Friday, 30 January 2015

Powermat Wireless Charging To Hit Starbucks UK

Starbucks has announced that visitors to the coffee chain in the UK will be able to charge their mobile phones wirelessly. The initiative is being rolled out initially in 10 Starbucks cafes in the UK by the end of January. The free service is following a pledge made in the US to allow similar service beginning in San Francisco with a national roll out across 2,000 branches across the US.
Currently, there are two competing wireless charging standards available and Starbucks has chosen Duracell’s Powermat. The service requires users to plug in an adapter to their phone in order to charge it. The devices, which are ring-shaped, will be available to borrow or to purchase for £10 each. The adapters will be offered for the new lightning and old 30 pin Apple variants, along with those phones that use the micro USB standard.
In order for a phone to charge efficiently, they must be placed on specially equipped tables, which Starbucks are installing into the branches across the UK’s capitol city.
Vice president of marketing and category at Starbucks, Ian Cranna said, “We have always tried to anticipate our customers’ needs and innovate with technology to provide even more convenience. Our partnership with Powermat demonstrates Starbucks response to an increasing need to stay connected whilst on the go.”
The initial rollout will be in ten store installations and will be available in by the end of January in the following branches; Berkeley Street, Euston Tower, Fleet Street, Great Portland Street, Harewood Place, Kingsway, Moorgate, Princes Street, Pentonville Road and Wardour Street.
A study that was undertaken by rival power supplier Mophie, has found that 92% of people in the UK experience stress if their smartphone runs out of power. Are you stressed somewhat, if your handset runs out of juice? Let us know in the comments section.
[Image via siliconbeat]

The Apple Watch Is Coming In April

Apple has had a lot of good fortune lately, especially over the Christmas holiday, and it seems their luck is going to hold out through in 2015, as more news about their first wearable, the Apple Watch, has finally been released after months and months of speculation. Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, has revealed that the much-hyped smartwatch from Apple will begin shipping in April of this year.
Unfortunately, we still don’t really know all that much about the watch, except that the price for the most basic model will be $349. For that kind of a price, it better do a lot more than tell the time. (Which, knowing Apple, it surely will).
The Apple Watch Is Coming In April!The Apple Watch Is Coming In April!
Tim Cook has apparently been using the watch for a while, and states: “I’m using it every day and love it and can’t live without it…I see that we’re making great progress on the development of it.” He goes on to state that he’s also impressed with all of the developers out there who’ve been making their apps compatible with the Apple Watch.
Will you be lining up to get your wrist on the Apple Watch? Why or why not? Let us hear your thoughts in the comments section below. Also – are you a fan of the name, or would you have preferred it to have been called the iWatch? Sound off below.
[Image via Macrumors]
SOURCE: CNET
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Friends of Technology: How to bypass android password lock screen using C...

Friends of Technology: How to bypass android password lock screen using C...: Android comes with by default integrated pattern lock screen which plays an important role to secure from unauthorized person being access...

How to bypass android password lock screen using CMD

Android comes with by default integrated pattern lock screen which plays an important role to secure from unauthorized person being accessing your private content. Sometime situation may be such that yourself has forgotten the pattern of lock screen. So now question comes how to bypass this lock when you have no knowledge of rooting the system. Here I will show you how to bypass pattern unlock screen to get access of your mobile.


How to bypass Android Pattern Lock screen using CMD
How to bypass Android Pattern Lock screen using CMD

Requirements
  • Computer must be set up with ADB (Android SDK).
  • Check whether your Android device settings for "USB Debugging" is enabled or active. Home-Apps-Settings-Developers options-USB debugging-check the box to enable.
  • Install necessary drivers of your phone mode and use native USB cable.

Steps you have to perform

1. Plug-in your device to your PC using your USB cable (works on Windows, Mac and Linux). Make sure that you have an active pattern screen lock.

2. Open command prompt (CMD) from start menu.

3. Type in "adb shell" then hit enter.

4. Type "rm /data/system/gesture.key" then hit enter.

5. After completion of process, you need to "Reboot" your Android device. Do not unplug the device from machine!

6. After successfully booting up the device, unplug it from machine. Done, now setup the new lock pattern.

Friends of Technology: Spartan...the new browser from microsoft for windo...

Friends of Technology: Spartan...the new browser from microsoft for windo...: Microsoft Spartan browser tipped for Windows 10. Internet Explorer is hardly the most loved of browsers, and Microsoft is reportedly pla...

Spartan...the new browser from microsoft for windows 10

Microsoft Spartan browser tipped for Windows 10. Internet Explorer is hardly the most loved of browsers, and Microsoft is reportedly planning a drastic fix with a new browser code named Spartan tipped to launch alongside Windows 10. Intended to be more lightweight and flexible – borrowing a look and feel more akin to Google’s Chrome or Mozilla’s Firefox – than previous Microsoft web browsers, Spartan would stick with Microsoft’s existing engine technologies under the hood, but wrap them up in such a way that the company’s engineers hope users forget whatever bad experiences they may have had with legacy software such as IE6.

Spartan - New browser from Microsoft for Windows 10

Windows 10 (at least the desktop version) will ship with both Spartan and IE 11. IE 11 will be there for backward-compatibility’s sake. Spartan will be available for both desktop and mobile (phone/tablet) versions of Windows 10, sources say.
The browser, codenamed "Spartan," is a "light-weight" browser with extension support, and multiple sources confirm that this new browser isn't IE12. Instead, Spartan is an entirely new browser that will use Microsoft's Chakra JavaScript engine and Trident rendering engine (as opposed to WebKit). But Internet Explorer isn't going away completely.

According to ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley, Windows 10 will ship with both Internet Explorer 11 and Spartan, though the former is expected to stick around for backwards compatibility only. The new browser will be available for both desktop and mobile devices running Windows 10.

So far it’s unclear whether Spartan will be portable on non-Windows systems, such as Android, iOS, or OS X, but if it is actually imitating Chrome and Firefox, two of the most popular browsers out there, the idea isn't too crazy. The new browser is currently under development.

However, if this new browser doesn't use Webkit, it will not likely be accepted into Apple's App store, because Apple requires all "apps that browse the web must use the iOS WebKit framework and WebKit Javascript" according to its app store review guidelines.

What Microsoft will call the new browser is also a mystery at this point, as 'Spartan' is just a codename for the project, and there's no revelations on what it might be called by the company.

Microsoft hasn’t provided any details about it but the company is hosting a press event on Jan. 21 in the company's hometown of Redmond, Washington, where it is expected to provide more details about the consumer version of Windows 10, so perhaps we will know some more about Spartan then.
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