So, as we have posted before, the release date for the iPad is April 3, 2010, but, the preorders have begun as of today @ 8.30a.m. EST. I’ve tried to get some face time with the Apple Store online and it keeps locking up for me, not sure if it is getting flooding with the elite Apple peeps out there, but it isn’t working for me. As we have said, the lucky US citizens will get theirs on the 3rd, while some other countries like Australia, Canada, France, Germany,...
I won’t argue the fact that finding a free, open WiFi network in the wild is at times, a godsend. Using it day-to-day as my only means to accessing the internet is not a great idea however. The biggest risk is that anyone and everyone also freeloading on the free network can pick your private 1′s and 0′s with ease, opening you up to identity theft and a whole host of headaches down the road. To a more “seasoned” techie, the dangers of open...
Far too often I see gadgets with all fluff and no flavor pass before me. While a pretty face is more than welcome, and in fact a major bullet point I look for, at the end of the day I tend to fall on the utilitarian side. That is, what good is a pretty face if it doesn’t do anything but sit there and…look pretty? The whole function vs. form thing is exactly what Onda Communications is fighting with their “Elis: Wifi Lamp”. In short, the Elis is a...
A few years ago, the big thing was GPS in your car. Everyone got it and now it’s old news. Next up was technology similar to Microsoft’s “Sync” which brings several voice activated features and further improves on the geek factor in autos. Though still not as widespread as GPS systems, Sync-like technology is like the GPS technology it one-upped — old and outdated. This year at MWC in Barcelona, Qualcomm announced a new partnership with...
*Picture property of Joshua Lott/NYTimes* At the first mention of a school bus full of hormone fueled teens sounds like a recipe for disaster. But if you stop yourself from jumping on the bandwagon and actually think it through, putting WiFi on a school bus like Empire High School (outside of Tucson, Arizona) is doing, is actually one of the most ingenious, intelligent and technologically forward thinking things I’ve seen yet from a school board. Not only do kids...
