Tag: Wi-Fi
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Windows 10 Wi-Fi Sense Gone For Good
Wi-Fi Sense, a neat little feature hidden away in Windows 10 has been a contentious issue. The feature allows your friends and acquaintances to connect to your Wi-Fi network and vice versa just through being connected via contacts and or social networking. For the most part this is kind of a cool way of being […]
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Leaked iPhone 7 Code Shows Li-Fi Testing
The iPhone 7 rumour machine is now in full motion and new to the list of speculations is the possibility that Apple could embrace the currently experimental concept of Li-Fi connectivity. As the name would suggest, Li-Fi is like Wi-Fi – providing a wireless internet connection but instead of using fixed points it utilises the […]
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LiFi – The Light side of the Wi-Fi
Since the dawn of local networking, engineers have been constantly trying to improve speeds, connection types and the security of those connections. Things have moved forward quite a lot since the days of having 6 CRT monitors laying around your living room as you try to connect up all your friends pcs’ for a LAN […]
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Google Releases Chromecast Ethernet Adapter to End Wi-Fi Woes
Google has launched a new $15 accessory for Chromecast which allows users to hook it up with an Ethernet lead to avoid that troublesome Wi-Fi dropout. The Google Chromecast is a handy bit of kit, a compact and portable gadget which is able to magically (via Wi-Fi) transform any TV with an HDMI port into […]
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Wireless Power for All May Become a Reality Thanks to Wi-Fi
If any of you have ever heard of Tesla, the inventor not the car company, then you will probably know that he claimed to be able to power every hut in Africa wirelessly. His claims were not believed by everybody unfortunately and the idea was never put into practice properly. With the news this month […]
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Netflix Admits Offline Viewing is “Never Going to Happen”
Netflix has been about for a while now and has left people wondering when on Earth are they going to add an offline viewing feature?! Well never, to put it bluntly. So get over it. Netflix’s director of corporate communications and technology, Cliff Edwards, said to TechRadar that it is literally “never going to happen”. […]
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Google announce new Chromecast guest mode lets your friends connect without using your Wi-Fi
I think that a lot of people will agree that Google’s Chromecast is a great bit of technology; it allows users to easily “cast” video from various sources, whether it’s YouTube, Netflix or perhaps some home movies or pictures you have stored on your phone. Also, on some supported Android devices users are able to […]
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Nintendo Pulls Plug on Wii and DS Wi-Fi Support
Nintendo ends it support for Wii, DS and DSi Wi-Fi today, affecting a long list of games and services for the older generation consoles.
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BBM for iPad and iPod Touch available later today
After a successful launch which topped 10 million downloads within the first 24 hours, BBM will arrive on Apple’s Wi-Fi-only iPads and various iPod Touch models later today. The ailing Canadian smartphone maker made the choice to end a long-running exclusivity on BlackBerry Messenger, or BBM, bringing the instant chat app to rival platforms iPhone […]
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Virgin Media SmartCall launched: Make free calls on your mobile via Wi-Fi
Virgin allows its home phone customers to make a smartphone call from anywhere in the world, via Wi-Fi, using only their landline minutes…
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Li-Fi: Chinese scientists figure out how to send internet through light bulbs
Nevermind Wi-Fi, Li-Fi is the future! The internet could soon be travelling through LED light bulbs in your ceiling…
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WiSee technology detects your movements through walls, controls gadgets over Wi-Fi
Use gestures anywhere in your house to control a TV, heating, laptop and so on. A seriously awesome development by University of Washington students