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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.

Comcast DOCSIS High Speed Broadband

Comcast Offers Businesses 100 Mbps Internet Service

Businesses in Minneapolis and St. Paul can now choose what is certainly one of the fastests broadband laptop services in the United States. Comcast’s DOCSIS 3.0 technology delivers 100 megabits per second (Mbps) downloads, and 15 Mbps uploads using fiber optic networks. The technology is called “wideband”, and it will enable Comcast to deliver progressively faster speed advances well into the future. The offer also bundles Microsoft’s Communication Services and McAfee Security Suite at no extra cost. The value of the bundle is $500 for Microsoft’s services, and $280 for the McAfee Security Suite.

Gigaom reported that the broadband service will cost businesses $369.95 per month.

Clearwire Now Live in Las Vegas

Clearwire’s WiMAX wireless broadband is now live in Las Vegas, the fourth US city with wimax capabilities joining Atlanta, Baltimore, and Portland. Clear’s service can be used with any existing laptop, or ones with embedded wimax. You can sign up at Clear.com, and choose daily, monthly, and at home broadband plans.