Philips Hue Android Apps
Last week, I had a first look at the Hue “Personal Wireless Lighting” kit from Philips. As I mentioned in the review, Philips has opened up the lighting system to developers via an API and this week, I’ll take a…
Philips Hue Personal Wireless Lighting Review
Kevin Ashton coined the phrase “The Internet of Things” back in 1999, but a decade later most of the on-line gadgets in my house are still recognisable as being technology. My fridge is still a fridge, my front door still…
Pandora brings alarm feature to iOS app
There’s no shortage of music apps to choose from for both iOS and Android customers. While the former is synonyms with iTunes, that is by no means what you have to use. In fact there are countless alternatives, including personalized radio…
BlueFlame Named CES Award Honoree
BlueFlame has been chosen as an International CES Innovation 2014 Design and Engineering Awards Honoree. It is for their product called The Conductor that was recently launched. It offers you a new way to charge your smartphone. The Conductor can…
Podcast From an iPad
Podcasting has long been a multistep process for the majority of podcasters. There have been a few pieces of software written over the years that attempt to bring all of the podcasting tasks into single pieces of software, with varying…
A Microsoft Future
Last week’s “Microsoft Fantasy” here on GNC suggested that Microsoft was in danger of fading into irrelevance; that it should retreat to servers and gaming; that it should re-orient its mobile strategy around Android. I suggest that Microsoft is now…
iPhone 5S Battery Problem – Apple is Replacing Certain iPhone 5S Models
Apparently, a manufacturing issue has come to the point that Apple is proactively replacing certain iPhone 5S models. The issue causes the battery to drain and not recharge fast enough. Although Apple is not saying the actual problem, they assure…