Cell Phone Trade In Catch

Apple has released that they will be accepting trade ins for credit to get the new iPhone. There is a catch though. Isn't it always the case that there is a catch? Here is what the program said, "To get a credit, customers have to show that their trade-in iPhone works by powering it on. Customers also have to be in wireless carrier contracts when they leave the store." The thing that you have to understand is that the mobile or cellphone business is a mass, even a mess, of various subsidies from one group to another. Apple demands, and gets, a subsidy from the phone service providers. They agree to sell the handset to the consumer for less than they are paying Apple for it: they make this up from the monthly charges over the life of the contract. I guess the bottom line is almost always coming down to commission and money.

Appliances Spying on You

For people concerned about their privacy, the NSA data grabs are daunting, but what about the data grabs happening inside your own home, perpetrated not by the government but by your internet phone or mobile applications? There are some other items in your home that have the potential to spy on you and collect data about you. Some of the connected televisions can be hacked and the personal information can be discovered. The embedded camera on the TV can also be turned on without the person knowing it. The same technology that enables monitoring of your home appliances also could allow would-be spies to monitor your lights. In addition to tracking your schedule, taking control of your home lighting system could help robbers invade your home by turning off the lights and keeping them off during an invasion. Forget about hacking your house. What about hacking your body? In 2012, White Hat hacker Barnaby Jack proved he could kill a diabetic person from 300 feet away by ordering an insulin pump to deliver fatal doses of insulin. This summer he announced he could hack pacemakers and implanted defibrillators. "These are computers that are just as exploitable as your PC or Mac, but they're not looked at as often," Jack told Bloomberg. "When you actually look at these devices, the security vulnerabilities are quite shocking."

Pre-paid Phones

The prepaid phone market has one simple purpose: To provide wireless service to people who are unable to secure a regular contract account or people who don't want one. Prepaid plans enable people to pay for their device in cash and then choose any kind of plan they want. And because users pay up-front for the device, they tend to buy a lower priced device. People who simply want to talk and don't ask much more from their smartphone, are apt to choose this route. In Europe this is extended to prepaid sim cards as well. In other words, you buy a device and then choose a carrier by buying a prepaid sim card. In this particular case you don't have any monthly bills at all. On the other hand, not having a smartphone might mean that you will not be able to have access to internet phone services which might even be cheaper in the long run.

Science: A Question

Science is a way of thinking about the Universe in terms of measurable and empirical evidence, ergo science is also a method of testing the same. It seems as though people lost track of what science really is. For example, it is not an ideology or a religion, nor an orthodoxy. Science is not an academic oligarchy, or the prestige of residency. Sometimes we need to get back to the basics. It all begins with a question, a curiosity. Then we follow the evidence. And it has to be an endless cycle where the information is always growing. In mobile application development, it is always changing and improving. This is what makes AB Soft different from the rest. They never stop trying to improve their products and it is a constant cycle of questions.

Wireless and No Batteries

As far as the great tech stories go, this makes the top of the list. Some engineers at the University of Washington have managed to create several such devices, allowing users to interact or communicate with each other battery-free by repurposing existing radio signals. It’s called ambient backscatter, a technique whereby a device appropriates wireless signals already bouncing around in the atmosphere and uses them both as a power source and a way to communicate with other devices. Ambient backscattering has similarities to RFID, but differs in that it doesn’t require a high-power signal source, has a relatively small footprint and can communicate device-to-device — unlike RFID, where tags have no ability to detect each others’ existence. This could mean great things for internet phones and communication services. Just imagine have this technology in clothing or vehicles. Where else you apply this type of tech?

Back To School Tech

With the end of August looming, there are plenty of sales going on for different back to school supplies. This can get very costly in terms of tech and all the mobile applications as well as either print or digital books. If your budget is fairly tight, you can always consider a laptop for $200. You shouldn’t expect much from a $200 laptop, but for a $200 laptop, Acer’s C7 Chromebook is a pleasant surprise. For starters, this is a Chromebook. It doesn’t run Mac or Windows; it runs Google’s web-based operating system, called Chrome OS. You’ll be dealing with Google’s Chrome web browser 99% of the time, so you’ll want to be surrounded by reliable Wi-Fi access, which shouldn’t be a problem at a college campus. For basic tasks, the system runs smoothly in light of the meager hardware setup (Celeron processor, two gigabytes of RAM, 16 gigabytes of flash storage). You won’t be able to install traditional programs on this machine such as iTunes or Microsoft Office, so keep that in mind. What you can do is get on the internet and work in a web browser. Instead of Microsoft Office, you’ll use Google Docs. If you need a machine for surfing the internet, taking notes and writing papers, and you’re on a budget, this machine is absolutely worth a look.

Your Word

In the end, all you ever have is your word. Nothing else will matter if your word means absolutely nothing. No matter what communication service you may choose to use, your word better carry weight. I am sure that you have experienced being lied to and told one or two. One of the things that really gets to me is if people make promises and then do not follow through, which is very close to lying. I mean if you lie several times, people will quit trusting you and/or believing in you. When you are treated like that, imagine trying to function further. This is the same idea that you need to have when running a business. If you are trying to get customers to buy your products or services, make sure that they are getting their money's worth and not getting ripped off because in the technology age, business are becoming more transparent. This means that people can look up a business within seconds and see the type of reputation that it has.