Wireless

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  Jabra upgrade their Elite Sport wireless earbuds

  Jabra have announced that their Elite Sport wireless earbuds will be getting an upgrade, with this year's refresh boasting a 50% improvement to battery life.

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  Cars will make up 98% of mobile-to-mobile traffic by 2021

  Vehicle infotainment systems with data intensive applications will represent the vast majority of all mobile data traffic in five years, according to Juniper Research.

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  nbn passes the million home mark with Telstra leading the charge

  Over a million Australian homes and businesses are now connected to the national broadband network (nbn) with Telstra responsible for the majority of the connections according to the Australian Competition Consumer Commission (ACCC).

• IoT is here and mobile networks will never be the same

  A coming boom in connected sensors and devices will drive mobile networks into distributed computing, the president of Bell Labs says

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  In Pictures: Inside the evolving world of wireless charging technology

  Wireless charging is starting to make headlines, with companies like Samsung pushing the technology in its Galaxy line of smartphones. But did you know wireless charging goes back as far as the early 1900s?

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  Bugs & Fixes: iPhone fails to pair to Bluetooth device

  Last September, a new thread in Apple Support Communities briefly noted that a user was unable to get his iPhone 5 to pair with other Bluetooth devices. As it turned out, he was not alone. Cut to the present: this thread is now 29 pages long, with se...

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  Turn your Vista notebook into a Wi-Fi hotspot

  One thing you should know about me: I'm no fan of Windows Vista. Some things about it just annoy me to death, like the unnecessary overhaul of certain interface elements. That said, Vista has a few features I positively love, starting with connection...

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  Set Windows 10's Wi-Fi connections as metered to download forced updates at your own pace

  When Microsoft rolls out a new version of Windows, the company always likes to rearrange the furniture a little bit and put old features in new spots. If you're coming to Windows 10 from Windows 8.1, one such feature is the ability to mark a Wi-Fi co...

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  Lenco multiroom speakers produce punchy sound, yet won't take up too much room in your home

  Lenco is a brand that started out in the 1940s making high-end turntables, so it knows a thing or two about sweet sounding audio. In the present day, the company is moving into the multiroom, Hi-Fi business, introducing a range of wireless speakers t...

• Microsoft's money pit: Surface has lost $1.2bn

  Microsoft has lost more than $1.2 billion so far on its Surface tablet business, an expensive experiment that makes tomorrow's revelations of new hardware an important milestone for the "devices" side of its corporate-refashioning strategy.

• Google and Samsung grow cozier with patent deal, Motorola sale

  Google and Samsung have grown closer over the past week following Google's sale of Motorola to Lenovo and a 10-year global patent cross-license agreement signed by the tech giants.

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  Tips for testing your mobile app security

  The enterprise has gone mobile and there's no turning back. And while the BYOD movement has received plenty of attention, IT departments are getting a handle on the security risks of personal mobile devices in the workplace. The next challenge is "br...

Whitepapers about wireless

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  2014 trends in international business communication

  Cost-effective solutions to facilitate connectivity and enhance productivity, both at home and abroad have become a critical success factor for Australian businesses. But how to balance cost versus connectivity? This paper provides an insight into trends in international business communication, and how Australian businesses are attempting to manage this challenge.

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  International Mobile Communications: How To Balance Connectivity, Productivity And Cost Concerns

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  Unified Access

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  What to expect from 802.11ac