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The World’s Fastest Wi-Fi Puts Your Sluggish Router to Shame

For the most part, we're all happy if we can get Internet that's fast enough to stream some HD video. But faster is always better, and a new, world-record setting network developed in Germany is so blazing fast you wouldn't know what to do with it. It can deliver 10 HD films in a second. Read More >>

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4g
Samsung’s New 1Gbps 5G Speeds Make 4G Look Like Dial-Up

Samsung says it has completed and tested one possible format that could be used as a basis for 5G wireless data technology, claiming to have magically pulled connection speeds of up to 1Gbps through its new super-super-fast mobile data connection. Read More >>

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headphones
Bose’s Big Black Budget AE2W Bluetooth Headphones

Audio specialist Bose has finally jumped into the stereo Bluetooth headphones scene, with its new AE2W set allowing simultaneous connection to two devices so users can flip between tablet audio and phone calls easily. All you'd then need is a Google Glass on your face to complete the idiot-from-the-future look. Read More >>

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networks
BT Providing the Pipes and Wires for O2′s 4G Network

BT has signed a ten-year deal with O2's parent company Telefonica to help create the network's UK 4G service, with BT building a new "high capacity transmission network" to ensure we can all refresh Twitter as many times per minute as we want. Read More >>

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giz explains
Why Android Updates Are So Slow

If there is one complaint we hear from Android users more than any other, it's the speed at which software updates arrive. Or don't arrive. It's especially tough on tech enthusiasts who read about all the advantages of the new update, but can't get it on their own devices for six months, if at all. Even brand new devices typically fail to launch with the latest version of Android. Read More >>

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Samsung Hints at 6.3″ Future Phone, Probably the Galaxy Note III

Samsung's new listing for its Bluetooth Game Pad has one very interesting tech spec, with the controller claiming to be compatible with phones containing displays of up to 6.3 inches. That's a rather specific size, leading some to postulate that's how large the forthcoming Galaxy Note III's screen might be. Read More >>

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samsung
Samsung Preparing Docking Bluetooth Game Pad for Galaxy Range

While we didn't see anything particular thrilling or innovative in Samsung's safe Galaxy S4 launch last night, it did have an interesting piece of hardware to show off backstage -- an official Samsung wireless game controller. So Samsung can crush Ouya, Game Stick and the rest of them in an instant. Read More >>

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lightning review
Sonos Playbar Review: Everything Wireless Should Be This Easy

Sound bars don't immediately benefit from Wi-Fi connectivity the way music systems do, because you usually use them with your TV, and your TV isn't something you need to put in your pocket and walk around with. But that doesn't mean that Sonos' wireless music features don't benefit from its first sound bar. Just the opposite, in fact. Read More >>

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phones
McDonald’s Adding Free, Wireless Electric Sauce to its Menu

If you're trusting enough to leave your £36-a-month smartphone resting on a table in McDonalds while you guzzle down some meat and bread, there's about to be a good reward for doing so -- free electricity from embedded tabletop wireless chargers. Read More >>

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uncategorized
Wireless Card Reader Lets You Share Your Shots Without Stupid Cables

Wireless devices are usually far more convenient than their tethered alternative. But in this case losing the USB cable has made the REX-WIFISD1 SD/SDHX/SDXC and flash drive reader a bit on the bulky side. So what do you really gain for it being wireless? The ability to access it from any mobile device. Read More >>

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4g
UK 4G Auction Rules Set; Networks Start Raiding The Piggy Bank

So, we finally have a set-in-stone date for the sweet, soothing rays of competitively-priced 4G to hit our shores. The telecoms regulator Ofcom has published the rules for the 4G spectrum auction, giving a timeline for when licenses will be given, and letting us know whenabouts that switch will finally be flipped. Read More >>

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4g
EU Wants 3G Spectrum to be Reused for Quick 4G Coverage Boost

The EU is asking its member states to free up more of their airwaves for use with future 4G services, with some of bands currently used by 3G networks soon to be recycled and made available for next-gen LTE connections. Read More >>

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4g
Screw 4G, the UK’s Already Working on 5G

While the UK is shamefully lagging many parts of the world in introducing a 4G service, we might just become the world leaders when it comes to future 5G networks, thanks to a £35m investment in developing the fifth-generation of mobile signals. Read More >>

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apple
So That’s Why Apple’s Not Bothering to Make an iPhone 5 Dock

Apple's just been awarded a universal wireless dock patent that allows an adapter to be slapped onto the bottom of an iPhone or iPad, which then wirelessly links up to a docking-type device. Who needs crappy wires? Read More >>

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uncategorized
London 2012 Bans Knives, Drugs, Guns and… Portable 3G Hotspots

London's Olympic events will not be welcoming anyone carrying a 3G hotspot device, as all forms of "Wireless access points" are banned from being taken into the Olympic venues. Read More >>