Cortana personal assistant now available to Canadian Windows 10 users

Cortana is Microsoft's intelligent personal assistant which was originally exclusive to US users and now she's out of Beta in Canada. This means Windows 10 users can enable Cortana and use their devices' microphones to run searches, open apps or control various aspects of their experience. The first voice assistant to transcend mobile to an OS-level integration, Microsoft has made Cortana part of Office 365 as well as their new Edge browser.

Cortana is available across Windows 10 devices, from desktop and tablet to mobile. Cortana utilizes the power of the internet to continuously improve, while learning your likes and routine to provide useful, and relevant, information. She can help schedule reminders based off locations, contacts and your schedule. For more information on Cortana, click here.

Review: Apple watchOS 2

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

It has been a little bit over a year since we first saw Apple Watch and the wearable, which has reportedly sold over 7 million units, has been available in the market since April. Apple Watch is a unique product category for Apple, it doesn’t seem to follow the same yearly upgrade cycle as iPhones or Macs.

watchOS is the operating system that runs Apple Watch. The first version was quite basic, it served to synch the Watch with iPhones and mostly serve as a satellite device to the iPhone. Apps that supported watch OS could be accessed and controlled from the Apple Watch although it often seemed faster and more straightforward to just use the iPhone instead.

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HP serves up thinner and lighter mobile workstations

Workstations are traditionally expected to be thick, heavy and clunky because they are desktop replacements and require a lot of space for ports, power supplies and graphics cards. HP is changing this notion dramatically with thin, light and sexy laptops that manage to stand out in the sea of corporate notebooks. 

The HP ZBook Studio - HP’s thinnest and lightest full performance model ever brought to the market and can be configured to fit business and road warrior needs with professional choices of memory, processor, graphics and more. The 15.6-inch diagonal HP ZBook Studio, the world's first quad core workstation class Ultrabook sporting Intel Xeon processors as well as fast SSDs and graphics cards. How did they keep the profile so thin? There's an ZBook Studio Dock for expansion with up to 10 ports accessed via a single USB 3.0 slot. The HP ZBook Studio starts at US $1699.00.

Philips and Canada’s Mackenzie Health announce $300 million, 18-year strategic partnership

 Royal Philips and Mackenzie Health, a regional healthcare provider serving Southwest York Region in Ontario, Canada, today announced a CAD 300 million (approximately EUR 210 million), 18-year large scale alliance that will advance Mackenzie Health’s medical technology procurement and maintenance programs for the existing Mackenzie Richmond Hill Hospital and the future Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital, which will be completed in 2019.

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