Today's Question:  What does your personal desk look like?        GIVE A SHOUT

 ALL


  How IoT is Challenging The World of "Smart" Cars

Smart cars have long been the subject of optimism in the auto industry, with their suites of advanced driver assistance and road safety features. Handy as they are, however, their convenient systems come with a substantially higher price tag. For now, however, many car owners are opting into a cheaper, more modular way to enhance their driving experience: a network of IoT devices. This makes it so that even pre-loved cars can enjoy the same features as smart cars. While IoT remains small at the moment, enough devices can create quite a functional imitation of smart car tech suites,for a fracti...

3,520 0       HARDWARE IOT CAR


  SD Cards: Why Order Them In A Bulk?

Backing up important data is an undeniable aspect of the technologically advanced modern world. Be it photographs, videos, movies or other significant data, they all need to be stored properly for future use. SD card or Secure Digital card is one such device that will help store all the relevant materials securely. As the name suggests, it secures all digital data. To understand why we should order bulk SD cards, we need to know why they are so beneficial. They are extremely compact, easy to carry and require very little power to operate. They allow for immediate access to the stored...

855 0       SDCARD HARDWARE


  Things to consider when purchasing a standby emergency generator

Generators come in many forms these days and portable generators, in particular, are proving to be very popular. However, there is still a strong pull for the more conventional home standby generator, after all, no other kind of generator can really offer the same power, can it?But what do you need to consider when buying a home standby generator? Reading home standby generator reviews is always a good first step to help educate yourself about standby emergency generators but I can go a little further.Below I’ve compiled a list of all the things you need to consider when buying a home st...

965 0       HARDWARE GENERATOR


  Additional steps need to implement to setup shadow-boxV2 OPTEE on Raspberry PI

We followed the Shadow-box v2 project from the https://github.com/kkamagui/shadow-box-for-arm to set up the trustZone on Raspberry PI modeB to protect the Linux Kernel. But got a problem when doing the step: [3.6.5. Activate Shadow-Box for ARM and Start Secure Pi!] to create the hash for the memory area. The result is not shown.If you met the same problem, this is what I did to fix the problem on my PI:1.1  When we do the step [3.5.1. Copy OP-TEE OS with Shadow-Box for ARM and New Linux Kernel to Raspbian OS], make sure the ‘image’ was copied in the boot1 and boot fo...

1,189 0       HARDWARE RASPBERRY PI


  Extending Native Features To HTML5 Web Apps

A small company called AppMobi is enabling developers to create HTML5 apps that tap into native hardware and OS capabilities of mobile devices, such as gravity sensing, accelerometer, GPS, camera, sound and vibration, and the file system, InfoWorld reports. 'Its MobiUs browser for iOS implements HTML5's DirectCanvas API for gaming, as well as the HTML5 local storage API for saving executables and data in the browser cache so that apps can run offline. But what makes MobiUs more than just yet another browser is the set of libraries AppMobi provides app developers to access native hardware ...

3,497 0       HTML HARDWARE WEBAPP LOCAL STORAGE GRAVITY ACCELARATION APPMOBI


  Android Hardware Buttons are not broken, let me tell you why

This post is written as a reaction on Christoffer Du Rietz’s article The Android Hardware-Buttons Are Broken. In his article Christoffer explains how the Android back button shows inconsistent behavior like doing different actions when it is used on the same screen.In the following article I will try to explain that this behavior is not broken. Instead it is exactly what the Android developers had in mind while designing the back button behavior.The way the back button is broken according to ChristofferChristoffer’s example case is the Twitter application. In scenario 1 he is doi...

4,653 0       ANDROID HARDWARE BUTTON PROTECT


  Android hardware fails more than iPhone, BlackBerry; repairs cost carriers $2 billion

Repairs to Android smartphones cost wireless carriers $2 billion per year according to a new year-long WDS study that tracked 600,000 support calls around the globe. Android’s popularity and the introduction of a number of low-cost smartphones has put a strain on the wireless business model, WDS noted in its report. “Deployment by more than 25 OEMs and lower-cost product coming to market is leading to higher than average rates of hardware failures and, in turn, return and repair costs.” 12.6% of all technical support calls related to Android in the study were for hardware fa...

2,118 0       ANDROID IPHONE COST BLACKBERRY HARDWARE