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Hassan Ahmed, founder of Sonus Networks, a company that makes femtocells, said he believed that almost all of the carriers would add the technology to their product lines.
If you can’t wait for your carrier to start selling femtocells, you might try a cellular repeater, also known as a booster. This device picks up cellular signals from outside and “repeats” them inside the house, increasing their strength. The signals from your phone are then broadcast back outside via the repeater, ens...
Wi-Ex (www.wi-ex.com) makes several cellphone boosters including the zBoost zP YX300 ($169), which covers a small area, and the zBoost YX510 ($400), a larger device for homes or offices that improves coverage over a 3,000-foot zone. These devices have an internal antenna and an external one that can be mounted on a win...
The Wi-Ex zBoost YX510 can help improve coverage at home or the office.
Another new product, the Cell Ranger Stix, is a portable booster that is powered by your car’s cigarette lighter. Available at www.getcellranger.com for $129, the device has an external antenna and a 15-foot cable. You attach the antenna to the back of the car and then run the cable through to the cigarette lighter. Wh...
Booster shoppers need to know that not all boosters work with all carriers, because the carriers use different frequencies and technologies to transmit calls. T-Mobile and AT&T use something called GSM, while Verizon and Sprint use CDMA. The booster, unless it is a universal model, must be compatible with the carrier y...
The presence of boosters on frequencies that belong to the carriers has made them somewhat controversial. The Federal Communications Commission certifies the devices for some purposes, but they recommend contacting your carrier before installing one.
If a person is interested in improving coverage with a booster, “we would encourage that person to first work with his or her wireless carrier to identify a certified device that the carrier also approves of before installing it and using it on the network,” said Robert Kenny, a spokesman for the F.C.C.
Those in the industry say newer models don’t have the blocking problem. Sina Khanifar, one of the owners of RepeaterStore.com, said a newer booster will amplify only the signals that are being used, preventing it from overwhelming and degrading the cell tower signal. “Because they scan the band, they get lots of additi...
Of course, boosters require you to shell out your own money to improve a service you are already paying for. Pestering your carrier to upgrade its network is a cheaper — but slower — approach.
The allegations of wrongdoing came to light in a report Tuesday in The New York Times, which indicated the Cardinals front-office personnel were trying to steal closely guarded information about player personnel. Legal experts told The Washington Post that those employees could face prison time if convicted of computer...
Luhnow said in June 2014 that the team had been the victim of hackers who accessed servers and published months of internal trade talks on the Internet.
Microsoft today announced that Office for Mac 2011 will launch Oct. 26, the same date leaked by Amazon.com earlier this month.
Microsoft today announced that Office for Mac 2011 will launch Oct. 26, the date leaked by Amazon.com earlier this month.
Customers can place pre-orders with Amazon starting today.
The revamped suite, Microsoft's first for the Mac since January 2008, features a new look that resembles Windows' Office 2010, includes a renamed e-mail client and boasts the return of Visual Basic-based macros, a tool often-requested by veteran users.
Today, Microsoft revealed a pair of previously-undisclosed features, the company has been dribbling out tidbits for months, including a full-screen view in Word that's optimized for either reading or writing, and something the company dubbed Dynamic Reorder that lets users visually shuffle the layers of a presentation ...
The suite's applications are also considerably snappier, especially at startup, claimed Kurt Schmucker, an evangelist on the Mac Office team, in a video posted to the company's site. "I think what users will notice right away is the launch speed of each of the apps," said Schmucker.
Users have long complained about Office for Mac's startup sluggishness, especially when launching Word.
Home and Student includes Word, Excel and PowerPoint; Home and Business adds the Outlook e-mail client, which replaced the discontinued Entourage.
Microsoft had earlier set the prices of the two versions it will ship next month: Home and Student and Home and Business. Today, Amazon listed the former at $119.99 and $149.99 for one- and three-license editions, respectively, and priced Home and Business at $199.99 and $279.99 in one- and two-license versions.
Microsoft will not sell discounted "upgrades" of Office 2011, as it has for the suite's predecessors, a copycat of the move earlier this year when the Redmond, Wash., software maker dropped upgrade editions and pricing for Office 2010 for Windows.
Customers can save money by buying the current version, Office for Mac 2008, and then taking advantage of a free upgrade offer that Microsoft launched in August. People who purchase Office for Mac Home and Student 2008, listed Tuesday for $130 on Amazon, $5 more than just a few weeks ago, are eligible for the three-lic...
Microsoft will also sell a $99 academic edition of Office for Mac 2011 to college students, faculty and staff. The discounted version will include the same applications as Home and Business, but will not be sold at general retail.
Chicago Fire Department paramedics take a man injured in a shooting to a waiting ambulance in the 1700 block of E. 72nd St., in Chicago.
At least six people have been shot in Chicago Wednesday afternoon and evening, including a 19-year-old man who was shot to death in the Marquette Park neighborhood, authorities said.
Joseph Brittman, 19, was shot near 64th Street and Campbell Avenue in the Marquette Park neighborhood, and pronounced dead at 5:24 p.m. on Wednesday, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
The victim was outside about 3:05 p.m. Wednesday when he had "verbal altercation" with another 19-year-old and was shot in the back, said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Janel Sedevic. A suspect was in custody.
Most recently, an 18-year-old man was shot in the leg during an apparent robbery in the Humboldt Park neighborhood.
The shooting happened about 8:10 p.m. in the 3800 block of West Chicago Avenue, Police News Affairs Officer Hector Alfaro said.
The man's condition was stabilized at Mount Sinai Hospital.
Earlier, a 56-year-old man was shot in the head and taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in critical condition following a shooting about 7:15 p.m. in the South Shore neighborhood in the 1700 block of East 72nd Street, said Police News Affairs Officer Veejay Zala.
The shooting may have been domestic related, Zala said. No information was available from News Affairs regarding whether a suspect was being questioned in the investigation.
In the West Woodlawn neighborhood, a man and a woman were shot in a possible drive-by attack about 3:40 p.m. Police said the two were on the street in the 600 block of East 67th Street about when they were shot. The man, 29, suffered a gunshot wound to the back, and was taken to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital, said Zala,...
The victims told police they had been on the street when they heard shots and felt pain, Zala said.
Early this afternoon, a ComCast cable worker was shot about 12:55 p.m. in an apparent robbery in the 7600 block of South Kingston Avenue in South Shore.
John Schneider might best be known for his role as Bo Duke on the pedal-to-the-metal television series "The Dukes of Hazzard," which ran on CBS from 1979 to 1985 -- or, if you're a little younger, as Pa Kent from the 2001-2011 Superman series "Smallville." Now, however, the 53-year-old actor and filmmaker is adding a n...
John Schneider Studios opened for business this month in Holden, between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, and Schneider -- a Louisiana resident since unveiling his Fairlight Films shingle in late 2012 -- has big plans. "I'd like to be to Louisiana what Tyler Perry is to Georgia," he said.
There would appear to be a touch of irony there. Perry, of course, is the now-famous former South Louisiana resident who opened a film studio in Atlanta. Schneider is the now-famous former Atlanta resident who has opened a film studio in South Louisiana.
But without Perry, there might not be a John Schneider Studios. The genial Schneider, who stars in Perry's cable TV series "The Haves and Have Nots," said his venture in film-friendly Louisiana took shape only after he saw the way Perry's Atlanta facility is run.
"My plan was to come to Louisiana and make two movies a year," Schneider said Wednesday (Jan. 29), calling to discuss his new Louisiana roots. "I didn't have a studio plan until I started doing 'The Haves and Have Nots' with Tyler Perry and I saw how incredibly effective having a studio and surrounding yourself with li...
It also occurred to him that there are plenty of independent filmmakers who are similarly minded. Thus was born John Schneider Studios, situated on a 58-acre plot that, in addition to a 5,000-square-foot sound stage and production office, includes a river, a lake, a swamp and a Southeast Asia-style bamboo forest. The s...
All of that serves to complement the residential facilities for filmmakers who want to "dig in," as Schneider puts it, and shoot in a camp-style atmosphere.
"It was good enough for John Ford," he said. "Otherwise you get a bunch of isolationists sitting in their motor homes, and to me that is the enemy of chemistry. I've worked on many different kinds of films and many different kinds of television, and when you are working where everybody's hanging out, it's not just a pa...
He knows of which he speaks. He did just that in his "Dukes of Hazzard" days. ("We were out there in the dirt making that show.") And he did it again for his recently wrapped horror-comedy "Smothered," which he wrote and directed and is now guiding through post-production.
That film was shot largely on the Holden property -- with some scenes shot in downtown Baton Rouge -- and Schneider said the experience offered a welcome respite from the traditional Los Angeles-style studio setup.
"I'm not a studio guy," he said. "'Dukes of Hazzard' was a Warner Brothers (production), and I had enough of that in seven years. ... One of the keys for me has always been, whether it's music or whatever end of entertainment it is, is to kind of dig myself in. I find that a lot of people do that. A lot of people like ...
"My hope is I'll have enough people of the same mind that will enjoy that," he added.
Schneider is also hoping his studio will fill a niche as something of an in-betweener facility. That is, it's envisioned as one that will cater to independent filmmakers who might be unable to afford the far-fancier digs at, say, Celtic Studios in Baton Rouge or Second Line Stages in New Orleans, but who are still seri...
It was while he was scouting Louisiana locations for just such a low-budget production that he came across the Holden property.
"Then we met the most wonderful people," he said. "Maybe it's the power of 'Dukes of Hazzard,' but I was taken in like a family member. And I said, 'Well, why would I come here and make just one movie?'"
Since then, Schneider -- who this week celebrated the birth of his second grandchild -- estimates he spends 90 percent of his time at his Louisiana home.
He's starting to sound like a Louisiana resident, too. In extolling the virtues of his Holden property, he offered a playful shoutout to Crazy Dave's drive-thru daiquiri shop in Livingston and imagined how nice it would be to shoot a film at the Holden site while "having some friends sitting out on the porch somewhere ...
The opening of John Schneider Studios represents the realization of something of a life-long dream for the actor. Even before his breakthrough role on "Dukes of Hazzard" and the subsequent wealth of roles in various TV series and often issues-based films over the years, Schneider says he was a budding director.
"I was a filmmaker before I was Duke boy," he said. "I really was -- Super 8 film and editing on my mom's shag rug. Fifty feet at a time -- that was the biggest a consumer could get -- 50 feet of no sound, color Super 8 film. And I felt more like a filmmaker then until we made 'Smothered.'"
Between them, overhead satellite images and Street View photos tend to provide Google Maps users with a pretty complete picture of an area. But – following in Bing’s footsteps – Google began to offer 45° imagery last year, and today, Google introduced images of ten new areas.
Satellite views of a town are often neat – until you realize it’s hard to recognize places by their rooftops. So Google seems to have made a wise (and possibly Microsoft-inspired) update to Google Maps by releasing what it simply calls "45° imagery."
45° imagery is quite similar to what Microsoft/Bing Maps has termed a "Bird’s Eye" view. Or, in fairness to Google, it’s just what you get when Street View and a top-down view are sort of averaged out.
Facebook has settled charges with the Federal Trade Commission that it deceived users by telling them they could keep their information on Facebook private and then repeatedly making it public, according to the agency.
The settlement of an eight-count complaint requires Facebook to warn users about privacy changes and to get their permission before sharing their information more broadly, according to the FTC. Facebook has agreed to 20 years of privacy audits, it said.
"Facebook is obligated to keep the promises about privacy that it makes to its hundreds of millions of users," Jon Leibowitz, chairman of the FTC, said in a written statement. "Facebook's innovation does not have to come at the expense of consumer privacy. The FTC action will ensure it will not."
In a blog post, Facebook founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook is committed to giving its users "complete control" over what they share and with whom.
"I also understand that many people are just naturally skeptical of what it means for hundreds of millions of people to share so much personal information online, especially using any one service. Even if our record on privacy were perfect, I think many people would still rightfully question how their information was p...
Facebook also has created two new positions to make sure it takes privacy seriously, Zuckerberg said.
Erin Egan, a former partner with Covington & Burling, will become chief privacy officer for policy. Michael Richter, Facebook’s chief privacy counsel, will take on a new role as chief privacy officer for products.
Privacy watchdog Jeff Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, said the settlement shows that Facebook "has long misled users and the public."
But another frequent critic, Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), applauded the settlement.
"The settlement's privacy protections will benefit Facebook users and should serve as a new, higher standard for other companies to follow in their own efforts to protect consumers' privacy online," Markey said in a written statement. "When it comes to its users' privacy, Facebook’s policy should be: ‘Ask for permissio...
The state of Minnesota's biggest cities—Minneapolis and St. Paul— are called the "Twin Cities."
Who's Minneapolis and who's St. Paul?
Well in my opinion it does not matter, because Al Jefferson and Kevin Love are arguably in the top three frontcourts in the NBA.
Because not only do they compliment each other on the court and off the court, but it shows up on the stat sheet.
That's absolutely crazy, and that is directly comparable to elite frontcourts in the NBA. But it was their last game that truly was impressive, and opened my eyes to the Wolves' future.
Al Jefferson's Stat Line: 23 points, 16 rebounds, six assists, and one block on 12-18 from the field.
Kevin Love's Stat Line: 26 points, 14 rebounds, one assist, and one block on 6-12 from the field.
Combined: 49 points, 30 rebounds, seven assists, and two blocks on 18-30 from the field.
Ok, I know the two blocks are not impressive at all, but everything else is incredibly impressive.
Well it means the Wolves will always have some firepower and that Al Jefferson and Kevin Love are going to be hell for other teams.
When you consider that, with injuries, Al Jefferson and Kevin Love have only played in 50 games give or take, the chemistry that the "Twin Cities" have is incredible. A full season together with numbers like these, and the willingness for free agents to sign with Minnesota will increase, which will be great.
Does it start with these two cities and work its way out? Possibly, and with Jonny Flynn, Wayne Ellington, and Corey Brewer the Wolves have a great nucleus to add too.
Horses and other animals aren't inherently adapted to city life, so how do Central Park carriage drivers (and others) train them to live safely in a buzzing metropolis? PM explains.
Last week, just outside of Popular Mechanics' headquarters in midtown Manhattan, a carriage horse named Oreo broke loose of its carriage and began running amok around Columbus Circle near Central Park. The horse injured three people before officers could tranquilize it.
Although horse-drawn carriages are common on the streets and avenues of midtown Manhattan, it's rare to hear about a serious accident involving a carriage and a car. In fact, in the past 30 years, only three horses have died because of car-related collisions in New York, though a series of minor accidents have led some...
All of this brings up the question: Just how do you teach a horse the rules of the road and share it with those loud, exhaust-belching cars?
Stephen Malone, a carriage driver and spokesperson for the Horse and Carriage Association of New York says that most of the horses in the city were raised around cars, people, and roads before ever setting hoof in Manhattan. "The horses mostly come from Amish country [in Pennsylvania]," he says.
The Amish mostly used the horses for long-distance drives on reasonably populated roads, but that doesn't always mean that a horse will take well to city life—it depends a lot upon the horse's personality too.
Malone, for instance, recently made a trip to Pennsylvania to bring back two horses for training in the city. The previous owners warned him that one of the horses was "more spirited" than the other and probably wouldn't take well to working in a metropolis. Malone actually found just the opposite. The calmer horse of ...
Usually, the first few weeks of a horse's life in New York are spent in either in the stables or out for cautious, sometimes passengerless rides around midtown. Malone will take out as many as three other footmen with him when first breaking in a new carriage horse. "I'll have two or three guys on either side of the ho...
John McNally, a Central Park carriage driver, says the rules of the road become deeply ingrained into all of the 68 horses allowed on New York City streets each day and night. After a few weeks of driving passengers in the city and being steered by their driver's reigns, the horses get the hang of stop-and-start city d...
Still, you can't train an animal for everything that it might see in the big city. In Oreo's accident, the horse got spooked after construction workers threw debris from some scaffolding as Oreo and his carriage trotted by. The unfamiliar noise startled the horse and he jackknifed. The driver got down to lead the horse...
But even out on his own, Oreo's training came in handy, Malone says. The horse stopped in a line of cars waiting at a red light, allowing a few bystanders to lead the horse out of traffic and onto the sidewalk.
Can a horse get a ticket? It surely comes as no surprise to cyclists who've been ticketed for traffic violations, but yes, New York treats horse-drawn carriages much the same ways as the cars they share the roads with. The carriage owner is legally liable, as you would be if you rear-ended another car. "We have to pay ...
The police department makes no distinction between what Malone calls incidents and accidents. A horse dropping its carriage and stalling traffic but not injuring anyone is classified as an accident the same way a collision is. "Once they [the horses] are moving, of course you can get ticketed," McNally says. "It is lik...
Of course, this isn't the way it is with animal/car road-sharing around the world; cows famously have the right of way on India's infamously treacherous roads. But generally, the U.S. has strict laws governing how animals used for transport are treated. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is r...
These items don’t necessarily make for a healthier insurance market. Doesn’t matter. Constituents have expressed clearly a desire to keep them, even as Congress jettisons other parts of the law.
Rep. Barry Loudermilk of Georgia puts it this way: When you pour concrete, it quickly begins to set. You can prevent or slow its setting by agitating it, but only those parts you keep moving. Anything else will harden and require a jackhammer to break up.
In this way Obamacare, despite its long record of unpopularity, has altered Americans’ views about health care, and the government’s role in it. So the most interesting question in this debate right now is: What could Republicans do that would have an equally lasting effect?
Having spoken with several Republicans in Georgia’s delegation this week, I’ll offer a couple of suggestions.
First is reintroducing market forces into the individual insurance market. Obamacare sought to establish markets (i.e., the exchanges) while strangling market forces through over-regulation. The result has been a series of predictable failures that threaten to send the exchanges into a death spiral.
Insurers need the latitude to create varied products for consumers and then compete for their business. Obamacare didn’t allow that. The GOP bill needs to re-establish in Americans’ minds the benefits of a freer and more competitive insurance marketplace.

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