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Ten ways your smartphone knows where you are
One of the most important capabilities that smartphones now have is knowing where they are. More than desktops, laptops, personal navigation devices or even tablets, which are harder to take with you, a smartphone can combine its location with many other pieces of data to make new services available.
By Stephen Lawson | 06 April, 2012 22:47
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Congress won't kill off new unlicensed spectrum after all
Rest easy, America: Congress has decided against killing the next generation of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
By Brad Reed | 17 February, 2012 08:27
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The amazing shrinking computer
The quest for smaller and smaller computing devices usually involves a tradeoff between processor power, battery life, communications features, memory and storage. While the product I'm looking at is in some respects the result of the intersection of a vision with compromises, the WiMM One from WiMM Labs is one of the slickest miniature computing devices I've seen to date.
By Mark Gibbs | 08 December, 2011 06:28
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Bluetooth keyboards will get 10-year battery life with new chip, Broadcom promises
Broadcom is working on a Bluetooth chipset that will give wireless keyboards a battery life of up to 10 years, the company said on Tuesday.
By Mikael Ricknäs | 07 December, 2011 22:54
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Ford MyKey technology prevents drivers from texting, speeding
The days of teenagers speeding or making phone calls while driving in their parent’s Ford may be numbered when new technology, which blocks people from receiving phone calls and also places a speed limit on the vehicle, arrives in Australia.
By Hamish Barwick | 07 November, 2011 16:37
Features about bluetooth
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Networking gets faster, more media-savvy
Home is where the network is: That's the mantra of networking vendors at the Consumer Electronics Show 2011 in Las Vegas this week.
By Yardena Arar | 08 January, 2011 13:19
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Smartphone specs demystified
Retailers use various marketing and technical terms to describe the smartphones they sell. Some of those terms represent meaningful phone characteristics, while others are mostly hype. To help smartphone shoppers understand what they're looking at, we offer definitions of the most commonly used specifications, and explain why they are important.
By Ginny Mies, Armando Rodriguez, and Mark Sullivan | 17 December, 2010 00:08
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57 amazing things you didn't know your tech could do!
We've worked long and hard to come up with the best tips and tricks for your PCs, smartphones, cameras, game controllers, music players, and the Web. Let's start with PC, laptop, and networking tips.
By Zack Stern | 07 May, 2009 12:03
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eBeef: RFID from birth to plate
Computers determine the quality of meat on your dinner plate, long before it turns up on the doorstep of your butcher, and the increasing uptake of technology in the meat industry means armers across the country are liberating themselves from the global financial crisis, the ravages of drought and other environmental problems.
By Kathryn Edwards | 27 April, 2009 14:50
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10 great Bluetooth gadgets
Does this sound familiar? Your mobile phone, your smart phone and your notebook all come equipped with Bluetooth, but you hardly use it because other than a clunky headset, there's not much to connect to. That may have been true in the past, but while you weren't looking, an array of cool and useful Bluetooth devices has appeared on the scene.
By Brian Nadel | 21 November, 2008 08:18
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