Product reviews and ther technologies like firewalls, VoIP, Skype, Hardware Comparisons and other how-tos
Below is a brief of 4 electronic whiteboard options I presented to a client a few months ago. You might find it useful with your clients: 1. Panaboard Whiteboard with scanner and printer Limited in size – no electronic copy – old style The most straight forward www.panaboard.com 2. SMARTboard Read more…
Google has demonstrated their driverless or auto-mous car several times in previous years but now they apparently have a patent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EfcOvoQiX8& “…Google has been granted a patent for driverless car technology, which can fully take over the control of a vehicle from a human driver. This full-fat version of cruise Read more…
If you are trying to get your Mitel handset to function in Teleworker mode, and you see: DHCP: DISCOVERY OPTION 128 MISSING after connecting the Mitel phone to a network outside of your office, you likely need to specify the Teleworker servers address. Just unplug/replug the Mitel phone and hold down Read more…
“…(Samsung) in third quarter, Samsung sold 24 million smartphones — nearly 7 million more than Apple… While American bloggers and journalists obsess about iPhone, across the globe Samsung makes huge strides that eclipse Apple. While best known for Android phones like the S2, Samsung has a three-operating system strategy that Read more…
Shaw has started providing WiFi service to its customers without additional charge (i.e. free) as part of their home internet packages. Any data you consume on the WiFi is simply counted against your home data plan, which is not a problem for most people. Apparently Shaw see’s this as competition to Read more…
Note that these numbers are the share of operating systems in use… not selling today. In other words, Apple looks like the big winner here when in fact Samsun and HTC are outselling Apple most months, thereby eating into Apples iOS overall market share. Android 42% (HTC, Samsung, Motorola) Apple Read more…
Hewlett Packard (HP) lost over $3 BILLION (yes, with a B) largely as a result of the writing down Palm and WebOS. The video also discusses Facebooks Initial Public Offering (IPO), Apple without Steve Jobs, and other tech stock issues. They also discuss how unreasonable ink prices are for ink jet printers and Read more…
This is a short video on how I dismatled my 7″ Chinese ePad / aPad Tablet which was running Android 2.3 so I could see what the inside looked like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLc98HqBNR8
Under Mango, there are only two ways to get the pictures, videos or music off your Windows Mobile 7 phone: Install Zune Sync with SkyDrive (just click on the … options button on a picture and select UPLOAD TO SKYDRIVE) Currently Windows Mobile 7 phones do NOT show up as external Read more…
OK. OK… Sooo, here is my logic for even trying a Windows Mobile 7 phone: Windows CE 6.5 was great in 2004 but it just didn’t keep pace and by 2006 I had given up and moved my clients to Blackberry. That was a good decision. Apple is incapable of producing Read more…
Business Productivity Online (BPOS) should VERY easily connect to your Windows Mobile 7 phone… but it doesn’t. It does take some configuration: On the Start page, flick left to the Applications list Press Settings & then press Email & accounts Press Add an account and select Outlook Enter your email address and your Read more…
…Today, Microsoft announced its partnerships with around 40 content providers in more than 20 countries, including Bravo, Comcast, HBO GO, Verizon FiOS and Syfy in the U.S.; BBC in the U.K., Telefónica in Spain; Rogers On Demand in Canada; Televisa in Mexico; ZDF in Germany; and MediaSet in Italy. Live Read more…
…But Canadians hoping to get their hands on Amazon’s hotly anticipated Android tablet will have to keep waiting. The device will launch November 15th in the United States — and the U.S. alone. …International availability was not discussed… …The device looks strikingly similar to another 7-inch tablet, Research In Motion Read more…
This table provides an easy to compare grid of tablet features, like operating system, memory and price. You can read the full review from the good people at PCWor;d / ITWorldCanada: “…The upcoming Lenovo IdeaPad A1 seems to offer the highest performance for the lowest price, closely followed by the Read more…
“Lenovo announced a new US$199 (that’s about $194 in Canadian dollars) IdeaPad tablet with a 7-inch screen and Google’s Android OS in response to the surge in demand for inexpensive tablets, the company said on Thursday. The IdeaPad A1 tablet weighs around 400 grams (0.88 pounds) and is under 0.5 Read more…
… Dr Web LiveCD is on hand to help you to get things back in order. As the name suggests, this is a live CD that can be used to boot an otherwise inaccessible computer with a view to retrieving files and fixing problems. Dr Web LiveCD downloads as a disc image Read more…