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• UltraNewb: Share your Mac's internet connection wirelessly

  Published: July 27, 2007, 10:00 am

  Tags: Mac Os X, Mac Tip, Ultranewb, Wifi, Wireless

  button.This'll set up a wireless connection between your Mac and the PC, and the PC will be able to surf on it via your wired Mac. When I first enabled this in the hotel room here in Chicago, it told me I had "settings that might intefere" with the sharing. Turns out that "Personal Web Sharing" has to be enabled as well on the Services

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• Emoticons In Fear: Apple Patents Text-to-Speech Messaging

  Published: July 28, 2007, 12:15 pm

  Tags: Apple, Cellphones, Emoticons In Fear, Gadgets, Gsm, Patent, Patents, Smartphones, Sms, Software, Wireless

  In a recent patent filing "Multimedia data transfer for a personal communication device," Apple is offering text messages without the GSM SMS protocol, or even the need to read. While SMS requires an intermediary server between sender and receiver, Apple's patent has a sender's device convert text messages to an audio signal with this audio

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• Illumidating: Lomak Light Control Frees Hands for "Better Uses"

  Published: July 28, 2007, 4:00 pm

  Tags: Concept, Design, Gadgets, Home Entertainment, Illumidating, Keyboard, Lomak, Mouse, Pcs, Peripherals, Wireless

  Lomak (Light Operated Mouse and Keyboard) allows for control of an entire computer through the use of a light pointer, accommodating those who have difficulty with traditional input devices. Operated by hand or head, users aim the beam of light at a pad holding rotary-style letters and numbers. As the light passes over each button, it appears on

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• Ask Engadget: Wireless TV for the home?

  Published: July 28, 2007, 9:44 pm

  Tags: Ask Engadget, Askengadget, Wireless Tv, Wirelesstv

  Last time we were picking a wireless router for Brad, here's Lenny's question:"I'm looking for a wireless TV solution for my dining room. I want a TVthat is as unobtrusive as possible. I don't want to run coax in there,nor any other AV cables. I just want a TV (preferably mounted on thewall) that gets its signal wirelessly. I saw two solutions

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• KisMAC Developer Discontinues Project

  Published: July 29, 2007, 1:49 am

  Tags: Wireless

  of KisMAC, a passive wireless network discovery tool for Mac OS X, is discontinuing the project. Michael Rossberg lives in Germany and that country has recently passed laws that would make his participation dangerous. He urges visitors to take a copy of KisMAC and its source as long as the site is up, so that development might be

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• Frankenreview: Six Takes on the New Tivo HD

  Published: July 29, 2007, 3:19 pm

  Tags: Feature, Frankenreview, Gadgets, Home Entertainment, Portable Media, Press, Series 3, Software, Tivo, Tivo Hd, Wireless

  The Tivo HD is the product were waiting for but beginning to doubt. Because Tivo's Series 3 model successfully brought HD to the platform, but at a price reserved for high-end home theaters. So when news of the $299 Tivo HD broke, we were elated. But how does it perform? Hit the jump for our Frankenreview: a promised consensus, once and for all,

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• KisMAC dev calls it quits

  Published: July 30, 2007, 5:00 am

  Tags: Diagnose, Encryption, Kismac, Network, Sniffer, Tools, Wep, Wireless, Wpa

  developer of KisMAC, the wireless network sniffer based on Kismet, has declared the project discontinued. I can't get the project's website to load (most likely because it's been Slashdotted), but apparently the reason Rossberg gave was that a change in Germany's laws would make it dangerous for him to continue working on it. The law

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• NetworkLocation 2.0 goes official

  Published: July 30, 2007, 7:00 am

  Tags: Management, Manager, Network Location, Networklocation, Utilities, Wireless

  all based on the wired or wireless network you connect to, this new version adds a great new feature that users have been dying for: the ability to auto-detect which network you're connecting to and begin changing any settings you prefer with no effort on the user's part. Also on the new actions list are things like disabling bluetooth and

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• Verizon Wireless to buy Rural Cellular for $2.67 billion

  Published: July 30, 2007, 1:50 pm

  Tags: Merger, Rcc, Rural Wireless, Ruralwireless, Verizon, Verizon Wireless, Verizonwireless

  around, we've got Verizon Wireless doing the acquiring, as it has just announced plans to pay $2.67 billion for "one of the nation's largest rural carriers," Rural Cellular. The news comes just over a month after AT&T handed over a staggering amount of its own to pick up Dobson Communications, and this agreement will expand the carrier's

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• Loews Regency Hotel gets outfitted with Powermat wireless power

  Published: July 31, 2007, 9:33 am

  Tags: Power Mat, Powermat, Wireless Power, Wirelesspower

  under: Misc. Gadgets The wireless power business sure seems to be getting crowded these days, with upstart Powermat Ltd. only the latest company promising to free your gadgets from yet another cord. Unlike some similar products, however, Powermat's system looks to actually be ready to charge your devices, with the Loews Regency Hotel Business

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• Clearance For New Linux Wireless Driver

  Published: July 31, 2007, 2:50 pm

  Tags: Wireless

  clearance to OpenHAL, a wireless component for Linux, based on their pro-bono review of the code. This announcement dispels allegations of infringement on Atheros' proprietary HAL software. 'We believe that this outcome will clear the way for eventual acceptance of a new wireless driver into the Linux kernel,' said John Linville, the Linux

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• FCC Goes Halfway On Opening 700 MHz Spectrum

  Published: July 31, 2007, 4:34 pm

  Tags: Wireless

  The FCC has set rules for the upcoming auction of 700-MHz spectrum and they went halfway on the four open access principles that Google and others had called for. The agency said yes to "open devices" and "open applications," thus requiring the auction winner to permit consumers to use any device or application on the network. But the FCC turned

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• The Most Valuable Spectrum on Earth

  Published: August 1, 2007, 1:19 am

  Tags: Wireless

  The 700mhz spectrum freed up by television broadcasters will partially be auctioned off next year and Google wants it. There is some great analysis of the rules and consequences elseware so I’ll spare my .02 cents. My primary thought on the matter is that if the CTIA is so strenuously opposed to Google’s rule proposal, well then what

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• Teq AV/IT's WID110 makes any display wireless

  Published: August 1, 2007, 8:33 am

  Tags: Hd Streaming, Hdstreaming, Stream, Streaming, Wid110, Wireless Display, Wireless Interface, Wireless Lcd, Wireless Receiver, Wirelessdisplay, Wirelessinterface, Wirelesslcd, Wirelessreceiver

  under: Displays, Wireless Forget forking out for one of those proprietary wireless displays, as Teq AV/IT's WID110 enables any ole display or projector to receive video signals sans wires so long as it understands VGA. The wireless gateway / receiver "enables multiple computers to stream video to a screen without any cables," and allows

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• Who wears the pants in the iPhone AT&T Wireless relationship?

  Published: August 1, 2007, 5:50 am

  Tags: Appl, Iphone, Ipod, Smart Phone, Smartphone, Telecom, Wireless

  update. And AT&T Wireless -- which lost much of its marketing power back in 1984 when AT&T was broken up -- was eager for a bit of Apple's star power. Unfortunately, AT&T Wireless has realized that what matters most to Apple is keeping Steve Jobs happy. And Jobs probably sees AT&T Wireless as a dumb pipe. While AT&T

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