Saturday, September 4, 2010

‘Wireless’ News

Apple Introduces iTunes 10 With "Ping" Social Network for Music

Apple Introduces iTunes 10 With “Ping” Social Network for Music

Wednesday, September 1, 2010 22:50

Apple® today introduced iTunes® 10 with Ping, a new music-oriented social network for following your favorite artists and friends to discover what music they’re talking about, listening to and downloading. iTunes Ping lets you post your thoughts and opinions, ...

According to YouGov Survey Three is the UK’s best mobile broadband provider

According to YouGov Survey Three is the UK’s best mobile broadband provider

Tuesday, July 20, 2010 12:11

In the latest YouGov survey of Mobile Broadband users Three outperformed rivals to win by a long shot, coming top in ten of the twelve quality criteria.The result illustrates Three’s massive network investment programme – a project that has ...

How much mobile broadband are you using?

How much mobile broadband are you using?

Thursday, July 15, 2010 10:27

More than half of Mobile Broadband users do not know how much mobile broadband data they use each month. In many cases, consumers could be paying hundreds of pounds for data they don't use. In a survey of more than ...

London Underground Tube Network May Get Wi-Fi

London Underground Tube Network May Get Wi-Fi

Wednesday, July 7, 2010 13:04

The UK's Mayor of London has given his support to proposals for a Wi-Fi network that would work on the city's underground railways. In a statement to a public debate on the State of London, he said he would ...

Wireless Broadband Enabler delivers reliable 2 Mbps connection to rural areas

Wireless Broadband Enabler delivers reliable 2 Mbps connection to rural areas

Thursday, July 1, 2010 15:44

A device to deliver broadband to rural areas that are far from the DSL exchange was launched today by UK based Deltenna.The small, self install gadget, called the WiBE (Wireless Broadband Enabler), uses the 3G mobile network to create ...

Study Finds Why WiFi Use Drains Your Phone battery and Finds a Fix

Study Finds Why WiFi Use Drains Your Phone battery and Finds a Fix

Thursday, June 24, 2010 13:21

Some simple changes to the software running on Wi-Fi access points could significantly extend or even double cell phone battery life. That's the finding of a study that investigated why using Wi-Fi on a cell phone, and on some ...

New ‘one-touch’ MiFi from Three

New ‘one-touch’ MiFi from Three

Friday, June 11, 2010 12:22

Three is pleased to announce the new ‘one-touch’ MiFi (Huawei E585) which has been developed in line with customer feedback following the launch of Mobile Wi Fi in 2009. The MiFi creates a personal Wi-Fi hot spot for up ...

Google Chrome beta speeds up, adds built-in Flash

Google Chrome beta speeds up, adds built-in Flash

Wednesday, May 5, 2010 11:09

Google on Tuesday put out new betas of Chrome for Linux, Mac and Windows that it claims are all major leaps in performance. All three have JavaScript engines that run between 30 to 35 percent faster in benchmarks like SunSpider. The releases ...

T-Mobile dongle triumphs in the Broadband Genie Road Trip 2010 Awards

T-Mobile dongle triumphs in the Broadband Genie Road Trip 2010 Awards

Friday, April 23, 2010 14:37

T-Mobile has triumphed in the most rigorous mobile broadband battle on the calendar, being named Dongle on the Move Winner in the Broadband Genie Road Trip 2010 Awards. Last year's victor, Virgin Media, took the overall runner-up award. Mobile broadband ...

SIM card that turns into a Wi-Fi hotspot

SIM card that turns into a Wi-Fi hotspot

Friday, February 12, 2010 13:00

Smart card expert Sagem Orga (Safran group) and Telefonica, one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies, are enhancing mobile broadband services by offering “SIMFi,” the first SIM card with integrated Wi-Fi. Using the SIM as a hotspot is expected to have ...