Chip manufacturer Freescale claims it has demonstrated the industry's first Ultra-Wideband (UWB) silicon operating under existing Bluetooth software stacks. Read more
Have you ever wondered why your wireless connection drops or slows down suddenly during the day? With the help of Cognio's ISMS Mobile spectrum analyzer, you can identify the problem and track it back to the source. Among the devices that can drag down your Wi-Fi performance, are microwaves, cordless phones and even Bluetooth devices. Read more
Bluetooth meets NetStumbler as Network Chemistry released BlueScanner, a free Windows utilities that scans for Bluetooth devices. We talked to Andrew Lockhart, author of BlueScanner, to find out how he developed the program and what the program is good for. Read more
Today in San Francisco, IBM unveiled a revolutionary new chipset that would replace the spaghetti of cables that connect today's multimedia equipment, with super-high-frequency wireless networks in the gigabit range. But will the CE industry greet IBM with open arms? Read more
Cyberpower sent us a factory-overclocked Phenom II X4 955 system wielding two Radeon HD 4890 cards in CrossFire. We pit the formidable rig against our previous System Builder Marathon Core i7 machine to see if AMD can deliver a viable gaming alternative. Read more
The latest 2 TB hard drives are still expensive, but 1.5 TB disks provide low power consumption at a better cost-to-capacity ratio. We look at offerings from Samsung and Western Digital to determine the value of taking a step down from the flagships. Read more
When a new paradigm like cloud computing or a new platform like Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) comes along, it’s smart to ask tough questions. Read more
With 36 lanes of PCIe 2.0, 3-way SLI could be the X58 chipset’s biggest challenge. If that turns out to be true, is Nvidia’s nForce 200 controller hub, which multiplexes the platform's connectivity, a solution? We compare three configurations to find out. Read more