Facebook is offering free Wi-Fi in exchange for their physical coordinates. The initiative began in May 2012, reports Wired, and now “Facebook Wi-Fi” has been deployed in cafes around Palo Alto and San Francisco, and even into a line of Meraki routers made by Cisco. Facebook Wi-Fi asks users to “check in” at the business [...]
The Wi-Fi Alliance this week kicked off its certification program for 802.11ac, the new 5 GHz beam forming standard. Products conforming to 802.11ac can deliver whole-home coverage at two or three times the speed of older Wi-Fi products and can handle 4K video. The 802.11ac standard, also known as 802.11 VHT (Very High Throughput), uses [...]
Kaplan’s TechStars-powered startup accelerator — the latest to launch for education entrepreneurs — is announcing the startups in its inaugural class, reports GigaOm. Kaplan is a leading international provider of educational and career services for individuals, schools, and businesses. The Kaplan EdTech Accelerator will select startups using technology to create products and services across the [...]
The new leader of the twice-yearly list of the world’s 500 fastest supercomputers is the Tianhe-2, with 31 petaflops of sustained LINPACK capacity using 3.1 million processor cores and a lot of Chinese-build technology. The new Chinese supercomputer arrived two years earlier than expected to easily claim the top spot in a list of the [...]
AT&T announced today that it’s bringing push-to-talk to the iPhone 5 and 4s via a new app similar to their currently available Android app. AT&T hopes to pick up business from the imminent shuttering of Sprint’s Nextel service, which plans to shut down their Nextel iDEN network and move everyone to their all new CDMA [...]
Engadget has a Computex 2013 wrap, which highlights their articles, hands-on videos and photo galleries that cover tons of tablets, smartphones, Haswell systems and peripherals. Among the highlights: Acer upgrades its Ultrabooks, other PCs with Haswell ASUS $149 MeMo Pad HD 7 gets August release date ASUS Transformer Book Trio hybrid runs Windows and Android [...]
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