A musical Bluetooth bulb

Can you imagine a bulb that can stream line music of your taste from your Smartphone; it is intriguing Isn’t it? Awox is a French company that markets this strange equipment now in the global market. A sensible appliance save you in good mood or you can bring with you a versatile audio broadcast system when you travel with friends. The bulb Awox StriimLight SL-B10, which connects to a Bluetooth Mp3 player and plays music. Once screwed lamp in the holder and turned the light bulb that can emit a Bluetooth signal which is able to match by any Smartphone, tablet or MP3 player with the wireless connectivity. Once the link is established, simply it starts playing a song for the speaker located above the bulb diffuses. A small white remote control supplied with the lamp is then used to adjust the volume, and turn on or off the white LED bulb energy saving (consumption of 21 Watts announced). As long as the bulb is exposed at the bases of the lamp without any light shade no problems to report on the scope or effectiveness of the remote control. However, when choosing your shade, make sure that it passes in the infrared signal. The speaker is of power 10Watts restores music of very decent quality. Not enough to capsize happiness a purist sound, but pleasantly enough sound to a room for a night. It is however a little disappointed that this bulb does not provide a mode in which the light pulse in time with the music. Also the remote control only allows you to turn on or turn off the lights and do not vary in intensity. The price of single one costs about 100 Euros only

Top Tips for Enterprise Mobile App Development

A surge in mobile enterprise app demand prompted a 3.3 per cent growth in the overall applications market in 2012, whilst a staggering 68 per cent of businesses were estimated to develop a mobile app during 2013.
Specialised mobile enterprise apps, which are specially designed to aid business practices like training or sales, can increase efficiency tenfold, whilst significantly improving a company’s ability to service their client. However, before taking the plunge, there are a number of key considerations to be taken into account…
Planning
Before starting application development, it’s imperative to determine exactly why it’s being developed in the first place. Only by doing this from the outset will the key objectives be met when the app is deployed. Questions to ask include:

• What problem are you attempting to solve?
• What workflow issues do you want to streamline with the new technology?
• How will your employees use it to become more productive?
• How will it benefit the client or customer?

You will also need to determine how the application will be managed internally; there’s no point developing a program that takes so much management time, the benefits of having it in the first place are negated.
Put the User Experience First
Ideally, a mobile app should enable the workforce to be more productive, time-efficient, and can even – when thought out correctly – revolutionise their way of working. To ensure the maximum benefits are gleaned from it, the app’s functionality and design should be tailored to accommodate the needs and preferences of its end user.
Consider the Business Context
There are so many popular consumer apps around that it’s difficult not to let them shape and influence applications designed for business use. However, consumer apps with simplistic functionality and slick design often don’t need the capacity to perform what’s required of an enterprise app.
To achieve the key objectives outlined in the planning stage, sometimes business apps need the functionality to run complex features and analysis. Don’t try to over-simplify processes at the expense of getting what you need from your software.
Choosing a Hosting Provider
Selecting a reliable hosting provider for your app is imperative for its future success. Determining the service level agreement will reduce the risk of security or reliability issues tenfold. When selecting a provider, at the very least you should take care to determine:

• Whether the data centre is staffed 24 hours a day and who by; is there a constant security presence?
• What is the protocol in the instance that technical difficulties arise?
• Will the data be encrypted?
• How often is data backed-up, and where is the back-up data stored?

When designed and implemented properly, enterprise applications can provide businesses with a competitive edge and significantly increase workforce productivity. However, due care should be taken to ensure that they become a help rather than a hindrance to business operations.
This guest blog post is written by Ali Raza on behalf of http://www.interoute-iam.com/. Ali is a very keen blogger and writes content to please emerging business audiences and add value to their lives. In his free time, Ali likes to get things ticked off from his bucket list.

Sandisk Wireless Flash Drive!

Retrieve data from a USB stick simply by wireless! Sounds practical isn’t it? SanDisk has introduced the Connect Wireless Flash Drive a model with Wi-Fi. Yes it is a Memory card, instead of fixed memory. The Connect Wireless Flash Drive Sandisk supplies with a 16-gigabyte or 32-gigabyte memory card. The idea looks terrific: Instead of hanging the PC, the Connect Wireless Flash Drive Sandisk move documents, pictures and videos via wireless - even with your cell phone. The Sandisk Connect Wireless Flash Drive is not an ordinary USB stick; instead of a fixed in built memory, it is a plug in device memory of a microSD card type. Sandisk supplies varying amount of memory depending on the model with a 16-gigabyte or 32-gigabyte card. If the stick is connected to the local router, wireless connection record including tablets and Smartphones - that extends the free app Wireless Flash Drive which is available for iOS and Android. Wirelessly you can copy or stream music and photos from your PC or Tablet only - the other way does not work. To put data on the drive, the user must plug into the USB socket on the PC it old-fashioned. By wirelessly streaming movies on mobile phones is amazing. Within one meter of Sandisk sparked with just about two megabytes per second. And within two meters even at 0.1 Mbps.

“Hyperloop” a supersonic speed transport of the future!

Think about the fifth mode of transport now you can travel a distance of 4500 km from New York to Los Angeles in 45 minutes without leaving the ground. The whimsical billionaire Elon Musk had last month announced via his Twitter account. On August 12, he will unveil the details of their proposal for a new revolutionary way of transportation “Hyperloop”. The system should provide the ability to travel at a record speed for minimum cost and minimal energy expenditure. The action plan of Hyperloop will be published on August 12th. Critical feedback for improvement would be appreciated from the technical experts and general public. The Hyperloop could resemble the device developed by the American company ET3. ET3 credit the fifth means of transport. The billionaire founder of electric carmaker Tesla Motors and private space exploration company SpaceX, published a 57-page document describing the project, which could connect Los Angeles San Francisco in 35 minutes. "Hyperloop consists of a low pressure tube with capsules, carried in low and high speeds along the length of the tube" explains the document. "The capsules are placed on pressurized air cushion", it added.

According to Musk, the transport system should be able to reach a speed of 1220 km / h and would be economically viable for any less than 1500 km link. And it is less vulnerable to earthquakes and accidents. During a conference call Monday, Mr. Musk spoke of "a new form of transportation, different from traditional train that would carry passengers and goods in its capsules in a tube mounted on pylons." "It is designed to be super light, while trains are incredibly heavy. This is more like a plane," he said. The feeling on board would be close to that of "an airplane. That would be sweet, like flying on the air." The billionaires ensure that its system is less vulnerable to earthquakes and less prone to accidents than the train or plane "because it cannot crush or derail." The project will greatly resembles the one imagined by ET3. Musk has repeatedly described the Hyperloop as "halfway between the Concorde, the electric gun and air hockey table”. It is similar with the following working examples; Concorde for speed, the electric gun as an example for propulsion and Air Hockey for travel conditions. Last Monday he unveiled the concept that has been developed by teams from Tesla and SpaceX and is based on technology developed in the two companies. It provides for a version of the electric motors used on the Tesla S model cars, which would create an electromagnetic field to propel the capsule.

The system is "halfway between the Concorde, the electric gun and air hockey table" - Elon Musk. The high pressure air between the walls of the inserted tube and the capsule creates a cushion of air with in the capsules allowing moving without friction. The air in the tube between each capsule prevents possible collisions. Thus eliminating friction force which can slow the vehicle, we are left with travel conditions similar to those found in orbit. Elon Musk therefore wants to start building a prototype capable of connecting Los Angeles to San Francisco in 30 minutes. Either shuttle launched at 1100 km / h. Modest, as already dreaming of trips New York-Los Angeles in 45 minutes or New York to Beijing in 2 hours. Other advantages are Hyperloop would be protected from the weather. No turbulence due to bad weather or stop on the way due to snow or rain and flood. In addition, the capsules are inserted into the tube and powered on demand. That is to say that traveler could leave at any time without imposed schedule as for the train or plane. Musk also said that the main power is generated by solar panels placed directly onto the structure, making the network self-sufficient in energy.

Especially they consume very lesser energy. "What we want is a system where there are never any accidents, which is at least two times faster than a plane, which is powered by solar energy, and share as soon as you arrive, so that there is no waiting time nor accurate. “Said Elon Musk in September. Mr. Musk, opposite the high-speed train between Los Angeles and San Francisco - the construction of the first section has been approved by the authorities - believes that the project is much more economical. It estimates the cost of the link between the two cities to 6 billion - against 70-billion for the train - and anticipates the one-way price of $ 20 per passenger which is very cheap. Elon Musk has repeatedly stated that he did not intend to develop the project by them self, but could reconsider their decision, at least in part. "I tried to create at least one demonstrator," he acknowledged Monday. "I'm not trying to make tons of money with it, but I'd like the project and wish to make it into a reality and I think it would help if I was a model."

Why we love cloud storage

‘Cloud storage’ has been the real buzzword in computer circles in the past couple of years, but what exactly is it and why might you be missing out if you don’t use it yet? Cloud storage is essentially a way to store your documents and information online in a dedicated space, with an example of cloud software being Dropbox. It means you can take your documents out of the office system and save them somewhere externally.

The main benefit of this is that it perfectly aids flexible working, and means that if your employees don’t want to be chained to the office or need to carry out any work from home, they can easily log in to their cloud storage account for easy access to absolutely everything they could need. Otherwise, this means transferring everything to a USB stick or something similar, which obviously poses security risks if it goes missing and is inconvenient.

Secondly, cloud storage offers some degree of protection for your company and your information. This is because storing something on a central office-based system can turn out to be a disaster if the system goes down. Alternatively, if your office computers are hit by a virus, this can infiltrate the entire system and can corrupt all of your files, leaving you without customer information, company information and login details, and it can seriously compromise everyone’s security.

Another reason we love cloud storage is the fact that it saves a lot of time that would otherwise be spent emailing attachments backwards and forwards around the office, so it’s a very efficient way for everyone to access documents. It’s really useful if everyone can always access all of the documents, and makes it a lot easier to co-ordinate computer-based activities.

Taking all of your saved documents out of a computer system can also help to speed up the office computers. There will end up being a lot of information and documents saved on each computer and on the central system, and slow computers can be incredibly frustrating for office staff, so putting everything online will make the system much faster and more efficient.

Of course, cloud storage won’t work for everyone, and it can take a bit of getting used to. It might be a good idea to get yourself set up with a professional ITcompany. If you’re really lucky, they might be willing to transfer all of your important documents over for you so you can hit the ground running!