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 [...]
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Texas Instruments Lands Quadruple Play with WiLink 7.0 Single Chip Solution
February 9th, 2010
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 »Roku expands its product line…
October 27th, 2009
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 [...]
The State of the Quadruple Play
September 29th, 2009
Staying connected is about to become even easier. In a world of wireless, land line, and video phones, the Internet, and hundreds of television channels and their associated content, it’s easy to understand why, as our lives become more dependent on these services, consumers will demand increased and more efficient access to them. 3G enabled [...]
Posted in Content Delivery, Internet, Technology Tags: AT&T, comcast, fios, Internet, ISP, online, quadruple play, triple play, Verizon, wireless, wireless broadband 2 Comments »Smarter Personal Navigation from Garmin
September 17th, 2009
It’s no secret that we’re big fans of GPS devices that deliver real time traffic data, but Garmin’s announcement today that its nuvi 1690 will release this fall is especially compelling. Although the device will carry a steep initial MSRP of $499, it comes bundled with two years of Garmin’s nuLink service (a $120 value). [...]
Get ready for 802.11n…for real this time!
September 11th, 2009
Today, the IEEE finally approved the 802.11n standard for wireless network communications. The approval, which only took the IEEE special committee seven years to complete after work on it began, finalizes the standard and elevates it and the products produced in accordance with it out of “draft” status.
Wireless-N networks have several key advantages over those operating [...]
Powerline networking may finally become mainstream…
September 8th, 2009
For those interested in a little technology M&A news, Atheros, a WiFi chip maker whose products are the brain of many wireless networking devices, today purchased Intellon, a powerline networking chip maker. The purchase validates powerline networking technology and will allow Atheros to “enable dynamic meshing of wireless and wired bandwidth, providing robust transmission of [...]
Posted in Networking, PCs and Laptops, Powerline, Wireless Tags: Atheros, ethernet, homeplug, Intellon, networking, powerline, powerline networking, wireless 2 Comments »Amazing Wireless Power Demonstration
September 4th, 2009
If there is one potentially societal changing technology being actively developed, it is wireless power transmission. Nothing else, if properly implemented, could so drastically change the way we live our lives. Electric or hydrogen powered cars may change what propels us when we drive, but they don’t fundamentally change the way we drive. OLED or [...]
Posted in Energy Storage and Transmission, Technology Tags: battery, home, powerline, wireless, Wireless Power, witricity 1 Comment »More WPA Wireless Networking Vulnerabilities
August 28th, 2009
Well, it looks like some geniuses in Japan have figured out a way to decrease the amount of time needed to hack into a WPA protected wireless network from around fifteen minutes to less than one, thus reminding us yet again that modern data security measures are only as good as your local hacker’s level [...]
Posted in Networking, PCs and Laptops, Wireless Tags: hacking, MOCA, networking, powerline, research, security, wireless, WPA 4 Comments »Review: Sennheiser RS 140 Wireless Headphones
August 23rd, 2009
If you love watching movies or listening to music and don’t live alone in the middle of the woods, I’d definitely suggest a good set of wireless headphones. Admittedly, there’s nothing like the 770 Watts my Denon AV receiver can stuff into 7.1 channels of wall-to-wall sound, but my neighbors and wife have a different [...]
Posted in Audio, Consumer Electronics, Reviews Tags: headphones, home theater, review, speakers, TV, wireless 1 Comment »
