Archive for the 'wireless' Category

iPad vs Galaxy Tab smackdown

April 14, 2012

[Updated Aug 25, 2012] – Before launching into this review, which pits Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 against Apple’s iPad 2, I took a few days to familiarize myself with the Galaxy Tab’s Android 3.1 (“Honeycomb”) OS. The thing is, I’d already used iOS on an iPod Touch for two years, but was a rank newbie when it came to Android.
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Infographic depicts radio’s 120-year history

February 8, 2012

Sonos, a leading innovator of Internet radio and wireless music-streaming devices, has created a “History of Radio Infographic” that traces 120 years of evolution from the first radio frequencies observed by Tesla in 1892 to today’s Internet radio services.
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The role of V2X communications in driver assistance systems

January 5, 2012

Vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2X) communications technologies can aid advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) by helping “extend a vehicle’s field of vision,” according to Benjamin Oberkersch, PR officer for Daimler AG and simTD, the firm’s V2X field test project.
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Review: ViewSonic’s $169 7-inch Android tablet

December 19, 2011

With a dizzying array of 7-inch Android tablets quietly penetrating the market this year, we wondered how well the lower-priced 7-inch tablets performed. ViewSonic’s ViewPad 7e ran virtually everything we threw at it, and did so surprisingly well.

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U.S. connected vehicle conference debuts in March

November 30, 2011

U.K.-based Telematics Update is introducing a new conference devoted to transportation applications involving vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications.
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