Tag: wi-fi
3 mobile busting out mobile routers for home networking
Seeing as everyone’s been going a bit crazy for the whole wireless USB broadband dongle scene, 3 has decided to up its ‘offering’ – by adding a home router to its wireless broadband range.
It’s all because a few extremely forward-thinking people are using their 3 dongles to totally replace their home broadband connection. So, kindly old 3, wants to make it easier on everyone by releasing a combined router/dongle that’ll let us use laptops, PSPs…
Coffee Republic offers "free" Wi-Fi, so long as you remain caffeinated
Coffee Republic claims that it’s the UK’s first coffee chain to offer free Wi-Fi Internet access to its customers — the emphasis being on customers.
Forget about squatting outside one of their outlets and sneaking free Net time, because you have to buy something from them first…
Sagem launches mydu@l radio700 Wi-Fi Internet radio
Sagem has announced their latest product, the mydu@l radio700 Wi-Fi enabled Internet radio and clock.
Seeing past the funky use of obscure punctuation for a moment, the unit features access to around 7000 radio stations, favourite lists, plus FM radio with RDS, streaming access to music stored on a PC or connected USB key, connection via either WI-Fi or Ethernet, digital alarm clock with sleep and snooze functions, and remote control unit…
Roberts STREAM 202 offers portable DAB, FM and Internet radio
Roberts has announced its STREAM 202 portable radio, claiming a world first with a unit that offers DAB, FM, and Internet radio via Wi-Fi.
As well as the usual features you’d expect with a DAB and traditional FM radio, the Wi-Fi component means that you can benefit from Internet radio, including services such as the BBC’s “Listen Again”…
Goodmans launches Wi-Fi enabled, internet radio playing, iPod docking, media streaming ÜBER alarm clock
Goodmans has just launched a clock radio alarm to end all clock radio alarms – the GWF101IP…
Think PC hacking is bad? How about heart hacking… wirelessly?
Computers have been open to hacking attacks for years now, but most people generally think of the PC sitting on their desk, or a supercomputer tucked away in a bank vault, or cybercriminals hacking in to the Pentagon…
How about hacking medical devices designed to regulate a heartbeat?
Computer security researchers in the US found that it was possible to “hack” a Medtronic’s Maximo combination defibrillator and pacemaker, by placing it within two inches of some very expensive ($30,000 worth of) lab equipment and reprogramming it to either shut down or to deliver fatal jolts of electricity…
Wi-Fi hotspots are "telephone boxes of the broadband era" claims Ericsson exec
Mobile broadband offerings are growing at such a rapid pace, and becoming affordable enough to make Wi-Fi hotspots irrelevant, according to Ericsson’s Chief Marketing Officer, Johan Bergendahl.
“Hotspots at places like Starbucks are becoming the telephone boxes of the broadband era,” he claimed at a recent conference in Stockholm.
Quite a different viewpoint from the likes of Apple, then, whose latest offerings — the iPhone and MacBook Air — rely heavily on the availability of Wi-Fi to perform at their best…
VIDEO: Can you work from in the garden?
It’s the dream. The ultimate fantasy for the home-worker. Working from the garden! But is it possible? Are humans ready to emerge blinking from the office or home and work productively from our gardens?
With summer on the way, I thought I’d continue my investigative home working video series and try to find out IF you can work from in the garden. So, can you? Work? From in the garden?
Asus milking its little white cow – Eee PC accessories flood in
Asus has just announced a whole pile of Eee PC upgrades at CeBIT 2008, proving the law that successful thing = masses of add-ons.
Including, the Eee PC Ai Guru U1 VoIP phone, the Eee PC Eee AP 802.11b/g wireless access point, the Eee PC 3.5G HSDPA Card so you can get hammered by roaming fees wherever you may be in the world, and the the Eee PC DVD-RW drive for when you’ve filled the little solid-state hard drive to bursting…
MWC 2008: Motorola's heart not in it – the Z6w, W161 and W181 wouldn't even impress the catering staff
After making such a vast loss in the mobile part of its business last year, you might’ve expected Motorola to come out KICKING and possibly SCREAMING at this year’s Mobile World Congress 2008 show. But no.
It revealed the wi-fi-enhanced Z6W, which is an upgraded version of the Z6M. That’s the one on the left.