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Science

The World’s Fastest Wi-Fi Puts Your Sluggish Router To Shame

For the most part, we’re all happy if we can get Internet that’s fast enough to stream some HD video. But faster is always better, and a new, world-record setting network developed in Germany is so blazing fast you wouldn’t know what to do with it. It can deliver 10 HD films in a second.

5 March 2013

Gadgets

Can This iPhone 5 Case Really Boost Your Wi-Fi Reception?

If you’re stuck with a limited iPhone data plan and rely heavily on Wi-Fi to avoid overage charges, spending $50 to vastly improve your reception when leeching from free hotspots might sound like a real bargain. That is if the Linkase manages to deliver on its promise of boosting Wi-Fi reception by as much as 50 per cent.

Entertainment

Sonos Playbar Review: Everything Wireless Should Be This Easy

Sound bars don’t immediately benefit from Wi-Fi connectivity the way music systems do, because you usually use them with your TV, and your TV isn’t something you need to put in your pocket and walk around with. But that doesn’t mean that Sonos’ wireless music features don’t benefit from its first sound bar. Just the opposite, in fact.

13 February 2013

Entertainment

Sonos Wants More Space In Your Home Theatre For Its New Playbar

Sonos continues its righteous quest to dominate every room in your house with easy, awesome wireless music with its new Playbar. The soundbar joins the Sonos subwoofer introduced last year as well as two standalone tabletop systems already available.

7 February 2013

Online

Can US Authorities Create Public Super Wi-Fi Networks?

The Washington Post boldly led a front-page story last weekend with the claim that the US government wants to create super Wi-Fi networks “so powerful and broad in reach that consumers could use them to make calls or surf the internet without paying a mobile phone bill every month.”

25 January 2013

Online

WSJ: Google Is Building A New Kind Of Wireless Network

There have been rumours floating around the internet for months suggesting Google has been considering building its own LTE network. Now, the Wall Street Journal claims that the search giant is secretly building its own new kind of wireless data network.

16 January 2013

News

United Airlines First To Offer International Wi-Fi In The Sky

Finally tired of being trounced by its competitors in the on-board internet arena, American company United Airlines has outfitted its first international wide-body plane with satellite-based Wi-Fi. The service should be rolled out to 300 additional aircrafts by the end of the year.

12 January 2013

Gadgets

Will Wireless Payments Make Disney World More Magical?

Sometime soon, you’ll be able to go to Disney theme parks and pay for stuff using nothing but wireless bracelets. It’s magic! Or, uh, is it laid-bare commercialism desensitising visiting families from the wads of cash they’re spending?

10 January 2013

Computing

Corsair Voyager Air: Do Anything Anywhere NAS

Corsair, primarily known as a manufacturer for PC memory and power supply, is breaking into new territory with Voyager Air, an all-in-one wireless hard drive that’s just as useful on the road as it is in your living room.

9 January 2013

Gadgets

Trade Hydration For Hendrix With Scosche’s BoomBOTTLE Speaker

After a long ride there’s nothing quite like a refreshing bottle of water. But getting to that point where you’re tired and dehydrated sometimes takes some extra motivation. Like your favourite music, which Scosche makes easier to access on a bike with its new boomBOTTLE weatherproof speaker.

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