These small boxes can extend the range of your Wi-Fi signal by boosting it and retransmitting it.
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Wi-Fi Powered Phones Could Make Chargers Obsolete
Engineering students have designed a device capable of picking up wi-fi signals and converting them to usable electrical current. Who needs a power cable when power-filled waves are all around you?
How to Protect Your Privacy on Public Wi-Fi Networks
Working unsecured on a public hotspot could get you into trouble.
FAA Expected to Finally Say ‘Gate-to-Gate’ Wi-Fi on Planes Is Safe
Gate-to-gate wireless device use could be around the corner.
FCC Proposes Ridiculously Fast In-Flight Internet Speeds
Who doesn’t want faster, more reliable, less expensive in-flight broadband service?
Wi-Fi Donkey Brings New Tech to an Old World
Have you been called an ass for spending too much time on the Internet during a summer vacation?
You can find more of your kind at an Israeli theme park where, for the past four days, a donkey carrying a Wi-Fi router has been …
Cisco’s New Linksys Router: Making Networking Interesting Again
When I think of Linksys, I think of routers. Wi-Fi routers that sit quietly in a corner, doing their job well and requiring little or no attention from their owners.
That’s certainly a argument in favor of buying Linksys …
Passpoint Aims to Take the Hassle Out of Hotspots
“Excuse me, can you tell me how to get on the wi-fi?”
Several fellow journalists asked me that as I used my iPad in the press room here at the CTIA Wireless conference in New Orleans. Actually, it’s a question I get a lot when …
Finally, Cufflinks That Double as a Wi-Fi Hotspot
Yes, yes, we all remember the endless parade of cufflinks that doubled as USB storage drives – if you missed it, it happened maybe four or five years ago and it didn’t so much resemble a parade as it did a line of preschoolers …
How Fat Are You, Really? New Scale Lets You Tell the World
Okay, maybe I should’ve led with “how thin are you,” so as not to offend, but isn’t that just sidestepping the latest (unsettling) CDC statistics, which claim one-third of U.S. adults (33.8%, or 1 in 3) are obese, along with …
The Hollywood Starlet Who Made Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Possible
Who doesn’t love Hedy Lamarr, the Austrian-born movie actress who starred in such classic movies as 1941’s Ziegfeld Girl or 1944’s Experiment Perilous? Of course, if the life of a glamorous movie star of the black and white era …
Ask Techland: What’s the Importance of Wi-Fi on a Smartphone?
The Question:
What exactly is Wi-Fi and if I have it on my phone, what does that mean for using my phone any differently?
The Answer:
Good question. Fair question. One that deserves an answer.
If you’re at a cocktail party …