Posted January 3, 2013, 2:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in HardwareWith Video
StickNFind, LLC has launched a campaign on indiegogo for a new product called BluTracker. As the name suggests, BluTracker is a long range Bluetooth GPS tracking device that features a line-of-sight range of up to 2,500 feet that’s suitable for…
Posted December 7, 2012, 12:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
A stretch of highway known as the Deerfoot Trail in Calgary, a city in the province of Alberta, Canada, has been outfitted with a rather unique traffic monitoring system. Instead of relying on road sensors or other common methods, this…
Posted December 5, 2012, 5:30 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware, Industry News
Following up on the 802.11ac 2x2 chip unveiled this summer, Marvell has announced what is said to be the industry's first 802.11ac 4x4 wireless local area network (WLAN) system-on-a-chip (SoC). Providing streaming data rates of up to 1.3Gb/s when using…
In the latest beta of iOS 6, Apple has included a feature coined Wi-Fi Plus Cellular. The surprisingly blandly-named feature allows apps having troubles with Wi-Fi to switch over to cellular data on the fly. This addition aims to smooth out…
Marvell has pulled the curtain on its first 802.11ac chip, a debut which makes Marvell the second manufacturer to produce an 802.11ac solution thus far. The Avastar 88W8897 may feature a name only an industry OEM could love, but marks…
Urban dwellers may soon find a new way to obtain information wirelessly while on the go. A Spanish company called Via Inteligente has developed a product called the iPavement stone that, as the name suggests, includes an embedded computer with…
Gigabyte is set to include Wi-Fi and the new Bluetooth 4.0 standard as an add-on card for several of its new X79 motherboards, according to VR-Zone. The card will be in the boxes of X79-UD5, X79-UD7 and G1.Assassin 2 boards, and features…
Posted October 26, 2011, 12:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has announced they are extending the Bluetooth brand by introducing two new extensions to increase consumer awareness about device compatibility. The new Smart Marks, called Bluetooth Smart Ready and Bluetooth Smart, are designed specifically…
Posted September 16, 2011, 8:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in WOF
In-vehicle technology implementation has skyrocketed over the past several decades and even more rapidly over the past 10-20 years. It seems hard to believe that air bags have been around since the early 70s and advancements like electronic stability control,…
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