Most phones now have GPS in them, but laptops are being left behind. Most manufacturers don’t offer a GPS chip, and those that can be bought are expensive. Geosense aims to bring GPS functionality to your PC without the need for any expensive GPS chips or software.
Geosense uses IP and Wi-Fi lookup powered by Google to find your location, so [...]
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Geosense adds Location Awareness to y...
Most phones now have GPS in them, but laptops are being left behind. Most manufacturers don’t offer a GPS chip, and those that can be bought are expensive. Geosense aims to bring GPS functionality to your PC without the need for any expensive GPS chips or software.
Geosense uses IP and Wi-Fi lookup powered by Google to find your location, so [...]
What’s WHDI?
I put out a call on Sunday for suggestions about what topics I should cover. One of them was WHDI. So what is it? WHDI is short for Wireless Home Digital Interface, and promises to cut the cord clutter that becoming increasingly common for us with tons of gadgets and electronics.
WHDI is a consumer standard for HDTV, and has prominent compan [...]
Wiphishing and Firesheep
How often do you use Wi-Fi? How often do you use a connection you know nothing about? If you’re on the go a lot, you’ve probably connected to hotspots that have no security, or seemed pretty dubious. So why should you care? Because you may find yourself the next victim of wiphishing (also known as an evil twin). This is when a hacker sets up [...]
What’s up with Net Neutrality?
Taramisu
What is network neutrality? According to the all-powerful Wikipedia, network neutrality is “is a principle proposed for user access networks participating in the Internet that advocates no restrictions by Internet service providers and governments on content, sites, platforms, the kinds of equipment that may be attached, and the mod [...]
Blazing Fast Wireless: Brought to you...
tj.blackwell
We’ve gone from using the old cellphone networks all the way to 3G and 4G speeds of 200 kbit/s to 100 Mbit/s. Our laptops have gone from wired connections to Wi-Fi speeds of 54 Mbit/s to 600 Mbit/s. These speeds are great, and blow away the older connections we had. But they’re still far behind the simple wired connections that [...]
Tablets and Cloud Computing
Uncrate
With the release of Apple’s iPad, BlackBerry’s Playbook, and Toshiba, HP, and Dell joining the fray, I have to wonder whether this is another gimmick, or a fundamental change in the industry.
In recent years, we’ve been changing from laptops to netbooks. This was bound to happen because first, we don’t really need a powerful computer [...]
One million Chinese cellphone users r...
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“Viruses have been making the rounds on cellphones for quite a while now, but it looks like China has now been hit by a particularly troublesome one. According to Shanghai Daily, a so-called zombie virus disguised as an anti-virus app has infected more than one million cellphone users in the country, and it’s left user [...]
Mozilla Seabird: Greatest Concept Pho...
Mozilla Labs
The folks over at Mozilla Labs (Firefox, Thunderbird) launched the Concept Series a while back as a way to share “ideas, expertise & vision for the future of the Web, the Mozilla project and Firefox.” Billy May, a product designer, produced the “Open Web Concept Phone,” which has since been named “Seabird”.
This phone follow [...]
Why do we Pay for Texting?
Lorianne DiSabato
Texting is awesome. It’s quiet, short, and convenient. No waiting for someone to pick up the phone (or having to pick up because someone is calling you). It’s also insanely expensive.
One text has a maximum of 160 characters, which translates to 140 bytes (texts use 7-bit characters). This means one text is 1/10 of a kiloby [...]
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