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The Samsung Series 5 is the first ever Chromebook, featuring a 12.1 inch screen and an Atom N570 dual core processor.  In many ways, this is the first ever true netbook, because going on the Internet is pretty much all it can do. Initial reviews of the Series 5 have been mixed, although I think it is fair to say that most people are pretty unimpressed.  While there is nothing wrong with the “browser [...]

This is what I wish the internet search will be able to do with a mobile device in the NEAR future. Touch screen, built in camera, scanner, WiFi, google map (hopefully google earth), google search, image search… all in one device. Like this way, when you can see a building through it, it gives you the image search result right on the spot. Choose a building and touch a floor and it tells you more [...]

Wireless transmission speeds in your home or business as fast as 7 gigabits per second. That’s the vision of the next generation of WiFi, called WiGig, offered in a cooperation agreement announced Monday between the Wi-Fi Alliance and the WiGig Alliance. The two industry groups said that they will share technology specification for the creation of a Wi-Fi Alliance certification for operation [...]

Most of us take broadband Internet availability for granted. But a new government survey in USA paints a different picture of the nation. In a survey of more than 100,000 people in more than 50,000 households across the U.S., 40 percent reported no broadband or high-speed access to the Internet, while 30 percent said they have no Internet access at all. Sponsored by the National Telecommunications [...]