suntimes.com - 12/15/2008
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COMPUTING | WiFi's strength - convenience - far outweighed by dropoff in speed, quality My friends, I declare here and now that the usefulness of WiFi for home networking has run its course. It's time for us all to switch back to copper. Yes: wires. Thick CAT6 Ethernet cables snaking proudly ...
theonlyphoneyouneed.com - 12/16/2008
slashgear.com - 12/9/2008
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slashgear.com —
Now cell phone WiFi access will get a
lot more efficient , thanks to a new chip...
from Broadcom. The BCM4329 chip will be used in cellphones that have 802.11n WiFi in order to decrease the amount of power required to maintain that wireless connection. ...
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Broadcom BCM4329 chip brings cellphones Wi-Fi without ...
readwriteweb.com - 12/18/2008
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readwriteweb.com —
According to the latest report from AdMob ,
42% of all requests from iPhones to Admob's partners...
worldwide are coming in over WiFi instead of through the networks of mobile operators. This puts the iPhone in a league of its own, given that on ...
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The iPhone is Apple's Netbook: Almost Half of All ...
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He's No John Dvorak, But He's a Wi-Fi Hater
Wi-Fi Networking News —
... Andy Ihnatko, the hat-wearing, glacially intelligent Mac writer, seems to have woken up on the wrong side of his Wi-Fi network: Andy writes in praise of Ethernet cables, including tacking them up around the house. Sounds as if, as he describes it in his regular Chicago Sun-Times column, he has some ugly kind of Wi-Fi environment in which his wireless signals run as sub prime as many mortgages issued in the U.S. in the last few years. Bada bing! I gotta million of them. ...
Linkpost | 12.16.2008
TechBlog —
... Will MAY Be At MacWorld Expo, Event Manager Says - Steve Jobs hasn't been confirmed as doing the keynote this year. • New highly critical Facebook XSS vulnerabilities pose serious privacy risks - Facebook is turning into quite the risky place. • Portland Gets WiMAX Service - Second city to get the faster wireless network, after Baltimore. • Yahoo! Mail rolls out a smarter inbox and Yahoo Mail, other properties get more social, open • Want good Web? Better get wired - In praise of hardwired home networks. • Google slips ...
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