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Intel Announces 802.11n Built-in Wireless Card for Notebooks

By Andrew | 1/23/2007

Intel today announced the 4965 agn wireless Mini PCIe card to provide built-in 802.11n for notebooks. The 4965agn is an upgrade to the existing 3945abg wireless card shipping with Centrino notebooks. 802.11n will offer faster and greater wireless range.

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CES 2007: One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Laptop Hands On

By Andrew | 1/9/2007

While at CES 2007 a company named Marvell that's involved with the wireless aspects of the One Laptop per Child project (OLPC) was showing off the little green machine at their booth. We took a look at this storied $150 laptop to be sold in poor areas of the world.

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CES 2007: Vista SideShow in HP, Fujitsu, LG and Asus Notebooks

By | 1/8/2007

At CES 2007 Windows Vista is being trumpeted everwhere. Part of the new Vista features related to notebooks and Tablet PCs is a technology called SideShow that allows for an external display on your machine to read out information such as email inbox status, IMs, battery level, wireless point range and so on. Here's a look at a few of the laptops we've seen with this.

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CES 2007: Toshiba Portege R400 Announced

By Andrew | 1/8/2007

Announced at CES 2007 today, the Toshiba Portege R400 is a light-weight convertible notebook Tablet PC that offers two very innovative features. The R400 has a wireless docking solution and also includes the Windows Vista SideShow technology to give a heads up display of things like battery power, email inbox status and time and date.

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News Bits: HP Shipped the Most Notebooks in Q3, 802.11n ExpressCard Coming Soon, Wireless USB Hub

By Charles P. Jefferies | 12/29/2006

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News Bits: Dell M1710 Gets Blu-Ray, Fujitsu Announces 300GB Notebook HD, Global Mobile Broadband Notebook

By Charles P. Jefferies | 12/11/2006

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News Bits: Lenovo Y300 and Y400 Unveiled, Charging Wirelessly, Apple AMD-based Laptop?

By Charles P. Jefferies | 11/17/2006

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Goodbye Analog TV, Hello Broadband Wireless Internet?

By AdamaDBrown | 10/31/2006

Once upon a time, Internet access was limited primarily by the "last mile," the copper wires that brought a connection into a home or office. Now, in an era when connectivity is increasingly essential for mobile devices such as laptops and smartphones, wireless Internet will power the next generation of broadband expansion.

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ThinkPad Core 2 Duo, 802.11n and Security Updates Announced by Lenovo

By Andrew | 10/16/2006

Lenovo today announced that the ThinkPad T, X, R and Z series notebooks would be receiving a refresh in the form of a Core 2 Duo processor being offered on select models, 802.11n wireless cards and hard drive data encryption with the simple swipe of a finger.

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News Bits: MacBook Wireless Hijack Demo, Intel Centrino Driver Updates, XPS M1710 Tested with Core 2 Duo

By Charles P. Jefferies | 8/2/2006

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Dell Announces Built-In 802.11n Wireless Card for Notebooks

By abaxter | 7/17/2006

Dell today announced the availability of the Dell Wireless 1500 Draft 802.11n dual-band wireless mini card that can be configured for all XPS and Inspiron notebooks. This built-in 802.11n card will offer data transfer rates of up to 270 Mbps and twice the range when paired with an 802.11n wireless network router.

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