Verizon MiFi 2200 EVDO hotspot leaks out, will sell like Canadian bananas

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/verizon-mifi-2200-evdo-hotspot-leaks-out-will-sell-like-canadia/

It’s not quite as sexy as the brushed aluminum version we saw back in December, but these leaked images showing a Verizon-branded Novatel MiFi 2200 personal hotspot are certainly enough to get the blood pumping. If you don’t recall the concept, the MiFi is a battery-powered EVDO router the size of a credit card that can provide network access over WiFi for up to four hours on a charge. There’s still a lot of details up in the air here, like how many devices can connect at once and the max data rate, but if this thing comes in anywhere close to its estimated $200 price tag we’d say a lot of those answers might not matter. Couple more pics at the read link.

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Verizon MiFi 2200 EVDO hotspot leaks out, will sell like Canadian bananas originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sony PSP hacked for use as PC status monitor

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/sony-psp-hacked-for-use-as-pc-status-monitor/

No money for a secondary display? No use for that worn-down PSP? There’s hope for the future, friend. Hacker avi has discovered that Sony’s handheld makes for a wonderful status monitor, providing a clean look at your PC’s CPU usage, memory allocation and system temperature levels. All you’ll need is a bit of training in Python, Lua for the PSP and a sister willing to stop watching UMD movies long enough for you to give this a go.

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Sony PSP hacked for use as PC status monitor originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Thecus’s N0204 miniNAS is world’s smallest, apparently

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/thecuss-n0204-mininas-is-worlds-smallest-apparently/

We track a lot of things claiming to be the smallest or thinnest this-or-that, but, when it comes to network-attached storage, we can’t say as we’ve been breaking out our rulers all that often. So, when Thecus says its N0204 miniNAS is the world’s smallest, we’ll take them for their word. Little bigger than an external 3.5-inch drive enclosure, the N0204 actually sports room for two 2.5-inch drives, serving them up concatenated or in RAID 0 or 1 configurations. Despite its size it still offers the same functionality of many of the bigger boys, including the ability to act as an iTunes or DLNA server, print server, and webcam host. It even allows hot-swapping. Apparently the only thing it can’t do is tell you when it’ll release or how much it’ll cost when it does. For that we’ll just have to wait and see.

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Thecus’s N0204 miniNAS is world’s smallest, apparently originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Reckitt-Benckiser to Shift $20 Million From TV to Web – http://ping.fm/M4P5Z

Reckitt-Benckiser to Shift $20 Million From TV to Web – http://ping.fm/M4P5Z

Market Research Must Get Real – should reflect real behavior rather than theoretical models – http://ping.fm/TZJ6V

Market Research Must Get Real – should reflect real behavior rather than theoretical models – http://ping.fm/TZJ6V

@bmorrissey – Web Ad Growth Deteriorates – sign of the times or simply lack of effectiveness? http://ping.fm/QtolE

@bmorrissey – Web Ad Growth Deteriorates – sign of the times or simply lack of effectiveness? http://ping.fm/QtolE

NVIDIA revs up pro graphics lineup

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/nvidia-revs-up-pro-graphics-lineup/

Squabbles with Intel aside, NVIDIA’s engineers have been keeping busy, and the company’s got a whole slew of new high-powered workstation graphics chips to talk about this morning, along with new SLI virtualization support. The new gear ranges from the Quadro NVS 295, which’ll drive two 30-inch displays for under $100, all the way up to the monster 4GB Quadro FX 5800, which packs 240 CUDA cores onto a PCI Express x16 card for $3150. The 5800 and baby brothers Quadro FX 3800 and 4800 all support SLI Multi-OS, which allows workstation users to tap into the cards using multiple OSes in Parallels — the HP Z800 is the first machine off the line to offer the capability, but more will follow. Pretty geeky stuff, head to the read links for more info.

Read – Workstation graphics press release
Read – SLI Multi-OS press release

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NVIDIA revs up pro graphics lineup originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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