Bluetooth and Wifi Unlocker Turns Off Android Passwords Near Familiar Devices
Android: There are handy apps to disable your Android password when connected to certain Wi-Fi networks, but this app lets you go a bit further, based on connections to Bluetooth devices. Bluetooth and Wifi Unlocker is an Android app that does just what it sounds like: removes the need to…
Pentagon’s Humanoid Disaster-Rescue Robot Is Dressed to Impress
If you saw him approaching in a disaster area, you’d think he was just another fireman. Which is the reaction that the manufacturers of this lifelike humanoid robot are going for. The PETMAN, created by Boston Dynamics, has gotten dressed. Wearing a flame-retardant camouflage jumpsuit, its metallic face obscured by…
Minyanville: A budget iPhone is a bad idea
An iPhone 5 is displayed at an Apple Store in San Francisco, California.(Photo: Justin Sullivan, Getty Images)Story HighlightsRumors swirling that Apple may launch cheaper iPhoneApple could make mistake by chasing Android market shareApple should continue focus on high-quality products When Dell’s market share stalled in 2005, retribution came quickly. It’s…
O2 customers get free WiFi on the London Underground
BUBBLY UK MOBILE OPERATOR O2 announced on Monday that it has joined forces with Virgin Media to bring its customers free WiFi on the London Underground. O2 joins EE, Vodafone and of course Virgin Media to offer its customers access to the free WiFi enabled at some London Underground stations….
Google, BlackBerry, EarthLink and Red Hat ask DoJ and FTC to help starve …
Tired of all the patent-related stories? Especially the ones that seem like they are more about financial gain than fairness? We thought so. We’d imagine it’s even more of a frustration if you’re one of the companies regularly involved. No surprise then that some firms — such as Google, BlackBerry,…
FIRST Robotics Competition Silicon Valley Regional
Robot teams compete during the 2013 FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition Silicon Valley Regional at San Jose State University in San Jose, Calif. on Saturday, April 6, 2013. 1 of 11 From right, members of the Illuminators robotics team, Cesar Fernandez, 17 and Willie Patino, 18, test the Frisbee 2 of
Canada provides £170m loan to Telefónica to help save BlackBerry
BlackBerry hopes the new Q10 smartphone, which has keyboard rather than a touchscreen like the Z10, pictured, is a hit with corporate customers. Photograph: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images Canada has provided a 170m loan facility to European telecoms firm Telefonica to help it buy BlackBerry products and services, as the…
Former Apple consultant: Apple’s iPhone naming conventions send ‘weak …
By Kevin Bostic Apple is a company that prizes simplicity in nearly all things, but a former Apple adviser says the pattern the company uses to name its bestselling product is decidedly not simple and sends the wrong message about the iPhone. Apple’s iPhone 4S (image via parvez mobile repairing…
Midcontinent Rolls Out TiVo as Hub of Next-Generation Advanced TV Offering
Launch of Premiere Q Series DVR, Mini, Stream Products Underway in South Dakota Midcontinent Communications is bringing TiVo home to its subscriber base. The cable operator has begun deploying its next generation whole home television experience with TiVo at the core to its customers in Rapid City and the Northern…
Cycling, basketball ease stress for BlackBerry boss
WATERLOO It’s no surprise given his lanky, six-foot-seven frame that Thorsten Heins likes watching NBA basketball in the few spare moments when he actually has time to turn on the TV. “I love the Miami Heat,” confessed the president and chief executive officer of BlackBerry. And it’s not just because…
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