Christmas Gifts, New Gadgets Can Compromise Your Online Security, Safety
by Lee Rickwood
Yes, even Christmas lights themselves – accessed through a connected smartphone and mobile app – can compromise your online safety, security and privacy.
Tag: apps
Need to Board Your Pets? Here are 4 Apps That Can Help
By Christine Persaud
They say that pets can ground you more than kids. So much so, in fact, that pet sitting service Pawshake found in a survey last year that 56% of pet owners were prepared to cancel holiday plans if they couldn’t find someone suitable to take care of their pet while they were away.
Reviewing the Netatmo Healthy Home Coach
By Ted Kritsonis
Indoor air quality is sometimes worse than the pollution typically found outdoors, but it’s not always easy to tell that something toxic is permeating in a room. French manufacturer Netatmo new product in the Healthy Home Coach functions purely to alert consumers on what kind of bliss or squalor they’re breathing in on a daily basis.
Mobile Apps and New Legislation Hope to Curtail Campus Violence, Sexual Assaults
by Lee Rickwood
As powerful and capable as customized mobile safety apps can be, it is surely a matter of culture and attitude as much as infrastructure and technology that must be changed if there’s any hope of reducing and eliminating sexual assault and violence on campus.
Shomi’s demise opens the road to different options
By Ted Kritsonis
Shomi will be showing nothing after Nov. 30 when it will be officially shut down by Rogers and Shaw, paving the way for other services to step in and fill the void. The lack of a legitimate source to stream the content it offered, however, may also lead to a spike in piracy.
Making music on tablets and PCs a roundup of apps & services
In the age of the tablet and smartphone, we’ve found some very compelling tools to make beautiful music with our technology.
Simplify business expense tracking with ScanSnap Cloud and Expensify
By Gadjo Sevilla
I recently took a business trip where I had to account for my transportation, food, and incidental expenses for reimbursement by my client.
This usually entails scanning loose receipts on a scanner and collating them into a single document with an invoice for submission. These steps are time consuming and tedious. To make things easier, I used the portable Fujitsu ScanSnap iX100 scanner, Fujitsu ScanSnap Cloud and Expensify app.
From Science Fiction to High-Tech Fact: Star Trek Building the Future for 50 Years
by Lee Rickwood
A Canadian medical technology development team is a finalist in a multi-million dollar competition to build a new device based on gadgets used in the Star Trek TV show.