Topic: Linksys Group Inc.

Cisco Buys a Product-Design Firm, Takes Aim at Consumer Electronics

The networking giant has bought itself a design firm, to shore up its in-house product-development chops.READ»

Who's Afraid of the Trademark Police? Everyone.

Time was when power and money equaled naming rights. Now, as Sony and Google have learned, not so much.READ»

Sony's Sleek New Portable Mouse

In an attempt to complement its handsome netbooks, Sony's new mouse ends up getting things wrong--as usual.READ»

Inside the Design Reinvention of Linksys

You may have noticed that routers are some of the best designed pieces of peripheral hardware out there, from Apple's Airport Extreme to Belkin's line of sleek obelisks. That placed an enormous burden on Linksys after it was ...READ»

Gadget Makers Prepare for TV's Future

  If there is one clear trend at CES, outside of all the incremental product improvements, it's that 2009 might finally be the year that online distribution for TV busts wide open. Look at all the offerings that send TV programs ...READ»

Five Top Design Firms Make the Gadgets We Love

American industrial designers are the secret heroes of the marketplace, finessing products to make them easier to use and help them sell better. Here's how five top firms have been busy shaping our world.READ»

Samsung Reveals Media Streamer

Today is apparently Samsung day here on the Tech Watch blog, partially because your humble blogger attended a fancy Samsung media demo event today in New York's West Village, and partly because the tech gods haven't bestowed upon us ...READ»

High-Speed Hotels

Just a few short years ago, trying to connect to the Internet from your hotel room was an iffy proposition, with many older properties having noisy phone lines that resulted in extremely low-connection speeds. Today, most major business-oriented hotels offer some form of high-speed Net access -- either wired (Ethernet) or wireless (Wi-Fi).READ»

T-Mobile Enters VOIP With "@Home" Service

Since much of the country isn't ready to part with their dear landlines in favor of a mobile-only life, T-Mobile [FRA:DTE] is convinced they can grab a slice of the action from the incumbent service providers by introducing a new ...READ»

The World's Most Innovative Companies

We canvassed the experts, analyzed the products, and crunched the numbers. From visionary upstarts to storied stalwarts, here are companies that dazzle with new ideas -- and prove beyond a doubt how business is a force for change. We call them the Fast 50.READ»

• Presenting the 2008 Fast 50
• The Faces and Voices of Google
• Slideshow: The World's 50 Most Innovative Companies

Calling All Geeks

At the office IT will handle it, but when the home network is down who do you call? These two businesses are on-call, and they don't come cheap.READ»

The Incredible Shrinking Peripheral

New space-saving minigadgets free up room on the road.READ»

Wireless for the Clueless

Everything you need to know to get untethered, at home and on the road.READ»

Wireless Networks to Go: Useful or No?

This week I tried a nifty new gadget from Netgear -- the Wireless Travel Router WGR101. It's an 802.11g wireless router that's about the size of an iPod; add it to the power adapter and ethernet cable inside a slim black case, and ...READ»

Apple Hits The Living Room

After the runaway success of its iTunes music software and iPod music player, Apple Computer has added a new gadget to its digital music kit -- the Airport Express, a wireless networking device aimed at turning your living room into ...READ»

Do IT Yourself

Doc Searls is senior editor of Linux Journal. What follows is a partial transcript of his Supernova remarks: This is the after-lunch session so you need the red pill rather than the blue pill. I don't know if I have enough time to ...READ»