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Road warriors who need on-the-go networking will be happy to hear about D-Link’s latest SharePort Go. This handy gadget is designed to allow all of your gadgets to remain connected to the Internet no matter where you are.

Your Wi-Fi compatible gadgets connect to the D-Link DIR-508L SharePort Go II via its personal wireless network. A broadband Internet connection of some sort will need to be connected to the SharePort Go, which will then share this connection to all devices within its range. You can plug in an Ethernet cable, a 3G or 4G USB adapter, or it can even hook up to a Wi-Fi hotspot to share online access with multiple devices.

While the same can certainly be achieved with a cellular hotspot, the SharePort Go II does provide more flexibility. It also comes with a built-in 4,000 mAh rechargeable battery, which can also be used to juice up some of your gadgets. Hook up a USB flash drive, and you’ll have your own personal shared storage device, using the mydlink SharePort app.

The D-Link DIR-508L SharePort Go II will be available this April for about $120(USD).

[via Ubergizmo]

This teeny portable router from D-Link is everything a human holed up in a hotel room could dream of: Wi-Fi hotspot, emergency battery and wireless media sharer, all rolled into one. More »

Now that Qualcomm’s busted out its StreamBoost technology, it’s high time we saw some hardware built that can take advantage of it. D-Link’s first to the queue with its new DGL-5500 802.11ac gaming router, which is able to shift bandwidth around to ensure lag-free performance. Aside from its wireless prowess, the soda can-shaped unit has four Ethernet and a USB port as well as easy-to-use setup instructions. It’s being shown for the first time here at CES, and will arrive in stores late in the Spring, with prices still to be decided upon.

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D-Link has outed its latest home security camera, the HD PoE Outdoor Cloud Camera (DCS-2310L), promising streaming 720p video for those moments you’re convinced the squirrels are preparing to storm the castle. Weatherproof and supporting power-over-ethernet rather than WiFi, the compact camera shoots 1280 x 720 video or 1280 x 800 stills and squirts them both over its 10/100 ethernet connection and saves them to a microSDHC card.

There’s also two-way communication support, thanks to an integrated speaker and microphone, and IR illumination for low-light visibility. The camera has a fixed-focus 3.45mm f/2.0 lens and the whole thing is wrapped up in an IP-65 compliant weatherproof housing, secure against “low jets” of water, rain, and dust.

A PIR motion sensor on the front automatically triggers recording as well as an optional alert to the user, hopefully allowing you to spot the squirrel trebuchet as it’s being wheeled across the lawn. If you slot in a memory card – D-Link doesn’t supply one – it will automatically duplicate video to there and any network-attached video storage system you might have set up.

Remote access from iPhone, iPad, and Android device rounds out the main specs, and D-Link promises easy setup thanks to the PoE. It’s on sale in the UK from today, priced at £246.49 ($394).

D-Link weatherproof webcam is your eye among the wildlife is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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If you’re an owner of the Boxee Box, originally launched back in November of 2010 and distributed up until today, the announcement this morning from the creators of this lovely bit of technology isn’t going to be your most welcome update. In introducing the Boxee TV, a machine that links together Live TV, Internet Apps, and Cloud DVR, the team has let it be known that the original Boxee Box is done for. With a single software update to bring about a better working Flash player and a selection of bug fixes, the Boxee Box will officially go into maintenance mode.

This doesn’t mean that the Boxee Box will not have any more software updates at all, as bug fixes will continue here and there, but you shouldn’t expect any “major updates” from the company as they move to the Boxee TV. With the Boxee team’s partnership with D-Link praised here in 2012 and the original November 2010 launch date now called a milestone, the Boxee TV will now take over the major bit of attention over at the Boxee business.

“Our small team has poured our hearts and souls into the Boxee Box and it has been great to meet users from all over the globe. Some loved it, some wanted more features, others complained, but everyone was passionate.  We hope you have enjoyed it and will continue to use it in your living rooms, dens, bedrooms or wherever else you set it up (I met one guy who installed it in his yacht!). If you are living in the US, we would love for you to continue our journey with us and order Boxee TV when it comes out.” – Avner Ronen, Boxee

The new Boxee TV is a device that’s made with a brand new chipset coming from Broadcom, software that’s been written “from the ground up”, and support through the future from the Boxee team. Of course you never know, support could be done in just a couple of years. By that time you’ll be on the next machine anyway though, right?

Have a peek at our short collection of Boxee updates in the timeline below and let us know how you feel about this news of discontinuation of Boxee Box support. If you own a Boxee Box now, will you buy a Boxee TV in the near future?

[via Boxee]

Boxee Box user support ends entirely is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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