Tag: Wireless
MySpace.com users to get free The Cloud Wi-Fi access across UK
MySpace.com users can now gain free access to over 7,000 Wi-Fi hotspots courtesy of The Cloud, thanks to a deal announced today.
When users connect to one of The Cloud’s wireless locations via their mobile device, they’ll be greeted with MySpace branding and multimedia content on the landing page. Presumably if they’ve not paid for access to the rest of the Internet, or have an iPhone, that’s as far as they’ll get…
Sanyo bringing wireless battery charging to Nintendo Wii Remotes
Wireless electricity. Another wild gadget fantasy, only this is a fantasy MADE REAL in recent years thanks to the arrival of special batteries and charging pads.
Sanyo has announced it’s bringing this (possibly alien) wireless charging technology to Wii, using a variant of the fantastic Eneloop battery and a “magnetic induction” (MAGIC for short) pad. So, instead of…
NEC launches NP905 projector with wireless networking and MPEG2 USB playback
NEC has announced its NP905 projector, aimed primarily at the business and educational sectors, which offers wireless networking and MP£G2 playback from USB devices.
The NP905 offers 3,000 ANSI lumens of brightness, 500:1 contrast ratio, HQV (Hollywood Quality Video) technology for higher quality images, 1.2-times optical zoom, keystone correction, 3D Reform function which compensates for diagonal distortion, and wall colour correction which alters the colour balance dependent upon what surface is being projected on to…
3G/WiFi combo ADSL/dongle router by Billion
The idea behind Billion’s wireless router that works on ADSL and 3G…
3 mobile busting out mobile routers for home networking
Seeing as everyone’s been going a bit crazy for the whole wireless USB broadband dongle scene, 3 has decided to up its ‘offering’ – by adding a home router to its wireless broadband range.
It’s all because a few extremely forward-thinking people are using their 3 dongles to totally replace their home broadband connection. So, kindly old 3, wants to make it easier on everyone by releasing a combined router/dongle that’ll let us use laptops, PSPs…
Shiny Video Review: Sony Wireless Walkman NWZ-A820
If you can ignore the fact that it’s only compatible with PCs, you might just find yourself with a reliable MP3 player, in the form of the NWZ-A820 from Sony. Have a look at what Susi and Lucy thought of the portable video and audio player…
Shiny Video Review: Polaroid Freescape 4360 Wireless PMP
Zara, Shiny Towers’ PMP queen, takes a look at the 4360 media player from Polaroid. With 60GB of storage and Wi-Fi, will it impress her Archos fangirl heart?…
Shiny Video Review: Linx B-tube wireless speaker
Dan’s been slaving away on Tech Digest the last month or so, and if you’re web stalker-inclined, you may be interested to know this is his first solo video review. So, without further ado, check out his thoughts on the B-Tube wireless speakers from Linx above, which…
Forget EDGE, 3G and HSDPA: mobile manufacturers are now planning for 4G
Nokia, Sony Ericsson, NEC and Alcatel-Lucent have all sat down and formed a licensing framework for a new mobile standard called Long Term Evolution, which can be shortened to LTE, or simply 4G as that makes things much easier to follow…
D-Link launches Quadband DIR-855 wireless N router
If you are looking to upgrade your router, the Quadband DIR-855 and its adapter from D-Link should be worth a look when it hits the shelves in May.
