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Category: Mobile Devices

  • MobileViews Podcast 142: Enterprise mobility discussion with Don Sorcinelli

    In this podcast Jon Westfall and I (Todd Ogasawara) welcome our old friend and enterprise mobility expert Don Sorcinelli.

    – Wolfram Open Cloud. Try Wolfram Language for free in your browser.
    – I thought I lost my Moto 360 while walking to work. Big sigh. But, no! Turns out the Android Wear “last seen” feature doesn’t work.
    – Google says the requirement of a steering wheel, pedals, and a licensed driver slows down driverless vehicle development – Skynet.
    – Project Fi lets you add specific LTE Android & iOS tablets without any extra fee. You just pay for the data used
    – Enterprise mobility discussion with Don
    – Each year companies do a few “Evil” things (MS & OneDrive this year, Apple not providing 3rd party faceplates for the Apple Watch, Google Fi destroying Google Voice accounts). What are our predictions for “Evil” 2016?

  • TIL: Amazon Echo’s Bluetooth can pair with Apple OS/X computers but not Microsoft Windows 10 PCs

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    Amazon tells us that is Echo intelligent speaker can pair with mobile devices? But, I wondered what about desktop PCs and notebooks? It turns out that it pairs and works fine with Macs running Apple’s OS/X (I tested it with the current El Capitan release). However, Microsoft’s Windows 10 Bluetooth stack couldn’t even detect the Echo let alone pair with it.

    So, if you have a Windows PC and want to use the Echo as a wireless speaker, you are out of luck. However, if you run OS/X on a Mac, it works fine.