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Student Self-Reported Usage of Wireless Tablet PCs in Classrooms
White Papers To measure how one type of such devices, namely wireless Tablet PCs, is used in classrooms and whether they help improve teaching and learning, this paper conducted a pilot study involving four classes at various levels taught by three instructors...
[August 23, 2007, 1:00]
Mobile, Agile, Versatile: The Use of Tablet PCs and Wireless Technology in Introductory Programming
White Papers This paper focuses on the use of wireless and mobile technology and the latest teaching and collaboration software in an introductory Visual Basic Programming course. This course is a general education course and presents unique educational...
[August 17, 2007, 10:24]
WiGig spec promises 7Gbps wireless streaming
News The Wireless Gigabit Alliance has completed its specification for a 60GHz technology that supports data transmission rates of up to 7Gbps, promising a wireless speed boost between mobile phones, PCs and televisions.
[December 11, 2009, 11:55]
HP plans a wireless WAN
News Hewlett-Packard on Monday announced partnerships with four service providers to deliver wide-area wireless Internet access to HP notebooks, tablet PCs and handheld devices. The announcement, made at the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet...
[March 17, 2003, 15:15]
US telcos weigh Wi-Fi roaming
News Sprint PCS and AT&T Wireless are negotiating on whether to let each other's Wi-Fi subscribers roam between their two networks, a Sprint PCS executive said on Monday. The partnership would allow subscribers of AT&T Wireless Wi-Fi service to use the...
[July 22, 2003, 8:09]
Proxim's Farallon buy is a good fit
News The merger, under discussion for the past two years, pools the companies' expertise in wireless and wired networking for Macs as well as Windows PCs, they said. Proxim announced Monday that it has acquired Farallon Communications, a longtime...
[June 20, 2000, 12:36]
Belkin to unveil Christmas Bluetooth line
News Belkin is to unveil a set of Bluetooth wireless add-ons for desktop and laptop PCs on 7 November, as Bluetooth continues to emerge as a mainstream technology for connecting peripherals, handheld computers and mobile phones to computers.
[October 15, 2002, 15:39]
Intel Wi-Fi software is flawed
News The PROSet software accompanies Intel's drivers that run the company's wireless hardware on PCs. Intel recommends that users of PCs equipped with Intel wireless hardware install the latest version of the company's software.
[August 25, 2006, 9:20]
A Year Ago: Motorola buy will spur wireless devices
News In a statement, Motorola says it intends to "create a new generation of wireless devices that exchange information with each other as well as with a wide array of information sources, including PCs, the Internet and wireless service providers.
[July 14, 1999, 7:22]
WiFi for wireless LANs
News Alternatively, two notebook PCs with different wireless LAN cards could even share files. A base station, such as Apple's Airport, connects multiple PCs using wireless LAN cards to a physical network.
[March 16, 2000, 9:27]
Intel homes in on entertainment
News Home PCs able to serve multiple high-definition video streams over secure wireless links are key to the long-predicted digital home, Intel said at its Developer Forum on Wednesday. The company also pushed its dual-core Pentium processor -- without...
[September 9, 2004, 10:35]
Intel aims VPro at businesses
News Intel hopes its new VPro brand for business desktop PCs makes IT managers think about security and manageability the same way Centrino made people think of wireless technology. VPro stickers will start appearing over the next few months on PCs that...
[April 25, 2006, 8:50]
Motorola to ramp wireless comms after Starfish buy
News In a statement, Motorola said it planned to "create a new generation of wireless devices that exchange information with each other as well as with a wide array of information sources, including PCs, the Internet and wireless service providers.
[July 15, 1998, 6:39]
HP to offer three-in-one tablet PC
News Tablet PCs are essentially 3- to 4-pound "ultra-portable" notebook PCs with touch screens, wireless Internet connections, and speech and handwriting input. But HP admits tablet PCs won't appeal to everyone at first.
[November 6, 2002, 8:16]
News Burst: Motorola buy will spur wireless devices
News In a statement, Motorola says it intends to "create a new generation of wireless devices that exchange information with each other as well as with a wide array of information sources, including PCs, the Internet and wireless service providers.
[July 14, 1998, 13:18]
Mobile computing headed for convergence
News Tablet PCs are essentially full-fledged PCs with touch screens, wireless Internet connections and speech and handwriting input. As the capabilities of handheld computers expand and as Tablet PCs emerge, some in the technology industry believe the...
[November 19, 2001, 9:10]
Jumping from satellite to mobile and back
News By comparison, Sprint PCS's new mobile-based PCS Vision wireless Web service runs $40 for 20Mb of downloads -- that's $2 per megabyte. The Inmarsat offering consists of a satellite modem that can be used with laptops or PCs.
[November 21, 2002, 9:20]
Microsoft puts its weight behind Bluetooth
News Microsoft will put its muscle behind the Bluetooth wireless networking technology later this year, selling keyboards and mice that use the technology to connect to PCs, chairman Bill Gates plans to announce on Thursday.
[April 18, 2002, 14:30]
iPass gives green light to Wi-Fi roaming
News Sprint PCS, which last week announced its intention to offer Wi-Fi service, is one of the first wireless carriers to sign up. Sprint PCS said it expects to offer wireless access in more than 2,100 locations by early 2004.
[September 23, 2003, 9:30]
Intel contemplates business branding
News Now Intel is considering a third major brand, this time for business PCs. He then did some telegraphing of his own for business PCs, pointing to "embedded IT" features including manageability, security and virtualisation that Intel believes are...
[March 27, 2006, 9:20]
