June 19, 2013
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QUESTION: Can my group of 10, all of whom have the Voxer smartphone application, communicate “walkie-talkie” style on Allure of the Seas cruise ship in the Caribbean? —Leon Cohen, Minneapoli...
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Wearing the future
A wristwatch that reads your text messages out loud, a jacket that heats up when you’re cold, eyeglasses that display directions as you walk down the street. Gimmicks, or fashion of the future? ...
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Readers to the rescue! Several readers say there’s a better solution for the mother of a hearing-impaired daughter who wants to text friends via an Apple iPad. I pointed out in last week’s colum...
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QUESTION: My daughter, who is hearing-impaired, has been told that she can text from an iPad. Is this possible? My daughter also wants to take the iPad outside her building, which doesn’t have W...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Comcast XFinity home customer Larry Schweber is able to watch TV shows remotely through his iPad or turn on his alarm, view video camera angles or turn on lights from his smartphone as part of the all-digital security monitoring system at his Atlanta home.
Technology monitors home from phone
ATLANTA — Every day Larry Schweber can see his 8-year-old daughter come home from school, even while he’s at work. He gets a text message with a video clip every time someone walks through the fron...
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Associated Press The toy mode of the mobile app "Tamagotchi L.i.f.e." by developer/publisher Bandai Co./Sync Beatz Entertainment is displayed. The app duplicates the egg-shaped Tamagotchi toy that became a must-own sensation after it was first released in 1996 in Japan.
Tamagotchi electronic pet reborn as app
LOS ANGELES — Tamagotchi is re-hatching as an app. Bandai Co. and Sync Beatz Entertainment are hoping to revive the electronic pet craze of the 1990s with a new mobile app launching Thursday for...
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Last week, I suggested that Internet connection problems might be causing people to endure long pauses while streaming Netflix movies and TV shows. The video was moving through a home network to a ...
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Tracking Lincoln
PITTSBURGH — On the 204th anniversary of his birth, Abraham Lincoln’s youthful proclivity for penning epistles to a weekly newspaper anonymously and under pseudonyms are the stuff of a modern-day c...
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QUESTION: Our Sony TV keeps pausing during movies and TV shows we stream from Netflix. The icon on the screen says “loading”and the little wheel image keeps spinning. These pauses are annoying. Is ...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Chuck La Tournous shows a capacitance glove made by Marmot, which for $30 allows you to use the touch screens on portable devices while wearing gloves. La Tournous brought a collection of high-tech survival gadgets to display Jan. 31 at MacWorld in the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
Tech vs. wild
SAN FRANCISCO SEmD Chuck La Tournous was about two minutes into his presentation this week at Macworld 2013, “Tech vs. Wild,” when a Boy Scoutish-looking kid in the audience shot up his hand. “I...
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