Tag Archives: WiFi

New tech turns SIM cards into WiFi hotspots

Sagem Orga and Telefonica have developed a new technology that squeezes in a WLAN modem inside a tiny SIM card, turning any mobile phone into a WiFi hotspot. It’s called the SIMFi and it aims to provide easy access to the internet to notebooks and netbooks without any installations and setups. Remy Cricco, Technology Innovation [...]

Read more

Samsung NC10 hack adds 3G to netbook

A hack and instructions on how to perform it, show users how to add 3G into their Samsung NC10. The downside to the hack however is that you use the WiFi. The WiFi adapter is switched for a 3G modem instead. The hack is very easy to perform though and WiFi can be replaced with [...]

Read more

Dell to Offer GPS and WiFi Positioning on Mini 10 Netbooks

GPS, Wi-Fi Geolocation, Geopositioning. Call it whatever you like. Thanks to the popularity of the iPhone and other mobile phones with this feature, demand for GPS-enabled navigation has steadily increased. So, won’t it be logical that netbooks jumps into the GPS bandwagon as well? Dell knows this and is taking an early stride by launching [...]

Read more