Blue Coat has identified its Top 5 bring your own device (BYOD) traffic disruptors – activities and content sites that take up valuable WAN and internet bandwidth and disrupt the performance of mission-critical enterprise ...
Tags: Apple, apps, apps downloads, Blue Coat, broadband, BYOD, iPad, iPhone, WAN
The FCC plans to allocate more unlicensed spectrum for Wi-Fi to improve performance in crowded public places and in homes, looking to head off a future spectrum crunch. Wi-Fi users will share that spectrum with the U.S. Department of ...
Tags: CES Las Vegas, FCC, Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi spectrum
Raspberry Pi interface board PiFace will be shipping to the public in the next few weeks. The board adds eight output and eight inputs to Raspberry Pi, as well as various LEDs, switches, and a couple of relays. Most ...
Tags: PiFace, Pi interface board, Raspberry Pi, LEDs, switches
CES attendees took to the FCC's plan for more Wi-Fi spectrum,which was announced at the show on Wednesday,like hungry gamblers to a buffet. "At this current conference,I would love more Wi-Fi,"said Ellen Arnold,a product strategy program ...
Tags: CES, FCC, Wi-Fi, CTA Digital
Fabless semiconductor maker Wilocity and Qualcomm announced what they're calling the first multi-gigabit wireless chipset reference architecture based on the new WiGig 60GHz and IEEE 802.11ad standards for high-speed downloads,docking and ...
Tags: Wilocity, Qualcomm, WiGig 60GHz chipset, International CES
HomePlug networks that use the electrical wires in your home to transfer data are distributed by some of the world's biggest broadband providers and available at major retail stores,but even HomePlug's cheerleader in chief calls it ...
Tags: HomePlug, CES, HomePlug AV2, consumer electronics
The latest TVs and tablets are only part of the fun that International CES has to offer.This is about the biggest tech trade show in the world,after all,with thousands of vendors falling over each other to get noticed.Live demos go ...
Tags: tech trade show, CES, Sony, FCC, Gangnam
The general population might best know Asus for its work on Google's Nexus 7 tablet, but hardcore tech enthusiasts know the Taiwanese company for all its inspired--some may zany--reinterpretations of common computer formfactors. Next in the ...
Tags: Asus, Nexus 7 tablet, Team Windows, Team Android, Asus Transformer AiO
In a neighborly gesture, Google, with the help of a local development association, is rolling out free public Wi-Fi to the area surrounding its New York City offices. The Wi-Fi network, covering more than eight blocks in the bustling ...
Tags: Google, public WiFi, New York, WiFi network
If you thought your TV remote control was just for switching channels, think again. Sony has a new system that uses the remote control as a transfer device between a smartphone and television. The system, which makes use of NFC ...
Tags: TV remote contro, Sony, transfer device, smartphone, television
Yahoo has started providing webmail users the option of using a secure connection, matching a similar feature Google and Microsoft have offered for several years. Yahoo’s delay in providing a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connection ...
Tags: Yahoo, Microsoft, Google, Webmail Security
IDG News Service - As TVs get higher resolution and bigger displays, while getting cheaper over time, cable operators may be able to cover an entire wall of your home with a screen that includes two full-size TV shows plus weather, upcoming ...
Tags: cable operators, TV, Cisco Systems, tablets, computer
One Laptop Per Child is back in the tablet race, announcing a new 7-inch tablet with the Android OS that will be sold commercially and include its learning software. The XO Tablet was announced at the International CES show in Las Vegas. ...
Tags: OLPC, One Laptop Per Child, tablet, Android OS, learning software
Most of the tablets, TVs, ultrabooks and smartphones on display at International CES this week ultimately are bound for someone's home, where they'll have to talk to each other. Six major home networking technologies to make that happen ...
Tags: tablets, TVs, ultrabooks, smartphones, WiFi, WiGig, WirelessHD, MOCA 2.0, G.hn
Computerworld - LAS VEGAS -- AT&T on Monday announced an all-digital, wireless home monitoring service that will allow customers to control home security and automate tasks such as locking doors and turning off lights from a smartphone, ...
Tags: smartphone, smart home, wireless home monitoring service, tablet, PC