WhatsApp Free Download and Install On An Android Tablet

The developers of WhatsApp created this application only for smartphones, but it’s not impossible to install it on an Android tablet, if you follow some simple instructions. In this article, we’ll teach you how to install WhatsApp on your Android tablet, using your mobile number.

This is the simplest method, and all you need to do is to download the latest WhatsApp APK from the official website, but before installing it to your tablet, you must enable the Unknown Sources from Settings > Security, because only this way you’ll be allowed to install applications that you download from third party sources and not from the Google Play store. After installing the application, you must uncheck Unknown Sources, then launch WhatsApp and enter your mobile number, but since the tablet doesn’t support a SIM card, you will choose the Call me option. You will be called on your smartphone and a robot will tell you the verification code which you’ll introduce to verify your account. Because the number will be used on your tablet, you won’t be able to install WhatsApp on your smartphone, because this application works only on one device.

If your Android tablet supports SIM cards, then you shouldn’t have any problems with the installation, as you will receive a SMS text with the code, directly on your tablet.

Install WhatsApp on Nexus 7 using BlueStacks

After installing the BlueStacks program, get the latest WhatsApp APK and the SRT AppGuard APK, which is a tool that will allow internet access permissions for WhatsApp. You will need to connect your tablet to a computer and copy the WhatsApp APK and SRT AppGuard APK to your SD card, then right click on the WhatsApp APK file from your PC. Select the option “Open with BlueStarcks APK Installer”, which will add and install WhatsApp to BlueStacks. Then, you will install WhatsApp and SRT AppGuard on your tablet, but don’t launch WhatsApp yet. Open SRT AppGuard and go to the main menu to select Secure a new app, and in the applications list you’ll find WhatsApp. Select it and click on OK.

After that, you will edit the permissions of WhatsApp for your Nexus 7, by going to AppGuard menu, where you’ll select Manage your Secure Apps and then WhatsApp. Disable the Read Phone Status and Identify in the list option, then launch the BlueStacks emulator on your PC. Go to the My Apps menu, double click on the WhatsApp icon, then click on Agree and continue and then you will be required to enter your phone number. Of course, you won’t be able to receive a SMS code and instead, you will be called and you’ll note down the code, which you’ll enter to get verified.

Original News: http://neurogadget.com/2015/08/15/whatsapp-free-download-and-install-on-an-android-tablet/12486

LG launches the mid-range G Pad 2 8.0 tablet in South Korea, specs fail to impress

LG has quietly rolled out a new tablet in its home market of South Korea. The new slab is called the LG G Pad 2 8.0, and, as the name suggests, the tablet is the successor to last year's mid-range LG G Pad 8.0. We know that some would have preferred to see a revamped version of the high-end LG G Pad 8.3 of 2013, but that's not the case just yet.

Compared to its direct predecessor, the LG G Pad 8.0 doesn't bring significant improvements in terms of hardware, which could actually be the reason why the manufacturer decided to unveil the G Pad 2 8.0 without much fanfare. We're talking about specs such as an 8-inch IPS LCD screen with a resolution of 800 by 1200 pixels, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 SoC with a 1.2GHz quad-core CPU, 1.5GB of RAM, 32GB of microSD-expandable internal storage (other versions may be launched with more or less internal storage space), and a 4200mAh battery. 

In the camera department, the LG G Pad 2 8.0 comes with a 5MP primary shooter and the back and a 2MP secondary camera on the front. On the software side, the slab runs Android 5.0 Lollipop, which is a bit surprising given that the newer Android 5.1 Lollipop has been available for a few good months now.

One particularly interesting detail about LG's new mid-range tablet is that it comes with a full-sized USB 2.0 port, which is an uncommon feature for a mid-sized tablet, especially an Android-based one. As one of LG's promotional images show (see them all below), the port can be used to attach an external keyboard or even gaming controllers. At a first glance, the external keyboard might be a more natural fit for the LG G Pad 2.0, seeing that the tablet comes with pre-loaded with MS Word, Excel, and Powerpoint, the holy triad of Microsoft productivity Office apps for Android tablets. Like most productivity-minded tablets, the LG G Pad 2 8.0 also comes with a stylus, one that measures 3.5mm across the waist and is touted to allow for accurate input.

At the moment, the LG G Pad 2 8.0 is only available in South Korea, but given the manufacturer's previous launch patterns, it wouldn't be surprising to see the slab reach more Western markets such as Europe and North America. It also wouldn't be unthinkable for LG to launch a smaller 7-inch version and a larger 10.1-inch versions of the LG G Pad 2 as well. We'll keep you updated with more information as soon as it becomes available.

Original News: http://www.phonearena.com/news/LG-launches-the-mid-range-G-Pad-2-8.0-tablet-in-South-Korea-specs-fail-to-impress_id72684

Bikeshare Hawaii invites public to pick technology

The company is looking at four different systems that are currently used around the globe. Two of the systems, Nextbike and Social Bicycles, utilize technology on the bikes themselves, while two others, Cycloshare and PBSC Urban Solutions, use so-called ‘smart’ docking stations. Bikeshare Hawaii is holding two open houses this month for residents to give each system a try and provide their feedback.

"With a smart kiosk and a bike, all the technology is in the kiosk, not all of it, but most of it,” said Lori McCarney, Bikeshare’s CEO. “With a smart bike, most of the technology is actually on the bike."

The open houses will be held at the Design Center on Sunday, Aug. 23 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., and Wednesday, Aug. 26 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Each visitor will be given a short survey to find out which system they prefer and how they plan on using Bikeshare.

“People can sit on the bikes, touch the bikes and then vote on different things that they like or don't like and let us know what they think," said McCarney.

The nonprofit launched in January 2014 with the help of a $2 million grant from the city and state, but needs to raise another $5 million before the program becomes a reality. 

“We’re looking at different things from donations, sponsorships and even financing to get us going from a capital side,” said McCarney. “Once we’re up and operational, we will be self-sufficient.”

Bikeshare Hawaii will feature 200 docking stations and 2,000 bikes, while covering 7.2 square miles. The initial area of operation will stretch from Diamond Head to Chinatown on the makai side of the H1 Freeway, and include Makiki as well as the University of Hawaii. Kiosks will be placed 800 feet to 900 feet apart, or less than a quarter mile. The expectation is for thousands of rides each and every day.

"Once we get ramped up, we think we can get 5,000 to 10,000 rides on these bikes and try to get them used somewhere between two and five times a day," said Ben Trevino, Bikeshare’s president and COO.

The concept of bike sharing is simple, and has caught on in many large cities in Europe and the U.S. mainland. You check out a bike for a one-way trip, and then give it back when you arrive at your destination. Although you’ll likely need a debit or credit card to participate, the expected price is nearly within anyone’s reach.

"Sixty minutes of ride time, that doesn't expire, for about $7,” said Trevino, “And 500 minutes of ride time, that also doesn't expire, for $25 dollars."

Bikeshare Hawaii also anticipates offering monthly rates to local residents for either $15 or $25 depending on the plan. Anyone who rents a bike on a daily rate will be allowed to rollover unused minutes during their next trip.

“We’ve talked to other people in this industry and not all the systems do it that way, but that’s the direction that people really wish they can go,” said Trevino. “We’re going to try it out because we think it’s the best.”

Original News: http://www.kitv.com/news/Bikeshare-Hawaii-invites-public-to-pick-technology/34733366    

Abusers use technology to stalk victims, police say

HASTINGS, Minn. - Inside the Dakota County Sheriff's Office, the new digital forensic task force is working to stop a disturbing trend in stalking and domestic abuse cases.

Investigators say abusers, mostly men, are using technology to stalk their victims.

"It's kind of a creep factor, for all of us," said Sheriff Tim Leslie. "And much of it is unknown to the society and the public."

The most recent example comes from Apple Valley last month, when Apple Valley Police and the new forensics unit caught Michael Condon Jr. in the act, according to court records.

Police were tracking him after a woman he was in a relationship with filed an order of protection against him.

Documents allege, Condon repeatedly violated that order, even buying a "GPS mobile tracker and weather proof case". Investigators believe he was going to use it on his ex's vehicle, saying in a search warrant it's "a device that can be installed on vehicles to covertly track their location."

"We've really seen an increase in cases where abusers are using technology," said Ann Sheridan with advocacy group 360 Communities in Dakota County.

Sheridan is the Director of Violence Prevention and Intervention for non-profit group. She says she and her staff see victims come in for help on a regular basis, saying their abusers used smart phones or other technology to track them.

"Definitely within the last year, it's been at least one a day," she said.

Which is why she's glad to see the new forensics unit in Dakota County working to stop the abuse before it happens.

"So we focus on those small violations to prevent it from getting worse," said Leslie.

The task force has six people working in it, some of whom are from area police departments within the county, including Apple Valley

Apple Valley Police did not want to comment on the Condon case, but said the department is better equipped to combat this problem.

After the order of protection was filed, Apple Valley Police got a warrant to put a GPS tracker on Condon's car, according to a criminal complaint. But when a detective realized the tracker had been removed four days later, "the detective asked for extra patrols around the victim's residence and contacted the victim to advise her of the situation."

The complaint also alleges when a police officer drove to the victim's house, the officer noticed Condon driving nearby and pulled him over after he did not use a turn signal and his brake light was out. The charges say he was only 382 feet from the victim's home, at which point Condon was arrested.

Condon is in jail. KARE 11 tried to find and contact his attorney for comment, but was not successful.

Original News: http://www.kare11.com/story/news/local/2015/08/14/abusers-use-technology-to-stalk-victims-police-say/31747405/

Schools taking technology to the next level

Several area school corporations already have initiated one-to-one technology in their districts, and in some cases are moving forward to the next level.

Tri-Creek Superintendent Debra Howe said the School Board made technology and project-based learning a priority several years ago.

In 2012, Lowell High School and Lowell Middle School began a one-to-one laptop program that has grown to encompass a take home program for more than 2,000 students in grades 6-12. Every student at Lowell High School and Lowell Middle School is issued a MacBook Air laptop to maximize opportunities for creativity and collaboration.

The Educational Technology Department also supports the growth of online and blended learning in the classroom in order to prepare students for their future where anywhere, anytime learning is the norm.

"Since implementation of the one-to one laptop initiative and adoption of the New Tech project-based instructional framework, the district has realized an increase in dual college credits, number of students engaged in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) and career and technical courses," she said.

She said the graduation rate has gone up 8 percentage points to 96 percent.

Howe said the 2015-16 school year will provide students the opportunity to take high school courses such as bio-medical, computer science, aerospace and digital media design.

Tri-Creek teachers are excited about the prospect and participated in training throughout the summer.

Bill Holland, a Lowell Middle School seventh-grade math teacher, said technology helps students see how what they learn connects with the real world.

"Our goal is to get them engaged in their own learning so they understand that everything has a purpose," he said.

Lowell High School junior Nathan Archer, 16, was one of half dozen students helping out in the technology department this summer with district director of educational technology Jay Blackmon. The teens formatted the computers and prepared them for the fall.

Purdue University North Central professor David Pratt said it's important to have a model or guideline as schools integrate the use of technology in the classroom.

"Technology has to be used to transform learning," he said. "As teachers integrate technology, they have to think of it as a substitution for the way things are currently being taught. Use technology to augment, modify or redesign what teachers do in the classroom."

Pratt said he likes the move to one-to-one technology because it gets away from "let's all go to the computer lab" -- something not necessarily connected to the classroom content. Pratt, who teaches education technology to education majors at PNC in Westville, said technology is now being seen as integral to the classroom.

East Chicago Superintendent Youssef Yomtoob and technology director Mary Jensen said curriculum will drive the use of technology.

"We had challenges in our one-to-one take-home program previously," Jensen said. "We are close to one-to-one in the high school. We have made sure that every student has access to a computer. We also have multiple computer labs in the building to augment instruction."

Munster Superintendent Jeff Hendrix said the district constantly researches and reviews new advances in technology, but like most school districts, there is not adequate funding available to pursue some of the new technologies.

"We piloted the bring-your-own devices this summer with success," he said. "We hope to incorporate this practice in the next two years."

Hobart Superintendent Peggy Buffington said the district will be one-to-one this school year, along with a new student information system.   

In Crown Point, some parents say they are excited to see the the take-home tablet program expanding to the younger grades this fall. Teachers worked on accompanying curriculum last school year to integrate the use of the tablets with state standards. Some elementary-aged students will receive a tablet to take home.

Hebron Superintendent Nathan Kleefisch said when he became superintendent last fall, there was one-to-one technology in grades 8-12. This school year every students in middle and high school will have a laptop. Last year, students eighth-graders had Dell computers and the high school had new Chrome books.

"This year, we bought 200 new Chrome books and students in grade 7-12 will use them," he said. "The sixth-graders will get the Dell books. The purpose of this is so that students in grades 7-12 are acclimated to the same type of technology."

Porter Township Superintendent Stacey Schmidt said they are in the third year of the one-to-one initiative at Boone Grove High School, and will roll out a one-to-one initiative for grades 4-8 this month.

"We will roll out a device for each student in grades K-3 during the first semester," she said.

Original News: http://www.nwitimes.com/news/schools-taking-technology-to-the-next-level/article_c0a5166e-5949-514f-a39a-0f4f89e8c514.html

Could new technology solve the Gardner heist?

The recent discovery of old surveillance footage that energized the investigation into the 1990 Gardner Museum heist has private investigators and analysts questioning how technological advancements can further be utilized to help solve Boston’s last great mystery.

“Technology is really changing the way this case is being handled,” said Chris Marinello, an attorney for the Art Loss Register of London, which maintains an international database of more than 360,000 stolen, looted, or missing works, including 1,000 from Massachusetts.

Marinello, who has monitored the Gardner investigation, said technological advancements, such as facial recognition, video enhancement, and fingerprint and DNA analysis — and the development of online databases like his own — may be the tools needed to finally solve the world’s greatest unsolved art theft.

The point was crystallized last week when law enforcement officials publicly released never-before-seen video from the museum’s security system. It sparked an Internet frenzy as people sought to enhance the video and identify an unknown man whom a guard had let into the museum 24 hours before the robbery, in violation of security protocol and under questionable circumstances.

Analysts, some with old ties to the Gardner probe, question whether new technology can or has been used to examine pieces of original evidence in the case, such as the duct tape used to tie down the guards on duty that night and the handcuffs placed on them.

“Any of the original items that were seized at the time of the crime could be retested with better technology now, so that could be one area where they could make some progress,” said Brian Kelly, a lawyer with Nixon Peabody and the former head of the public corruption unit in the US attorney’s office, who oversaw the Gardner investigation.

Any strategy to raise public awareness of the artworks, Kelly said, can aid in the investigation, noting it was a public tip that led to the arrest and ultimate conviction in 2013 of notorious gangster James “Whitey” Bulger.

“Certainly, keeping it in the news is helpful because it does lead to tips, and at some point they will get lucky,” Kelly said. “They just have to get lucky once.”

Kristen Setera, a spokeswoman for the Boston office of the FBI, said she could not say whether any of the evidence from the night of the robbery has been tested with new technology, citing the sensitivity of the ongoing investigation.

She said, however, that authorities received more than 40 tips related to last week’s release of the surveillance footage, and investigators “are working diligently to vet them all.”

The release of the video pumped new vigor into the decades-old investigation, which has long stymied law enforcement officials.

Two men posting as police officers entered the museum just after 1 a.m. on March 18, 1990, saying they were responding to a disturbance. After they tied up the guards, they made off with 13 works, including a Vermeer, a Manet, and three Rembrandts, one of them his only seascape, “The Storm on the Sea of Galilee.”

No one was ever charged, and the museum has offered a $5 million reward for the return of the works of art. US Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz said she would consider granting immunity to anyone who has the paintings in exchange for their return.

“The issue now is maybe convincing someone to take the reward money that’s on the table,” said Thomas Shamshak, a private investigator and a former police detective and chief in several towns in Massachusetts, who has followed the case.

Recently, attention again turned to an aging Connecticut mobster whom authorities suspect has information about the location of the paintings that he is withholding. Officials said in court records filed last week that reputed Philadelphia Mafia soldier Robert Gentile has lied about the paintings. He claimed to a cooperating witness in 2010 that he had access to two paintings and wanted to sell them, though Gentile has told authorities he did not know the location of the paintings. He failed lie detector tests.

Attention in the past week also turned to former Gardner guard Richard Abath, who let the two police officers into the museum the night of the robbery.

Abath has denied any wrongdoing, but the museum footage released last week shows him letting an unidentified man into the museum the night before the heist — leading authorities to question whether it was a dry run of the robbery. He never disclosed that he let anyone into the museum under such circumstances.

Abath, now in his late 40s and living in Brattleboro, Vt., could not be reached for comment despite numerous attempts to get in touch with him. He has told authorities he has no recollection of the encounter and cannot identify the man in the video.

The former guard chronicled the theft in his college theses in 2010 for a creative nonfiction writing program, which was obtained this week by The Boston Globe.

In it, he writes that he was surprised when FBI agents approached him 18 years after the theft, saying they evidently never discounted him as a suspect.

He said at that time that he was considering writing a book because, “I wonder if some detail that I don’t know is important might turn out to be very important.”

Original News: https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/08/14/gardner/V7uMuEaVaFErn23J5hHfJO/story.html

FIS to acquire financial software company SunGard

FIS, the provider of banking and payments technology solutions that is also a consulting and outsourcing solutions company, has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Wayne, Pennsylvania-based SunGard. Upon closing, FIS will be positioned to offer a broad range of enterprise banking and capital markets capabilities to empower financial institutions and businesses worldwide.
Under the terms of the agreement, FIS will acquire 100 percent of the equity of SunGard. FIS will issue a combination of cash and stock valuing the company at an unaffected enterprise value of $9.1 billion, including the assumption of SunGard debt, which FIS expects to refinance. The combined company will have over $9.2 billion in annual revenues.

FIS and SunGard have complementary technology solutions and services encompassing retail and corporate banking, payments, risk management, asset solutions and insurance. The combined company will have more than 55,000 employees and support thousands of clients in over 100 countries worldwide.

“This is a significant milestone for FIS,” stated Gary Norcross, president and chief executive officer, FIS. “By bringing together two innovative companies with common business models, similar cultures, strong leadership and complementary solutions, we are enhancing our ability to empower our clients and deepen client relationships through an expanded full-service offering. Our focus has always been on championing the needs of our clients and we are excited about the opportunities this combination provides to further deliver on that commitment.”

SunGard is a financial software company with annual revenue of $2.8 billion. The company’s 13,000 employees provide solutions for financial services, the public sector and education. Its software solutions are delivered via hosted or on premise deployments and are surrounded by a suite of service offerings.

Commenting on the transaction, Russ Fradin, SunGard president and chief executive officer said, “Our focus has always been on delivering more value to our clients and making decisions that achieve our growth and performance objectives. We are proud to become part of one of the financial services industry’s most respected and solidly performing companies. We embrace this transaction and believe it is the best outcome for our employees and the clients we are dedicated to serving.”

The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions. FIS expects the transaction to close during the fourth quarter.

BofA Merrill Lynch and Centerview Partners LLC acted as financial advisors to FIS. Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP served as FIS’ legal advisors in the transaction. Goldman Sachs & Co., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Barclays, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and Credit Suisse acted as financial advisors to SunGard. Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Shearman & Sterling served as SunGard’s legal advisors in the transaction.

Original News: http://www.firstpost.com/business/fis-acquire-financial-software-company-sungard-2392310.html