[/caption]   One of the best ways to improve battery life on a laptop, smartphone, or tablet is to shut off the WiFi radio. Of course, that’s not always practical, but a grad student at Duke University has come up with a technique for managing WiFi networking that uses between 38 and 51 percent less energy. When implemented properly, the…

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Sure, Google is adding support for USB peripherals to Android 3.1, which means that you may eventually be able to carry around your complete movie collection on a USB hard drive and plug it in when you need it. But what about the iPad? There’s no USB host support on that tablet. Seagate recently introduced the GoFlex Satellite portable hard…

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Wireless chips that bundle WiFi, Bluetooth, 3G, GPS and other functions are pretty standard for smartphones. But most notebooks and netbooks which offer Bluetooth use separate wireless cards for WiFi and Bluetooth functions. That makes it easy to offer Bluetooth as an option rather than a standard feature. But wireless chip-maker Broadcom wants to make it easier to just offer…

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Sure, a leaked Samsung document suggested that the WiFi-only version of the company’s 7 inch Android tablet would set you back $399. But someone forgot to send the memo to the folks at Frys, because they’re taking pre-orders for the Samsung Galaxy Tab WiFi for $349.99. There’s no ship date listed yet, but the tablet appears to be identical to…

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Samsung has confirmed plans to launch a WiFi-only version of the Galaxy Tab 7 inch Android tablet in the US, and now we have a time-frame. The Tab should ship in the first quarter of 2011. Aside from the lack of a 3G modem, the new tab will be virtually identical to the models already available from AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint,…

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If you’ve been holding your breath waiting to pick up a WiFi-only Samsung Galaxy Tab, it looks like you’d better exhale: It doesn’t look like that model will be ready to go very soon. Blogger and media expert Jeff Jarvis snapped a photo at Best Buy showing a rather wordy correction that boils down to this: Yeah, we know we…

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Best Buy has already announced plans to sell a version of the Samsung Galaxy Tab Android tablet soon with WiFi connectivity and without a 3G modem. Now it looks like we’re one step closer to getting our hands on the WiFi-only version of the tablet in the US, with the tablet stopping by the FCC web site for a visit….

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We already know that Verizon plans to offer a 3G enabled version of the Samsung Galaxy Tab Android tablet for $600 and up starting next month. Now it looks like there may be a cheaper option for anyone who doesn’t need the 3G. Pocketables found a product listing from Best Buy showing that the US retailer plans to offer a…

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A few months ago Starbucks started offering free WiFi at all its US locations, along with a promise of exclusive content that would only be available to customers surfing the web at Starbucks hotpsots. Today that exclusive content went online. It’s called Starbucks Digital Network. The network includes free access to the subscription versions of the Wall Street Journal, New…

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Remember when flash storage meant 16MB of memory for storing, I don’t know, maybe 4 songs that you could play on an MP3 player? Yeah, those were the days. Today you can find USB flash drives with up to 256GB of storage space. But Infinitec doesn’t think that’s enough, and the company is offering a USB device that promises infinite…

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I’ve never had much trouble getting my netbooks, laptops, and other mobile devices to connect to my home WiFi network… or a neighbor’s network for that matter. But what if you’re ahem, trying to connect to an unprotected WiFi network down the block. While I don’t think that’s what EeeUser Forum member wakrein was necessarily going for with his WiFi…

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As expected, Starbucks is now making it easier to access free WiFi at all of its coffee shops in the US. The company has been offering free WiFi for a few years now, but until today you had to register for an AT&T account to use the service — which kind of slows down the process of getting online for…

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