Need to Connect Printers to Wireless Router...and They are Not Wireless Printers
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 10:06:20 PM
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| I have two printers, an HP Laserjet m13191MFP and an HP 1020. I now have three wireless laptops. We would all like to print to our printers and I understand that there is a way to make this happen. It is possible: that is what the nice man at STAPLES told me. But STAPLES does not carry the equipment. I thought I could find it online. He told me it was called a "wireless print server." I am not sure that what I am looking at would work. I cannot tell where they would go on the printer. Has anyone... |
Cell phones: Theft dressed up as charity
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 10:06:20 PM
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| Sometimes, government programs, subsidies and entitlements need no embellishment. In 2008, TracFone Wireless of Miami began distributing free cell phones to people who get food stamps, welfare or other government assistance. Recipients of the free cell phones are allowed to earn up to 150 percent of the federal poverty level, or no more than $33,075 a year for a family of four. The phones provide 68 free minutes a month and, in the words of The Philadelphia Inquirer, "they're paid for, in part, by charges on phone bills that the federal government allows carriers to levy." The free cells are... |
Obama endorses plan to boost wireless broadband
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 10:06:20 PM
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| WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama endorsed on Monday plans by regulators to nearly double the spectrum now available for wireless devices. The White House announced a plan modeled after proposals by the Federal Communications Commission to free up 500 megahertz of spectrum over the next 10 years to meet the demand for laptop computers and smartphones such as Apple Inc's popular iPhone. Some estimates suggest the next five years will see an increase in wireless data of between 20 to 45 times 2009 levels, reflecting the burgeoning use of wireless devices. The Federal Communications Commission, which manages commercial... |
Having wireless trouble with My Dell laptop(vanity)
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 10:06:20 PM
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| I have reinstalled XP Pro and can't hookup via wireless |
Family, Verizon far apart over nearly $18,000 phone bill
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 10:06:20 PM
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| DOVER — Bob and Mary St. Germain say they can’t believe it. Four years after their son, Bryan, used his cellphone to connect to the Internet, the couple is still trying to fight the bill: a nearly $18,000 tab from Verizon. Bryan, now 26, thought his family’s plan included free data downloads. It didn’t, and in August 2006, the St. Germains’ phone bill ballooned to more than 100 times the normal amount. “You can’t print what my husband said’’ when the bill came, Mary St. Germain said. “He was very shocked.’’ |
Statement from the President on the National Broadband Plan
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 10:06:20 PM
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| Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/statement-president-national-broadband-plan Home • Briefing Room • Statements & Releases The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release March 16, 2010 Statement from the President on the National Broadband Plan America today is on the verge of a broadband-driven Internet era that will unleash innovation, create new jobs and industries, provide consumers with new powerful sources of information, enhance American safety and security, and connect communities in ways that strengthen our democracy. Just as past generations of Americans met the great infrastructure challenges of the day, such as building the Transcontinental... |
Vanity: CREDO Mobile
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 10:06:20 PM
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| I labeled this a vanity as I'm not sure what else to do with it. As vanities go, I'm sure this is going to be about on par for "lameness". I'm the head tech nerd for a school district. As such I receive a ton of vendor cold calls and snail mail solicitations. Most are education related and I can normally parse through them pretty quickly. Today I got one that I feel really crosses a line for me from a personal ethics standpoint. Credo Mobile sent me a smelly little piece of SPAM emblazoned with "Is your cell phone... |
Duluth Mayor Offers Google City's First Born
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 10:06:20 PM
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| Minnesotan municipal one-upmanship meant to draw attention away from Google, KansasGive Google credit -- the company's plan to test a high-speed fiber-optic network connecting 50,000 homes or more somewhere in America is shining a spotlight on small-town municipal politics. First, the mayor of Topeka, Kansas ceremonially declared the city renamed to Google, Kansas for the month in order to publicize and support that city's efforts to land the deal. Not to be outdone, Duluth, Minnesota Mayor Don Ness has created a "viral" video for that city's effort to "suck up" to the Mountain View, Calif.-based Internet giant. He's calling the... |
IS SHUTTING DOWN CYBER JIHAD POSSIBLE? The Real Scope of Cyber Jihad
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 10:06:20 PM
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| SNIPPET: "The most popular Salafi-jihadi forums are Al-Faluja, Shabakat Ansar Al-Mujahideen, Shabakat Al-Tahadi Al-Islamiyya, Shumukh Al-Islam, Shabakat Hanein, Shabakat Al-Mujahideen Al-Electroniyya, Mutadayat Al-Boraq Al-Islamiyya, and Ma'arik Islamic Network. Of these forums and websites, five are hosted by Western hosting companies." SNIPPET: "Shabakat Ansar Al-Mujahideen has seven domains associated with it; two of these (www.as-ansar.org/vb and http://www.as-ansar.com/vb ) are hosted by Bluehost Inc. (1958 South 950 East, Provo, UT, USA), four (www.ansar1.net , http://ansarnet.info, www.de.ansarnet.info, www.de.ansar1.net ) by Colo4Dallas LP (3000 Irving Blvd, Dallas, TX, USA), and one (www.de.ansarnet.net ) by Oversee.net (515 S. Flower St, Suite 4400, Los Angeles, CA,... |
CES: Wireless finding its way into all kinds of new devices
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 10:06:20 PM
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| LAS VEGAS (MarketWatch) - Wireless everywhere on devices that look nice. That sums up the key trends at the consumer-electronic industry's annual mega-bash, where form truly met function. Hundreds of companies this week showed off thousands of products, but the most interesting devices featured wireless access to the Internet and more attractive designs than ever before. The trend toward all wireless, all the time is not exactly new. Phone companies such as AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless have been talking about connecting all sorts of gadgets to their networks for several years. Yet only now are a slew of nontraditional... |
AT&T wants out of landline business
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 10:06:20 PM
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| WASHINGTON (AFP) – US telecom giant AT&T has asked US regulatory authorities to waive a requirement that it and other carriers maintain costly landline networks. AT&T, the oldest US telephone company, made the request in a filing last week with the Federal Communications Commission in which it also asked the FCC to set a "firm deadline" for phasing out wireline service. "The business model for legacy phone services is in a death spiral," AT&T said. "With an outdated product, falling revenues, and rising costs, the plain-old telephone service (POTS) business is unsustainable for the long run." |
Wireless Company Mixes Liberal Politics With Business
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 10:06:20 PM
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| A San Francisco-based wireless company is unabashedly mixing its liberal political activism with business, a strategy that has won the praise of President Obama but not the confidence of marketing analysts. A San Francisco-based wireless company is working liberal political activism into its business plan in a unabashedly partisan marketing strategy that experts say could catch on in today's polarized culture -- but also could alienate many potential customers. The company, CREDO, even boasts that it has the support of President Obama as it markets itself as an agent of social change. It pitches its mobile phone services with a... |
Apple's iPhone predicted to find home at T-Mobile U.S. in 2010
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 10:06:20 PM
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| While rumors of a possible Verizon-compatible iPhone in 2010 persist, one analyst has predicted that Apple will instead bring the iPhone to another GSM-based carrier in the U.S.: T-Mobile. In a note to investors released this week, Doug Reid of Thomas Weisel Partners said his firm believes that T-Mobile, and not Verizon, will be the beneficiary when Apple's exclusive agreement with AT&T expires next year... AT&T's exclusive contract with Apple for the iPhone is due to expire in 2010... While the iPhone in its current iteration is compatible with T-Mobile's network, it is not capable of connecting to its high-speed... |
Going on vacation to a place that will have wireless internet but how do I do not know how to get ?
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 10:06:20 PM
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| I want to know how to get on the net with a P3. |
Lifeline Across America (free wireless phones for poor)
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 10:06:20 PM
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| How many Freepers know about this program? It gives a free mobile phone to low-income households and free 68 minutes of airtime per month. Tracphone has this website: Safelink WirelessI tried to find what legislation established this, but cannot. |
A Cloudy Future [NOTE: Cloud computing, not the weather - g_w]
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 10:06:20 PM
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| If you own a T-Mobile/Microsoft Sidekick smartphone I don’t have to tell you this. But if you are among the millions who don’t: on October 1st literally every user of the Sidekick data service lost the private personal records – emails, notes, calendar entries, contacts, etc. — they had stored on the system. Initially, it was believed that information was now lost forever. The official statement from Microsoft/Danger (the latter being the company that builds the Sidekick) and T-Mobile is that the data “almost certainly has been lost as a result of a server failure at Microsoft/Danger.” |
Chinese Clone: “Obama have Blackberry, I have blockberry”
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 10:06:20 PM
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| Chinese cell phone companies have been cloning some of the top phones in the world the past few years, including the iPhone and the Nokia N95, trying to get people to buy their knockoffs for half the price. Now, Blockberry… err…Blackberry has joined that list and with U.S. President Barack Obama as the face of their advertising campaign. The slogan for the new Blockberry is: “Obama have Blackberry, I have blockberry”. The Chinese Blockberry 9500 runs windows Mobile 6.1, with a 460MHZ proccessor, and features a 3.2 inch touchscreen, WIFI and bluetooth connectivity,Sirf III GPS navigation and supports 3G and... |
U.S. texters send 4 billion SMS messages ... a day
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 10:06:20 PM
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| Twice a year, the organization representing the wireless industry puts out a bunch of facts and figures on how much we're using our phones in the U.S., and each time, I can't help but marvel at the results. The big number this time around, according to the CTIA: In the past six months alone, Americans sent an estimated 740 billion text messages, which comes out to about 4.1 billion messages each day. Put another way: That's 11.7 text messages a day for every man, woman, and child in the country. (Of course, the average American teen can fire off 11... |
Anti-Wi-Fi paint keeps your wireless signal to yourself
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 10:06:20 PM
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| Don't like the idea of your neighbors rudely snooping on the wireless signal you slaved to pay for from the lazy comfort of their living room? It's not just about slowing down your connection; while they're downloading Mad Men via bittorrent, you could be on the hook for their actions. Wireless security and encryption systems are fraught with problems and insecurity, and other methods to restrict your signal to a small area are cumbersome at best. Enter a new solution: Anti-Wi-Fi paint. The idea is simple: Use a special paint on walls where you don't want wireless to pass through... |
A Cordless Future for Electricity? (Wireless Power)
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 10:06:20 PM
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| Electronics such as phones and laptops may start shedding their power cords within a year. Wireless electricity may soon make tangled power cords a thing of the past. That's the prediction of Eric Giler, CEO of WiTricity, a company that's able to power light bulbs using wireless electricity that travels several feet from a power socket. WiTricity's version of wireless electricity -- which converts power into a magnetic field and sends it sailing through the air at a particular frequency -- still needs to be refined a bit, he said, but should be commercially available soon. Giler, whose company is... |
New attack cracks common Wi-Fi encryption in a minute
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 10:06:20 PM
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| Computer scientists in Japan say they've developed a way to break the WPA encryption system used in wireless routers in about one minute. The attack gives hackers a way to read encrypted traffic sent between computers and certain types of routers that use the WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) encryption system. The attack was developed by Toshihiro Ohigashi of Hiroshima University and Masakatu Morii of Kobe University, who plan to discuss further details at a technical conference set for Sept. 25 in Hiroshima. Last November, security researchers first showed how WPA could be broken, but the Japanese researchers have taken the... |
Who Needs Wireless?
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 10:06:20 PM
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| I don’t like carrying cell phones. When it came to buying a wireless phone, I was one of the last holdouts. My house is a bit remote and to this date it has absolutely no cell coverage. Back in 2001, almost everyone I knew already had a cell phone. Finally, I broke down and bought a top of the line Motorola. It was in the $300 plus price range with a two year contract. I even bought a serial port Outlook synchronization device to download contacts and calendar information. I did have fun learning to use all of the device’s... |
Ericsson to acquire Nortel wireless division
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 10:06:20 PM
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| TORONTO - Swedish telecom giant Ericsson won the auction for Nortel's wireless division, with a bid of US$1.13 billion, the Canadian-based company announced late Friday. Nortel will seek Canadian and U.S. court approvals of the proposed sale agreement at a joint hearing on July 28, 2009, the financially troubled company said in a statement. |
Prototype Nokia phone recharges without wires
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 10:06:20 PM
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| Pardon the cliche, but it's one of the holiest of Holy Grails of technology: Wireless power. And while early lab experiments have been able to "beam" electricity a few feet to power a light bulb, the day when our laptops and cell phones can charge without having to plug them in to a wall socket still seems decades in the future. Nokia, however, has taken another baby step in that direction with the invention of a cell phone that recharges itself using a unique system: It harvests ambient radio waves from the air, and turns that energy into usable power.... |
Tax Man's Target: The Mobile Phone (Obama's next scheme)
Tuesday 7th of September 2010 10:06:20 PM
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| The use of company-issued mobile phones could trigger new federal income taxes on millions of Americans as a "fringe benefit," spurring efforts by the wireless industry and others to kill the idea. The Internal Revenue Service proposed that employers assign 25% of an employee's annual phone expenses as a taxable benefit. Under that scenario, a worker in the 28% tax bracket, whose wireless device costs the company $1,500 a year, could see $105 in additional federal income tax. |
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