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T-Mobile debuts mobile broadband with USB device

T-Mobile debuts mobile broadband with USB deviceThe US is way behind in theseRegarding cellular broadband network to laptops. Just got back from Italy. Bought a Vodafone "internet stick" for 100 eruos, this included 100 hours a month free service for 3 months.Swapped back and forth between my MacBook Pro and...

Tags: Broadband Internet, Network technology, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Wireless and Mobility, data cap, broadband, mobile broadband, USB Device, T-Mobile, mobile

Discussion threads 2009-03-25

Review: Sprint Touch Pro and AT&T HTC Fuze Windows Mobile devices

Review: Sprint Touch Pro and AT&T HTC Fuze Windows Mobile devicesWeather screen is handy tooI have a team in the Philippines and when the weather is bad -- the team gets into work later. I like the weather application that I set to San Jose, California and Makati, Philippines. If...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Data Cap, Sprint Touch Pro, Sprint Touch, Sprint Communications, phone, High Tech Computer Corp., Fuze, AT&T Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-11-17

Additional Resources

IronKey reveals new, ultra-secure D200 USB flash drives

Another bad designIf I can lose the cap and damage the connector, it's not secure. Why would anybody make a flash drive with a separate cap any more? I'll continue to wait for a secure drive with a good physical design that operates reliably with NO software installation on host...

Tags: Flash memory, IronKey, D200 USB flash drive, USB flash drive

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Washington: lots of talk about global warming

Fuller: Too many blogs about the LIE of global warming.Global warming b*llshit demolished:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1533290/Climate-chaos-Dont-believe-it.htmlGuys (or should I say - Fuller), stop LYING.Also, stop saying there's a problem and then coming up with burdening 'solutions' to non-existent problems. The latest FASCIST idea: Blame Children for 'global warming'. Yeah right.http://unitedfamiliesinternational.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/children-to-blame-for-climate-change/Fuller, why are you...

Tags: global warming, carbon dioxide

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Will there be a new energy and air pollution law?

NOIf we the People have anything to say about it this legislation will die a quick death."cap and trade" = the economic destruction of the US based on junk science.This is the largest fraud ever perpetrated against the people of the World.It's not about the environment. It's about power, money,...

Tags: Litigation, pollution

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Google, Android 2.0 sticks fork in GPS devices

It would also be great if Android could automatically re-route you in real-time, when things like the Bay Bridge suddenly close. This means munincipalities automatically posting closures on a web site, that all providers can use in real-time. Munincipalities could also distribute traffic in real-time. Lots of possibilities to replacing...

Tags: Handhelds, Mobile operating systems, Smart phones, GPS, Google Inc., Google Android 2.0, GPS Devices, battery, Google Android

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

TP-Link TL-WR741ND Wireless Lite N Router

At less than $40, the TP-Link TL-WR741ND Wireless Lite N Router is among the cheapest 802.11n routers, if not the cheapest, you can find on the market. It's also the first we've reviewed that supports the single-stream standard and therefore caps at only 150Mbps hence the Lite designation. Other Wireless-N...

Tags: Routers & switches, Network technology, NETWORKING, router, network, TP-LINK

Product reviews 2009-10-26

Enterprise IT's trust level of Google will increase

That pie will increasingly favor Google. Though Google DOES need to support something more like what Amazon does, so you can just rent a Linux box in the cloud that grows and shrinks.Great potential here for Google; p.s. - dont make Yahoo's mistakesThere is great potential for Google from...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Servers, OPEN SOURCE, Enterprise IT, Google AppEngine, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Calling all global cooling, how about a little help here?

Don't shoot the messenger, you might not like it that the earth is getting hotter and that we need to do something about it, but, don't get mad at those reporting it.You probably don't like all of the photos of open water over the arctic either. Nor would you want...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, tax, climate change

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

Gallery: Study: Arctic ice cap to melt in 10 years

The Caitlin Arctic Survey and WWF released data that shows the Actic Ocean sea ice is thinning and predicts the ocean will be relatively ice free during summers ten years from now. by Andy Smith

Tags: Ocean, global warming, Arctic, Andy Smith

Image galleries 2009-10-16

Climate change denial: only in America? Then, there's global cooling...

You don't want to know that the BBC,the most listened to source of news in the English language, is reporting on global cooling?There you go again, HarryYou almost made it - a whole week without enviro-whacko. But you didn't make it...Sad...Reading AssignmentPlease, take a look. Page 10 might enlighten...

Tags: climate change, Climate Change Denial, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-10-14

Apple shipping new jailbreak-proof iPhone 3GS

hasince they used the work impossible i'll give them 1 month. That is, one month until the figure out how to jail break that sucker, may be 2.If people are able to figure out how to make their own hackintosh computer I'm pretty sure they will be able to...

Tags: Smart phones, Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-14

Open source and forced obsolescence

You gutted your own articleFirst, no one forces you to update your software, period. There *are* companies that won't support antiques, and who can blame them? Support costs are very high, especially since one person or team can't be expected to be expert in a dozen different versions of the...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), obsolescence, open source, software

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

IT support: Cut the jargon or find another job

Zack i agree with you to a pointWhat i find missing from your article is the fact that staff customers etc. Can be very rude. I work for a small business about 50 employees total. All but myself and the ceo are female. When the come to me for something...

Tags: Construction, job, IT_Guy, jargon, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-09-15

In South Africa, carrier pigeon faster than broadband

Translation: That's about 180KbpsFor the DSL speed. And given that they were uploading from another DSL connection, that's pretty close to a common upload cap of 256kbps in the US. Would that be called Beaker Net...instead of Sneaker Net?RE: In South Africa, carrier pigeon faster than broadbandHmmm.Maybe Linux...

Tags: Broadband Internet, Network technology, carrier, bandwidth, broadband, latency

Discussion threads 2009-09-10

Samsung Go N310 (sunset orange)

We've gotten to the point where mainstream Netbooks are a fairly rigid format. Slap together an Intel Atom N270 processor, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive, and a copy of Windows XP, and you've got your hands on essentially the same product sold by PC makers such as Dell,...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Keyboards, netbook, N310, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Product reviews 2009-09-03

Dell Inspiron Mini 10v Netbook Computer (Intel Atom N270, 120GB HDD, 1GB)

The "v" in the Dell Mini 10v's name is seemingly there to indicate value for thrifty Netbook shoppers. The system is in many ways hard to distinguish from its more expensive cousin and is one of the better under-$299 Netbook packages we've seen. It does, however, lack the high-end configuration...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Notebooks, computer, hard drive, Intel Corp., Intel Atom, Mini, Mini 10, Dell Computer Corp., netbook, Dell Mini, Dell Inspiron

Product reviews 2009-08-17

Will 4G make our networks irrelevant?

Don't worry about itI'm pretty sure the wireless companies with Verizon at the top of the list will find a way to throttle, meter, and cap 4G out of broad usefulness long before schools and other organizations of the same scale get around to using it in place of a...

Tags: Cellular phones, Wireless and Mobility, NETWORKING, Wi-Fi, radio link, network, 4G

Discussion threads 2009-08-15

D-Link Wireless N Router DIR-615 - wireless router

The D-Link Wireless N Router DIR-615 eliminates any excuse you might have to not move to Wireless-N (300Mbps speed cap). With a price of about $40, the router is cheaper than even some Wireless-G routers--which cap at 54mbps--such as the Linksys WRT110. And you'll get a lot for the price....

Tags: Routers & switches, Network technology, NETWORKING, Home networking, router, DIR-615, D-Link Systems, Wireless-N Router, network, Web interface, wireless, wireless router

Product reviews 2009-08-13

The disruptive nature of cloud computing

Maybe a little overstated don't you think?Let's really think about the amount of disruption from 1-10 on these examples: Gas Lamps to Light bulbs 10, nobody uses gas lamps anymore. Steel Mill example, maybe an 8 or 9. Open Source a 7 because even those that haven't used it benefitted...

Tags: Virtualization, cloud computing

Discussion threads 2009-08-12