If you don't mind breaking the rules, you can use your iPhone 3G as a wireless broadband modem for your notebook. Lifehacker explains how: It starts by "jailbreaking" your phone, meaning hacking it a bit so it can run software from sources other than the App Store. This is a...
Out of the box, the iPhone can't double as a wireless modem for your notebook. (Heck, even my $99 Palm Centro can do that!) Would you even want it to, though, given its reliance on AT&T's pokey EDGE network? Well, when there's no Wi-Fi hotspot to be found, pokey Internet...
Remember the CradlePoint CTR-350 Cellular Travel Router, which leverages your broadband USB modem to create a go-anywhere Wi-Fi hotspot? The WAAV AirBox CM3 does more or less the same thing, except that it packs its own 3G modem. In other words, it's a hotspot-in-a-box -- or, if you prefer, an...
Calling all road warriors! Business Hacks wants to know what gear goes where you go. What are your travel staples, your must-have accessories for flights, train rides, even road trips? Here's a sampling of the stuff I pack when I'm headed to the airport: Palm Centro The...
Right now I'm totally digging the Sierra Wireless U595 USB modem, which plugs into my notebook to provide high-speed Internet access just about anywhere. The only thing that would make it better is if I could share the wireless love with my co-workers. CradlePoint's CTR-350 Cellular Travel Router makes it...
If broadband is good, wideband must be better; right? Well, maybe. Yesterday an AP story carried on Forbes.com reported that Comcast CEO Brian Roberts demoed a cable modem providing downloads at the blazing speed on 150 megabits per second. Comcast’s standard offer around here offers only 6 megabits today...
Digital Subscriber Line DSL and cable modem are two of current major broadband access services. Both offer advantages to the home and small business customers. This report gives their basic concepts, provides literature survey for these two technologies, and performs detail comparative analyses between them on speed, cost, security, availability,...
This paper provides information and recommendations to the Minister regarding significant problems that have emerged in the telecommunications market related to: internet dumping, where a customer's modem connection to the Internet is taken over by software, known as an Internet dialer, and re-established using an expensive call service; and unexpectedly...
This paper studies the role of Internet Service Providers in the 56K standards war. 56K modems were introduced under two competing incompatible standards. The paper shows the importance of competition between Internet Service Providers in the adoption process. It shows that ISP's were less likely to adopt the technology that...
The paper analyzes a dynamic model in which firms and consumers choose to adopt one of two technologies or delay their adoption. Adoption allows agents to trade with other adopters of the same technology. The paper shows that there is an inefficient equilibrium in which firms differentiate across standards and...
In this paper, Dresser-Rand recognized the need to modernize their proven heavy process reciprocating compressor line. The company considered key factors such as manufacturing economics, reliability and ease of maintenance during the design stage. The result was the design of four cylinder lineups. Improvements were also made in the frame...
To provide a quick solution for its benefits professionals requesting Internet access to its Total Benefits Administration TBA application, Hewitt Associates is deploying Microsoft Host Integration Server HIS 2000. HR Administrators accessed the system in several ways, many using Microsoft SNA Server at Hewitt Associates' data center and then connecting...
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This paper introduces sea web to the mine countermeasures MCM community, and addresses the communication and navigation issues associated with autonomous sensors and UVs Telesonar underwater acoustic modem technology has attained a level of maturity sufficient to support undersea wireless communication networks, as dramatically. The sea web wireless infrastructure naturally...
Management experts believe that leadership could be the number one strategic concern of businesses in the 21st century. As companies change with the times, so do the people who lead them. The question this article tries to address is what exactly needs for fixing them? Employers can no longer guarantee...
A thumbnail is a small version of a picture that represents the full-size version of the picture. Using thumbnails of graphics on your Web page can reduce download time for visitors to the page. (Because modem speeds vary, downloading large, full-size graphics can take a lot of time.) Visitors can...
Computer problems may seem immensely complicated at first glance. But some are relatively easy to fix. On a scale of 1 to 10 (where 10 should only be performed by certified technicians who have no less than three electronic gadgets on their belt), replacing memory is usually about a 4....
Palm got a nice distribution boost Thursday in a deal with Verizon Wireless. The companies said statement that Palm's Centro–the one bright spot for Palm in a landscape of bleak news–will hit Verizon Wireless stores June 13. The Centro has been a big hit...
A commissary is the military equivalent of a commercial supermarket. DeCA operates 300 commissaries around the world. Refrigeration Monitoring & Control Systems RMCS are used by commissaries and commercial supermarkets to monitor and control refrigeration, HVAC, and lighting systems. The work for EMC was to monitor performance of refrigeration, HVAC,...
KENNEWICK, Wash. -- Electronic Systems Technology, Inc. EST (OTCBB: ELST), dba ESTeem Wireless Modems, the manufacturer of the ESTeem[TM] product line of narrow band licensed, Ethernet Licensed, and Ethernet Unlicensed wireless modems, announced today their new unlicensed product. The ESTeem 195Ed is entering production after receiving Federal Communications Commission type...
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