May 06

Comcast launches Xfinity 3G / 4G MiFi for $25

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Comcast teamed up with Clearwire to bring WiMAX to the masses a couple of years ago, and now the company is jumping on the bandwidth-sharing bandwagon by offering a mobile hotspot. It’s the same Novatel 3G/4G MiFi from Sprint that’s been putting internet access in our pockets for a month, only this one sports an Xfinity badge and cheaper price tag. While the Now Network version costs $80, Comcast’s Internet 2go customers get the device for $25 on a one-year contract. Plus service is only $40 a month for the same Clearwire coverage that costs $50 from Sprint. Sounds like a winning WiMAX combination to us.

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May 06

American Airline starts testing in-flight video streaming

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As someone who prefers to sleep on the plane, American Airlines’ announcement that it will start testing its in-flight streaming service doesn’t do too much for me. But, as a person who was also once forced on a flight to stare at a screen playing Charlie St. Cloud, I’m actually really excited that the service […]

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May 06

Hyatt, Hilton, Marriott, and Starwood Hotels reward your loyalty with free WiFi

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Free WiFi is practically a given at coffee shops and motels, yet lots of luxury hotels hit you with an extra $10 – $15 a day to ride their waves of wireless internet. Good news is, well-heeled world travelers won’t be paying those fees much longer, because several high-end hotel chains are now giving temporary tenants complimentary wireless internet. Loyalty program members for Hilton, Hyatt, and Starwood Hotels get online gratis if they have Gold or Platinum status, while Marriott lets all who sign up for its rewards program get WiFi for free. Seems ridiculous that some folks still pay extra for internet when a room runs several hundred dollars, but a little free websurfing is better than none. We can only hope that towel retention technology will provide a sufficient boost to their bottom lines to eventually allow access for all.

Hyatt, Hilton, Marriott, and Starwood Hotels reward your loyalty with free WiFi originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 06 May 2011 07:03:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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May 04

TrendNet outs first 450 Mbps dual-band WiFi adapter

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If you’re reading this, we’re going to go ahead and assume you’ve got a computer endowed with its own wireless radio, but that doesn’t mean it’s powerful enough to handle your non-stop streaming these days. For folks craving more oomph, TrendNet has just announced the first USB adapter that promises to boost your throughput to speeds as high as 450 Mbps (thanks to MIMO technology) — a mighty boost over the 54Mbps or 150Mbps rates you might be used to. As a dual-band adapter, it’ll connect to either 2.4GHz or 5GHz networks and — bonus — its design is relatively discreet, too. Feel the need for speed? It’s on sale now for $80.

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May 02

AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless Block Wireless Tethering Apps in the Android Market

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Wireless Tether Android

If you’re been using your Android phone as a Wi-Fi hotspot without telling T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, or AT&T about it and paying for their tethering plans, all three companies are out to get you. That shouldn’t be a surprise, since AT&T has been keeping an eye on users with unusual data usage and forcing them to upgrade to tethering-supported plans. Now they’re all taking the extra step to block the myriad of wireless tethering apps available in the Android Market entirely. 
The most popular app in this category, Wireless Tether, is free in the Android Market but requires users have their phones rooted in order to work. The trouble now is that users with Android devices on AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless won’t be able to find the app, since it just won’t be listed in the Android market when they search for it. The same is true for apps like PDANet, Tether for Android, and Easy Tether.
That won’t stop most people – you can still grab the APKs for each app from a number of other sources, the least of which are usually the developers’ own Web sites, but the carriers are trying as much as they can to make the process inconvenient for users. If this pattern of behavior continues, expect to see the battle between carriers and users who tether their phones without authorization from their carriers to escalate. 
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Apr 29

LCD-equipped Cisco REN301 Residential Gateway stops by FCC, reveals all its dirty secrets

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Cisco REN301 Residential Gateway

Ah, the all too familiar WiFi troubleshooting dance: the network goes down, you dig through the closet for an Ethernet cable, saunter over to the router, jack yourself in, type in the IP address, and start poking around at your settings. Cisco’s REN301 Residential Gateway (a fancy way of saying “router”), which just passed through the FCC, could make things at least a little bit easier thanks to its built-in LCD screen and capacitive touch controls. Wave your hand over the display to bring it to life and you can check the status of your connections, modify some basic settings, and peruse a log of calls that have come in over the SIP VoIP phone jacks. The REN301, which has a single band 802.11b/g/n radio, can also turn USB drives and SD cards into NAS storage — the company even throws in a 32GB card to get you started. We don’t have a price or release date, but since it’s been splayed open for federal regulators we probably won’t have to wait long. There’s a couple of pics of the router’s UI after the break.

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Apr 29

Amped Wireless’ UA600EX adapter quadruples your laptop’s WiFi range when you’re on a boat

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For every gadget you can use on land, there has to be one you can use at sea, right? Just in time for yachting season, Amped Wireless released the weatherproof UA600EX High Power Wireless-N 600mW Pro USB Adapter, which promises to extend your notebook’s WiFi range in areas where there are no hotspots to be mooched. That sounds ideal for boating, but thanks to some flexible mounting options and one heavy-duty 26.5-foot cable, it should also come in handy everywhere from offices to RVs. The single-band UA600EX runs on the 2.4GHz spectrum, and although the company stops short of saying just how many feet of leeway you can expect, it does claim to quadruple your computer’s range — whatever that happens to be. If you have a hankering to watch Deadliest Catch on your next fishing trip, you can nab one of these bad boys at the source link for a cool $110.

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Apr 28

Sprint starts selling Motorola Xoom WiFi (not WiMAX) May 8th for $600

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We’ve gotten multiple clandestine clues that Sprint would sell the Xoom — a calendar entry here, an accessory there — but there was nary a confirming peep from the Now Network itself. Until today, when it announced that it would join the legion of retailers peddling the Wi-Fi version of Motorola’s tablet for $599.99 on May 8th. That’s right, the carrier will start selling folks the sweet Honeycomb slate soon enough, but a Xoom sans Sprint cellular data is a bit of a letdown. One question, Mr. Hesse, when will we get one with WiMAX? PR’s after the break.

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Apr 27

Belkin repackages old wireless routers for its new N-series lineup

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This wouldn’t be the first time a company repackages old routers for the new year, but to be fair, there haven’t been many technological advances recently for them to do much else. Belkin happens to be one such company, which has just announced five N-series 802.11n WiFi routers ranging from $39.99 (N150 at up to 150Mbps) all the way up to $129.99 (N750 at up to 450Mbps with dual band and USB). Frankly, a quick glance at the specifications doesn’t show much of an improvement from last year’s models, and that “exclusive” MultiBeam range-extending technology seems to be just a fancy name for MIMO. Still, you gotta give it to Belkin’s designers for the new chassis design — we much prefer this rounded look to the previous boxes. You can now grab an N150, N300, or N600 DB in the shops, whereas the N450 and flagship N750 DB will be showing up in mid-May. See press release after the break for the full details.

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Apr 27

Ad-supported Kindle ships early, fans of grayscale advertising rejoice

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Great news for people who love to read but wish the experience involved more advertising: an Amazon executive has announced the ad-supported Kindle, originally slated for a May 3 release, is going out to customers nearly a week early. Kindle with Special Offers, as it’s affectionately known, will ship out April 27, loaded with timely adverts from your favorite brands, including General Motors, Proctor & Gamble and Visa – those are your favorite brands, aren’t they? In exchange for sponsored screensavers and ads at the bottom of your home screen, you’ll get a latest generation WiFi-only Kindle for a only $114 – sorry, offer available in the US only. Act now, as Amazon promises it will never just give these away.

Ad-supported Kindle ships early, fans of grayscale advertising rejoice originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 Apr 2011 06:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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