In the world of corporate America and the endless seas of cubicle islands, flickering lights are nothing more than a nuisance/headache-causing annoyance that we have to deal with day in and day out. But six municipal buildings in St Cloud, Minnesota at the will be outfitted with LVX’s “Visible Light Communication System”. The concept is simple: flickering lights (in this case, LEDs) transfer data to desktop modems that then feed the information to a...
For well over a year now I’ve been pestering Beejive’s email box monthly, inquiring as to when we’d see the fantastic multi-account IM app on Android. Each and every time I’d get a response that ultimately said no, but went about it in in varying ways. It looks like my emails can finally cease as BGR has a hands on preview of Beejive for Android. The coolest feature that caught my attention from BGR’s preview was “chat drawer” that...
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FaceTime may be restricted to WiFi-only, officially, but that doesn’t mean consumers don’t have options. On the more “Apple approved” front, you’ve got Fring. But if you want to use the “one more thing” that truly makes the iPhone4 the iPhone 4, jailbreaking is your only answer. For when you do this, a little app called “My3G” allows you turn Wifi-only apps into 3G loving apps too. AT&T has complained long and...
You know, I’ve always wanted to trek deep into the forests out west, dragging along a 45lb full-tower computer, and camp out in the middle of the wilderness all while enjoying an intense LAN party. Especially with a full sized computer, mobility is extremely rare. But if I had some sort of solar/wind powered contraption to get me going, maybe my look could change. The tale of the image above involves a need for a VoIP node where infrastructure wasn’t in place,...
