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Technical

Hotels need to wake up

For the past 2 weeks I have been staying in a Residence Inn and have been dealing with connectivity. The dial-up out of the room dropped frequently and the best connection was 24.4 which SUCKED. So mid week I drove all over town checking with hotels and found a Hampton Inn that was cheaper and had broadband in the room

Intel Spices up Mobile Chip

"Intel will redraw its mobile road map next month. The chipmaker will, over the next few weeks, release several faster Pentium M and mobile Pentium 4 processors for notebook PCs. The new mobile chips will mark a shift in strategy for Intel. With the Pentium M--the processor that forms the core of its Centrino chip family for wireless notebooks--taking hold

Wearable WiFi detector

Trying to find wireless access points is such a hassle. But with the new wearable WiFi detector you will be able to easily detect a WiFi hot spot. (Warning wearing this will either get you beat up or hamper your ability to get a date) [wifisense.com}

Search Microsoft’s Site with Google

I had no idea that google had such direct search links. Pretty nice of them to give Microsoft a dedicated search page. [www.google.com/microsoft.html] I wonder how much it would cost to get a www.google.com/geeknewscentral.html link?

Billboard Tracking

One of the things that is good about Hawaii is that there are no ugly billboards up. I always am kinda surprised when I am back in the mainland as I do not see how people put up with these ugly things. Well the Nielsen Media Research is not only having it's volunteers track what the watch on Tv but

Want to Upgrade Your TiVo?

Seems TiVo now has an authorized upgrade center that will happily increase your recording time. [Gizmodo] There are also some unauthorized companies.

WiFi has Broadband Providers worried

Before WiFi no one gave much thought to sharing with ones neighbor. But with broadband becoming more popular and more powerful broadband companies are worried that subscribers are going to get together with there neighbors and have one connection shared amongst people in close proximity to one another. Cox Communications is not real happy with routers that now allow one