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Neptune: Home hub of the future?
News With Neptune, Microsoft is aiming to make Windows-based systems the hub of consumers' home entertainment experience. Microsoft is pushing to make the operating system also able to function as a home networking/home security hub.
[July 7, 1999, 9:11]
BT Home Hub encryption under fire
News Ethical hackers from open-source research site GNUCitizen have claimed to have found a flaw in BT Home Hub router encryption. Adrian Pastor, a security researcher who contributes to the GNUCitizen site, claimed he had been able to build a program...
[April 16, 2008, 12:15]
BT upgrades its Home Hub routers
News BT has launched the latest version of its Home Hub Wi-Fi router. This approach led to several high-profile Home Hub hacks. According to BT, the use of 'N' Wi-Fi means the new Home Hub has "up to twice the wireless range" of previous models and...
[July 14, 2008, 15:34]
BT under fire over GPL 'violation'
News BT is in dispute with some in the open-source community over its use of GPL-licensed code in its Home Hub router. As reported earlier this week, BT was recently accused of violating the GPL through its use of open-source software within the Home Hub.
[January 26, 2007, 16:04]
British Gas trials home-energy management
News A cube-shaped hub acts as a central control point and separate devices, including smart plugs, communicate with the hub. Rather than rely on smart meters as a communications gateway, AlertMe's hub connects to the internet and smart plugs transfer...
[July 21, 2009, 11:44]
BT business customers to become Wi-Fi hotspots
News Speaking at the Mobile Broadband Congress in London on Wednesday, Dave Hughes, BT's director of wireless broadband, told delegates that — by the end of this week — there would be 100,000 BT Home Hub users who have signed up to turn their hub into...
[May 21, 2008, 11:45]
Interactive TV: Whistler goes Hollywood
News The newest Whistler preview -- most likely of the 32-bit Personal Server version -- will be the first to include some of the enhancements Microsoft is adding to its future Windows release to make it more suitable as a home entertainment hub.
[September 7, 2000, 8:31]
BT offers small firms mobile convergence
News also claimed that Fusion phones sometimes defaulted to a mobile network even if they are within reach of the home hub. With the business version of Fusion, a firm will install a hub in the office that will connect the Fusion phones to the corporate...
[February 7, 2006, 15:45]
Intel backpedals on ambitious Wi-Fi plans
News Intel had hoped that Wireless Connect would help popularise Wi-Fi networks, as the bundle would let a PC serve as a wireless networking hub for the home. Intel had planned to deliver its Intel Wireless Connect product -- a bundle consisting of a...
[September 28, 2004, 16:55]
BT launches "watershed" fixed and mobile handset
News Fusion, previously known as Project Bluephone, is aimed initially at the consumer market and is based around a cordless Motorola handset that acts as a normal cellular phone outside of the home, but inside routes calls through a hub onto a BT...
[June 15, 2005, 12:05]
CES: TiVo broadens its programming
News However, the announcements at CES should help to distinguish TiVo from rivals while also planting the company in the middle of another new trend: creating a hub for home entertainment. Earlier at CES, start-up Moxi Digital announced its software...
[January 9, 2002, 10:07]
Disney to deliver content with Microsoft
News Microsoft has put increasing emphasis on its entertainment technology and Hollywood relationships over the past few years, as it envisions a role for the personal computer as the hub of the average home's living room entertainment centre.
[February 9, 2004, 11:25]
Secure wireless workers
News These are in-home wireless networks set up by individuals with DSL or cable modem access using the default settings provided by the 802.11b hub manufacturers. The same guide should detail how to enable WEP security on home wireless networks and...
[August 15, 2002, 9:47]
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro review
Reviews The Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro includes an external I/O hub that's chock-full of ports. Via two AD Link ports, the I/O hub connects to the PCI sound card itself. In addition to the ports, a playback volume/mute control, a microphone gain control and...
[March 18, 2004, 6:25]
Apple hints at 'breakthrough' device
News The device would fit in with the company's message regarding the Mac OS X operating system, which is designed to act as a hub for what Apple chief executive Steve Jobs calls the "digital lifestyle". It looks like Apple wants to create value in...
[October 18, 2001, 9:24]
Ultrawideband kicks off at CES
News Belkin's four-port USB hub — due in "early spring" — is designed primarily for laptop use: four standard USB2 devices plug into the hub, which then links to the computer via UWB. Intel Capital's Digital Home Fund.
[January 4, 2006, 16:25]
Logitech QuickCam Sphere review
Reviews If you connect the QuickCam Sphere to a USB hub (even a powered USB hub), you may get ‘insufficient power’ warnings. There’s also a handy pop-up assistant with a Face Tracking tick box, a Home button that will override the face tracking and cause...
[December 8, 2003, 9:55]
Networking products for your business review
Reviews Theoretically, it’s possible to build a basic network with an access point or a hub and a few adapters on the cheap, but this approach has many limitations and poses a security risk since it exposes all of your PCs directly to the Internet.
[January 5, 2004, 14:35]
Home base stations developed
News Many industry observers see the integration of femtocells into home gateways — a type of wireless router, of which BT's Home Hub is the most familiar example — as a way to overcome the capacity limitations of 3G networks.
[June 27, 2007, 11:38]
BT's next-generation consumer offering: does BT have the answer?
News The core of the whole offering comprises two elements: ADSL broadband and the "BT Hub", a router that provides a wireless network in the home. It has also done well to emphasise the CPE aspects of the offering: it's always much easier to market a...
[December 22, 2005, 11:30]
