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Today’s premium Wi-Fi routers push the boundaries of design, features, and range
You’ve been getting by with the cheapie router you bought two years ago, so why should you upgrade now? In a word: Performance. And features. Oh, sorry. That’s two wor…
The Wi-Fi Alliance announced Monday that it has begun certifying products for compliance with the Wi-Fi Direct standard, aimed at enabling router-free instant networking among Wi-Fi enabled devices (a la Bluetooth). Technically, Wi-Fi Direct does not…
The Samsung Galaxy Tab Android tablet will be hitting US retail next month, but what if you don’t care to do more business with the mobile carriers? As it turns out, Best Buy (of all companies) is coming to the rescue. The electronics retailer will be …
Marvel on Monday introduced its Avastar 88W8764 wireless chip. According to Marvell, this is the first ever 802.11n, 4×4 single-die solution, which the company plans to market for use in enterprise access points, service provider gateways, high perform…
The storage gurus at Cloud Engines on Monday announced the Pogoplug Pro, the latest version of the company’s multimedia sharing device.
Like the previous version, the Pro version allows users to connect up to four USB drives and to print from any mobil…
Chances are you’ve encountered “Free Public WiFi” in your travels, which is available in thousands of spots across the United States. But it’s not what it sounds like.
“I went to connect to an available wireless network and I saw this option, Free Publ…
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) yesterday approved a set of new rules for using the unused broadcast spectrum between television, otherwise known as “white space.”
“As compared to the airwaves we released for unlicensed use in 1985, this ‘w…
Screw the coffee and other caffeinated beverages, give us our Wi-Fi! That’s the general theme behind a new study conducted by the Wi-Fi Alliance, which pinged 1,000 young adults (or millennials) ages 17 to 29 in the U.S., and another 400 in China just …