We were just rolling through Philadelphia on our way back from Baltimore and turned on our Nokia N810 to confirm PC Mag’s report that Philadelphia also has XOHM broadcasting, and sure enough, it does.
We weren’t able to connect fast enough as we rolled through 30th Street Station, but you’ll notice the Philadelphia Zoo SSID broadcast […]

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There is no doubt that the MSI Wind is one of the best netbooks around. Besides being the LAPTOP Editor’s Choice in the 10-inch netbook category the company has sold thousands of the little laptops. (MSI would not release the number of Winds sold as they “do not release sales data for individual products or […]

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The early bird gets the WiMAX. We’re in Baltimore testing out XOHM, the new WiMAX network launched citywide yesterday. We just stepped off the train and booted up our Nokia N810 WiMAX edition and found immediately that “WiMAX Networks are available.”
Note: for now testing is being done using the Nokia N810 tablet only, we will […]

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We went to Baltimore today to check out America’s first fully-functional XOHM city for ourselves. Earlier today, we had a hands-on experience with XOHM using a Nokia N810 WiMAX tablet. Since then, we’ve gone out and purchased an ExpressCard adapter, installed it, and have run a bunch of tests in comparison to a Kyocera EV-DO […]

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It is always nice when a company is listening to the press and its fans. In June, Skype released a new version of the popular VoIP/chat client. We wrote about the beta software at the time of announcement and had some doubts about it; our biggest being that the window sizing of the new software […]

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This afternoon I was hanging out with my best friend, who is a newly-minted iPhone user. I, as I have made known, am the proud owner of a Verizon Wireless BlackBerry Curve (and frankly am not sure I would be an iPhone owner if it did come to Verizon).
As my friend and I were sipping […]

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We were just rolling through Philadelphia on our way back from Baltimore and turned on our Nokia N810 to confirm PC Mag’s report that Philadelphia also has XHOM broadcasting, and sure enough, it does.
We weren’t able to connect fast enough as we rolled through 30th Street Station, but you’ll notice the Philadelphia Zoo SSID broadcast […]

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When Nikon introduced the D90 last month, it broke a long-lamented barrier in cameras: this DSLR is the first to record video (720p, at that). Unlike Casio, which positioned the FX1(which isn’t a DSLR) as a possible camcorder replacement, Nikon is adamant that the D90’s video is just meant for taking clips.
Nevertheless, there are some […]

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Now here is a rumor we want to believe. 9to5Mac is fairly certain that a Verizon iPhone is in the works and will arrive by 2009. The report:
“According to him [the tipster], Apple will be announcing iPhones for Verizon Wireless in 2009, perhaps as early Macworld 2009. Negotiations between Apple and Verizon are ongoing but they […]

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Sprint’s XOHM WiMAX launched this morning in Baltimore, and we’re hopping on a train bright and early tomorrow to test it Possibly also while paddleboating in the Chesapeak.
Mobile WiMAX, a fourth generation network that will compete directly with Long-term evolution (LTE) networks backed by the likes of Verizon Wireless and AT&T, aims to deliver broadband […]

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