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Business Class 802.11n - Ready to Deploy

Today's Web applications, IP video streams, VoIP systems and mobile devices are placing more and more demand on wireless networks. Every day, users at hotels, office lobbies, trade show floors, meeting rooms, and convention halls break out all manner of laptops, dual mode phones, netbooks, PDAs, and mobile devices expecting...

Tags: IEEE 802.11n, Wireless, Wireless Connectivity, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility

White papers 2009-04-01

Android-based tablet PC has smartphone capabilities

An Android-based collaboration between Texas Instruments and multimedia device manufacturer ARCHOS has yielded an Internet tablet based on Google Android. The companies jointly announced the ultrathin Internet Media Tablet yesterday, a handheld computer with smartphone capabilities, they said. The device utilizes Google's Android telephony stack, ARCHOS' multimedia...

Tags: Google Android, Archos, PC, Smart Phone, Tablet PC, Wireless Connectivity, Smart Phones, Tablets, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Media Players, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-10

Wired vs. wireless - security vs. speed

Once again, this opinionated jackass dives in head first, looking at the next generation of networking and whether wireless technology will ever overtake Ethernet. by Zack Whittaker

Tags: Security, Ethernet Cable, Wired Inc., Network, Cable, Wireless Connectivity, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-11-27

Wireless Network Project for Saudi Arabia

One of the leading wireless system integration companies in the Middle East region, E-Saudi accomplished these major network deployments utilizing hundreds of InfiNet Wireless router systems. These routers provide wireless connectivity to highly remote locations in difficult terrain throughout the country creating both Point-to-Point links as well as Point-to-Multipoint deployments...

Tags: Router, Network, Remote Location, Terrain, Wireless Connectivity, Wireless Network, InfiNet Wireless, Routers & Switches, Network Technology, Networking, Wi-Fi, Wireless

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Viewsonic introduces $100 VMP70 HD media player without network connectivity

Viewsonic is best known for its computer monitors, but it also offers HDTVs, mostly through online retailers. Now it hopes to expand its living room presence with its first media player, the VMP70. The good news is that it can handle 1080p HD, though that's...

Tags: ViewSonic Corp., Network, 1080p, Network Connectivity, Media Player, VMP70, Ethernet, Networking, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-11-05

Kodak 5250

The ESP 5250 is Kodak's latest upgrade to last year's ESP 5 all-in-one AIO, which should be obvious from the almost identical design. Aside from looks, the printer does make improvements to print quality and most notably, output speed, but the printer still isn't perfect--it's missing an auto-document feeder and...

Tags: Scanners, Printers, Monitors & displays, Eastman Kodak Co., ESP 5, ESP, scanner, printer

Product reviews 2009-10-29

B&N's Nook e-reader: Weirdly unrevolutionary

In addition to this posting, please visit this clarifications posting to get the whole picture. It would be nice to say, as Matt Miller has, that the e-book and e-reader market was revolutionized today. It simply got more interesting. A careful reading of the $259 Nook's...

Tags: E-reader, Device, E-book, Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Inc., Wireless, B&N, Nook, Cover-flow, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2009-10-20

'Evil Maid' USB stick attack keylogs TrueCrypt passphrases

Security researcher Joanna Rutkowska has released a PoC proof of concept of a keylogger that is capable of logging TrueCrypt's disk encryption passphrase enabling the attacker to successfully decrypt the hard drive's content. Dubbed, the 'evil maid' attack due to its 'plug-and-exploit' functionality requiring 1-2 minutes for...

Tags: Disk, Passphrase, USB, Laptop Computer, Attack, TrueCrypt, Hotel Room, Mobile Proximity Alarm, Notebooks, Security, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-10-19

Netgear Digital Entertainer Live

The first few rounds of network media streamers we tested weren't necessarily recommendable. Sure, this was partially because most of these devices depend on Windows Media Center for connectivity and content, but we also had issues with their interfaces and performance. Unlike the company's previous solutions to home...

Tags: Corporate communications, PRODUCTIVITY, Storage, Digital media, Digital music, Netgear Inc., Digital Entertainer, Digital Entertainer Live

Product reviews 2009-10-08

Google plays a hand of Ogre with Apple

'Ogre' is an interesting - if obscure - analogy. But I would suggest that you'd to better to stick with plain old chess.In my view, the AT&T/iPhone team have a better position, if only by virtue of their early start in the market. But, as a belated entry, Android is...

Tags: Google Inc., AT&T Corp., Ogre, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-08

Study: Windows 7 can boot more slowly than Vista

Windows Boot UpWell you know I think that the average user understand the boot up scenario.the more crap you add to your PC the longer it will take to become usable.All of those little dormant services being energized.Hell a clean install of Windows 7 on a Dell 530s with 4...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, computer

Discussion threads 2009-10-08

AT&T ends iPhone VoIP restrictions; Skype set free

AT&T is allowing voice over Internet protocol VoIP services over its 3G network for Apple's iPhone. Previously, VoIP was limited to a Wi-Fi connection. In a statement, AT&T said: AT&T today announced it has taken the steps necessary so that Apple can enable VoIP applications on...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., AT&T Corp., IP, Skype Technologies S.A., Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-06

Asus, QNAP release new 1080p HD media streamers

Home theaters are still waiting for the killer device that will run away with the market for streaming media to your HDTV. How do we know? More and more companies are jumping into the "network media player" game—a dominant device (whether a networked TV or super...

Tags: ASUS, Network, Video, 1080p, QNAP, Corporate Communications, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Ethernet, Networking, Marketing, Storage, Hardware, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-10-01

Alas, Poor Blackberry, I knew him.

After two and a half years with the BlackBerry platform, my romance with Research In Motion has come to an end. October brings the Fall. The leaves turning colors, the weather getting colder. Wireless carrier contracts being canceled. I...

Tags: RIM BlackBerry, Mobile Device, Handhelds, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-01

Revisiting RIM: Are the enterprise storm clouds brewing?

In the context of the scenario...it could very well come down to iPhone v. RIM. If, as posited, businesses adopt a BYOP model. That kind of thing doesn't matter what wireless network your using, if they'll open exchange up for you to hook your iPhone to. Which may - and...

Tags: Smart phones, Handhelds, data plan, Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp., BIS, RIM BlackBerry, Verizon Communications Inc., Research In Motion Ltd.

Discussion threads 2009-09-30

New details on Apple tablet emerge; two versions, Jan. 2010

Apple SurpriseI'm reminded of the hype running up to the introduction of the iPhone. There were all sorts of predictions of how it would fit into an already mature and crowded smart phone marketplace, how it would fail, how it would be a niche player. If the iTablet follows in...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Smart phones, Apple Inc., tablet, Apple iPhone, Apple Tablet, iTablet

Discussion threads 2009-09-29

Irex DR800SD digital reader

One of the early e-book reader pioneers, Irex, has taken the wraps off its $399 DR800SG, which features an 8.1-inch screen and 3G wireless connectivity from Verizon. It will be marketed through a partnership with Best Buy. by CNET News.com

Tags: 3G, E-books, Business Structures, Wireless And Mobility, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Finance, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-09-23

It's flu season: connect and optimize your workers

I recently took part in my first Wi-Fi enabled flight (AA 387 STL â€" SAN) and, in addition to raving about the experience, I found it one of the better ways to make productive use of otherwise lost time. While the speed was reasonable, and better than I'd expected, there...

Tags: Continuity, Mobile, Optimization, Worker, Mobile User, WANs, Advertising & Promotion, Remote Access, Network Technology, Networking, Marketing, Chris Silva

Blog posts 2009-09-22

802.11n approved; Not 'new' and hardly groundbreaking

I'm moving to itWell, if all you do is check email and write blog posts all day - then yeah, g is fine.BUT - if you ever intend on watching high-def video or play games, then even g is not enough. You'll want n.WiMAX is interesting, BUT:-No computer we have...

Tags: Wi-Fi, Wireless and Mobility, NETWORKING, N-Router, WPA-PSK, wireless, IEEE 802.11n, Netgear Inc., network

Discussion threads 2009-09-14

Brother MFC-990CW

The Brother MFC-990CW is an ideal multifunction printer that can truly do it all: for $230, you get a 4.2-inch touch-screen LCD display, 802.11 b/g wireless networking, a cordless handset with a digital answering machine, autoduplexing, and Bluetooth connectivity, just to name a few of the extended features. Only a...

Tags: Printers, Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Memory, Fax, Wi-Fi, printer, Brother MFC-990CW

Product reviews 2009-09-08