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Card downloads your memories before you forget

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

If you tend to forget or neglect to move photo treasures from your digital camera to your computer, an Eye-Fi card should interest you. This clever photo memory card handles that meddlesome task for you -- and now it does ...





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Beware of highway robbers on Wi-Fi

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

As the number of Wi-Fi hot spots grows, travelers might want to heed a word of caution from the Wi-Fi Alliance, a nonprofit industry group that promotes Wi-Fi technology: Think security.


Wi-Fi for travelers becomes Web marketing lure

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created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Google, Yahoo, eBay and Microsoft, competitors on the Web, all have the same idea for marketing themselves this holiday season: temporarily providing free Wi-Fi access in airports, airplanes and public places.


Verizon gives free Wi-Fi to Internet customers

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created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Verizon is giving some of its home broadband customers free access to thousands of Wi-Fi hotspots in airports and other public places, taking a page from competitors that already offer wireless Internet access.


New Wi-Fi technology to let gadgets talk directly

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created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Starting in mid-2010, new versions of gadgets like cameras, cell phones and computers will be able to talk to each other using Wi-Fi without needing to connect to a wireless network first.


T-Mobile gets into the game of laptop connections

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created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

(AP) -- T-Mobile USA is opening up its new cellular broadband network to laptops for the first time, with Wednesday's launch of a USB "dongle" that lets portable computers get wireless Internet access.


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Bluetooth 3.0 Launches April 21

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created Apr 10, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- The short-range wireless standard Bluetooth 3.0 will officially launch on April 21. The Bluetooth 3.0 standard is expected to deliver faster short-range wireless speeds up to 480 Mb per second.


Is neighbor's Wi-Fi signal free for me to use?

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 4

Q. The other day, my Internet service went down as it does from time to time. But this particular time, I needed to check my e-mail for an important reply I was expecting. After some frustrating time passed, I happened to ...


Faster Bluetooth chips coming early next year

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created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The next version of the Bluetooth wireless technology is expected to transfer data 10 times faster than the current incarnation. Gadgets using it could be on the market by early next year.


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British town to offer free wi-fi to all residents

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created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Swindon has become the first place in Britain to offer free wireless Internet access to all its 186,000 residents, in what is thought to be the first such scheme, officials said on Tuesday.


Study: Unlicensed spectrum space worth $100 billion for wireless use

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created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A study commissioned by Microsoft Corp. estimates that the unlicensed "white spaces" spectrum coveted by the software giant and other technology companies could be worth more than $100 billion over the next 15 years.



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