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Well, we haven't heard anything interesting from Archos for quite some time now, but it would really seem that things are about to change dramatically, as the company has just introduced a whole new family of products, dubbed Internet Media Tablets. While the name is a bit vague, the truth of the matter is that ... |
20 August 2008
02:54 GMT |
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The already announced launch of the new Zen X-Fi PMP from Creative is finally getting official. The new PMP will come in two versions, one WiFi and the other non WiFi, featuring 16 and 32GB for the former, while only 8GB for the latter. Still, it seems that the Zen X-Fi will only be available for the APAC region at t... |
10 July 2008
06:32 GMT |
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Creative Labs is getting closer to the day it will introduce the new Zen X-Fi; it will be added to its Zen series of portable media players. The new player has a few more features than the rest of the series, making it somehow different. It includes Creative's X-Fi technology, but also has WiFi and support for i... |
30 June 2008
03:45 GMT |
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WeFi, a company headquartered in the US and Tel Aviv (Israel), is planning to create a global map of wireless hot spots which will be used as reference for community members who need to access the Internet on the go. More than that, WeFi is offering free software for laptop and handset users that can enhance their de... |
19 April 2008
11:07 GMT |
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If you're looking for a "no fuss" kind of digital photo frame, this one might actually be a decent choice. RealEase has just introduced the world's first touch-screen WiFi-integrated digital picture frame. The Shogo touch screen digital frame uses an integrated battery, which translates into no more wires f... |
11 January 2008
07:01 GMT |
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If you were thinking of getting one of the fancy Amazon's wireless reading devices, you'd better think again. Apparently, Philippe Starck's remarks (" Kindle is almost modern", "its interface just wasn't well done") haven't affected its popularity that much. Amazon announced Kindle as being t... |
27 December 2007
15:06 GMT |
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I must admit this 22-year-old man from Queensland found one of the smartest ideas to remain anonymous while conducting illegal activities on the web: he used a handheld device to infiltrate into unprotected wireless networks and connected to the web using the owner's details. This way, he could launch any attack... |
11 December 2007
03:29 GMT |
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Since I first saw this, I just couldn't take my mind of it. It really goes beyond any PMP experience you could have. The gadget I am telling you about belongs to i-Station and was named U43. It seems to be the iPhone model of PMPs, as it's kinda big for a media player, but still black and irresistible. Howe... |
4 December 2007
15:06 GMT |
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Orange just partnered with The Cloud in order to benefit from the company's huge network of WiFi hotspots across the UK. This should expand Orange's coverage for this service and result in better services for this operator's subscribers.The Cloud is one of the UK's widest WiFi networks, which mean... |
21 November 2007
06:03 GMT |
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As Internet radios are more popular than ever nowadays, the demand for portable radios that can access the Internet via Wi-Fi and tune into the user's favorite radio stations has seriously increased. However, since most users are not willing to pay some huge amounts of money for such an item, the people over at ... |
15 November 2007
03:21 GMT |
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Archos celebrates in its own way 30 years since Charlie Chaplin died. And since there is no better way to do it, the giant French electronic company has prepared a limited edition of one of its best seller items, the 605 portable media player.The limited edition is going to celebrate Charlie Chaplin, and of course it... |
30 October 2007
11:20 GMT |
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Sony Ericsson P1i continues the P series which started with the P800 model 5 years ago, in 2002. That's a very long time and I personally would've expected to see more P models available on the market - but maybe less but better is more appropriate for SE's marketing strategy. It seems that P1i suddenl... |
22 October 2007
08:45 GMT |
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Ubiquiti just announced the launch of a new wireless computer hardware device that is aimed at providing a viable and affordable replacement for today's wireless networking solutions. Available commercially under the XtremeRange 7 name, the new Ubiquiti product is using the patented technology from the same comp... |
10 October 2007
10:59 GMT |
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A way to take over a Mac has been disclosed a year ago, but published only this month after a non-disclosure agreement has ended. Many of you are curious about how a Mac can get hacked, so let me say it briefly: in 2006, at a black-hat conference in Las Vegas, David Maynor showed that Apple's machines could be t... |
19 September 2007
06:13 GMT |
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Good news for Archos fans. The company's Generation 5 players are now available worldwide. Archos, finally decided to unleash all its versions. Since I guess you already know the 605 and 405 had been recently sent to the Stateside, to compete with some of the heaviest names in the electronics industry, this news... |
14 September 2007
08:56 GMT |
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VoIP communications (and especially the Skype service, which was among the first to popularize voice over Internet protocol calls) have become extremely popular over the past few years, simply because they allow users to make voice calls at very long distances and for very low fees (or even for free, in some cases). ... |
27 August 2007
07:46 GMT |
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Looks like the people over at Venzero have been on quite a roll lately. Thus, after releasing only a few days ago their FREQ model, the company has decided to also address the increasingly important issue of Internet radio stations' reception and launched at IFA 2007 yet another advanced portable media player, t... |
24 August 2007
07:41 GMT |
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Wireless standards are coming and going at an annual rate, as the 802.11n standard gets some more market acceptance, the "Draft n" of the standard being ratified. Because the new standard comes with a few new features, almost all wireless hardware manufacturers from Intel to the white box vendors are interested in th... |
23 August 2007
11:51 GMT |
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Ralink Technology announced the launch of the RT2700 802.11n 1T2R, the shorthand for one transmit, two receive, chipset that comes packed as a mini add-on card compatible with the new PCIe 1x expansion slot. Because of its compliance with the PCIe standard, the mini expansion card can be used on both mobile computing... |
23 August 2007
03:22 GMT |
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hField Technologies company claims that it discovered a way to boost wireless Internet signal in those areas that receive a poor quality WiFi service. According to the manufacturing company, the Wi-Fire USB Booster can increase and expand the wireless signal for over 300 meters. The range offered by the signal booste... |
17 August 2007
04:18 GMT |
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Intel and its partners in this venture, the carriers Sprint Nextel and Clearwire, plan to push ahead the WiMax technology as an alternative broadband solution to traditional 3G cell phone networks, hoping that one day, it will be as popular as Wi-Fi is today. 2008 is the year chosen for the adoption of WiMax as the n... |
2 August 2007
06:02 GMT |
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The Irish Company free-hotspot.com has announced that by the end of the year 2007 the number of hotspots installed in Romania will be double. At present, free-hotspot.com has managed to open over 100 wireless Internet points of access in various Romanian cities. Thanks to these hotspots, the users can benefit from a ... |
27 July 2007
11:35 GMT |
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Mobile phone sales have registered a drop of more than 10 percent in the first quarter of this year, according to Infonetics Research. The future looks bright, though, as the smartphone market is developing and WiFi phone sales are expected to reach $145 billion by year 2010.On a long term, handset sales are set for ... |
26 July 2007
08:39 GMT |
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Golden Telecom, Nokia and Betalink have announced yesterday a new joint project named "Call via Golden Wi-Fi" and based on VoIP technology. If you're buying the Nokia E65 multi-functional business smartphone between July 15 and October 15 from Betalink stores in Moscow, you will get as a gift a free access card... |
17 July 2007
08:40 GMT |
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Nokia N800 Internet Tablet will bring what the Web and mobile phones have best to offer. Skype will be available from now on wherever there is a WiFi connection for placing VoIP calls.Skype has proved to be a great success for PC users everywhere. Nokia now enables people to take this experience one step further and ... |
11 July 2007
04:52 GMT |
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"Vodafone Connect Abroad" is the new service that Vodafone brings to all its subscribers from now on. The roaming data plan is one highly convenient both for the British company and its subscribers too.Vodafone will drop its laptop data roaming prices to 12 euro per day. This comes in the context of continuous effort... |
2 July 2007
05:11 GMT |
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Wireless networks represent the future of communications, and this is the reason why researchers and engineers across the world are trying to push the limits of said networks to the max, in order to be able to reach city-wide and even larger ranges. And the latest record in this area belongs to the Venezuelan researc... |
19 June 2007
07:46 GMT |
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Citywide Wi-Fi access is still a far-away dream for most of us, although some companies in the US are working hard to create the first networks of this magnitude. However, neighborhood-wide Wi-Fi networks are a much more tangible concept and the setup of such a network might become even easier on the future, as a com... |
5 June 2007
01:41 GMT |
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You're in town and you have your Wi-Fi enabled laptop with you. You known there's a hotspot around, but you don't know exactly where and you desperately need the connection. You can't walk around with the laptop turned on searching for the network. Even if you could do that, it's likely you&#... |
24 May 2007
04:55 GMT |
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US' fourth largest wireless carrier T-Mobile has announced that it is planning a national launch, during this summer, of mobile phones with WiFi that can be used on hotspots to carry calls over the web. One of the things the carrier in aiming to improve by introducing the new phones is the indoor reception. The ... |
3 May 2007
02:37 GMT |
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After twelve months of development and testing, Europe's most advanced outdoor WiFi network is set to launch today across the entire City of London - the famous Square Mile, giving more than 350,000 people who work in and visit the area wireless broadband access. The network has been built and is operated by wir... |
23 April 2007
09:34 GMT |
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Passengers who travel on the Stagecoach Group service between Central London and Oxford will be provided with email and web access at speeds of up to 1.4Mbps, due to Moovera's mobile WiFI equipment and Vodafone's 3G broadband network, now covering 80 percent of the UK's population. Throughout a three m... |
23 April 2007
04:21 GMT |
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While WiFi phones could in fact completely replace regular mobile phones, users aren't that excited with this idea just yet. Respondents that participated in a survey regarding WiFi phones and communication devices had only a lukewarm response to the concept. Most of them were slightly interested in WiFi-only mo... |
18 April 2007
10:51 GMT |
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Motorola announced that the City of Kissimmee, Florida, has deployed its HotZone Duo and Mesh Enabled Architecture (MEA) networks for municipal wireless connectivity. The two-tier wireless system will be paid for by a partnership between the Kissimmee Utility Authority (KUA), the City of Kissimmee and the Toho Water... |
24 March 2007
12:15 GMT |
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Kyocera Wireless, one of the leading global suppliers of CDMA wireless devices and accessories, and PCTEL Inc., announced this week their collaboration on a Voice Call Continuity (VCC) solution for dual-mode Wi-Fi/CDMA handsets. The solution, which incorporates PCTEL's Roaming Client - Voice Enabled (VE), is bei... |
23 March 2007
10:22 GMT |
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Sagem (France) is one of the world's best-known companies when it comes to what they are producing in the communication industry, be those products smartphones, faxes, comm terminals or whatever you might think of.Now it looks like Sagem is willing to make a step towards home electronics with the new device inti... |
23 March 2007
08:10 GMT |
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AnyDATA announced the release of AWR-600, a WiFi router that offers broadband HSDPA access. Measuring 155 x 28 x 120 mm, the device features two antennas - one for the local WiFi network and one for the Wideband CDMA network.The AWR-600 router offers a secure WiFi local network with data exchange rates of 54 Mbps usi... |
12 March 2007
09:53 GMT |
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Panasonic has presented the KX-WP1050 WiFi phone that can be used with Skype, and allows users to enjoy incredible cost saving and at the same time a regular phone. When it comes to design, users might have learned not to expect much from WiFi phones that are usually brick-like. This Panasonic makes no exception and ... |
6 March 2007
03:13 GMT |
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NEC Unified Solutions, recently announced the release of the UNIVERGE Mobile Client, an enhanced applications that extends desktop telephony and messaging functionality to mobile devices and incorporates wireless LAN and cellular into a customized, user-friendly mobile format. As an addition to NEC's Assured Mob... |
5 March 2007
10:07 GMT |
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Heartland Communications has been named an authorized US distributor of Altai Technologies' WiFi cellular base station, a new generation of metropolitan wireless broadband products based on smart antenna technology. Altai Technologies' A8 base station provides a larger WiFi coverage area and constitutes a l... |
2 March 2007
09:37 GMT |
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