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1. CTIA 2006 Wrap-up: Phones, laptops and even some skateboarders

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 19 September 2006

   Last week's CTIA Wireless convention at the Los Angeles Convention center drew thousands of attendees and exhibitors. Companies showed off their latest phones, laptops and other electronics in a setting ...

2. Wilson Cellular shows of cellphone signal booster in a box - video

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Monday, 18 September 2006

   At the CTIA Wireless convention in Los Angeles, Wilson Cellular showed us its mobile phone repeater kit that can add up to 3 watts of power to a phone signal. The kits contain amplifiers, antennas and ...

3. Track people and valuables within 1 inch accuracy - video

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Monday, 18 September 2006

   Lost and stolen electronics are a fact of life for many businesses, but UK-based (and aptly named) Covert Asset Tracking Systems Ltd (CATSeye) promises to help recover items with their line of electronic ...

4. Throw away your pens, OCR hits mobiles phones - video

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Saturday, 16 September 2006

   Optical character recognition, the automatic conversion of typed or written text into digital format, has grown up - or more accurately shrunk down to mobile phones. ABBYY (yes it's spelled that way) ...

5. Sierra Wireless shows off USB-based wireless broadband card - video

   (Networking/Networking Features)

   Saturday, 16 September 2006

   Mobile high-tech workers can't always stop by a wireless hotspot to get an Internet connection. In coming months, carriers will be widening coverage while offering faster, almost wire-speed, service to ...

6. Nvidia chips speed video decoding on mobile phones - video

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Friday, 15 September 2006

   Mobile phones are now able to show smooth, high-quality video thanks to Nvidia's mobile graphics chips. The Nvidia GoForce 5500 chips can decode full-length movies and television shows in H.264 format. ...

7. Netgear shows off Skype Wi-Fi phone at CTIA - video

   (Networking/Networking Features)

   Friday, 15 September 2006

   Big network companies are furiously adding mobile phones to their traditional routers, switches and network cards. At the CTIA Wireless Convention in Los Angeles, Netgear announced a new Skype-enable ...

8. 1 GB on the tip of your finger - Kingston's MicroSD Card on video

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Friday, 15 September 2006

   How small can flash memory go? Well, Kingston has released a 1-GB MicroSD card that can fit on your fingertip. At the CTIA Wireless convention, Mike Sager of Kingston told us the card is mainly meant ...

9. Panasonic rolls out stylish and light Toughbooks

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Friday, 15 September 2006

   Panasonic has introduced a pair of rugged laptops that are not only stylish, but also light. The sub-four pound Toughbook CF-T5 and CF-W5 have magnesium-alloy cases and can withstand shock, drops and ...

10. TG Video: Panasonic's Toughbook 18 dropped, shaken and soaked

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 13 September 2006

    Can your laptop take a beating and keep on ticking? Panasonic believes their line of rugged 'Toughbook' notebooks can take almost any type of abuse and company representatives happily demonstrated this ...