Video security systems, also known as surveillance systems, are very popular in today’s modern world. You can easily protect commercial as well as residential properties with the right video security systems in place. Now that DVR-based surveillance systems, along with wireless and IP-based cameras and surveillance systems, are also very popular, the cost of getting [...]
HTML5 is not Ready Yet, Says YouTube
YouTube fired off another shot in the battle for the future of online video this week by underscoring its support of Adobe Flash over HTML5. John Harding, a YouTube software engineer, said that currently Flash offers many useful features not found in HTML5. “There’s a lot more to it than just retrieving and displaying [...]
Xbox News from Microsoft
Microsoft has launched a slimmer and more powerful Xbox 360.
Slimmer Xbox 360 going on sale this week
The new console - to be launched this week - will have the same price as the old system, but comes with Wi-Fi and a 250 GB HD.
It follows a similar move by Sony, which released its own slimmer [...]
Iran and Hi-Tech
As protests continue in Iran, details are emerging of the technology used to monitor its citizens.
Iran is well known for filtering the net, but the government has moved to do the same for mobile phones.
Nokia Siemens Network has confirmed it supplied Iran with the technology needed to monitor, control, and read local telephone calls.
It told [...]
Set up Voice Mail on Your iPhone
Have you just bought a new iPhone and are having a hard time getting the voice mail set up? You may have spent hours on the phone with customer service and gotten nowhere. Here, you will find the help you need to get your voice mail set up easily.
The first thing is not to put [...]
Customer Overview for iPad New Soft
Visually Beautiful
Now that 1.1.1 fixed the crashing bug on searching, Articles has become my primary Wikipedia app on the iPad. Visually the app is more pleasing than any of the other options, with the polished and intuitive interface that is a hallmark of good iPad (and iPhone, for that matter) apps.
My only real regret with [...]
Apple’s Chip Inside iPhone
An Asian trade publication has confirmed what the pundits have been saying all along, that the fourth-generation iPhone – or the iPhone HD, as it has been dubbed by the media – will run an Apple-designed chip similar to the A4 processor found inside the iPad.
According to The Korean Times, Apple has been moving forward [...]
GIZMODO and Apple
If you wanted further confirmation that the new iPhone Gizmodo came into possession of was real, Apple has provided the proof.
Gizmodo received a correspondance yesterday from Bruce Sewell, Apple senior vice president and general counsel, that said the following:
It has come to our attention that GIZMODO is currently in possession of [...]
Hidden Hints for Windows 7
I’ve been living with Windows 7 for a good few months now and in that time have discovered a couple of little ‘hidden gems’ which I wanted to share with you:
Aero Shake
In Windows 7, when you click on the title bar of any window and shake it every other open window gets minimised straight back [...]
For the first time, the number of U.S. households opting for only cellphones outnumber those that just have traditional landlines in a high-tech shift accelerated by the recession.
In the freshest evidence of the growing appeal of cellphones, 20% of households had only cells during the last half of 2008, according to a Centers for Disease [...]