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Wi-Fi Direct certified devices connect directly, form a Wi-Fi Direct Group.

Wi-Fi Direct device connections can happen anywhere, anytime - even when you don't have access to a Wi-Fi network.  Your Wi-Fi Direct device will signal to other devices in the area that it can make a connection.  You can view available devices and ask them to connect, or you might receive an invitation to connect to another Wi-Fi Direct device.  When two or more Wi-Fi Direct-certified devices connect directly, they have formed a Wi-Fi Direct Group, using Wi-Fi Protected Setup™ and the latest Wi-Fi security. Now you can get started doing all the exciting things that Wi-Fi Direct enables!

Best Tech Products 2010: Full List, 1-100 - PCWorld

Happy Halloween R. Scott

PC World scanned the entire universe of technology this year--HDTVs, phones, tablets, PCs, e-book readers, storage, software, services, apps, digital cameras, camcorders, printers, and more--and picked the 100 best.

1. Google Android 2.2
2. Apple iPad
3. Amazon Kindle (third-generation)
4. Netflix
5. Samsung Galaxy Tab
6. Sony Alpha NEX-5
7. HP Envy 14 Beats Edition
8. Samsung Epic 4G
9. Instapaper
10. Microsoft Security Essentials
11. Samsung UN55C8000
12. HP TouchSmart 600 Quad
13. Apple iPhone 4
14. Google Chrome
15. HTC HD7
16. Crucial RealSSD C300
17. Blizzard Entertainment StarCraft II
18. Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX5
19. Microsoft Office 2010
20. Samsung LN46C650
21. Apple TV
22. Western Digital WD TV Live Plus
23. Canon Pixma MG8120
24. Blizzard Entertainment World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
25. Motorola Droid X
26. Adobe Creative Suite 5
27. Canon EOS 7D
28. Sony Handycam NEX-VG10
29. Alienware M11x (second revision)
30. Sonos ZonePlayer S5
31. Sony Reader Pocket Edition PRS-350
32. nVidia GeForce GTX 460
33. Origin Genesis Midtower
34. Google Voice
35. Logitech C910
36. Bump
37. Norton Antivirus 2011
38. MOG
39. AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
40. Livescribe Echo Smartpen
41. Google Gmail
42. Western Digital 3TB My Book Essential
43. Clickfree Network CN2
44. Flipboard
45. Panasonic HDC-SDT750
46. Handcent SMS
47. HTC Droid Incredible
48. SlingPlayer Mobile
49. At Bat 2010 for iPad
50. XMind
51. PC Tools Internet Security 2011
52. Seagate Momentus XT
53. Cisco M20 Valet Plus
54. Rovio Angry Birds
55. Innergie mCube Mini
56. Lookout Mobile Security
57. Maingear F131
58. ATI Radeon HD 5870
59. iVina BulletScan S300
60. DimDim
61. Smartfish ErgoMotion Mouse
62. Lenovo ThinkPad x100e
63. Second Rotation Gazelle
64. Facebook
65. Plantronics K100
66. Taptrix Brushes
67. Alphonso Labs Pulse News Reader
68. Corsair 800D
69. Qnap TS-259 Pro Turbo NAS
70. Fuze Box Fuze Meeting
71. Evernote
72. Iomega eGo SuperSpeed USB 3.0
73. Gateway SX2840-01
74. Jabra Clipper
75. Lenovo ThinkPad W701ds
76. FitNow Lose It
77. Cisco Flip UltraHD 8GB with FlipPort
78. Samsung BD-C6500
79. PopCap Games Plants vs. Zombies HD
80. Asus Eee PC 1201n
81. Genieo
82. Jabra Extreme
83. Virgin Mobile Beyond Talk Plans
84. Dell UltraSharp U2711
85. Grooveshark for Android
86. Epson PictureMate Show PM 300
87. Polar WearLink+ Transmitter Nike+
88. RideCharge Taxi Magic
89. Belkin Conserve Insight
90. Bitalpha Taska
91. 3M MPro120
92. B&W P5 Mobile Hi-Fi Headphones
93. Apple iPod Touch (2010 version)
94. TheFind.com
95. Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse
96. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3
97. Astro A30 Headset
98. Prezi
99. TomTom XXL 550-TM
100. Ubuntu 10.10

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The top 5 European smartphones for 2010 - FierceWireless:Europe

Apple iPhone 4

1.The top smartphone, and unassailable today. Its appeal is becoming wider within both consumer and enterprise segments, boosted by a growing number of enterprise apps.

Samsung Galaxy S

2. The Galaxy S is a real challenger to the iPhone, in some cases it's an improvement. Priced around a third less than the iPhone4, it will attract buyers wanting a smartphone very close to the Apple device.

HTC desire

3. Now challenging the Galaxy S for volumes, but prospects damaged by early component shortages. Competitively priced with many strong and appealing features.

RIM Blackberry 8520

4. Good brand appeal and low price has driven uptake by new segment. Prepaid has been key to uptake. Not the highest-selling device, but an important indicator for what is possible with BlackBerry devices.

Sony Ericsson x10 mini

5. Premium Android device for the budget-conscious brings Android and SE into a new, lower price. Great build quality.

GSM operators shy away from CDMA acquisitions

Indications are that the much anticipated consolidation in Nigeria’s telecommunications industry will not take place anytime soon as major GSM operators are increasingly shying away from mergers and acquisitions, and paying more attention to improving internal organic growth, analysts told Business Day.

GSM and CDMA are going to end up on a new technology called Long Term Evolution (LTE). In a couple of years, we would see a full scale commercial implementation of LTE. So, if you are going to have a convergence, we are gradually moving to technology neutrality or, if you like, interoperability of devices, networks, and so on.

Starcomms, Multilinks-Telkom, Visafone and ZOOMmobile are the CDMA firms operating in Nigeria’s telecoms industry. Between January and July, CDMA operators in Nigeria lost about 1.08 million active subscribers. Subscriber information made available by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) covering December 2009 to July 2010 shows that active mobile CDMA lines, which stood at 7.7 million in January 2010 dropped to a dismal 6.6 million lines by July.


Also, the ease to change from one network to the other gives GSM operators an edge, whereas, the CDMAs have to buy handsets and subsidise them. This adds to their costs of operation. If a handset is faulty, GSM subscribers can easily buy another handset and swap their SIMs, but for CDMA subscribers, it is not like that. Most times, subscribers have to buy new handsets and re-programme their old numbers. That is one of the reasons why CDMA is not really growing”.

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ITU declares LTE-Advanced, 802.16m 4G standards

Geneva - ITU's Radiocommunication Sector (ITU-R) has completed the assessment of six candidate submissions for the global 4G mobile wireless broadband technology, otherwise known as IMT-Advanced. Harmonization among these proposals has resulted in two technologies, "LTE-Advanced and "WirelessMAN-Advanced being accorded the official designation of IMT-Advanced, qualifying them as true 4G technologies.
In its recent meeting in Chongqing, China, ITU-R Working Party 5D, which is charged with defining the IMT-Advanced global 4G technologies, reached a milestone in its work by deciding on these technologies for the first release of IMT-Advanced. In the ITU-R Report, which will be published shortly, the LTE-Advanced and WirelessMAN-Advanced technologies were each determined to have successfully met all of the criteria established by ITU-R for the first release of IMT-Advanced. The Report is expected to be approved by ITU Member States at the ITU-R Study Group 5 meeting in Geneva in late November 2010.
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These technologies will now move into the final stage of the IMT-Advanced process, which provides for the development in early 2012 of an ITU-R  Recommendation specifying the in-depth technical standards for these radio technologies.

ITU also organizes worldwide and regional exhibitions and forums, such as ITU TELECOM WORLD, bringing together the most influential representatives of government and the telecommunications and ICT industry to exchange ideas, knowledge and technology for the benefit of the global community, and in particular the developing world.

From broadband Internet to latest-generation wireless technologies, from aeronautical and maritime navigation to radio astronomy and satellite-based meteorology, from convergence in fixed-mobile phone, Internet access, data, voice and TV broadcasting to next-generation networks, ITU is committed to connecting the world.

ITU is based in Geneva, Switzerland, and its membership includes 192 Member States and more than 700 Sector Members and Associates.

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If someone is trying to sell you 4G wireless these days, don't believe them.

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The truth is, neither WiMax nor LTE (Long-Term Evolution) qualify as 4G (fourth-generation) technologies, according to the International Telecommunication Union Radiocommunication Sector (ITU-R). On Thursday, the group announced it had finished its assessment of submissions for the 4G standard, also called IMT-Advanced. Based on that group's decision, to really be selling 4G, carriers will have to get going with one of two future technologies, called LTE-Advanced and WirelessMAN-Advanced. The latter, also known as IEEE 802.16m, will form the basis of WiMax Release 2.

The IEEE 802.16 Working Group is the IEEE group for Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks (WMANs), in particular Part 16: Air Interface for Fixed Broadband Wireless Access Systems. The working group develops standards and recommended practices to support the development and deployment of fixed broadband wireless access systems.

Ubuntu 10.10 multitouch support demo

Ubuntu 10.10 for netbooks and tablets: the new uTouch gesture support.

While some folks have panned the new Unity interface for netbooks in the latest release of Ubuntu Linux, there is one kind of nifty new feature included in Ubuntu 10.10 for netbooks and tablets: the new uTouch gesture support.

Unity includes a multitouch gesture library, which lets you perform actions like expanding and moving windows, launching multiple windows, and minimizing and maximizing windows. The framework supports up to 4 finger touch input.

Canonical has released a demo video showing just some of the new uTouch features included in Ubuntu 10.10′s Unity interface.

Google Apps for Education hits 10 million user milestone

Paul Darbyshire  May 28, 2010

Google is announcing at EDUCAUSE today that, four years after introducing Google Apps for Education, it now has 10 million active users at universities and K-12 schools worldwide. Active users are people within Google Apps domains who have signed on within the last 7 - 30 days and include students, staff, alumni, and even parents (in some K-12 settings), depending upon how the schools have rolled out the services.


The evolution of the Google Apps suite of cloud-based communication and collaboration tools really has been nothing short of extraordinary. Apps relatively easy to deploy ready to go live within 2 weeks.

As part of this sustained momentum, we’ve seen the number of active Google Apps for Education users double since last fall, with more than 2 million new users coming on board since May alone; not to mention the emerging growth we’re now seeing in the K-12 space.

With all of this obvious demand and utilization, why is Google giving Edu Apps away for free?

1. The more Google Apps users the company has, the more it can refine and develop features, get feedback, and otherwise improve the product that it sells in other markets.
2. Google Apps for Education doesn’t deliver ads to students (or can be limited to education-related ads). However, students accustomed to Apps will be more likely to use Gmail and consumer Apps in their personal lives, broadening Google’s advertising base.
3. Similarly, students who have come to depend upon the collaboration and easy content creation tools in Apps during college will look Premier Apps when they enter the workforce. What better way to build a generation of highly-educated users who demand cloud-based tools like those in Apps from their employers (or who incorporate them in their own businesses)?
4. The more people (whether students, staff, or parents) associate Google with the cloud and productivity, the stronger Google’s brand.

It’s a win for everybody.

Bring your Windows XP PC over to your Windows 7 PC for FREE in a few simple steps!

VMware: VMware Workstation Zealot

If you are planning to move to Windows 7, you can use these tools on your own to get the same results. Below are the simple steps I followed to make the move to Windows 7.

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1) Download VMware Converter .

2) Install VMware Converter on the Windows PC you would like to virtualize to run in Windows 7. I recommend using the default setting.

3) Run VMware Converter after installation. Click the “Convert Machine” button in the tool bar to start the wizard.

4) Conversion Wizard Step 1: The source type should be “Powered-on Machine” and specific powered-on machine should be set to “This local machine”. Click Next.

5) Conversion Wizard Step 2: Destination type should be “VMware Workstation or Other VMware virtual machine.” The VMware Product selected should be “VMware Workstation 6.5”. Give your virtual machine a name, it can be anything, I chose “My XP PC”. Choose a location to save the virtual machine. I selected an external hard drive to make it easier to copy it to the new PC. You can save it to the new PC over the network, but for this example, I wanted to keep it simple.

6) Conversion Wizard Step 3: In the “Devices” section click “edit” and increase the memory to 512MB. This can be increased up to 1024MB if your new machine has 4 GB or more memory.

7) Conversion Wizard Step 3: In the “Networks” section click “edit”. Most people will see multiple network adapters (NICs) listed. Typically the NICs listed are wired ethernet, WiFi, and a (FireWire/iLiVnk/1394) port. Select “NAT” in the drop down list box under Connection Type next to the ethernet and WiFi network adapters. If you are unsure, select NAT for all

8) Conversion Wizard Step 4: Click “Finish”

9) Sit back and let VMware Converter do its thing. The “Status” column will let you know when its done.

10) While VMware Converter is running, return to your Windows 7 PC and download and install VMware Player.

11) Download VMware Player.(you may be prompted to enter your account information you used/created in step 1)

12) Install VMware Player on your Windows 7 PC.

13) I recommend using the default settings.

14) Once the installation is complete, you will need to restart your PC.

15) Now VMware Player is ready to go.

16) Once VMware Converter has completed the conversion process,you are ready to move your Windows XP PC to your Windows 7 laptop.

17) If you stored the virtual machines to an external hard drive as I did, you can run your Windows XP virtual machines from the external hard drive or copy the virtual machine to your new Windows 7 PC’s hard drive. I copied it to the “Documents” folder on the Windows 7 PC. With the large hard drives found on most new PCs, I recommend copying it to your new machine’s internal hard drive so you can quickly access applications and files as need. If you start to use the Windows XP virtual machines less and less, I would move it to an external hard drive to keep it as a backup in case you need it.

18) Now we are ready to run our Windows XP machines with VMware Player in Windows 7. Click the VMware Player icon to open up the program.

19) Click “Open a Virtual Machine”.

20) Find the file with the name you gave your virtual machine in step #5, select it and click “Open”.

21) Now you will see the Windows XP Machines start to boot up.

22) Once you see the Windows XP desktop in VMware Player, go to the “Virtual Machine” menu and select “Install VMware Tools”. Follow the installation prompts to install and allow it to reboot once finished.

23) Now you are ready to go! You can now access any files or run any applications from your old PC. If you would like to move a file to your Windows 7 PC, just drag the file to your Windows 7 desktop. Read the Getting Started Guide for more details on how to setup and run VMware Player.

24) I hope you found this useful. If you would like to learn more or get some additional questions answered, please visit our VMware Player community forum.

Integrated User And Radio Management In A Wireless Network Environment - Patent 7382756

Integrated User And Radio Management In A Wireless Network Environment - Patent 7382756 -

Finland - Education reform - Helsinki University

Pasi Sahlberg, of Helsinki University, in his own words, on the stunning success of teachers and students in Finland, and the secret to how they give all of its children the best education possible.

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