About
Kyle Alspach is the senior technical editor at CRN, covering the PC and mobile beats along with heading up product reviews out of the CRN Test Center. He was previously the national tech editor at Streetwise Media, and before that worked for the Boston Globe, the Boston Business Journal, and The Enterprise of Brockton, Mass. He lives in Jamaica Plain and his spare time is spent on gardening, yoga, and trips to Maine.
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Apple Takes Key Step Toward Developing Own iPhone Modems: Report
by Kyle Alspach
Apple has reportedly moved modem engineering under the direction of its senior vice president of hardware technologies, Johny Srouji. -
Microsoft Channel Chief Reports Uptick In Partner Additions, CSP Growth
by Kyle Alspach
Channel Chief Gavriella Schuster says Microsoft is adding new partners at an even faster rate as demand rises for cloud solutions such as Azure and Office 365. -
Microsoft Acquires Education Data Management Platform DataSense
by Kyle Alspach
Microsoft says the integration Platform-as-a-Service is popular among education-focused solution providers. -
Microsoft CEO Nadella Suggests Some Customers Favor Azure Because Of Amazon's Push Into New Industries
by Kyle Alspach
Satya Nadella says that ‘customers pay attention’ to moves by competitors with ‘more complex business models’ than Microsoft. -
Apple CEO Tim Cook Says iPhone Prices Aren't Too High
by Kyle Alspach
Cook emphasized growth in Apple's other businesses, including Mac and iPad, as iPhone sales plummeted in the latest quarter. -
Microsoft Office 365 Outage Reported For Some Users
by Kyle Alspach
The company says it has been ‘applying steps to mitigate the issue’ of connection timeouts for some mailbox users. -
Apple Likely To Halt LCD iPhones In 2020: Report
by Kyle Alspach
Low demand for the latest LCD model, the iPhone XR, reportedly has Apple considering a full shift to OLED iPhones starting next year. -
Review: HP's Leather-Covered Spectre Folio Is Fashionable And Flexible
by Kyle Alspach
The CRN Test Center finds that the Spectre Folio offers a distinctive design while enabling strong productivity. -
Apple's 'Pricing Hubris' Forces iPhone Price Cuts In China
by Kyle Alspach
Apple’s pricing strategy around the iPhone XR ‘was the major factor in the company's December earnings debacle,’ says Daniel Ives, managing director for equity research at Wedbush Securities, in a note to investors Monday. -
Lenovo And Dell Seeing PC Growth In U.S., But CPU Shortage Takes A Toll On Overall Market
by Kyle Alspach
U.S. PC shipments dropped overall amid market uncertainties and the ongoing CPU shortage, Gartner reports. -
CompuCom Announces Apple Device-As-A-Service Offering For Macs, iPhones And iPads
by Kyle Alspach
CompuCom is offering Apple devices leased at between 24 and 48 months along with services and support. -
Microsoft Reportedly Reworking Its Cortana Voice Assistant
by Kyle Alspach
Updates to Cortana may include an integration with Amazon’s Alexa assistant, and ultimately aim to bring Cortana to more types of devices. -
Digital Transformation Advice: 'Be The Automator, Not The Automated'
by Kyle Alspach
Forrester Research’s Glenn O'Donnell says that automation technologies will produce massive job losses --as well as an influx of new jobs -- within the next decade. -
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