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BluTracker helps find things within a half mile radius using your phone

BluTracker helps find things within a half mile radius using your phone
  • Posted January 3, 2013, 2:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware With 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…

Calgary installs Bluetooth traffic monitoring system for commuters

Calgary installs Bluetooth traffic monitoring system for commuters
  • 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…

Marvell unveils 802.11ac 4x4 chip with up to 1.3Gb/s data rate

Marvell unveils 802.11ac 4x4 chip with up to 1.3Gb/s data rate
  • 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…

iOS 6 beta augments spotty Wi-Fi with 3G, adds Bluetooth sharing

iOS 6 beta augments spotty Wi-Fi with 3G, adds Bluetooth sharing
  • Posted August 10, 2012, 2:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Apple, Mobile Computing
  • 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 unveils first 802.11ac chip with Bluetooth 4.0, NFC

Marvell unveils first 802.11ac chip with Bluetooth 4.0, NFC
  • Posted June 4, 2012, 5:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, Mobile Computing
  • 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…

iPavement stones with embedded PCs used as wireless app hotspots

iPavement stones with embedded PCs used as wireless app hotspots
  • Posted April 26, 2012, 11:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware, Mobile Computing
  • 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 to include Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0 with X79 motherboards

Gigabyte to include Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0 with X79 motherboards
  • Posted November 1, 2011, 10:30 AM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in Industry News, Hardware
  • 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…

Bluetooth Smart Marks implemented to increase compatibility awareness

Bluetooth Smart Marks implemented to increase compatibility awareness
  • 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…

Weekend Open Forum: What in-vehicle technology do you use?

Weekend Open Forum: What in-vehicle technology do you use?
  • 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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