RSS

wi-fi

airline-wi-fi-5.jpg
WI-FI   |  12 comments

Four Ways Airlines Could Make In-flight Wi-Fi Free

From a marketing standpoint, money can't buy a more exquisitely perfect demographic than airline passengers: bored, opinionated, and current users of the company's product. Why are airlines passing up the opportunity to collect data ...READ»

eyefi geo
GEOTAGGING   |  Comment

Eye-Fi's Geo Card Makes Photos Location-Aware

Eye-Fi's wireless SD cards already simplify the task of sending pics from a digital camera to your hard drive, and now it's got a version that also auto-geotags the photos--and it's especially aimed at Mac users. That's thanks to ...READ»

wi-fi scale

Need to Track Your Body Fat? There's an iPhone App For That

First there was an iPhone app to track your happiness, and now there's one to let you carry the stats on your exact level of flabbiness everywhere you go--a misery tracker, perhaps. It's all thanks to a wi-fi-connected weighing scale, ...READ»

nokia intel
INTEL NOKIA   |  Comment

Intel Nokia Partner to Tackle Post-Netbook, Post-iPhone Mobile Computers

Intel and Nokia have just announced a strategic partnership to tie up the two companies' technology so that they can tackle the problem of next-generation mobile computers. It's a plan that makes perfect sense in a world where we're ...READ»

nokia intel
INTEL NOKIA   |  Comment

Intel and Nokia Kiss, Plan to Make Super-Smartphone Babies

Intel and Nokia just announced a strategic partnership to tie up the two companies' technology so they can tackle the problem of next-generation mobile computers. It's a plan that makes perfect sense in a world where we're all used ...READ»

belkin powerline

Forget Wi-Fi: Belkin's Power Wire Router Does Ethernet Speeds

Belkin's just tweaked its Powerline Networking hardware and made it a promising alternative to Wi-fi--it's been given ethernet speeds of a gigabit per second. That's five times faster than other powerline systems, and nearly twice ...READ»

Ear Diagram
BIOMIMETICS   |  Comment

Professor Copies the Inner Ear, Invents a Tiny Universal Radio Chip

A new radio chip mimics the human inner ear--but detects signals at frequencies of about a million times higher--could enable universal wireless devices that are able to pick up almost any electrical signal in the air.READ»

bluetooth
WIRELESS   |  Comment

Bluetooth 3.0: Fast, Power-Sipping, and Coming Next Year to a Gadget Near You

The group in charge of the Bluetooth protocol unveiled the specifications of the next-generation of the technology, originally dubbed Bluetooth High Speed Technology and also labeled Bluetooth 3.0 HS. It's completely back-compatible ...READ»

row 44

Row 44's In-Flight Wi-Fi Poised For U.S. Take-Off, Europe Next

In-Flight Wi-Fi services have had come and gone, with Boeing abandoning its Connexion programtwo years ago, but at least one company is on the brink of bringing its system to a wide U.S. audience: Row 44. It's recently been trialing ...READ»

FCC logo
BUSH   |  Comment

FCC Cancels Whitespace Free Wi-Fi Meeting

First George W. expressed his disapproval of the future-thinking nationwide free Wi-Fi service, and now the FCC has simply cancelled a meeting that was scheduled this week to discuss the issue.The December 18th meeting was due to be ...READ»

Syndicate content