Collen Kriel
Latest from Collen Kriel
Hackpad migrates to Dropbox Paper: how to import, export or opt-out
Dropbox Inc. announced Tuesday that it will shut down document collaboration service Hackpad on July 19, migrating all Hackpad notes to the company’s recently launched Dropbox Paper. Dropbox acquired Hackpad in 2014 and open-sourced it in 2015. Hackpad served as inspiration for Dropbox Notes, which eventually became Dropbox Paper, a free collaboration tool that launched ...
How to delete your Unroll.me account, inbox cleanup alternatives
Another day, another consumer data-mining scandal. This time around it involves newsletter unsubscription service Unroll.me, owned by California-based data firm Slice Intelligence. While the free app has been cleaning out your inbox, it has also been collecting data, in particular, Lyft Inc. receipts that it has been selling to rival Uber Technologies Inc. Regardless of the ...
Watch live: the impact of tech on media at NAB Show 2017
With the expansion of social video content and virtual and augmented reality, content creators, media brands and marketers have been forced to rethink production and distribution to keep up with the times. The annual National Association of Broadcasters Show, currently underway in Las Vegas, will explore this topic and others, including the impact of live ...
Microsoft launches To-Do to replace Wunderlist: how to get started
Microsoft Corp. Wednesday announced the launch of a public preview of To-Do, a new to-do list app that will eventually replace the Wunderlist app. Microsoft has been privately testing the new To-Do app for nearly a year. It acquired 6Wunderkinder, the German company behind the Wunderlist app, in June 2015 for between $100 million and $200 ...
14,000 organizations now use Workplace by Facebook – latest features and integrations
Facebook Inc. is looking to expand its growth in the enterprise market with the announcement Tuesday of a wide range of new features for its collaboration service, Workplace. Announced at the company’s annual F8 developer conference, currently underway in San Jose, California, the new features for Workplace will keep the service competitive with established names ...
What to expect from the AWS Summit: Can Amazon Web Services move into the data center?
Amazon Web Services dominates the public cloud computing market, but it doesn’t yet have a solution for customers that want the economics and versatility of clouds in their private data centers. On Wednesday at its AWS Summit in San Francisco, the company is expected to offer some insights into how AWS and its partners aim to take the ...
Watch live from DockerCon 2017
How are businesses taking advantage of the latest in container technology for virtualized application deployment? And where does Docker fit into this ecosystem? DockerCon17, currently underway in Austin, Texas, will explore these and other questions at Docker Inc.’s annual conference this week. SiliconANGLE will be at DockerCon17 with exclusive interviews from our roving news desk, ...
How to use Slack’s new custom status feature
Slack Technologies Inc. has introduced the ability to add custom status updates and away messages to its business messaging app. The company is also opening up the feature to third-party developers. As the enterprise messaging market gets more competitive with the likes of Microsoft Teams and Facebook Workplace, Slack has been introducing more feature updates ...
As Instagram’s Stories hits 200 million daily users, it adds even more Snapchatlike features
Facebook Inc.-owned Instagram introduced Stories in August in an apparent shot at Snap Inc.’s own Snapchat Stories feature. Now it looks like the move worked. Since launching, Instagram Stories has attracted more than 200 million daily users. While the company doesn’t specify the breakdown of these numbers between creators and people simply viewing other ...
Windows 10 Creators Update is rolling out: How to delay the update on your PC
Microsoft Corp. announced the launch of the Windows 10 Creators Update on Tuesday. Although the operating system officially started rolling out on Tuesday, the company says it will take a couple of months before all 400 million machines are updated. Whether you have a newer machine, which will receive the update first, or an older device, ...