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Qualcomm Plans To Take On Netbooks, Cheap PCs with Affordable Kayak Platform

Desire Athow — Fri, 14 Nov 2008

In a bid to capitalize on the opportunities in emerging markets where conventional broadband connectivity isn’t commonly available, Qualcomm has announced a low-cost computing platform, which is touted as a “cheaper alternative to PCs”

£49.99 T-Mobile broadband dongle

Desire Athow — Thu, 06 Nov 2008

T-Mobile recently re-launched its pay-as-you-go mobile broadband proposition with a much more compelling price structure

Vodafone Launches Super Dongle with 4GB Storage Space

Desire Athow — Tue, 04 Nov 2008

Dongles will disappear sooner or later as new laptops and netbooks integrate SIM readers making them redundant. But now, Vodafone has launched a brand new USB Stick Pro Mobile broadband dongle

£11.99 Linksys WUSB300N Wireless-N Draft 2.0 USB Adapter

Desire Athow — Tue, 04 Nov 2008

Treat your PC to some Wireless-N performance this Halloween for only £11.99. The Wireless-N USB Network Adapter uses the very latest wireless networking technology, Wireless-N (draft 802.11n)

T-Mobile Claims To Be Number One For Mobile Broadband After Test Results

Desire Athow — Sun, 02 Nov 2008

What an eventful week for the mobile broadband market in the UK. After O2, Virgin and Vodafone, it is now T-Mobile's turn to unveil its own set of results which unsurprisingly crowned the Deutsch Telekom owned company as the top mobile broadband provider

Vodafone Gives More Details About ASA Adjudication

Desire Athow — Sun, 02 Nov 2008

Vodafone has replied to the adjudication by the Advertising Standards Authority saying that the ruling does not actually question "the factual validity of Vodafone’s ‘fastest and most reliable’ mobile broadband advertising claim [....] nor does it challenge the validity of the LCC results".

Microsoft Joins Google To Free White Space Spectrum

Desire Athow — Wed, 29 Oct 2008

It seems that Microsoft is pulling out all stops to lobby for allowing unlicensed use of television “white space” television spectrum for use of wireless internet services

BT Halves Price of Wi-Fi Tariff In Bid To Grab Mobile Broadband Marketshare

Desire Athow — Thu, 16 Oct 2008

In an attempt to add subscribers to its Openzone services, UK’s major landline operator BT has slashed its Wi-Fi charges by up to 50 percent as per its new price structure

Elcomsoft Cracks WiFi Encryption Using GPUs; What are the implications?

Desire Athow — Mon, 13 Oct 2008

We reported last week about Elcomsoft use of Nvidia's Graphic Processing Units (or GPU) to crack open WPA and WPA2 encryption schemes which have been recommended over the weaker and more vulnerable WEP

Comment : ElcomSoft Uses Nvidia GTX280 Cards To Break Wi-Fi Encryption 100x Faster

Desire Athow — Thu, 09 Oct 2008

ElcomSoft has unveiled a new technology that accelerates the recovery of WPA and WPA2 encryption used in the Wi-Fi protocol by employing the new-generation NVIDIA video cards