Collen Kriel

Collen Kriel is a beat writer for SiliconANGLE covering consumer technology with a focus on mobile. He has a passion for words, the Internet, the Web and all things tech. He endures a minor fascination with people who define themselves by the brand of smartphone they own. Prior to writing for SiliconANGLE he worked as an account executive in the IT industry, directly for, or in association with companies like Mimecast, IBM, VMware and Micros. He is an avid traveller currently making his way around South East Asia

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Slack introduces dropdown message menus for third-party apps

APPS By COLLEN KRIEL9 YEARS AGO

Slack Technologies Inc. has added a new feature called message menus to its messaging app that allows users to add dropdown menus into the middle of Slack conversations. The new message menus are available in over a dozen third-party Slack apps, including …

Dropbox launches offline mode for Paper and scanning feature for Android users

APPS By COLLEN KRIEL9 YEARS AGO

Dropbox Inc. has announced updates for its collaboration tool, Paper and introduces its scanning feature for the Dropbox Android app. Dropbox Paper was introduced earlier this year following a six-month beta. The collaboration tool, which competes with the likes of Google Docs, …

Facebook announces Group Payments in Messenger for Android and desktop

APPS By COLLEN KRIEL9 YEARS AGO

Facebook Inc. introduced person-to-person payments in its Messenger app two years ago, and now the company is extending the feature to allow for Group Payments on desktop and in the Android app. With the introduction of Group Payments, Facebook Messenger users in …

Exploring Apache Flink for business at Flink Forward 2017

CUBE EVENT COVERAGE By COLLEN KRIEL9 YEARS AGO

What makes Apache Flink better than Hadoop, or even Apache Spark for big data processing? This is the main question to be addressed at this year’s Flink Forward event, currently underway in San Francisco, California. The two-day show is the inaugural North American edition of Flink …

Clips hits the App Store: Here’s an in-depth look at how to use Apple’s new video editing app

APPS By COLLEN KRIEL9 YEARS AGO

Apple Inc.’s Clips app, which the company announced a couple of weeks ago, is now available in the App Store. Clips is a free video-editing app that has some familiar features found in apps such as Snapchat. But it takes a few …

YouTube TV, Google’s streaming TV service, is live in five cities: Here’s how to get started

APPS By COLLEN KRIEL9 YEARS AGO

YouTube TV, Google Inc.’s TV subscription, is now available in five U.S. cities, including New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco Bay Area, Chicago and Philadelphia, for $35 per month with a 30-day free trial. The channels that have been included in YouTube …

Watch live: exploring the big data landscape at the DataWorks E.U. Summit 2017

CUBE EVENT COVERAGE By COLLEN KRIEL9 YEARS AGO

Expanding its Hadoop Summit across international waters, the DataWorks E.U. Summit 2017, presented by Hortonworks Inc. and Yahoo Inc., starts today in Munich, Germany. Once described as the revolutionary technology behind big data, Hadoop now faces other innovations in data management. “Artificial intelligence will …

Apple announces major revamp for the Mac Pro – but not for this year

EMERGING TECH By COLLEN KRIEL9 YEARS AGO

Breaking with its traditional veil of secrecy, Apple Inc. invited a select group of journalists to its Cupertino offices Tuesday to discuss the company’s plans for a major rethinking of its desktop Mac Pro and iMac. In addition to announcing a revamped …

Watch live: As software eats the world, IT networking responds from the Open Networking Summit 2017

CUBE EVENT COVERAGE By COLLEN KRIEL9 YEARS AGO

The Open Networking Summit 2017, presented by The Linux Foundation, starts today in Santa Clara, California, and will cover the full range of open networking across enterprise, cloud and service providers. SiliconANGLE will be at the Open Networking Summit with exclusive interviews …

Worried about data snooping by Internet providers? Stop them with a VPN

APPS By COLLEN KRIEL9 YEARS AGO

The vote this week by the U.S. House of Representatives to repeal privacy rules limiting how Internet service providers can use customer data without their consent has spurred a lot of questions about which tools can protect their online browsing from prying eyes. The …

Collen Kriel

Latest from Collen Kriel

Slack introduces dropdown message menus for third-party apps

Dropbox launches offline mode for Paper and scanning feature for Android users

Facebook announces Group Payments in Messenger for Android and desktop

Exploring Apache Flink for business at Flink Forward 2017

Clips hits the App Store: Here’s an in-depth look at how to use Apple’s new video editing app

YouTube TV, Google’s streaming TV service, is live in five cities: Here’s how to get started

Watch live: exploring the big data landscape at the DataWorks E.U. Summit 2017

Apple announces major revamp for the Mac Pro – but not for this year

Watch live: As software eats the world, IT networking responds from the Open Networking Summit 2017

Worried about data snooping by Internet providers? Stop them with a VPN

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