When the internet service providers supply the router, they aren't always the best for WiFi.
Our router is in the loft (that's how I wired up the house) and from there we have network sockets around the house. So what we've got is 3 WiFi access points covering the rest of the house.
PC world also sell wireless access points that work through electric sockets, they aren't too bad for smaller homes.
Do the test as the brother mentioned with a cable plugged into the router, then do the same with via the WiFi on the phone. Don't do it over data tariff as this will upload and download virtual data and will affect your usage.
The site for speed test is called, speedtest.net and the app is also by the same name for android and iPhone.
Ok no problem, جزاك الله خيرا for the advice, إن شاء الله will contact Sky and change the O2 router to a sky one, and will check speed via cable connection.
Apple asks for sales ban on several Samsung devices
Alex Wagner - Editorial Director of News and Content
PhoneDog
After an appeals court awarded Apple a second chance to get a ban on several Samsung devices in mid-November, Apple yesterday took that opportunity and asked for just such an injunction.
Bloomberg notes that Apple has asked Judge Lucy Koh for a sales ban on over 20 different Samsung phones and tablets, including the Galaxy S 4G and Galaxy Tab 10.1. The Cupertino firm argues that even though Samsung says that it no longer sells the devices that infringe its patents, a ban is still important to Apple because it would help to fight any future patent infringement from Samsung devices that are similar to those that have already been found to infringe. Samsung declined to comment on Apple's request.
Apple and Samsung have been going at it in the court room for quite some time, and while there hasn't been a ton of action lately, the two companies do still occasionally throw a legal punch every now and then. This latest request for an injunction relates to Apple's 2012 trial victory in which a jury determined that Samsung had infringed on the Cupertino firm's patents. While Apple's first attempt to get a ban on the infringing devices failed, an appeals court recently told Apple that it could file another request related to smartphone features like multitouch rather than designs. It'll definitely be interesting to see if Apple is successful in getting a ban on its second go-around.
For those members with a Lamborghini, you can now look forward to buying a matching mobile phone!
Tonino Lamborghini unveils new �2500 handset
The new Lamborghini smartphone will cost �2,500
Sometimes no matter how expensive your car - some people just don't seem to notice how rich you are.
The �2,500 Tonino Lamborghini Antares smartphone may not quite have the spec of a top range sports car - but boasts some seriously flashy body work.
It has all the stylish curves and angles of the car which carries the same name - although this is made by Tonino Lamborghini the lifestyle company, not Automobili Lamborghini.
Tonino CEO Gianluca Filippi said: 'Antares is designed to match instantly recognisable Italian flair with great performance and stunning materials.'
Russia and China will be able to snap up the Android phone first, when it arrives in December.
It will then arrive in Italy, and only come to the Britain and US next Spring.
Six HTC employees are in hot water for allegedly leaking trade secrets
28th Dec 2013 | 00:12
Fines could soar to the millions
Six Taiwanese former employees of HTC have been indicted for allegedly leaking company secrets, among other offenses.
And based on HTC's statements on the matter it doesn't seem these poor scoundrels are going to get off easy.
The charges leveled at the six former HTC employees include revealing company secrets, accepting kickbacks, and creating false expense reports, according to The Wall Street Journal.
HTC's former vice president for product design Thomas Chien and five others are said to have received at least $1.1 million (about �668,000, AU$1.24m) in bribes and fake invoices, but this mess could cost them significantly more than that.
Zero tolerance
The Taipei District Prosecutors Office has also accused the six of leaking the design for an upcoming smartphone interface to suppliers outside of HTC.
Allegedly they were planning to launch their own phone design company using the information.
Recent revisions to Taiwan's Trade Secrets Act ensure that employees found guilty of these offenses can receive up to 10 years in prison and be fined between $100,000 (about �60,000, AU$112,000) and $1.6 million (about �972,000, AU$1.8m).
However, it might be even worse - if they're found to have made more than $1.6 million illegally then the fine can be up to ten times the amount that they did make.
"The company expects employees to observe and practice the highest levels of integrity and ethics," HTC said in a statement.
"Protecting the company's proprietary and intellectual properties, privacy and security is a core fundamental responsibility of every employee. The company does not condone any violation."
Leaked HTC M8 photos give first glimpse of new flagship
7th Nov 2013 | 10:14
All metal, all the time
HTC impressed us to the tune of a five star review with the HTC One, but that's starting to feel like old news and we're anxious to see what the Taiwanese company can cook up next.
The answer to that appears to be the HTC M8. We first heard about it around a week ago, but now we've got some pictures courtesy of Taiwanese site ePrice.
Based on these images it looks as though the HTC M8 will have a similar form factor to the HTC One, with a metal body and a rounded back; however, there are a few differences.
First up there's the fact that there doesn't seem to be any break in the metal along the edges, so instead it's totally wrapped in metal.
Mystery marking
The back of the device is also a bit different as there's what looks like a hole or lens above the main camera lens. It could be a fingerprint sensor, but it's in a rather awkward position for that. One alternative is that it might be another camera lens, though if so it's unclear why HTC would opt for two rear cameras.
The final thing to take away from the images is that while the body mostly looks quite dark it does seem to have a slight blueish hue to it, though whether this will be the final colour of the handset is unknown.
As well as posting these images ePrice is also reporting that the HTC M8 will have a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor, 3GB of RAM, the Sense 6.0 interface and an estimated screen size of 5-5.2 inches.
If those specs are true then, along with the even more metal-icious form factor, HTC's new flagship could actually be a worthy successor to the HTC One.
There was a time when QWERTY keyboards were important, and when smartphones were designed for business users, and not necessarily the rest of us humans. Back then, Windows Mobile had just defeated Palm in market share, and the next frontier was to defeat BlackBerry and Nokia. Now can you believe this all happened just four years ago? Today we take some time to revisit one of the best Windows Mobile smartphones we ever reviewed, the HTC Touch Pro2.
Originally called the HTC Rhodium, this device was the most feature-packed monster you could buy. It's a small device by today's standards, but back then we all found it to be a "commanding device" as someone called it in his unboxing. This device wasn't only powerful, but it had one of the best slide-out QWERTY keyboards of its time, a tilting display, and its version of HTC Sense would bring you experiences you couldn't buy on competing devices.
Make sure you watch this video with as much nostalgia as we had building it, and leave us a comment if you owned one, or wanted to. Tell us what you loved the most about the phone as well.
Two iPods at two different Target stores (both full of erasers?)
A San Diego man says he picked out two different iPods at two different Target stores -- and both had been sabotaged the same way.
A bookie might have given long odds on this one, but here's the tale of Jim Navarde. Or at least the tale he tells.
He says he decided to buy his wife an iPod for Christmas at a San Diego Target store. I wasn't aware people still bought iPods. It seems, though, that they do.
Navarde's wife reportedly didn't appreciate the gift very much, because when she opened the box, she found only erasers and index cards.
As San Diego's CBS 8 reports, Navarde said he was very surprised. The shrink wrap looked genuine. It was merely the contents that were not.
So he took it back to Target -- a different Target store in San Diego, as it happens.
At this Target, they believed his story. They asked Navarde to pick out a new box from the display.
"We get a black one out of the case, bring it up to the front. I tell the lady, you know what, I want you to open it this time, because I don't want to take it home and have it be full of erasers and then you really won't believe me," he told CBS 8.
You really won't believe this, but this iPod box was also allegedly full of erasers -- albeit of different colors. And, well, no iPod.
Dear mathematicians and actuaries, what are the chances that a man would walk into two different Target stores and select two iPod boxes, both of which having their essence erased?
Still, Target says it's investigating this latest apparent attempt to defraud innocent Apple buyers. It gave this statement to ABC7 News: "We take this incident very seriously and worked directly with the guest to resolve the issue and make it right. We are looking into this incident and have no additional information to share."
It's true that some people are fooled by rogues in parking lots, rather than stores -- such as the woman who paid $180 for an iPad made of wood, or the British man who paid $390 for an iPad and got a box of potatoes.
But famed British retailer Tesco sold a man an iPad box that only contained clay. (He was put in jail for a while, as no one believed him.)
Yet again, then, we must iterate the same words of caution: open the box before you leave the store. Some retailers might not be as apparently understanding as the Target in San Diego. Some might want to erase you from their list of good-faith customers.
By Mikey Campbell Apple on Thursday filed a motion to renew its ongoing bid to stop sales of Samsung products found to be infringing on three key utility patents, including the contentious '915 property for pinch-to-zoom functionality.
A slide from the Apple v. Samsung trial
The motion comes after Apple successfully appealed a U.S. district court ruling that threw out a request to ban Samsung products which were found to infringe on Apple utility and design patents by the Apple v. Samsung jury in 2012.
In November, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ordered Judge Lucy Koh to reconsider Apple's case as it pertains to three utility patents for rubber-banding, tap-to-zoom, and pinch-to-zoom UI functions, but reaffirmed the jurist's denial of an injunction based on asserted design patents. As the official mandate for the CAFC's decision was issued on Thursday, Apple immediately filed its motion to renew.
As noted by FOSS Patents' Florian Mueller, Samsung could have stalled the proceedings by petitioning for a rehearing, but chose instead to focus its efforts on more important issues. Indeed, the products in question are now of little to no commercial value after being on the market for nearly two years.
Apple, too, appears to be prioritizing for the coming court battle, as it could have pushed harder for an injunction over its design patents.
Mueller believes the more important task at hand may be defining a standard for a "causal nexus" between infringement and irreparable harm. As applied to Apple's ongoing battle with Samsung, this causal nexus is vital for future injunction bids over asserted patents, like those involved in the two companies' second California court case scheduled to start in March of 2014.
As for the three patents-in-suit, Apple's '915 patent for pinch-to-zoom functionality is perhaps the most contentious as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has repeatedly cast doubt on its validity. In November, a PTO examiner found all claims of the patent invalid. The finding prompted Apple to file a notice of appeal with the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, an action also executed on Thursday.
Apple is requesting the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, headed by Judge Koh, renew injunction proceedings as soon as Jan. 30.
The NSA can intercept your new laptop, say latest leaks
By David Nield December 29, 2013
New reports coming out of Germany's Der Spiegel, based on internal NSA documents, suggest that the agency regularly intercepts new computer hardware to plant wiretapping bugs and malware. Together with the FBI and CIA, the NSA can divert a package to one of its secret workshops in a process known as interdiction.
The work is carried out by the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) unit and can cover anything from an invisible USB implant to a software program that opens a backdoor to a particular network, according to Der Spiegel. The agency can unlock networking hardware from many of the major technology companies in the U.S. and beyond, making use of software hidden in motherboard BIOS code or hard drive firmware.
The reports make no mention of how widespread this practice is, or how the NSA picks its targets - unless you're considered a high risk to national security, it's unlikely that the laptop you unwrapped on Christmas Day had any kind of spying equipment installed in it - but it's another notable revelation in the on-going debate over privacy vs security in the digital age. President Obama is due to make an official statement on the future of the NSA's surveillance methods in January.
The new leaks are part of an extensive Der Spiegel feature on how the NSA and the TAO work. There's also mention of using a private jet to fly "high-tech plumbers" to tap into networks that aren't connected to the Web, and a 50-page spy catalog featuring tools able to tap into almost any system.
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