Wireless

It is with a heavy heart and a lump in our throats that we bid farewell to Paul this week...so long Paul, and thanks for all the fish. Wireless charging  [03:19] Bing it on!  [09:01] China is hiring  [13:30] And....why Paul decided to jump ship.  [16:44]

This video demonstrates some of a great ways that Windows 8 is designed for mobility from instant reconnect to cost-aware networking. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/01/20/engineering-windows-8-for-mobility.aspx

It’s the day of the presentation. Months of work culminate in a thirty minute review with the board. You’ve been working for weeks on the deck, and even if you say so yourself, it’s looking sharp (especially those 3am changes you made overnight). You enter the boardroom, they’re all there, waiting.…

Alongside the humble router, your printer is probably the least loved tech in your home or workplace. I remember years of frustration setting up printers, working around horrible printer drivers, dealing with paper jams and resetting printer queues. Me and my printer, we were not best of friends.…

WeFi, the Windows software that offers an easy way to locate Wi-Fi hotspots, has been updated to version 4.0. Unlike the built-in wireless networks feature in the Windows operatng system, WeFi offers several extra options, most notably something called “WeSpots.” These “WeSpots” are free and open…

Microsoft Researchers working in conjunction with researchers from Harvard University have developed a breakthrough technology which would allow the use of the “whitespace” spectrum for wireless broadband networking. White spaces are the portions of the unlicensed spectrum that’s between the parts…

A new Vista feature pack for wireless has arrived. This software update offers a few items that improve wireless support, including: Bluetooth version 2.1 support, Unified Pairing user interface, and Windows Connect Now updates. In order to install these updates, you must be running Vista SP1.…

Forgot the WEP or WPA key to a wireless network? If you've ever connected to that network from your PC, then the key can be retrieved. The freeware utility WirelessKeyView will reveal the keys to any network you've ever connected to using Windows' Wireless Zero Configuration (not 3rd party…

This was by far the best part of the Bill Gates keynote for me and probably the highlight of the show overall. Microsoft Auto showed of 2 new great technologies to make all of our driving experiences more pleasant with a focus on the Sync My Ride technology. I can't wait to get this…

The Eye-Fi Card is a breakthrough new product that everyone with a digital camera needs to know about. It's a 2GB SD card and wireless memory card that automatically uploads pictures from your digital camera or PC directly to the photo sharing site, photo printing site, blog, or…