Posted on October 31st, 2007 by admin in
Hardware Eye-fi has been in the tech headlines the last couple weeks with their new 2GB SD memory card. What makes this SD card unique, however, is that it has wi-fi capabilities built right into it — which by extension makes every digital camera that takes an SD card into a wi-fi enabled device.
Here’s the review at Gizmodo
Here are the technical specs for the Eye-Fi from their site:
Technical Specifications
* Wi-Fi Security: Static WEP 40/104/128, WPA-PSK, WPA2-PSK
* Range: 90+ feet outdoors and 45+ feet indoors
* Storage Capacity: 2.0GB (1GB is defined as 10^9 Bytes)
* Power: advanced power management optimizes use of camera power
* Card Dimensions: SD standard 32mm x 24mm x 2.1mm
* Card Weight: 0.1oz.
Eye-Fi » A Wireless Memory Card?
Tags: wi-fi, wi-fi SD, wireless digital camera, wi-fi digital camera, eye-fi, SD wireless
Posted on October 29th, 2007 by admin in
Hardware Intel and others are trying to bring the next-generation Universal Serial Bus to market, USB 3.0. At ten times the transfer speed of USB 2.0 (4.8Gb/s vs 480Mb/s), the backwards-camptible USB 3.0 will be ‘optimized for low power and improved efficiency.’
In addition, USB 3.0 will include a Wireless USB (WUSB) format that will operate at at the same speed as wired USB 2.0:
There is also a Wireless USB (WUSB) transfer format and this operates at 480Mbit/s, the same as USB 2.0, in its 1.0 incarnation. Intel also revealed a WUSB 1.1 interconnect format, operating at a speed of up to 1Gbit/s.
READ ABOUT USB 3.0 AND WIRELESS USB
Tags: USB, 3.0, INTEL, WIRELESS USB
Posted on October 4th, 2007 by admin in
HotSpots IBM has announced a new high-speed wireless media transfer chipset developed in conjunction with MediaTek to use the high-frequency 60 GHz portion of the spectrum. With a promised 100x current wi-fi performance, the idea is to allow high-speed media exchanges between devices, both portable and stationary. This is the kind of thing we’ve been waiting for for quite a while now - the wireless world in our living rooms.
One thing struck me as important to note, however:
“…users could upload a 10 gigabyte file in five seconds with the new technology versus 10 minutes using current Wi-Fi technology”
This means we are on the verge of some vast improvement in storage technology, or IBM is speaking only theoretically, because none of my hard drives are transferring 10GB in five seconds.
Read About IBM’s New High-Speed Chipset at NetworkWorld
Posted on October 4th, 2007 by admin in
HotSpots Almost 200,000 Wi-Fi hotspots in over 130+ countries in this massive Wi-Fi directory. Looking for free wireless? Look here.
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Posted on October 4th, 2007 by admin in
HotSpots Traveling somewhere new and need to know where to find a free wi-fi hotspot? Check out the Wi-Fi Hotspot List
Check Out the Wi-Fi HotSpot List