This category includes interoperability issues that come from mixing products from different networking product vendors, with the primary effect being throughput variation. In Part 1 of this NTK, I had only products based on Broadcom's draft-11g chipset to...

Notebook Vendors Seek 'Whitebook' Opportunities. notebook vendors seek . Niche PC vendors have of late found opportunities in applying the whitebox PC model to building and selling notebooks. These growing number of 'whitebook' vendors have managed to squeeze...

true miracle: When its foil wrapper is attached to a used lithium-ion battery, it's supposed to increase usable battery life by up to 30 percent. THG performed a multi-week experiment that put this promise to the test.. What of the vendor's claim that the...

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Battery Life As A Turnover Multiplier For Vendors. squeezing more life out of your notebook. OEM spin aside, notebook battery lives just are not up to what consumers and business want. Industry group Mobile PC EBLWG says laptops that run eight hours on a charge...

Challenges To MobilityGuru's Audience And Gaming Notebook Vendors. are gaming notebook vendors scared of mobilityguru. Come on gaming notebook vendors, give us a peek at your products. We want to do extensive evaluations of those apparently hot computers you're...

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One Vendor's Brilliant Product Packaging Solution. who designed this crap. Mobile computers and accessories are cool. However the way they're packaged is a real horror show, almost literally. With impenetrable shipping boxes and envelopes, as well as plastic...

revision cycles - have improved the chances for getting WDS-enabled products from multiple vendors to play nice-nice with each other. The main barrier that remains is the different terminology used by vendors in their bridging / repeating user interfaces. Getting...