Voice over LTE (or VoLTE), much like Voice Over IP (or VoIP) is a new standard for mobile devices (like your cell phone) that will drive the cost of voice calls down to near zero. To understand the technology, you need to understand that LTE is a data only network. […]
If you have problems with your Android device including the dreaded Black Screen of Death you may be told to WIPE THE CACHE PARTITION. On a Samsung Galaxy S6, you can do this by: powering off the device press the VOLUME UP + HOME + POWER buttons all the same time and […]
Installing Android apps I sourced from my Samsung S3 to my new Blackberry Z10 was shockingly easy. SHORT VERSION: Copy the .APK (Android package file) for the program you want to run on your Blackberry to your Z10’s memory card Using your Blackberry Z10, click/tap on the .APK to launch the installer, […]
Today Apple released the iPhone 6 to the drooling masses. It turns out the masses should be drooling… from the sleep that is. Below are the major features and specifications of the iPhone 6 HD display! (Competitors already have quad HD) Super sensitive camera! (HTC and Nokia are both laughing) […]
What to do about Samsung Gear Email: The content of this email cannot be displayed on the gear for security reasons. For details, view this email on your mobile device
Twitter uses the # (hashtag) to link to a topic where as the @ (at sign) to link to a person:P # = Topic – for example URTech knows more about #windows, #exchange and #Samsung #S3 than most other companies @ = Person – for example URTech is owned by @IanMatthews You […]
There are several causes for this problem if you have connected a cell phone like Samsung galaxy S2 S3 or S4, or an Apple iPhone but if you have connected just a simple memory stick your issue is likely caused by a simple issue with formatting. Most memory sticks are […]
The old Soti Mobi Control agent (v9 and older) does not function on Android 4.3 which most Samsung S3’s received a few months ago. To resolve this, upgrade your Mobi Control server or uninstall the Mobi Control agent. If you want to uninstall the Mobi Control agent but find the […]
Below is the list of Top Level Domains that are under consideration to be released in 2014. I spoke with GoDaddy, Network Solutions, and ICANN to confirm that no such list is publicly available… so I (well, actually a good friend of mine at www.smarttowns.ca ) manually scraped the ICANN site […]
Every year Google releases a list of their most searched terms. Below is the 2013 list for Canada: 1. Outlook 2. iPhone 5S 3. BlackBerry 10 4. GTA 5 5. Nexus 5 6. PS4 7. Songza 8. Xbox One 9. Samsung Galaxy S4 10. Vine
Below is are simplified explanations of NSA ‘products’ used to spy: TYPHON HX: Fake cell towers – You think your cell has connected to a typical provider (Bell, AT&T, Orange…) but for just $175,000 each the NSA has developed fake mobile cell towers. …this type of hacking was spotted in action […]
Dell, HP, Toshiba, Samsung (‘da big boys) are no longer shipping PC’s and laptops with Microsoft Windows 8 stickers. Smaller companies are still using Win8 Certificate of Authenticity (COA) stickers which contain the CD Key you need for resinstalls. Sooooo the question is, how are Dell, HP, Samsung… doing this, […]
This is our brief hands on review of the Blackberry Q10. The end point is that, in my opinion, the Blackberry Q10 is a very well manufactured device with a modern interface but it just does not keep up with the Samsung competition. The big exception would be if you want a physical […]
If your AD account becomes locked over and over again (especially after a recent password change), it is likely something on your PC/Server has cached the old password and is causing the account to lock. There are several ready places to look for this… and I will get to those […]
Since December 1998, when on impulse I bought the original iMac from CompUSA, I’ve used Apple gear. No longer. Late yesterday, I replaced the last fruit-logo with another, fulfilling my pledge nearly a month ago to boycott Apple… … Rotten to the Core Sadly, in 2012, Apple is the company […]
There was always talk about the fact that hard disk drives are so cheap, that the profitability of the manufacturers is getting low enough to limit the R&D investments they would otherwise make… The Thailand flood came and went and we were left with the hard drive “crisis”. While the […]