Product Brief: Acumatica 5.3   by Daniel W. Rasmus, Principal Analyst What is it? Acumatica is a cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Who makes it?  Acumatica 11235 SE 6th Street Suite 140 Bellevue, WA 98004 info@acumatica.com    acumatica.com 1-888-228-8300 What does it do? At its core Acumatica provides financial …

Product Brief: Parallels Desktop 11 and Parallels Access 3.0 What is it? Parallels Desktop 11 for Mac is a virtualization software that integrates the latest Windows operating systems, such as Windows 10, with the latest Mac operating systems such as OS X El Capitan. Parallels Access 3.0 is a remote access …

Product Brief: EnvelopVR EVE     What is it? EnvelopVR’s Envelop Virtual Environment (EVE) is an execution environment that integrates traditional 2D computing resources into virtual reality. EVE also includes an SDK for building 3D extensions to existing 2D applications. Who makes it?    Envelop VR, Inc. 500 108th Ave. …

Tomorrow many people will receive the final bits of what is known as Windows 10. For those already previewing the release, as I am, it appears that a Windows Update process will push whatever bits are required to transform our machines from beta to released software — automagically. With the exception …

  The Best Products from CES 2015 selected by Serious Insights Principal Analyst Daniel W. Rasmus. Note that many of these products are not yet shipping. Visit the headline link for additional information on pricing and availability. Dell Venue 8 7000 tablet Android really needed a breakthrough that would curb the …