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Peter Cochrane's Blog: New niche for 3G?
Comment For less than €20 per month I now get access with up to 5Gbps downloads using a 3G USB/HSDPA wireless dongle. The economic downturn and collapse of the dollar have resulted in a lot of my business migrating out of the US into the EU and south-east... [05 Aug 2008]
Orange plots Eee PC mobile broadband coup
News Users get a dongle with their Eee and Orange's 'Internet Everywhere' package - with a data allowance of 3GB, and 100 texts from the laptop. The three small business packages - all on Orange's unlimited data 'Business Everywhere' tariffs - cost £35... [23 Jul 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Out of range?
Comment In my lab I looked out a couple of old wireless routers and a wi-fi extender plus a wi-fi dongle. To get the final throw I needed to focus the energy in a beam and enlisted the help of an old domestic satellite dish and a dongle. [15 Jul 2008]
Design of Portable Biometric Authenticators - Energy, Performance, and Security Tradeoffs
White Paper This paper presents the design and consumer application of a portable fingerprint biometric authenticator with the form factor of a key dongle (as an alternative to biometric smart cards). The device contains a fingerprint sensor, a 32-bit RISC... [03 Jul 2008]
Disaster Recovery Planning — Preparing for the Worst
White Paper Furthermore, this paper discusses the problems you need to overcome, the files that are involved, licensing issues, hardware encryption key (the dongle), procedures, and other tips to keep your downtime to a minimum. [03 Jul 2008]
Femtocells to speed arrival of next-gen mobile networks?
News Simon Saunders, chairman of the Femto Forum, explained: "As early adopters find LTE interesting or WiMax interesting they can be provided with both a terminal - both a user device, say a next generation mobile data card or a USB dongle or whatever... [30 Jun 2008]
T-Mobile UK slashes Euro data roaming costs
News T-Mobile has announced it is reducing roaming charges by 80 per cent for consumers from 1 July - cutting the cost of downloading a megabyte of data via a mobile, USB dongle or data card from £7.50 to £1.50. [20 Jun 2008]
Nationwide WiMax in next two years?
News On the subject of the sudden increase in 3G dongle usage in the UK, Patel said the trend "validates the market for mobile data" but said he was "convinced that, at some point, 3G will not be able to cope from a backhaul [and general traffic... [09 May 2008]
O2 to launch mobile broadband offering
News O2 will launch its mobile broadband service on Friday, becoming the last major UK operator to do so. However, the service initially will be made available only to O2's existing customers. Opting for an 18-month contract, users will get a free USB... [17 Apr 2008]
Dongle mania to kill off wi-fi hotspots?
News This mobile broadband 'dongle mania' is being driven by ongoing 3.5G rollouts (aka HSDPA networks - or high speed downlink packet access). The Infonetics Research Mobility: Broadband, Phones, Subscribers and Services report predicts the mobile data... [28 Mar 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Security twitch
Comment You wear a concealed Bluetooth dongle linked to all your devices and sensitised to distance by signal ranging. Written in Dublin after a long working day and dispatched from Lower Ufford, Suffolk, on an open wi-fi link [11 Apr 2007]
Photos: What's inside France Telecom's Paris R&D Labs
Photo This dongle is part of the France Telecom's Quintesens device and works alongside another desktop bit of kit to provide submersive gaming or, according to France Telecom, even train up surgeons. The dongle (previous page) is the system's input... [09 Sep 2005]
Devil's Advocate: What we can learn from Bluetooth
Comment One might have thought a Bluetooth headset would combine nicely with a Bluetooth-dongle-equipped PC to support VoIP but few people have achieved this. Bluetooth, which is partly responsible for mobile phone frustrations such as the ones I've... [15 Mar 2005]
An Analysis of Wireless Device Implementations on Universal Serial Bus
White Paper This paper presents an analysis of the issues related to implementing HID class devices that attach to the Universal Serial Bus through a USB to Wireless Adapter or Dongle. In general the issues raised here apply to any single USB device that... [24 Feb 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 05.09.03
Round-Up On Tuesday the Round-Up was playing happily with its new Bluetooth dongle and wishing Orange would get its skates on and deliver its new phone so it had something to connect to when a small rip opened in the space-time continuum and a tattered... [05 Sep 2003]
