Archive for the 'Device Drivers' Category

Adafruit Is In The Square Payment Pilot, Awesomeness Will Likely Ensue

Our good friends at Adafruit Industries are now taking mobile payments with the best of ‘em thanks to a prerelease Square dongle they’ve managed to score, ostensibly as a part of the public trial announced earlier this month. They’ve posted a quick video showing the process of taking someone’s cash via plastic, and it looks [...]

Buffalo Outs USB 3.0 ExpressCard Adapter, We See a Trend Coming

After our adventure in figuring out the particular ExpressCard version of the StarTech USB 3.0 adapter, here’s Buffalo joining the fray and, naturally, there’s zero indication about whether this is an ExpressCard 1.0 or 2.0 device. The difference is that with the latter you can get all the way up to 5Gbps theoretical throughput, which [...]

ZyXEL To Debut ‘World’s First’ LTE Router At CES 2010

If we’re able to avert this looming “spectrum apocalypse” we’ve heard so much about, it looks like 2010 will be the year that many of you get to partake in LTE. What better way to indulge your lust for airborne data than ZyXEL’s newest, the ZLR-2070S LTE CPE/SOHO router? Apparently “the world’s first,” this guy [...]

Sugar On a Stick OS Goes to 2.0, Gets Blueberry Coating And Creamy Fedora 12 Center (video)

It didn’t take long for Sugar on a Stick, the OLPC-free version of the Sugar OS, to go from concept to bootable, and it’s only taken a few further months to go from that first version, called “Strawberry,” to this twice as fruity “Blueberry” flavor. Updates are evolutionary here, with a core built on Fedora [...]

Seagate’s First Pulsar SSDs Ready To Blast The Enterprise

We first heard of Seagate’s plans to enter the SSD market way back in mid 2007 and then again in 2008. Here we are in the final days of 2009 and guess what: the first Seagate SSD has been announced. Unfortunately, Seagate’s 2.5-inch SATA Pulsar SSD targets the raised-floor crowd locked away in your corporate [...]

Seagate’s 7mm Momentus Thin 2.5-inch Hard Disk For Slim, High-Capacity Laptops: A World’s First

Any advancement in commercial storage is big news ’round here so we’re stoked to learn of a new ultra-thin hard disk from Seagate meant to slake our jones for super-slim portable computing. Seems that Seagate’s already sampling a 7-mm high disk as part of its Momentus Thin series of drives scheduled to be launched at [...]

USB 3.0 ExpressCard Adapter Promises More Than it Can Deliver

Been fretting over the upcoming slew of USB 3.0 devices and your relatively new laptop’s inability to exploit their full speed? Well this isn’t going to help you much, but it’s a great example of why you should shop with a careful eye and preferably from reputable stores. British e-tailer StarTech.com (no, we haven’t heard [...]

Apple Adds 3.33GHz Xeon, 2TB Hard Drive Options To Mac Pro

We know it can be tough scraping by with a measly 2.93GHz Xeon processor and 1TB hard drives in your Mac Pro, so you’ll no doubt be pleased to know that Apple has finally seen fit to add a bit of extra horsepower to its humble little desktop. That includes a new option for a [...]

Hell Freezes Over, The FCC Admits That CableCARD is a Failure

Well we have to say we never saw this coming, but have dreamed of it for years, but it appears that the FCC is actually listening to the CEA and is asking for comments on how to replace CableCARD with something that would actually make the network open. For those just catching up, Congress mandated [...]

Nearly Two Million Mobile WiMAX Subscribers Worldwide By Year’s End, Most Eyeing LTE Suspiciously

The folks at ABI Research have done up a nice summary of the status of mobile WiMAX globally, saying that they expect the total number of subscribers to be at around two million come January. Overall it’s not the most optimistic picture, with many service rollouts falling short of their projected aims both in availability [...]