Internet & networking stories

  • Netgear's wireless router goes mobile

    08 Jan 2009 3:11 PM

    Today at CES, Netgear introduced its 3G-only mobile router, the MBR624GU.

  • Netgear unveils Internet TV Player

    08 Jan 2009 2:19 PM

    Netgear showed on Wednesday its new Internet TV Player (ITV2000), an internet set-top device with a simple remote control that allows viewers to watch internet videos from various sources on their TV screens.

  • Netgear adds storage, Draft N to content streamer

    08 Jan 2009 2:15 PM

    Two years after the EVA8000 Digital Entertainer HD, Netgear has released the Digital Entertainer Elite EVA9150.

  • Netgear reveals new dual-band router

    08 Jan 2009 2:04 PM

    The successor to the WNDR3300 has been announced at CES 2009, called the RangeMax Dual Band Wireless-N Gigabit Router WNDR3700.

  • Ooma rings in new year with Telo VoIP system

    08 Jan 2009 11:25 AM

    Ooma officially unveiled its cordless VoIP phone at CES.

  • Cisco's home-networking push

    07 Jan 2009 11:15 AM

    Cisco Systems, which builds the gear that powers the internet, is making a big push this year at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas with new products that will help consumers move digital media around their homes.

  • Philips adds two new network audio products to its Streamium line

    07 Jan 2009 10:02 AM

    Philips' line of Streamium products was one of the pioneers in the network audio realm, and the company has unveiled two new models, the Streamium NP2500 and the Streamium NP2900.

  • RIAA dumps evidence-gathering firm

    05 Jan 2009 2:13 PM

    The Recording Industry Association of America has dumped the company charged with gathering evidence for use against people accused of illegally sharing copyrighted music, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.

  • Do you need a home network for school?

    05 Jan 2009 1:01 PM

    With the government slowly rolling out laptops to school kids, many families will discover they have more than one computer in the home.

  • Print news is fading, but the content lives on

    30 Dec 2008 3:10 PM

    For more than a billion people on the planet, the Web today is an alternate, digital universe that is gradually overtaking the analog, physical world as a source of information and connections.

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  • Withings WifiScale

    We can't fault the technical genius of the Withings WifiScale, but at the same time you do pay a lot of money for a lot of gimmicks in a bathroom scale.

  • Virgin Mobile Broadband WiFi modem

    This WiFi modem/router works well and provides great value on some plans, but we're still left wanting better performance out of Virgin Mobile's actual broadband.

    Specs: 7.2 kbps, 5.76 kbps, USB

  • Thecus N5500

    Thecus' N5500 is, like all of Thecus' lines, best suited to the professional user who doesn't mind tweaking the unit to get the most out of it.