GPS saves me a lot of hassle. I’m certainly not a human compass, and — especially if traveling to an unfamiliar city — chances are I will get lost at least once if I don’t have a GPS device or very good directions. Looking around for street signs and calculating turns is fine, but what [...]
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Dolby Hits CES To Deliver PC Surround Sound Like Never Before
Chances are if you own a television, stereo, or any type of home theater equipment you know that Dolby is synonymous with “blow-you-out-of-your-La-Z-Boy-recliner” surround sound. During this week’s Consumer Electronics (CES) show in Las Vegas, Dolby is showing off their latest audio improvements, including new PC surround sound technologies to help bring your entertainment to [...]
TekTrak Brings Free Lost iPhone Tracking to iPhone 3GS
TekTrak is launching a free version (previously $5) of their iPhone app this week that will allow anyone with a iPhone 4 or 3GS to locate their phone, track its previous locations and remote ring the handset from any web browser. While Apple recently made its Find My Phone feature free for iPhone 4 users, [...]
Isabella Products Unveils ‘Mini’ Cellular Connected USB for Photo-Sharing at CES
Smartphones, tablets, and computers are great for sharing your photos with friends and family. But what do you do when you want to share the latest photos of the kids with Aunt Sarah — who’s never even heard of Facebook, Flickr or Picassa, much less uses a computer? Believe it or not, there are still [...]
iZup Aims to Prevent Distracted Driving
iZup (pronounced, ingeniusely enough, ‘Eyes Up’) is a mobile application developed by Illume Software that aims to help drivers avoid distractions caused by their mobile phones. iZup holds text messages, e-mails and calls while you’re driving, yet always allows unlimited access to 911 and a list of authorized phone numbers. Incoming calls are directed straight [...]
Dial2Do & Plantronics Bring Advanced Hands-Free Voice Control To Your Phone
During last year’s CTIA conference I saw a voice service from a company called Dial2Do. There have been, and continue to be, a sea of voice applications — ranging from offerings from Vlingo, DriveSafe.ly, to Google’s own Android integration of voice-to-text, voice search, and application control. So what is special about Dial2Do? Their service can [...]
RIM Rebrands Annual WES Conference as BlackBerry World
RIM announced the name change from to annual Wireless Enterprise Symposium, aka WES, conference. Now it will simply be ‘BlackBerry World’. This change marks a further move away from focusing only on the enterprise, or business customer. Typically the yearly conference is filled with Sales and IT staff from companies all over the world learning [...]
Remote Desktop App PocketCloud Reaches 250k Users, Updates Android Application
Today Wyse, a cloud computing powerhouse behind the PocketCloud mobile virtualization suite announced they’re bringing the desktop to 250,000 users across Android and iOS devices. Wyse has also brought updates with version 1.1 that improve performance, security encryption and an improved UI for Android devices for both the PocketCloud Free and Pro. Virtualization is key, [...]
Apigee Launches API Consoles for LinkedIn, PayPal, Foursquare, Twilio and SoundCloud APIs
Video: Apigee Shows How To Use The API Console to Add FourSquare Check-Ins to Your Own Application We’ve covered Apigee before. They make it easy to integrate application programming interfaces, or APIs, into your own application. So, what does that mean? If you want to create your own application that can take advantage of FourSquare [...]
Gear Diary First Look: Motorola ES400 Enterprise Digital Assistant
The regular onslaught of weekly smartphone announcements highlighting the latest offerings running Android or the upcoming Windows Phone 7 OS, it’s very easy for Motorola’s ES400 to get lost in the mix. The device doesn’t immediately scream ‘sexy’ and it’s running Windows Mobile 6.5. Yes, I said 6.5! So why on earth should you even [...]
Review: iGo Charge Anywhere
No matter how long you think your mobile devices can maintain a full day’s charge, you’re going to be put to the test. It’s always going to be a race to find an outlet or to boot up your computer as your phone’s battery starts to fade out completely. It’s happened to me plenty of [...]
Apigee Premium Gives Your Apps The Same Power as the Big Guys
We’ve covered Apigee’s services before. They focus on giving developers the power to use Application Programming Interfaces, or APIs. That may sound too ‘techie’ but the bottom line is that Apigee gives you the ability to more easily integrate your program with the likes of Twitter, Facebook, and much moremore. Think of Apigee as the [...]
Review: DryPaks Protect Your Gear for That Last Summer Beach Fling
Alas, this weekend brings the end of Summer for those of us in the U.S. Like many others, I’m trying to cram in three days of beach fun into this Labor Day weekend. Unfortunately, duty still often calls and I still need to be ‘connected’ for work even while trying to grab some relaxation with [...]
Get Custom Coupons on Your iPad from CardStar
Everyone can use a little extra money in their pockets. One way to save is to use coupons whenever you go shopping. Now, I don’t know about you but I am horrible at this process. Couponing requires you to sift through the weekly circulars and papers to dig out the coupons you would actually use. [...]
South-Pak Gives Gear Diary the Full Tour for Protective Case Needs
The video above shows Norry Leibman of South-Pak demonstrating a case panel ‘torture’ test. South-Pak is a company that carries custom cases for just about every possible item you could imagine. Have a trade show coming up and need a reliable way to ship your LCD screens? Have to travel with delicate (and expensive) [...]
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