Dropcam for Android adds mobile setup, customizable alerts, and activity feed

Dropcam updates its Android app to add more unique capabilities to the device. The app now lets you setup your Dropcam from your mobile device. You no longer have to use a PC to have it up and running. It also now has customizable alerts and activity categories to suit your needs. The app now also comes with an activity feed to let Cloud users filter videos according to activities. However, version 3 of the currently only works with the Nexus 5 and Samsung devices running on Android 4.3 and above.

Source: Android Police

Continental introduces tires with built-in sensors to track tread wear

Once the 2017 cars come rolling in, you wouldn’t have to worry about checking your tires tread wear. Continental is developing its Tire Pressure Monitoring System to keep track of tread depth as well. The system will monitor how your tires interact and roll against the road surface and compare these with model-specific data. If you’ve hit a pre-determined threshold, the car will inform you to change tires.

TELUS to invest more than $1.1 billion across Ontario through 2016

TELUS is looking to invest $1.1 billion in new infrastructure and wireless technology across Ontario through 2016.

TELUS will invest $500 million across the province in 2014, the final year of a three-year plan unveiled in 2012, and today committed to spending another $600 million throughout 2015 and 2016 to provide critical fibre optic communications links to business clients, advanced healthcare solutions to consumers, expanded cloud computing data centre solutions, and to bring the world’s fastest wireless technology to more Ontario communities.

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Apple Beat: The Enduring, Elusive, MacBook Air

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

When the first MacBook Air was released in 2008, it was an expensive and somewhat impractical subportable notebook that pushed the boundaries of thinness and portability above all else. It wasn’t very powerful, battery life was so-so and the lack of I/O limited its appeal.

It did introduce unibody construction to the mainstream, later on SSD (Solid State Drives) and changed the way Apple built its hardware from that point onwards.

Six years on, the MacBook Air has evolved into a versatile, powerful all-day computer and possibly the most popular Apple portable ever made. During yesterday’s Microsoft Surface Pro 3 reveal in New York, the Redmond Giant’s executives poked barbs at the MacBook Air as a representative of “The Laptop,” their own product, the third generation Surface tablet, being touted as more than just a hybrid device but a replacement for laptops.

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