A Sugar-Powered Smartphone? Sweet! A more efficient, sugar-powered battery developed by a team at Virginia Tech could help move the technology out of the lab and into your favorite gadget. Your phone might have to start counting calories. A Virginia Tech research team unveiled a new sugar-powered battery Tuesday that could replace conventional batteries in cell phones and… Read More »
During my morning Web foraging, I came across this article I found rather interesting — so I wanted to share it with you: Microsoft employees reportedly call Windows 8 ‘the new Vista’ We’ve argued in the past that it wouldn’t be fair to compare Windows 8 to Vista, in part because Vista was widely hated by many Windows… Read More »
Even Microsoft employees – who should no better – fall for phishing scams. It appears that a group of miscreants known as the Syrian Electronic Army fooled some Microsoft employees into giving up their Microsoft email account credentials thus allowing access into the bowels of Microsoft. (Yuck!). Anyway, you really need to be careful not to fall for… Read More »
Declining PC sales and rising sales of non-Windows tablets and Chromebooks would seem to serve as a wake-up call to the sleeping giant we all know as Microsoft. Whether you love or hate Windows 8 or 8.1, the fact remains it’s the worst selling new Windows operating system ever. We really hope Microsoft wakes up soon — just… Read More »
Most of you who subscribe to our newsletters know that Cloudeight is located in Michigan…and unfortunately, we’re not immune to the terrible ice and snow storm which rumbled through Michigan last weekend. Yep, we’re still without power — three days after the storm. Our Christmas will be a unique one for sure. We have taken care of all… Read More »
Windows 8 is now over a year old and it has captured less than 10% of the PC market. Windows 7 is selling better than Windows 8/8.1 – because it’s the traditional Windows — with a start button that opens a start menu. Microsoft’s radical departure from the traditional, caused a slump in PC sales — the lowest… Read More »