Archive for April, 2010
Free Laptop Cards
Free Wireless Internet Cards
BroadbandLaptops.com maintains daily offers of free wireless internet cards. We feature both USB dongles and PCMCIA cards. Some of the wireless cards are for a laptop or a mac, and some are dual band supporting a 3g broadband network and a 4G broadband network. These free laptop broadband offers can be found here:
http://free.broadbandlaptops.com.
Quanta Netbook With Embedded Wimax Broadband
Netbook News’ uncovered a prototype Quanta netbook fashioned with embedded wimax broadband. Quanta is one of the many Taiwanese original device manufacturers (ODM), and is the company that manufacturers most of the devices that Apple offers. Device and design aestetics aside, the mini laptop manufacturers should focus their manufacturing and marketing of laptops and netbooks with embedded broadband. This should be true for 3g, wimax, and lte broadband.
Free WiFi Bundle Coming to New York?
Customers of Comcast, Cablevision, and Time Warner Cable can expect a free wifi bundle as part of their high speed broadband services. The cable companies have already developed their own networks of public wifi hotspots, however the companies have now combined their wifi hotspots so that all of their customers have city wide free wifi for use on their laptops while mobile. Customers of all three cable companies will be able to freely roam on the combined public wifi network throughout the New York metropolitan area including parts of New Jersey. No word yet on timing and service availability of the free wifi bundles that will likely be offered with the cable companies fixed broadband services.
Broadband Laptops Consume More Data
ABI Research released a report last week claiming that Verizon Wireless and Sprint each carried more than 16 billion more megabytes of mobile data than AT&T during 2009. This surprised many given that AT&T carries the Apple iPhone, which may be the most widely used mobile device for data. However, ABI cited wireless broadband usage by laptop customers on Verizon and Sprints 3G and 4G networks. Broadband laptops consume much greater amounts of mobile data, and Verizon and Sprint have more laptop users of mobile broadband.
ABI counted air cards, USB dongles, and embedded broadband laptops in their research. They did not however, break out wireless data consumption by laptop access.
Dell Bringing Mobile DTV to Laptops & Netbooks
Dell Inspiron Mini 10
Dell introduced several mobile broadband computing products at the 2010 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show. An Inspiron Mini 10 was shown which showcased the combination of mobile DTV, WiFi, and embedded broadband featuring mobile video and live television. Dell also announced that the company is adding mobile DTV capabilities to other product lines including its’ much anticipated phone the Dell Mini 5.
Several vendors also showed USB receivers which enable any laptop with a USB connection to receive live television while mobile. These receivers resemble USB dongles used for mobile broadband connections.