Despite technological improvements such as stereo FM radio and more recently HD radio, the breadth and depth of free terrestrial radio broadcasts hasn’t changed much since its inception generations ago. Within any given market, a listener may only have a hand-full of stations into which they regularly tune. Satellite radio sought to upend this trend by giving [...]
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Tags: Internet radio, mp3, radio, View Quest Wifi Radio, WiFi, wireless 
No Comments »Ah, the allure of free Internet. Let’s face it. Sometimes you’re just out of reach of that free WiFi hotspot. Sure, you could be social and join the net-surfing crowd in that coffee shop. But why do that when you can sit alone in the parking lot out back? And as if the [...]
Posted in Networking, PCs and Laptops, Peripherals, Reviews, USB, Wireless Tags: 802.11n, Mvix Solido, WiFi, wireless, wireless Internet 3 Comments »Texas Instruments today announced its WiLink 7.0 chip, thus continuing the miniturization and convergence of mobile devices. The WiLink 7.0 chip, the “industry’s first offering to integrate WLAN 802.11n, GPS, FM transmit/receive, and Bluetooth technologies” is up to half the size of earlier integrated wireless radio solutions. And because it’s a single chip [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, GPS, Networking, PCs and Laptops, Phones, Wireless Tags: Bluetooth, FM, GPS, single chip, Texas Instruments, WiFi, WiLink 7.0, wireless No Comments »We’ve mentioned the Roku player in other posts, citing its ability to stream Netflix movies instantaneously to your TV via the Internet. In its original form, the standard definition Roku player allowed subscribers to conveniently play Netflix’ growing library of online content. Now, Roku has released two additional players, both supporting high definition video and [...]
