LightSquared pitches new plans to FCC in attempt to end GPS interference hex
Updated: 2012-09-30 10:04:00
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: Gordon's Tech Tech tips and notes with a bit of commentary . OS X and XP . mostly Friday , September 28, 2012 File sharing with Time Capsule or AirPort Extreme Secure with a disk password For several years I've used a Time Capsule drive to share slide show images for our home machines and to quickly pass files between users and machines . The lack of permission enforcement is a feature , not a bug . 1 I believe the AirPort Extreme can do this as well . For much of this time I did not secure the shared disks , I just enabled Read Write Guest access . This seemed to work , but it was unreliable . OS X seemed to drop the connection and it took some time to reestablish it with a connection dialog that defaulted to username password . I had to switch to . guest This has gotten worse recently 
Home Products Top stories Reviews Deals Ultrabooks Contact About Deals of the Day 9-28-2012 Tweet Email Apple sells 4th generation iPod touch models for 199. But Best Buy is selling them for 169.99 . today For that price you get an iPod touch with an Apple A4 processor , 8GB of storage , front and rear cameras , and support for iOS 5 or iOS 6. Sure , the new iPod touch 5th gen has better hardware but it also costs almost twice as much with a starting price of 299. Here are some of the day’s best deals on mobile devices and . accessories Apple iPod touch 8GB 4th gen for 170 Best Buy Refurb BlackBerry PlayBook 7 tablet w 16GB for 130 All4Cellular via eBay Refurb 1st gen Asus Eee Pad Transformer w Tegra 2 for 200 All4Cellular via eBay Logitech C260 3MP webcam w mic for free after rebate
Home Products Top stories Reviews Deals Ultrabooks Contact About HP releases Open webOS 1.0 Tweet Email The first open source version of HP’s webOS operating system is now available . HP is releasing Open webOS 1.0 a little over a year after the company cancelled every phone and tablet designed to run earlier versions of . webOS In other words , webOS lives on you just can’t buy any devices that run the operating system . yet But since Open webOS is an open source operating system , it’s possible to port the software to run on a range of devices including phones , tablets , and even desktop . computers It will be up to device makers to decide whether to ship new products with webOS and up to members of the webOS community to port it to run on existing products . But HP has produced a demo
Home Products Top stories Reviews Deals Ultrabooks Contact About FAVI’s 49 Smart Stick brings Android apps to your TV Tweet Email FAVI Entertainment is the latest company preparing to launch a USB stick-sized device that you can plug into a TV in order to run Android apps on a big screen . I’m starting to think there are as many different Android TV sticks as there are potential customers for these products at this point soon everyone will be able to get their own custom model Anyway , there are at least three things that make the FAVI Smart Stick . interesting It has a low starting price of just 49. The stick ships with a custom app launcher which actually looks like it could be reasonably easy to use on a TV screen . At the very least it seems more attractive and useful than the custom
Home Products Top stories Reviews Deals Ultrabooks Contact About Acer Iconia Tab A110 Android 4.1 tablet now shipping in UK 180 Tweet Email The Acer Iconia Tab A110 is a 7 inch tablet with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean software , 1GB of RAM , 8GB of storage , and an NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core . processor On paper it looks a lot like the Google Nexus 7, designed by Asus . But the Acer tablet has a few things that the Nexus 7 lacks while the Asus model comes out on top in other . areas You can’t find the Iconia Tab A110 in the US yet , but it’s now available for purchase in the UK for £179.98 That’s about 290 US , but that price includes the value added tax . By comparison , the 8GB Google Nexus 7 sells for about £159 265 US in the . UK Acer’s tablet has HDMI output and a microSD card slot , neither
Home Products Top stories Reviews Deals Ultrabooks Contact About ZTE shows off V98 Windows 8 tablet Tweet Email Chinese device maker ZTE is working hard to enter the US market bringing smartphones and tablets to US shores . At least one of those will be a Windows tablet called the ZTE V98 The tablet features a 10.1 inch , 1366 x 768 pixel display , an Intel Atom Z2760 Clover Trail processor , 64GB of storage , 2GB of RAM , and a microSD card slot for up to 32GB of additional . space It has a front-facing 8M camera , a 2MP camera on the back , and a 7000mAh battery . The V98 also has an accelerometer , compass , gyroscope , and ambient light . sensor Wireless connectivity includes 802.11n WiFi , Bluetooth 4.0, GPS , and optional NFC and 3G and 4G mobile . broadband Engadget got a chance to
, Home Products Top stories Reviews Deals Ultrabooks Contact About Archos 97 Xenon tablet features 1.4 GHz CPU , Android 4.0 Tweet Email Archos is adding a new 9.7 inch model to its mid-range Android tablet lineup . The Archos 97 Xenon is part of the company’s Elements line , where it joins the Archos 9.7 Carbon which launched this summer The new model has the same screen size , but half the memory and one quarter the flash storage . But while the Archos 97 Carbon has a 1 GHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor , the new Archos 97 Xenon has an unspecified 1.4 GHz . CPU The Archos 97 Xenon features 512MB of RAM and 4GB of storage . It also has a microSDHC card slot for up to 32GB of additional . space It has a 9.7 inch , 1024 x 768 pixel IPS display with a 5-point multitouch capacitive touch . panel
: Home Products Top stories Reviews Deals Ultrabooks Contact About First Look : 69 G-Box Dyno Android 4.0 mini PC with ARM Cortex-A9 Tweet Email The G-Box Dyno is tiny desktop computer that sits in the palm of your hand . It’s got the guts of an Android smartphone or tablet , but it doesn’t have a display or touchscreen . Instead you plug in a keyboard , mouse , remote control , and TV or monitor to run Android apps on a big . screen At first glance the G-Box Dyno looks nearly identical to the MK802 Android 4.0 Mini PC that was released earlier this year . But the Dyno has a faster processor , better ventilation , and comes with a remote control . And it sells for just 69 (or less The folks at Android TV Box sent me a unit to review . Here are some initial . impressions The PC-on-a-stick
Home Products Top stories Reviews Deals Ultrabooks Contact About AT T MiFi Liberate wireless hotspot has a touchscreen for some reason Tweet Email If you’ve ever looked at your mobile hotspot and thought I like how this thing lets me connect to 3G and 4G networks on the go , but man it’d be even better if it had a touchscreen instead of buttons and LEDs , 8221 apparently you’re not alone . AT T has just introduced a new mobile hotspot with a . touchscreen The AT T MiFi Liberate lets you share your 4G LTE internet connection with up to 10 devices over WiFi and offers up to 11 hours of battery . life It has a 2.8 inch touchscreen which you can use to view data usage , connected devices , settings , and other . details It’s a global-ready device , which means you can use the Liberate in over
Home Products Top stories Reviews Deals Ultrabooks Contact About Google Field Trip app alerts you when there’s cool stuff nearby Tweet Email Field Trip is a new smartphone app from Google which monitors your location and lets you know when there’s something interesting nearby . You can configure the app to vibrate your phone , play a ringtone , or even turn on the screen and read headlines to you using . text-to-speech Or you can tell it to be quite and only display nearby attractions when you pull the phone out of your . pocket The free app is available for Android and coming soon to . iOS When you first run Field Trip it will walk you through setup by asking , among other things , how frequently you’d like to see . notices Once that’s done , you can start browsing architecture , food ,
Home Products Top stories Reviews Deals Ultrabooks Contact About Deals of the Day 9-27-2012 Tweet Email If Apple’s new 299 iPod touch seems a bit expensive , the company still offers last year’s model for 199. And if even that seems a little high or if you prefer Android to iOS there’s always the Samsung Galaxy . Player All4Cellular is offering the 5 inch Galaxy Player with Android 2.3 for 180 at the . moment Here are some of the day’s best deals on mobile devices and . accessories Samsung Galaxy Player 5.0 Android portable media player for 180 All4Cellular via eBay Refurb Sony Tablet P dual-screen Android tablet for 220 All4Cellular via eBay Motorola Atrix 4G entertainment center w Webtop kit for 40 All4Cellular Centon 128GB shock resistant USB 2.0 flash drive for 65 TigerDirect Patriot
Home Products Top stories Reviews Deals Ultrabooks Contact About Qualcomm unveils quad-core chips for entry-level phones Tweet Email Qualcomm is introducing a new line of quad-core smartphone processors But the Snapdragon S4 Play MSM8225Q and MSM8625Q aren’t high-priced chips aimed at top-of-the-line devices . Instead these chips are aimed at entry-level . smartphones In other words , the quad-core club ain’t as exclusive as it used to be . Of course , chips with four processing cores aren’t always faster than single or dual-core processors . They just have more cores , which should help with multitasking and performance in tasks that can take advantage of the parallel processing features offered by multi-core . chips Qualcomm’s new chips feature support for faster LPDDR2 memory than the
: Gordon's Tech Tech tips and notes with a bit of commentary . OS X and XP . mostly Tuesday , September 18, 2012 How long has it been possible to assign iOS calendar colors for Google Calendars Our family uses a free Google Apps domain to manage our email , calendars , contacts , documents and so . on For years we've used Google's little known m.google.com configuration to sync multiple calendars to each device English only So we all see the Family Calendar , we see our own calendars , I see Emily's calendar , etc . Including various sports teams and organizations we often interact with 10-25 . calendars It works surprisingly well certainly better than iCloud iCal . Except for one really annoying limitation color assignment is absurd I run into color collisions pretty often and I can't fix
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Laptop Lock Review VGA to HDMI Review Business Laptop Review Wireless Computer Speakers Review How Will You Get Windows 7 On Your Netbook Microsoft Considering Thumb Drives By Andrea Edmunds Jun 26th , 2009 FOLLOW US SHARE I think Microsoft is in a little bit of an awkward situation right now . They've been touting and working with Windows 7 to make it THE OS for netbooks , they did all they could to make it run smoothly on the little guys . Microsoft even worked with PC manufacturers to make sure people who bought a PC now would be able to upgrade easily when Windows 7 hit store shelves . But , after all their work , they missed one little detail . Will you be able to get Windows 7 on your netbook K , Windows 7 is out you run to the store , buy the CD and come flying back home , eager to
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Cell Phone Booster Review Smartphones Video Calling Phones Review Bluetooth Headset Review HTC Snap Coming to Verizon as the Ozone By Dan Hope Jun 25th , 2009 FOLLOW US SHARE We had hints that the HTC Snap would be coming to Verizon after hearing it would become the Dash at Sprint Today Verizon made it all official , revealing that the Snap would debut on Verizon networks as the HTC . Ozone It's obvious that the Ozone is trying to be HTC's answer to the BlackBerry , and while it may come close , the pricing is far better than that of a BlackBerry The Ozone will be available for just 50 with a contract . It will be available at online stores June 29 and in brick-and-mortar establishments on July 13. The Ozone will be packing a few Verizon-specific features , including VZ NavigatorSM
: , Gordon's Tech Tech tips and notes with a bit of commentary . OS X and XP . mostly Sunday , September 02, 2012 How to embed a Google Docs spreasheet into a blog post with a generated iFrame tag MarsEdit , Blogger This Google web page gives you part of the solution for Embedding a spreadsheet in a blog or webpage Unfortunately , they only talk about Google's near defunct Sites The directions for blog embedding are cryptic : If you want to embed a form in a website or blog , click the More Actions button at the top of the editor , and select the Embed' option from the drop-down menu . I think this language is . obsolete Here's how you do it now . In the Publish to Web page on Google Docs there's a drop down that defaults to web page . Choose HTML to embed in a page instead . You get an