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by gautam on February 10, 2010
Some good news from the world of wireless technology - very soon TransferJet will start making its presence felt in Sony gadgets. This technology developed by Sony enables wireless data transfer betwe...
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by gautam on January 28, 2010
Elderly people and those having severe eye problems now won't have to depend on others for reading out their daily newspapers and letters nor would they need to invest in expensive magnification m...
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by gautam on January 26, 2010
You are sort of person who loves droplets of rain and its not necessary that you might even like measuring it but there are some people who would definitely like to gauge the amount of rainfall fallin...
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by gautam on January 15, 2010
You guys know IPEVO, the people behind a range of VoIP devices. Now they have gone ahead and launched Tubular, a set of wireless speakers which you can carry along anywhere minus the messy wires. Thes...
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by Rom Feria on September 30, 2008
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With video-streaming from mobile phones and other data-intensive applications, such as push-technology, 3D gaming, etc., the mobile telecommunications infrastructure...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on May 28, 2008
One of my pals on Twitter ran across a particularly good deal for Boingo, which provides access on over 40,000 wifi hotspots in the U.S. and Canada alone! Counting all the international locations, it&...
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by Rom Feria on April 30, 2008
I talked about using PLDT WeRoam 3G Prepaid services but I did not mention how you can manage your account. One click away from the main PLDT WeRoam site, there is a service that allows you to query...
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by Rom Feria on April 30, 2008
April and May signal the summer term for the Philippines and rest assured, most people are either overseas on vacation or just spending time on the beach in some province. To the road warrior, there...
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by Rom Feria on March 13, 2008
Sierra Wireless just announced the smallest USB EV-DO modem available in the market today. The Sierra Wireless Compass 597 USB Modem boasts of a 3.1Mbps download and 1.8Mbps upload speeds with a micr...
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by Rom Feria on February 16, 2008
Yesterday, I was walking in the mall with my youngest son and discovered that McDonald's in one of the new malls in Quezon City, Philippines, now provides free wifi access. I did not try it beca...
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by Rom Feria on February 16, 2008
To those who love Starbucks, this may be good news to you. Starbucks moves away from T-Mobile and shifts to AT&T, as reported in Computerworld. What does this mean to road-warriors?
The deal w...
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by Rom Feria on February 9, 2008
Whilst we are all waiting for the iPhone to support 3G, I am sure that some of us still have another 3G-enabled device for those times when we need to whip out a phone and surf. In my case, I have the...
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by Rom Feria on February 1, 2008
ArsTechnica reports what security researcher, Robert Graham, discovered whilst using Google Mail.
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by Rom Feria on January 4, 2008
Where Earthlink fails, Meraki may just succeed - this is to envelope the entire San Francisco with affordable wifi access.
Whilst wireless mesh technology is really awesome (see XO Laptop), I am cu...
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by Elwyn Jenkins on November 7, 2007
To no one's surprise another municipal wifi project is on the back burner. Really we must ask, having seen yet another and another project on the back burner, do cities value Internet access just ...
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by Elwyn Jenkins on November 3, 2007
I live in an area just outside the reach of local wifi hotspots. To get reception I used to have to take my laptop and sit at the letterbox at the front of the house. Now with PePWave Surf I can now r...
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by Elwyn Jenkins on October 27, 2007
It seems that there is hardly any network that was proposed that is not undergoing change in vision or simply being railroaded off the radar. And here again it is now St Louis' turn to be disappoi...
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by Elwyn Jenkins on October 24, 2007
Of all the municipal wifi projects there seems to be none that have a business plan that looks anywhere near what is needed to run a wifi network across an entire city.
That is until the Burbank Wate...
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by Elwyn Jenkins on October 20, 2007
Recent information suggests that if you run a wi-fi hotspot secured by a "WEP" password it is not really that secure at all.
According to technicians, the older WEP password can be hacked ...
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by Elwyn Jenkins on October 11, 2007
Every time I go to Starbucks I am tempted to get out my laptop and do some web browsing, work or other something on my computer. I always know that at Starbucks I can get good quality/speed wi-fi. But...
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by Elwyn Jenkins on October 5, 2007
In the UK, BT has closed a deal with Fon (provider of hotspots throughout UK totalling about 7,000 presently). It seems that all BT broadband customers will be able to access all Fon hotspots for free...
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by Elwyn Jenkins on October 2, 2007
With the failure of municipal wi-fi projects it seems like WiMax is set to upstage the idea of wi-fi hotspots.
Sprint is building a new infrastructure and standard for connecting to the Internet. Wi...
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by Elwyn Jenkins on September 23, 2007
ZegnaSport has come up with the ultimate wireless recharging system, recharge your cellphone using the solar powered recharger on your Zegna sports jacket collar.
Set to be released in northern summ...
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by Elwyn Jenkins on September 19, 2007
Today I had an appointment to meet a business associate in a local coffee shop. Now I have known all along that there are wifi hotspots in places like Starbucks, McDonalds, and many hotels but I was n...
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by Elwyn Jenkins on September 14, 2007
With the production of routers capable of using the new faster 802.11n protocol mean that in office settings we will no longer need to connect to the local network tethered to a wire ethernet system?
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by Elwyn Jenkins on September 9, 2007
Since 2003 there have been many promises of wi-fi enabling trains. Virgin in 2003 promised that by the end of that year passenger trains would be wi-fi enabled. In 2004 many other British travelers we...
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by Elwyn Jenkins on September 7, 2007
If you are looking for a new wireless mouse - a must have in my book - you should look at Logitech's newest and best wireless mouse.
The tiny USB receiver that comes with the mouse is tiny - sma...
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by Elwyn Jenkins on August 31, 2007
Great plans they were, the objective to give everyone in a city free wifi. The plan to provide citizens with free connection to the Internet via wi-fi blanket coverage of a city can be likened to a ci...
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by Elwyn Jenkins on August 2, 2007
A very interesting five minutes showing you just how simple it can be for anyone to use your wireless network and see exactly everything you are doing online.
The video shows a group of people setu...
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by Elwyn Jenkins on August 1, 2007
Engadget reports that Powermat Ltd is freeing your laptop from its power source. The idea (pictured) is that there is a powermat in the middle of a conference table and laptops connected to a little d...
