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Simple Home Automation Controlled Via SmartPhone or Tablet App
Belkin WeMo devices uses your Wi-Fi and allows you to control household appliances anywhere remotely via your mobile device
Belkin has recently launched WeMo (www.belkin.com/wemo), a line of simple, modular home automation products that allows household electronics to be controlled from anywhere using a mobile app on a smartphone or tablet. Consisting of two initial products, the WeMo Home Control...
SiriusXM Offers Full 2011 NFL Season Coverage
Sirius and XM Premier subscribers get every NFL game through the Super Bowl
SiriusXM Radio, the Official Satellite Radio Partner of the NFL, will provide comprehensive coverage of the 2011 NFL season, offering live play-by-play broadcasts of every game on satellite radio and, for the first time, online.
Sirius and XM Premier subscribers who have SiriusXM Internet Radio access in addition to their satellite...
Angry Birds: My New Favorite Pastime
Just days before this issue went to press, I admittedly jumped on the Angry Birds bandwagon. I’m hooked and it’s hard enough writing this and talking about it and not stopping to try to get to the next level. I feel like I am a teenager and practicing Legends of Zelda or Super Mario Bros.
If you don’t know what Angry Birds is, it’s a game made popular as a downloadable app for touch-based smartphones....
QR Codes 101
By: Jeff Korhan– Originally published at socialmediaexaminer.com
Quick Response codes (QR codes) and other two-dimensional codes are expected to achieve widespread use this year
Quick Response codes (QR codes) and other two-dimensional codes are expected to achieve widespread use this year – and for good reason. Consumers want immediate access to what’s relevant and QR codes are being used to...
HBO App For Watching Shows On The Go
Free App is Latest Online Offering from HBO, Bringing More Than 1400 Titles to Customers Who Subscribe to HBO Via a Participating Television Provider
With HBO GO, you can enjoy instant and unlimited access to every episode of every season of HBO shows, movies, comedy, sports, and documentaries
HBO recently unveiled its mobile HBO GO app, which is available for download on Apple’s iPad, iPhone and...
Back To School Gadget Must-Have’s
If you’re headed back to college or sending someone back to school this Fall, Apple wants to remind you they still have the goods, with their annual back-to-school new product launches.
Launchpad gives you instant access to all the apps on your Mac in OS X Lion
Mac OS X Lion Launchpad
OS X Lion (v 10.7) has landed for the low price of $30. You can pick up the newest installment of the Mac operating...
Retailers Increasing Mobile And Social Marketing Strategies
In an effort to better serve multi-touchpoint, always-on, and empowered consumers, a growing number of retailers are experimenting with mobile and social initiatives – some that are paying immediate dividends and some that are still in the speculative phase. According to a new report conducted by Forrester Research, 91 percent of retailers currently have a mobile strategy in place or in development...
Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground
Former hacker Kevin Poulsen has, over the past decade, built a reputation as one of the top investigative reporters on the cybercrime beat. In Kingpin, he pours his unmatched access and expertise into book form for the first time, delivering a gripping cat-and-mouse narrative—and an unprecedented view into the twenty-first century’s signature form of organized crime.
The word spread through the...
Microsoft Concedes to Apple, Discontinues Zune
Microsoft will no longer be producing Zune devices. Once thought to be a product by which Microsoft could beat Apple’s iPod, demand has died down and Microsoft will be focusing on developing other devices, reports Bloomberg.
While the hardware is being discontinued, Microsoft will still keep the Zune software alive, including it into mobile phones and future Windows releases. Of course, Zune...
New Bill Addresses Cyber Security Threats, U.S. Net ‘Kill Switch’
Cybersecurity and Internet Freedom Act
Senator Tom Carper authors comprehensive cybersecurity legislation, which introduces updated legislation to secure the nation’s most sensitive and critical cyber infrastructures and protect Internet freedom.
Called the “Cybersecurity and Internet Freedom Act,” the bill explicitly states that “neither the President, the Director of the National...
