What Is Bluetooth - A World Without Wires

Bluetooth technology was created in order to allow ordinary technology users to enjoy the benefits of low bandwidth wireless connections. Bluetooth is a low power, short-range technology that allows wireless networking

Dissecting A Smart Battery – Part 2

In part 1 of Dissecting A Smart Battery I mentioned that smart batteries have contained within them specialized hardware that when working in concert provides the power necessary to run a device such as a PDA, digital camera, or ipod player. Continuing the dissection of a smart battery this article of the series will look at the smart battery's fuse, charge and discharge FETs, the cell pack, and the sense resistor (RSENSE) to discover what role they each play within the smart battery.

Some Tips About Notebook Repairing

Your laptop died and the guarantee passed, you have several options but they depend much on at which price you bought your laptop.

Laptop Repair (Power Sockets)

Here we'll try to explain, some of the most common laptop repairs that we carry out, and hopefully from that you'll be a little more informed as to what to ask/enquirer about should yours go wrong in the future. I'll list them in not any particular order, but they all count as common laptop repair types.

Laptop Categories - The Differences

A quick insight into the different categories laptops may fall into. Mainstream laptops Your mainstream laptop category is made up of your average do it all system with a 15.4 inch widescreen display, weighing in at around the 3-4 kilo mark. It'll have a wifi card a few usb ports and about 512mb ...

High Tech Post

Retriever Communications specialises in offering a wireless (mobile) service for field force automation, which allows dynamic scheduling of field technicians and the replacement of paper in the field with fast, secure digital data capture. The company successfully delivered a wireless in-field logistics system for the postmen of HK Post in 2003. This system allows postmen to use hand held computers, both in­depot at the start of day and then dynamically through out their delivery and pick-up runs. The wireless system is also fully integrated to HK Post's dispatch and spatial scheduling system.

Choosing The Best Portable Storage Option For Your PC

In ancient times, a few megabytes were considered to be a considerable amount of storage. Transferring data between computers meant carrying around big, goofy floppy disks that weren't very reliable compared to today's storage standards. Next the 1.44 megabyte diskettes became the norm for portable storage, their hard plastic casing mocking the bendable floppy’s soft and dainty exterior.

Make Your Car Wireless

A growing number of cell phones are Bluetooth enabled. Among the more popular cell phones having this capability are the following: Motorola RAZR (my personal favorite), the Palmone Treo, and the Samsung T509. With so many of the more popular cell phones today being Bluetooth enabled, chances are your phone may be as well.

Considerations When Creating A Mobility Extension To The Corporate Network

When implementing a mobile solution there could be long lasting effects on your IT Strategy. This white paper discusses the careful planning involved in opening up enterprise systems to reduce the impact of change.

Motorola Bluetooth: Discover the Phenomenon

We've all heard the term, 'Bluetooth'. We see more and more electronic gizmos and gadgets that support Bluetooth technology, but what, exactly is this Bluetooth phenomenon? Motorola seems to have the leading edge on this nifty bit of technology, and the Motorola Bluetooth is the most popular brand among those who support the technology.

BlackBerry Programming 101-How to Get Started With BlackBerry Software Development

Discover how to get started with BlackBerry programming. All it takes is some Java knowledge and some free tools.

Nokia N80 - Technology Par Excellence

N80 is a 3G phone that runs on a Quadband GSM so that you don't have to worry about the connectivity.

Laptop Security

For many of us our laptop represents our mobile office on which we store a great deal of valuable information. But what would be the impact to you if you were suddenly to lose this essential business tool?