Internet Radio Dedicated News Service

It seems internet radio is getting their own news service. The service will made available for all internet station.

AT&T U-Verse High Speed Internet Overview

Using fiber technology, AT&T U-Verse High Speed Internet with Downstream Speed up to 18 Mbps delivers the ultimate in Internet speed and performance. AT&T internet service featuring built-in wireless home networking supplies security and speed. Plus, the added function to program DVR using the internet is accessible.

Get Grandma Online in 6 Steps

There is a digital divide in America, but it has less to do with economics as it does with age. Although senior citizens have made much headway in recent years, there are still significant segments of the elderly community that refuse to touch a computer, or anything digital at all with a ten foot pole.

What is Internet Protocol For?

The Internet Protocol (IP) is the basis upon which all other Internet protocols operate. IP provides the basic mechanism for the forwarding of data between two computers on separate networks.

How to Set Up Wireless Internet For Your PC Desktop

A wireless connection for your PC desktop is something everyone dreams of. We all find it very convenient to have one. No more worry about the wired network, or having to check the length of the wire if you plan to move your PC to another place. To be sincere you can set up a wireless network effortlessly and quickly. This article will show you some tips on how to do so.

Apple iPad Preview

The long awaited Apple tablet has finally been revealed. Steve Jobs pulled the wraps off on January 27th in a tense morning for Apple and tech fans all over the world. Now with the specifications and information out there it’s time to preview the iPad and its potential.

Specifications You Should Look Into When Buying Cheap Laptop Computers in 2010

It is 2010 and this year seems to be so promising when it comes to technological innovation especially in the world of laptop computers. Thus, you cannot expect an under-qualified laptop nowadays. In fact, there are a lot of commotions about every computer company to release their new models by the end of January or early February of 2010.

Southwest Signs with Row 44

Southwest announced on its blog that it’s signed a contract and the next steps have begun for Wi-Fi: This is good news for Row 44 and its investors, as Row 44 has two airlines (Alaska and Southwest) that want its satellite-based Internet service, but until today there was no word of how that was going to proceed for either airline.

On the blog, Southwest’s Dave Ridley wrote that the airline will start installations in the second quarter of 2010, and install about 15 aircraft a month from a fleet of 540 with a goal to ramp up to 25 planes a month. That puts them at 2012 on this scheduled for full-fleet rollout.

Cost still hasn’t been set. Of course, people would prefer to pay nothing, but Southwest hasn’t been consistently low-operating-cost and low-fare by guessing wrong on what people will pay.

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Hands-On with Gogo

My recent trip to San Francisco for Apple’s iPad launch gave me some hands-on time with Gogo Inflight Internet: Despite writing about in-flight Internet for nearly nine years, I have rarely had the chance to experience it. My heavy flying days–tens of thousands of air miles a year–ended back with the dotcom boom in 2001. I flew a Connexion by Boeing test flight in 2004 with other reporters out of Seattle’s Boeing Field that didn’t even use the production flavor of that service; and I was on board Virgin America’s launch of Wi-Fi in 2008. Other than that, nada!

So it was rather exciting to be able to have a real-world experience with Aircell’s Gogo on the way down and back to San Francisco–even better, I was able to snag seats in an empty exit row on the way down and had an empty middle on the way back. The flights are 100 minutes in the air, with perhaps 80 to 85 of those above 10,000 feet. I had previously set up an account with Gogo, something Aircell advises because it removes the friction in the air from starting up a session. You can store a credit card for billing as part of account setup.

Connecting to the network was no trouble for me, but my colleague Jeff Carlson couldn’t initially pull up the redirection hotspot page. We checked his settings, and found he had hard-coded his DNS servers to OpenDNS. This is a good idea in general–faster DNS, phishing protection, and search result redirection–but it causes trouble when there’s a hotspot redirection page. He removed his DNS server settings and then got the splash page.

Setting up a session is straightforward: you choose a plan, such as a day or month pass, and then pay for it. We had complimentary codes, and entered those in the checkout stage.

Service was reliable and consistent for nearly the whole way down and back. I used the Web, Dropbox, an RSS reader, email, screen sharing (VNC), Twitter, iChat, and other services and protocols without any problems. A test at one point during one flight of bandwidth showed precisely 256 Kbps of downstream (Internet to me) and about 300 Kbps upstream (me to the Internet). The service is clearly throttled and provisioned, and the exact 256 Kbps (two to the eighth power) figure shows perhaps how precisely so. Gogo has about 3 Mbps of raw bandwidth to divvy up.

It was definitely both useful and a pleasure to have Internet access nearly continuously during this particular trip. Jeff and I were trying to stay up to speed and get prepped on the way down, and then were writing and posting material at the Apple event venue, at a Starbucks afterwards, at SFO, and then from the plane itself. I rarely have to keep a constant stream of activity like that, but I work for myself.

Jeff and I conferred about the price. If were paying for it, we likely would not have paid the $9.95 for the SEA-SFO leg, because we could have read a book or slept. It was useful, but not critical. The ten bucks for the SFO-SEA would have been a no brainer, as we had plenty of work to do on that flight.

Now if only the people in the seats in front of Jeff and I hadn’t leaned back so far we could barely open our laptop covers. Perhaps the iPad will solve that problem.

(Disclosure: Aircell gave me free codes to use to test the service on these flights, but this post is not sponsored, nor did Aircell see this post or have any input into it. I paid the listed fare for the flight. As you can tell from other articles on this site about Aircell and Gogo, I don’t pull my punches.)

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iPad Creates New Class of 3G Device, Plan

Apple’s 3G iPad models will come with two unique aspects: only unlocked, no-contract services: It’s not surprising that Apple will have Wi-Fi only and Wi-Fi plus 3G variants of its new iPad mobile device. Rather, it’s that Apple finally got its demands met about how consumers will control the relationship with cellular carriers.

The iPad will come with a micro SIM, a new tiny form factor for SIM in mobile devices that’s not yet in real use, as far as I can tell. (I had never heard of it before today, even though it’s a settled 3GPP format.) Steve Jobs said it will be simple to swap out SIMs from other carriers, so that the US version of the 3G iPad will “just work” in most cases outside the US. It won’t be until June or July that Apple has carrier relationships for direct sales and data plans other than in America.

The unlocked iPad will be coupled with two data plan options from AT&T, neither of which requires a contract or (as far as I know so far) any cancellation penalty. AT&T has some services now that you can turn on or off on demand, such as navigation.

The 250 MB/mo. plan is $15/mo; the unlimited plan is $30/month. While you might scoff at 250 MB, the iPad will have the same limitations as the iPhone in terms of downloading and storing stuff over the Internet, so outside of purchasing movies, the biggest 3G drain will be streaming video. Because the iPhone OS doesn’t support Flash, streaming video must all be embedded H.264 format or accessed via the YouTube app or other applications.

I’m calling the 250 MB/mo plan “your mother’s plan,” because it’s most likely to appeal to people who won’t be heavy 3G users, and will mostly use the device over Wi-Fi at home or at hotspots. However, they will want the flexibility of having 3G available wherever when they carry the device with them.

The iPad still is slated to have the disappointing pairing of UMTS for upload (384 Kbps) with HSDPA for download (ostensibly HSPA 7.2 as with the iPhone 3GS); this detail is noted on the Tech Specs page for the iPad. The iPad will likely be a heavier producing device, especially given that there’s a camera connection kit (USB or SD card reader) that will let you suck photos directly into the iPad. These will sync with iPhoto when you return to a Mac (or through other means specified in iTunes on a Mac or under Windows), but uploading photos during a trip will certainly be desirable, and limited over 3G networks to the paltry 384 Kbps rate.

I should note, of course, that the iPad will have 802.11n support, but it’s unknown to me yet whether this will be a single-stream radio, which would use less juice and thus be more sensible in a device intended to have a long battery life, or a two-stream 802.11n adapter, which will drain it faster. Apple uses USB for syncing large amounts of content, and doesn’t provide over-the-air sync for anything directly. (You can use its MobileMe service to sync calendars and contacts.)

That means that the gating factor on most networks will be the Internet connection, not the wireless LAN. Having a 50 Mbps or so top rate with 802.11n single stream won’t really be a clog on the iPad’s abilities.

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