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The MiFi, a cellular-powered mobile Wi-Fi hotspot, has taken off with business travelers since it launched. Now Novatel, the company behind it, is having a contest to find out how people are using it.

Visit Novatel’s site to enter the “How Do You MiFi?” contest. The company is looking for success stories, and some will be featured on the company’s Web site. If your entry is chosen, you’ll be entered to win a 55-inch Samsung flat screen TV with a Wi-Fi LinkStick. Make those stories good, because only the chosen ones will be eligible to win. The set, by the way, will be delivered in time for the start of March Madness.

The contest is open now and will close on February 12. The winning story will be announced a week later. This is open to U.S. MiFi users only.

Okay, so maybe there’s not an overwhelming group of “peers” for Wacom’s Intuos4 graphics tablet, but we’re still kind of saddened to see a device that hardly seems to require wirelessness donning a Bluetooth connectivity option and following the wireless peripherals crowd. Ah well, guess we can’t grumble too much about choice, so if you have some freaky workplace scenarios that require your tablet to be untethered (to up to 10 meters), you should be circling the latter part of March and expecting to pay around $400 for the privilege, or about $50 more than the wired Medium tablet. No luck if you were after the other sizes, unfortunately — you’ll just have to learn to love that wire.

Wacom Intuos4 succumbs to peer pressure, goes wireless originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Your favorite ill-defined smartphone accessory is back, this time teasing us with talk of external speaker support (via mini audio jack) and wireless audio transmission. We did wonder why the Nexus One dock would have a Bluetooth connection when the phone already has one one of its own, and the trick seems to be that the dock will act as the conduit through which the Nexus will transmit music wirelessly to your nearest set of banging sound thumpers. Simple, yes, but also rather liberating for your Eclair-sporting device. Makes that $45 price seem all the more reasonable, no?

Nexus One Dock to support external speakers, make use of that Bluetooth radio? originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The wireless HD war is far from over, but 60GHz is sure making a push for becoming the top dog in the race. Gefen’s latest relies on SiBEAM‘s wireless tech in order to transfer uncompressed 1080p footage up to 30 feet sans lag. You simply connect one box to an HDMI-equipped source (like, say, your minty fresh Blu-ray player) and one box to your HDMI-equipped HDTV; from there, you can watch in amazement as the signal is beamed from one unit to the other without any cords in between. ‘Course, this whole solution would seem a lot more elegant if these wireless modules were just baked into said BD deck and the aforementioned television, but hey, the retrofitters take what the retrofitters can get. It’s all yours right now for just under a grand.

GefenTV Wireless for HDMI slings 1080p over 60GHz airwaves originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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CES is great and all, but one of the bones we choose to pick with the show is the typically long gap between the Vegas introduction and the mass market ship date. Thankfully for us, Toshiba has no interest in keeping us waiting for one of the world’s first Intel Wireless Display-equipped (or WiDi, as it were) laptops. The Satellite E205 — which comes stocked with a 2.53GHz Core i5-430M processor, 4GB of DDR3 memory, a dual-layer DVD writer, 14-inch display (1,366 x 768 resolution), 500GB hard drive and a Netgear Push2TV wireless display adapter — is now shipping from Best Buy. Of course, you’ll have to deal with integrated Intel graphics, but the inbuilt wireless display technology, multicard reader, 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi, Ethernet jack and media buttons are nice inclusions when you consider the respectable $899.99 price point. So, what’s the hesitation?

Toshiba’s Intel Wireless Display-supporting Satellite E205 now shipping for $900 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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