Samsung said it has overcome the hurdles to commercializing 60-GHz WiFi, and it plans to develop products that would enable data transmission five times faster than is currently possible. Samsung has plans for a variety of 802.11ad products, including audiovisual and medical devices, in addition to telecommunications equipment. Fast WiFi will be integral to its […]
Read MoreLenovo Gives Yoga Tablets a New Twist
Lenovo last week announced five new models in its Yoga product line, some running Windows and the others Android. Three are tablets — the Tablet 2 Pro and the Tablet 2 running Android, and the Tablet 2 running Windows. The others are the Yoga 3 Pro and the Thinkpad Yoga 14 laptops. The Tablet 2 […]
Read MoreGoogle unveils Lollipop, new Nexus range
This post was originally published on Mashable. Google has announced the next version of Android, formerly known as Android L, will be called Lollipop, officially version 5.0 of the mobile operating system. It also announced the first two devices to run Lollipop: the HTC Nexus 9 tablet and the Motorola Nexus 6. The company also unveiled the first […]
Read MoreRobotic octopus can crawl, carry stuff
Scientists have built a robotic octopus that is not only capable of swimming and moving in the same way as its biological inspiration, but that can carry objects in its tentacles. A video of the mechanical creature has been making the rounds after the octopus’ creators, a team of researchers from the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas in Greece, […]
Read MorePoint to point integration tips for Salesforce
Salesforce is an awesome piece of software. It is amazingly extensible and configurable, and I have seen people do amazing thing with it. All of this extensibility and ease of use can be deceiving though, because unlike people’s imaginations, there are some technical limitations. These limitations make it very difficult, or some times impossible, to […]
Read MoreIntroducing Leche: A JavaScript Testing Utility for Mocha and Sinon
Over the past year, we’ve been steadily working to increase our JavaScript tooling at Box. Our codebase grew from a single PHP application with client-side JavaScript to include two Node.js web applications. With that change came a desire to standardize the way we write JavaScript tests so that the same tools and patterns could be […]
Read MoreHow to Change the Wi-Fi Network Password on Your Verizon FIOS Router
Anybody who has installed FIOS has the same problem… a hand-written card with an insane password to enter on every new device. And are those numbers or letters? Luckily it’s easy to fix. To login to your Wi-Fi router, open up a browser and go to 192.168.1.1 and then login with the password located on the […]
Read MoreAmazon Is Officially a Gadget Company. Here Are All 6 of Its New Devices.
Amazon Is Officially a Gadget Company. Here Are All 6 of Its New Devices. Amazon Kindle Fire But while Amazon produced successors to the Kindle, it didn't follow up with a full-fledged tablet of its own until late 2011, a year-and-a-half after Apple announced the iPad. And it wasn't immediately clear whether the Kindle Fire, […]
Read MoreApple quickly releases iOS 8.0.2 to fix iPhone issues caused by the prior update
It took just over a day for Apple to fix the iOS software update that disabled both cellular service and the Touch ID on iPhones. The software works as advertised but Apple will have to battle the fact that it let users down. Apple released iOS 8.0.2 for mobile devices on Thursday afternoon, following an […]
Read MoreAmazon Asks FAA For Permission To Test Its Delivery Drones
Amazon has petitioned the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for exemption from rulesbarring it from testing drones in the United States. The online shopping company made waves recently by showing off small unmanned aircraft that it claims will be able to deliver parcels to consumers in 30 minutes. The drone delivery service, called Prime Air, could greatly speed up Amazon’s delivery times, creating […]
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