From smart TVs to DVRs and games consoles, many items of consumer electronics now expect a network connection to download media or to upload hi-scores. Most homes don’t have ethernet cabling as standard and surprisingly few of these gadgets actually…
Recently my wife volunteered me to fix her friend’s old laptop. The friend is a teacher and had recently begun taking her notebook PC to school with her, but couldn’t connect t the school’s wireless network. Within a couple of…
I don’t classify myself as an early adopter, I usually wait until a new technology has been out a while and the price has come down a bit before I jump in. Consequently I rarely find myself ahead of the…