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This is why I love Seattle. It turns out that the area is the most “unwired” city in the country. This actually relates to the fact that there are more wireless hotspots per 100,000 people than anywhere else. Thanks the many Starbucks - which have T-Mobile Hotspot access - for contributing to this honor. What makes it even more fantastic, this doesn’t take into account the pre-WiMax installed at the top of the Space Needle.
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How to use Internet Sharing as a Network Bridge
Posted by Kristin Wenzel Categories: Mods / Hacks, Wireless / WiFi,
Have a Mac, wireless access and a Vonage phone? Here’s how you can get Vonage to behave for you if all you have is Wireless access. All you will need is a Mac that stays at home, a steady wireless connection, and a little bit of patience. OS X allows you to share Internet through your computer, and you can theoretically share from AirPort (wireless) to built-in Ethernet. MacGeekery brings the Internet a great tutorial on how to get your Vonage to function properly through a wireless connection.
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United Airlines To Provide WiFi While You Fly
Posted by Jesse Easley Categories: Corporate News, Wireless / WiFi,
United Airlines has announced that they will be the first commercial airline to offer WiFi Access in-flight. Now, this is still in the works because the frequencies that will be used have not been finalized and approved for broadband use yet - though it is expected to be finalized sometime this fall. No concrete details of price or speed have been announced either, but the frequency that they’re looking at is 8Ghz which will be split into several smaller frequencies. The service will be provided by Verizon.
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f-tech Solar 7 Bluetooth GPS Receiver Reviewed
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Handhelds, Product Reviews, Wireless / WiFi,
DigitalReviews got their hands on the f-tech Solar 7 Bluetooth GPS Receiver and put it through the paces. A quick look at the premise behind this GPS device makes it immediately appealing. It has integrated Bluetooth, and is also solar-powered. This is as wireless as it gets. It doesn’t look overly impressive judging from the review, but give it a look yourself if you can put up with the bad grammar.
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Today we are one step closer to a completely wireless world. The wireless USB spec has been finalized after a myriad of delays. If you aren’t in the know, this is an official specification on how to transfar data through USB wirelessly. Look forward to mice, keyboards, printers - pretty much anything you use with a standard USB cable today, to have a wireless USB counterpart. The standard will use UWB for data flow.
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MetroFreeFi: Find Free Hotspots In Your Area
Posted by Edwin Soto Categories: Internet, Wireless / WiFi,
We already splurge too much money as it is for broadband access at home. That being the case, why should you spend $30-$40 per month to sit at Starbucks when you can get it for free at a local coffee shop? Using MetroFreeFi, you can search your state for the free spots all over town and even download them to your iPod for convenience. Does it get better than free?
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Griffin’s AirBase: A Desktop Home for Airport Express
Posted by Kristin Wenzel Categories: Wireless / WiFi,
AirBase, the latest innovation fron Griffin, makes owning an AirPort Express a little more convenient. With a weighted base, cable-management and style in keeping with Apple’s minimalistic modernism, this is sure to make many mac users happy. As convenient as it is, often plugging your AirPort Express directly into the wall will decrease the effective signal range, since often we have our plugs buried back behind desks and shelves. Elevating your AirPort base station to the desktop can rid you of that interference and help gain more range and strength of signal, making this something any AirPort Express user should at least take a look at.
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How To: Throw A PSP WiFi LAN Party
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Features, Handhelds, Video Games, Wireless / WiFi,
The PSP is one heck of a little game system that promises almost Star Trek-like wireless multi-player gaming. You can have a Wireless LAN gaming session with friends without having to carry a desktop PC, string Ethernet all over some dank basement, or worry about some loser running an aim-bot. But alas one of the problems of many PSP gamers is that not that many of one’s friends have invested their two hundred and fifty bucks for a PSP of their very own. How cool would it be to throw your own public PSP wireless LAN party?
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One thing I love about Seattle is that it seems that it is at the technology forefront of the USA, at least as far as Internet geekery goes.case in point: Utilizing the Space Needle as it’s delivery method, Speakeasy has launch a Pre-WiMax service in the Emerald City. While it will run you $800 per month for a subscription, you will get 3.0 megabits up and down (or 6.0 megabits total). Or you could drop the price down by $300 by opting for a 3.0 megabits total connection. The hardware is supplied by Alvarion, and the signal covers a radius of 5 square miles in any direction. Full press release after the jump.
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7-Inch Tablet PC Prototype at WinHec
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Handhelds, PC / Laptop, Wireless / WiFi,
It’s obvious that our gadgets are going to continue to get smaller, as ultraportability is what we are all about these days. Yesterday at WinHec, Bill Gates showed off a prototype of a new tablet PC which was only 7 inches diagonal. I am not too sure about this one, as tablet PC’s haven’t really taken off, and other ultraportable tiny PC’s haven’t really made a large dent in the market either. The thought behind this is that Microsoft thinks it would be nice to have a portable PC that would be able to act as a music/video player, email device, Internet browser, and also control different aspects of the home while including integrated WiFi and Bluetooth.
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