LocalLedge is simply an app that lets you connect with other people living in your locality or in your city and let you organize and share special events through the use of location based text messaging boards. The idea of LocalLedge is simple. The app can make you feel closer to home and … [Read more...]
Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1, 4G LTE Tablet
The Galaxy Note 10.1 (4G LTE Tablet) of Samsung is another successful mark of the company when it comes to mobile computers. This tablet proves that versatility and value match. The excellent mixture of its function and form, where it can give easy features for sharing, entertaining and … [Read more...]
The Google Nexus 7 4G LTE Tablet
Now, Google Nexus 7 4G LTE Tablet brings in the best integration of portability, power and the sharpness for a 7 inch tablet screen can offer. It has a simple and clean design for a slim casing, with a thin edge-soft to touch, and a matte back cover. Enjoy the Features New slim design It … [Read more...]
HSDPA
High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) is a new mobile telephony protocol that provides a smooth evolutionary path for UMTS networks to higher data rates and higher capacities, in the same way as EDGE does in the GSM world. Sometimes referred to as a … [Read more...]
WiMAX Technology
Although broadband has been available for some time, access for most people is still limited. At the end of 2002, it was estimated that only 46 million subscribers worldwide had broadband access, with only 17% of households in the USA being … [Read more...]
WiFi Access
In the early 2000s, the momentum gained by IEEE 802.11b in the wake of the surge in home networking so as to allow the sharing of broadband Internet connections saw the technology migrate from the home to outdoors. The WLAN configuration was the same - an Access Point (AP) transceiver connected to a … [Read more...]
IEEE 802.11g
2001 was a tough year for the proposed 802.11g standard, with endless disagreements amongst the IEEE members over how it should be implemented and a real threat that it might be abandoned altogether. Towards the end of the year a compromise was … [Read more...]
IEEE 802.11b
The 802.11b group within IEEE was driven largely by Lucent Technologies and Intersil Corp., and was designed to operate in the 2.4GHz ISM (Industrial, Scientific and Medical) band. The key contribution of the 802.11b addition to the … [Read more...]
Galileo
Galileo comprises a constellation of 30 satellites divided between three circular orbits at an altitude of around 24,000 km to cover the Earth's entire surface. They will be supported by a worldwide network of ground stations. At present, … [Read more...]
GPS Technology
The Global Positioning System (GPS), is a constellation of 24 satellites - three of which are backup satellites - which orbit the Earth twice a day at an altitude of about 12,000 miles. Twenty-four hours a day, these satellites continuously broadcast high-frequency radio signals containing position … [Read more...]