UMass Lowell Hopes To Grow Robotics Industry With Testing Facility
LOWELL, Mass. It looks, at times, like a miniature skateboard park or a plywood city. But actually it’s the new robotics testing facility at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. The New England Robotics Validation and Experimentation Center (NERVE) opens on the UMass Lowell campus Tuesday. Instead of heading to Maryland…
Apple, Microsoft investigating iOS 6.1 overloading Exchange Servers; posts …
After reports that Apple’s iOS 6.1 update caused overloading on corporate Exchange email servers, Microsoft has come up with a series of temporary workarounds. If you hadn’t heard, some enterprises had to ban the latest major update from Apple after the newly updated iPhones and iPads were “causing excessive logging” on…
Suddenlink subscribers get first look at TiVo’s Mini DVR extender
The original TiVo DVR box was one of the first products to scare the bejesus out of networks and advertisers, so in the modern world (where nearly every new product scares them), it makes sense that TiVo would throw its hat in the ring. News of the company’s upcoming TiVo…
Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard for iPad mini turns mini into netbook
Logitech is getting ready launch an keyboard cover that turns the iPad mini into a small laptop-esque device. All those people wondering what an Apple netbook would be like might be about to get their chance to find out. The Ultrathin Keyboard Cover for iPad mini is described as a…
Why do iPhone and iPad users jailbreak? Freedom
The new iOS jailbreak tool evasi0n has been used by millions of iOS owners to remove the limitations that Apple placedfor security and anti-piracy reasonson the mobile platform. But what are jailbreakers hoping to achieve from jailbreaking their iPhones and iPads? Look at the numbers. It has been reported…
New spyware Riot tracks your behaviour on Twitter, Facebook and Foursquare …
The 2002 film with Tom Cruise showed a world where police could arrest murderers before they’d even committed a crime. Now, just over a decade on, and new software has been developed which tracks online behaviour. It claims to build a picture of someone’s life – and predict their future movements….
Foursquare launches business app
The app, launched last week, allows businesses to post updates, including photos, to social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Recent check-ins can also be viewed and specials and deals can be managed, all from a mobile device. Previously, business owners on Foursquare had to use the website to…
Check It: Foursquare Updated With Improved Check-In Notification Settings
Foursquare, the popular location-based social networking app, has just received another update. To be sure, just like the updates recently issued to the app, Foursquare’s latest update is but incremental. But altogether, this new update and its similarly incremental predecessors make a huge difference in the app’s development. This update…
Folsom team takes byte out of competition at Lego robot event
Hundreds of middle school students sent their Lego robots into battle Saturday at Sacramento’s Inderkum High School in a competition to see which creation could complete the most tasks. Students came from 48 schools in 15 Northern California counties. The teams spent months building their robots from scratch and programming At the…
The Five: Smartphone security
Your smartphone carries a lot of things that an identity thief would love to have: stored passwords to online accounts, banking information, email addresses and phone numbers. How can you make sure your phone’s private data stays private? Adam Levin, cofounder of the Identity Theft 911 website and former director Lock…
