Your Guide To Wireless

WIMAX Mobile

Wimax mobile Freedom4, the company formerly known as Pipex Wireless, has applied to Ofcom for the right to offer mobile Wimax services. In a joint venture with Intel, the company has already begun a rollout of fixed Wimax services. News via PCW

Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse

Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse 7000 is a stylish affair that sits comfortably in the hand and glides smoothly across the desk. A small docking station recharges the battery, but we found you need to be very precise when placing the mouse on the dock. The wireless connection is provided by a small 2.4GHz USB stick. The two traditional buttons are joined by a smooth-scrolling wheel, which itself has three button actions, and two thumb-operated buttons Microsoft says they are for one-touch magni...

Femtocell Packs Wifi Router

A femtocell home cellular base station from Thomson integrates a DSL modem, a Wifi access point and four-port Ethernet router. The company expects mobile phone providers to bundle the device with ADSL broadband access and two handsets by the end of the year. Femtocells improve cellular coverage within homes but offer even more benefit to operators because they make more efficient use of expensive spectrum and reduce the backhaul traffic from base stations to truck routes. So femtocells are...

Eye-Fi Wireless Flash Card

Miniaturization has brought us amazing advances, tiny transistors, microscopic nanotubes, bite-size Frosted Mini Wheats, and now the Eye-Fi. Combining a 2GB flash card with a Wi-Fi radio, this affordable hybrid card lets you easily upload pictures directly from your camera to the web and your PC. Setup is easy. You plug it into your PC and run the included software, pick from a list of photo-sharing sites, which including SmugMug, Flickr, and Facebook, to create an Eye-Fi account, and...

700MHz Auction Coming Soon

More companies are begin bidding on a section of the 700MHz spectrum that had previously been used by analog TV. This auction, however, has engendered much more media interest than past FCC auctions, in part because of the spectrum's features but also because of the companies participating in the sale. The section of the 700MHz spectrum the FCC is auctioning off is composed of five different blocks. Of these, the A, B, and E blocks are further divided into smaller regional areas. These secti...