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Sending Text Messages to 911 Will Become Available in the U.S. Come 2014 Says FCC
0By: Ali Raza | December 11th, 2012 | Living, News
When Superstorm Sandy hit New York, incredible amounts of traffic were experienced on phone lines as people in the city were either making calls to emergency phone numbers for help or looking to get in touch with their loved ones. Following the storm New York City Mayor, Michael Bloomberg started an emergency text messaging service to 311 to reduce the load on phone lines in the city ...
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Canadian Technology Accelerator in Boston Invites Applications from Established Small and Medium-Sized Canadian Companies
By: Ali Raza | December 11th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
Canadian Technology Accelerator (CTA) in Boston is offering a golden opportunity to established small and medium-sized Canadian companies engaged in IT, green technology, life sciences or health sectors to seize financial prospects, strategic partnerships and...
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CRTC’s Conclude Consultations That Show People Want To Stop Three Year Wireless Contracts
By: Kevin Green | December 11th, 2012 | Business
Canada’s federal regulatory body for the telecom industry, Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), recently concluded an online consultation which showed heavy demand by participants to ban three year contracts from cellular service providers. The hundreds of participants in consultation with the CRTC we...
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VIDEO – Play Hide and Seek with this Adorable “Lamp”
By: Ali Raza | December 11th, 2012 | Gadgets, News
Aside from making progress in various fields, engineers and scientist are also taking major steps forward in the field of robotics, giving metal gadgets movements and expressions akin to a human being. In the future, people could use robots or gadgets as an obliging hand or personal assistant. In addition, with the creation of such useful robots, engineers would also be able to reduce the dependen...
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EyeVerify Introduces Eye Scanning Protection for Smartphones
By: Jeff Stewart | December 11th, 2012 | Living, News, Smartphones
To limit access to a smartphone, users commonly set different passwords on their handsets, so as to prevent other people from looking into the sensitive information on their mobile phones. However, Kansas based startup, EyeVerify has introduced a new and even better way to restrict access to a smartphone that will make the tr...
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Hackbright Academy Works To Help Women Break Into Web Development World
By: Kevin Green | December 11th, 2012 | Business, News
Hackbright Academy is looking to change the male dominated programming world with their “10 week training program designed to help women become awesome programmers.” The initiative is very young and graduated its second batch of 16 people and the results of their education are not yet clear. However, co-founder David J. Phillips,...
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Foam from DARPA Helps Increase the Survival Rate of Patients Suffering from Internal Haemorrhaging
By: Jeff Stewart | December 11th, 2012 | Health, Living, News
Survival of a wounded soldier depends not only on their swift transportation to a premium level medical facility, but it also highly depends on the initial medical treatment that he or she receives from the first respondents on the battlefield. Among the first major concerns, any serious bleeding needs to be stopped by applying pressure on and then dressing the wounds properly, but us...
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RIM Gives BlackBerry Messenger Users BBM Voice With New App Update
By: Kevin Green | December 11th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
BlackBerry news has been hitting the headlines with updates and releases for the last couple of weeks as the Canadian technology giant gets ready to launch its upcoming BlackBerry 10 platform and related device. Only last week Research In Motion retooled the Facebook app for BlackBerry to have a lot more BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) support. Now the ...
