Google and Microsoft have teamed up to let Google Calendar and Google Contacts users sync their data with an iPhone, without the need for Apple’s help, via a utility called Google Sync. Google is ...

Microsoft's Windows Live SkyDrive offers 25GB of storage in the cloud, for free. It has a range of neat features: shared photo albums, integration with the new Hotmail and Office Web Apps, and RSS ...

In what will one day be a very good thing for mobile professionals, Microsoft just released a test build of their Sync Framework, designed for developers to build synchronization into “any type of ...

As already highlighted in the post First Impressions, of Windows 8, there are 4 ways to log in to a Windows 8 computer. Using a default password of your Windows Live account Using a PIN number Using a ...

Despite the availability of wireless and cellular networks, many applications must support data presentation and collection services while offline or in remote offices. The Microsoft Sync Framework is ...

Windows 8.1 has a nice feature called sync to the cloud so that when you reinstall the operating system, you automatically get the customizations. This saves time and energy. You can use the feature ...

Read more about Apple, Microsoft, syncing and wireless. Apple Computer is refining a strategy for connecting cell phones and other portable devices to its Macintosh systems in an effort to boost sales ...

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As we first reported in December, Ford and Microsoft have been busy working in collaboration on in-car communications and entertainment, to be unveiled this week at CES. Well, here we are today at CES ...

I had a lot of fun testing out Ford’s Escape Hybrid and their Microsoft SYNC technology. As I expressed in my posts and demoed in my videos, my kids and I had some struggles with the speech ...

Use the Microsoft Sync Framework to synchronize data changes between SQL Server 2008 Standard, SQL Server 2008 Express and SQL Server Compact Edition 3.5. Despite the availability of wireless and ...