A Better Beacon
November 17, 2014Twocanoes Labs started selling beacons about a year ago, and we just announced our next generation beacon, Bleu Station Beacon Series 200. We have deployed …
Easily Generate an iBeacon UUID on OS X
November 14, 2014The command line on OS X has a lot of power, and you can use it to help with iBeacon configuration. An iBeacon configuration requires …
Numbering & Naming Beacons
November 12, 2014One of the common questions we get is how to select a major and minor number when configuring iBeacons. Apple provides some examples, but really …
Aislelabs iBeacons Battery Life Tests
November 10, 2014The website Aislelabs tested a bunch of battery powered Beacons, and did some good analysis of the chips sets and battery usage of the different …
Managing Printers with iBeacons
November 4, 2014link to video Introduction Printers continue to be a big driver of IT support costs, but iBeacon technology can help reduce help requests and increase …
Is Your Show Ready for iBeacons?
August 28, 2014Expos, trade shows, fairs, and local markets can all take their attendee’s exhibits to the next level with beacons. Mobile applications for events need to …
Retailers can’t afford to get beacons wrong
August 1, 2014Before rolling out proximity-enabled apps, retailers must be ready to execute carefully, ensuring not to annoy customers or violate their privacy. With so much to …
How iBeacons Can Create Dynamic Conferences
July 24, 2014In early July, we helped beacon enable MacAdmins, a large educational Mac administrator conference hosted at Penn State. We saw a great opportunity to use …
Reducing Friction: iBeacons Help Smooth Out Retail Payments
July 14, 2014Not much gets retailers more excited than making it easy for customers to pay. The more barriers store owners can remove from the payment process, …
10 Winclone tips for IT administrators
June 24, 2014You might know that creating a snapshot image of Boot Camp can be done easily or are already familiar with the benefits of migrating Boot …