Craig Hale

Craig Hale

With several years’ experience freelancing in tech and automotive circles, Craig’s specific interests lie in technology that is designed to better our lives, including AI and ML, productivity aids, and smart fitness. He is also passionate about cars and the decarbonisation of personal transportation. As an avid bargain-hunter, you can be sure that any deal Craig finds is top value!

Articles by: Craig Hale

Box Hubs

Box Hubs wants to make sure all your workers get the right info just when they need it

By Craig Hale published

Box will let customers curate their content into mini-sites through Hubs, but you’ll need to be an Enterprise customer.

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US government probes SAP and other for overcharging it on software use

By Craig Hale published

SAP and Carahsoft have been accused of overcharging one of their most important clients – the US government.

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Millions more Google Workspace users are getting access to Gemini AI

By Craig Hale published

Google announces series of new updates to Gemini designed to make it more appealing for businesses.

Passwarden

KeepSolidPasswarden Review: Pros & Cons, Features, Ratings, Pricing and more

By Mike Jennings last updated

Top-notch password security and sharing for individuals and teams

Who will win the AI race?

Cloudflare launches bot management tools to charge AI bots for data scraping

By Craig Hale published

Cloudflare is giving users more control over which AI bots can access your site and train large language models.

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WP Engine hits Automattic CEO with cease and desist following "cancer" comments

By Craig Hale published

Automattic reportedly asked WP Engine for tens of millions to cover licensing, leading to Mullenweg’s “cancer” comment.

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Is AI making us actually enjoy our jobs more?

By Craig Hale published

Knowledge workers have a really poor relationship with work, but AI and more flexible work environments could help.

GitHub Enterprise Cloud Data Residency

GitHub will let any enterprise users store data in the EU

By Craig Hale published

Enterprises can now store their GitHub data within the European Union, and more regions may follow soon.

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Disney is ditching Slack for Microsoft Teams following data breach

By Craig Hale published

Following a 1.1TB data breach relating to Disney’s Slack channels, Disney now plans to move to Teams.

Zoom

Zoom is scaling back worker stock grants

By Craig Hale published

Employees might not get as much access to stock in the tech industry any more due to dilution worries.

Qualcomm

Qualcomm reveals major layoffs, hundreds of workers let go

By Craig Hale published

Qualcomm to lay off 226 workers from 16 facilities, including several vice presidents from its San Diego HQ.

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Automattic CEO and WordPress co-creator calls rival "a cancer" in alarming claim

By Craig Hale published

Matt Mullenweg’s company apparently contributes nearly 100x more to the WordPress project than WP Engine.

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Best Asana alternative of 2024

By Craig Hale last updated

We list the best alternatives to Asana, to make it simple and easy to set up and manage a work management solution from a different provider.

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1Password Review: Pros & Cons, Features, Ratings, Pricing and more

By Mike Jennings last updated

Updated An affordable and effective password manager with functionality on loads of platforms

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N-Able Passportal Review: Pros & Cons, Features, Ratings, Pricing and more

By Mike Jennings last updated

Passportal is a high-quality, reliable password management program. It’s secure, comes with great administrative controls, and includes everything you need to look after your company’s credentials.

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Amazon's new Project Amelia AI can give you personalised business advice

By Craig Hale published

Amazon to launch Project Amelia in more markets later this year to help answer ecommerce questions.

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Citrix adds macOS support to desktop-as-a-service offering

By Craig Hale published

Citrix launches new VDA for macOS as it looks to strengthen its DaaS fight against AWS, Microsoft and others.

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CrowdStrike outage is causing businesses to switch security vendors

By Craig Hale published

Companies are looking to strengthen incident response and change security vendor following CrowdStrike outage.

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Alibaba says its is ready for AI demand with new modular datacenter architecture

By Craig Hale published

Alibaba has revealed a new modular datacenter architecture, which promises to cut deployment times by 50%.

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Best time tracking software of 2024

By Craig Hale last updated

We list the best time tracking software, to make it simple and easy to better track your working hours.

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Bitwarden Review: pros & cons, features, ratings, pricing and more

By Mike Jennings last updated

Updated Bitwarden is one of the most impressive password managers around – it’s got loads of features, impressive security, broad mobile and browser support and open-source design.

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Chip market high isn't over says Broadcom CEO, with million-accelerator clusters on the horizon

By Craig Hale published

Broadcom’s CEO anticipates ongoing AI chip demand as LLMs progress, with non-AI components recovering soon.

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Google, Microsoft, and AWS trade blame as UK watchdog investigates cloud competition

By Craig Hale published

Google, Microsoft and Amazon have all criticized one another during CMA hearings, but they still think the market is fair.

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Google Workspace is bringing your calendar right to your Chrome homepage

By Craig Hale published

Google Workspace users can find their most relevant information straight from the homepage in a glance.

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LinkedIn already started training its AI on user data before updating ToS

By Craig Hale published

Your data will be used to train LinkedIn’s AI, but the company didn’t update its terms of service until it was too late.

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