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‘Wi-Fi’ Stories

Nintendo 3DS hack makes Nintendo Zone content available at home

Mark Raby, Feb 7th 2012 Discuss [0]

The Nintendo Zone is a special gateway for your Nintendo 3DS if you happen to be in one of the thousands of special Wi-Fi hotspot locations that Nintendo has set up across the country. These hotspots are in Best Buy stores, airports, malls, and many other locations throughout the country and give gamers with a 3DS access to special content. Now, though, it's possible to gain access to that same set of content without leaving your house. Read The Full Story

Biscotti TV Phone brings video conferencing to your TV with Google Talk

Rue Liu, Nov 15th 2011 Discuss [2]

The Biscotti TV Phone has gone on sale today and offers an easy solution for folks wanting to use their TVs for video conferencing. Sporting a camera and microphone, the device works with Google Talk for free internet voice and video services over a WiFi connection without the need to connect to a computer. Read The Full Story

Toshiba debuts FlashAir 8GB SDHC card with WLAN

Rue Liu, Sep 1st 2011 Discuss [3]

Toshiba is announcing a new SDHC memory card called the FlashAir that is WiFi-enabled. The card features an embedded wireless LAN that allows it to both transmit and receive files wirelessly. The FlashAir is being touted as the world's first SDHC memory card with embedded wireless LAN functionality to meet the SD Memory Card Standard. Read The Full Story

Apple Switching AirPort Branding To Wi-Fi?

Rue Liu, Jun 14th 2011 Discuss [1]

Apple likes to differentiate itself from competitors, sometimes for better and sometimes for worse. Besides a stubborn unwillingness to adopt Flash and HDMI ports, the company also insists on calling its wireless connectivity by the name of AirPort, which can be confusing since it is more commonly known as Wi-Fi. But now, it looks like with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, Apple may be caving into what's popular by dropping the AirPort name. Read The Full Story

Samsung Galaxy Tab WiFi-Only Version To Ship April 4 For $399?

Rue Liu, Mar 11th 2011 Discuss [8]

The long awaited Samsung Galaxy Tab may finally be on its way. Well, at the least the WiFi-only version, if what's purported to be a flyer handed out by a Samsung rep is true. An image of the flyer obtained by Droid-Life indicates that the Samsung Galaxy Tab WiFi version will ship on April 4th for about $399. Read The Full Story

Light-Painting Visual Art Reveals WiFi Signal Topography

Rue Liu, Mar 9th 2011 Discuss [2]

Here's an interesting visual art project that reveals the invisible landscape of our WiFi networks and explores the effects that these intangible phenomena have on how we experience products and cities. The "Immaterials: Light Painting WiFi" project was created by visual artists Timo Arnall, Jorn Knutsen, and Einar Sneve Martinussen. Read The Full Story

Apple Lounge to hit St. Louis

Stephanie Scala, Oct 8th 2010 Discuss [2]

Move over New York City because St. Louis' new Apple store might just be Apple's most innovative store yet! With a never before seen "lounge" area with free Wi-Fi, this new Apple store structure will be sure to blow all of us away (or at least the residents in St. Louis). Read The Full Story

SafeCell testing cheap in-flight MMS

Shane McGlaun, Oct 2nd 2009 Discuss [0]

I bet there are many people out there who have hopped a commercial flight for business or pleasure and been stuck next to a fat person spilling over into their seat or a screaming kid the whole flight. It gives you a good story to tell when you land, but why wait. With a new in-flight MMS service that has been tested successfully, you could just send a pic of the offending person to your friends. Read The Full Story

Borders and Verizon team up for free Wi-Fi

Shane McGlaun, Sep 30th 2009 Discuss [0]

Everyone knows that the way to lure avid readers into your bookstore is to offer overpriced coffee and free Wi-Fi. This is the tact that Barnes & Noble took with AT&T to get customers into its stores to buy digital books. Borders has now teamed with Verizon to offer a similar Wi-Fi service. Read The Full Story

Netgear unveils RangeMax dual band wireless-N WNDR3700 router

Shane McGlaun, Sep 1st 2009 Discuss [0]

Netgear has announced the launch of its newest wireless router for gamers called the RangeMax Dual Band wireless-N Gigabit Router WNDR3700. The router is optimized for gamers and media enthusiasts to allow for priority for certain types of network traffic. Read The Full Story

Wi-Fi phone shipments expected to double every two years

Shane McGlaun, Aug 27th 2009 Discuss [0]

One of the most important features of a mobile phone be it a feature phone or a smartphone to many users is Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi connectivity allows the user to surf the net or download applications without having to rely solely on often slow or unavailable 3G networks. Read The Full Story