We’ve all been there — and seen it happen plenty. Someone’s happily working on their mobile phone when suddenly the app stops working. Maybe their Wi-Fi cuts out, or they’re in a car, flipping from 5G ...

Microsoft has announced that data generated in its Forms app and website can now be synced automatically to the Excel app on the web. New Forms responses will also automatically sync to Excel. Earlier ...

Every day you probably run your hands across various different keyboards, touchpads, and plastic buttons. But working with so many different devices poses some challenges. Windows Live Mesh splits the ...

Your affair with the cloud has gone the way of many relationships. The initial infatuation has faded as you’ve gotten to know each other and, though the love is still there, you can’t ignore the flaws ...

External storage devices used to be little more than internal hard drives slapped into nondescript cases. These days it seems that each new generation of external storage is more functional and more ...

The food industry has put a great deal of effort into advancing data synchronization over the past year, and it's beginning to pay off. Why such interest in data synchronization? In a phrase, bad data ...

As users become more comfortable with cloud services, they need to be aware of who they are trusting with their data. Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years of technology and marketing experience that ...

Microsoft School Data Sync is now ready for deployment to Office 365 Education. If you do not know, Microsoft School Data Sync is a tool developed for IT administrators to help them migrate from ...

As soon as your collection of Apple devices running OS X or iOS expands to two or more, the issue of syncing is bound to come up. You’ll want most or all of the important personal data on your first ...

Editor’s Note: This article, published in our August 2008 issue, includes information on .Mac, which will be replaced by MobileMe in early July. Any instructions may change significantly. Among the ...