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Serving jetsetters at LAX just wasn’t enough for Xcom Global. Engadget’s personal favorite when it comes to snagging international data before leaving the States is now opening up shop in the Big Apple — a wise move for increasing its presence in a market where loads of humans are doing business in nations other than the United States.
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Xcom Global opens international MiFi rental / service center in New York City
Clearwire’s hardly throwing in the towel after that whole “WiMAX” thing; instead, the outfit has its sights firmly set on bringing TDD-LTE (Long-Term Evolution Time-Division Duplex) to the masses here in America, starting with an initial rollout in early 2013. A release put out today confirms that New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle will be among the 31 cities where the company will launch the aforesaid network, though there’s no breakdown on which of those metro markets will be forced to wait until “mid-2013″ to get served
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Clearwire’s TDD-LTE rolling out in ‘early 2013,’ coming to NYC, SF, LA, Chicago, Seattle and more
Until now, Amped Wireless has been best known for its industrial networking gear, capable of maintaining a signal up to 1.5 miles away from the base station. Now, though, the outfit’s also selling some equipment for folks with a more modest setup: the R10000G Home Router and SR10000 Smart Repeater, which promise to coat 10,000 square feet of your abode / office in robust, high-quality WiFi.
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Amped Wireless High Power R10000G Router and Smart Repeater hands-on
Broadband in the boonies has long been an unreasonable ask. As slack-jawed farmers are fond of telling lost tourists “Ya can’t get there from here,” broadband-starved country bumpkins have heard from cable companies, “We don’t offer service in that location.” Options have been few, like paying said cable company thousands to run some copper a few miles down the road, or making a second mortgage payment for a dedicated T3 line. Over the years satellite internet has been offered as an alternative for broadband in places where bears do their business, but as we’ve seen it’s never really worked
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ViaSat Exede review
Verizon Wireless is making good on that name, aiming to rid your home of those ugly, ugly wires.
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Verizon launches ‘faster than wired’ broadband for the home
Belkin has added another wireless networking kit to it’s N-series lineup here at CES . The company has announced its Advance N900 DB, a dual band WiFi router capable of 450Mbps speeds per band.
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Belkin reveals Advance N900 DB router, keeps your MW3 marathon top priority with IntelliStream
Casio Japan has announced the Exilim EX-ZR300, a high-speed CMOS-based 16MP 12.5x zoom compact. The ZR300 features a 24-300mm equivalent zoom and dual ‘Exilim Engine HS’ processors to offer autofocus in as little as 0.12sec and start-up in under 1 sec.
Do you like your cars smart ? Are you itching to drive something a bit more K.I.T.T. than KIA
The ONE Street Tweeter is kind of like a giant, mobile ink-jet printer, only way more political. It wasn’t around in time for the height of the Occupy protests, but made its debut at the G8 Summit
When we’re not looking up at the stars, we’re likely looking at a screen, so any chance to combine those two is greeted with open arms.
NPD DisplaySearch is declaring Apple to be the undisputed champion of the mobile PC business for the first quarter of the year. The fruity phone flinger shipped ( shipped , not sold) 17.2 million mobile PCs in the time, a figure that contentiously includes the iPad
Dell hasn’t been having the greatest of years, and the blows are still as heavy as ever in Round Rock’s fiscal Q1.
3D printing with ABS and other plastics that have a low-melting point are old hat. And, with the price of entry dropping below the $500 mark , soon enough anyone will be able print their own pirated 45s
Charitable entrepreneur Martha Lane Fox has teamed up with Microsoft , TalkTalk , and Simplify Digital to bring a cheaper option for cash-strapped folks in the UK. Starting today, you can buy a refurbished computer with broadband service for a year (with a 40GB monthly cap) for as little as £149 ($240) — and that price drops even lower for people on state benefits. The “Go On UK” initiative also throws in a WiFi router and Windows 7 to further spread that non-profit love around the nation — just like we have going on in the US .
In my view, smartphones are all about the future, and the best handsets are usually the ones with the wildest, slickest mobile technology. Sure, cutting-edge wireless computing rarely comes cheap, especially phones running Google’s latest and greatest version of Android software, Ice Cream Sandwich . Still it’s good to have a dream, and right now I’m fantasizing big time about the best phones money can buy
We’ve seen DNA flirt with computing and storage before, but a biological system that can record digital data? That’s something different
