Today hField technologies announced the release of a new version of their Wi-Fire long range USB Wi-Fi adapter that is now compatible with Windows Vista. The Wi-Fire adapter works with any 802.11 b/g and provides a high gain directional antenna so you can pick up Wi-Fi signals from a lot further away than most adapters and often get faster transfer speeds.

According to hField, the adapter can pick up Wi-Fi signals from as far as 1,000 feet away, which is about 3 times the distance most other standard adapters. The device is fairly small measuring only 3×4 inches and can stand alone or be mounted on the top of your notebook. It can also be folded up to store easily in your notebook case.

You’ve got a digital camera loaded with photos to share. You have a favorite photo sharing Web site. How can you transfer between the two? One new way looks to be the freshly announced Eye-Fi Card, a wireless SD memory card for digital cameras priced at around $100.

The Eye-Fi Card is available in a 2GB capacity, allowing it to hold around 1,000 images. The card allows one to connect through a wireless network to a PC or Mac to transfer photos over to. The interesting part is that you can also reportedly use this card to easily send images to a variety of online photo and social networking Web sites. You can set where to send your photos during a set-up process.

Kyocrea Wireless recently unveiled a new portable router which supports 802.11n (Draft 2.0) for faster wireless connections. The Kyocera KR2 Mobile Router will be available sometime in early 2008.

The Kyocera KR2 Mobile Router follows on the heels of the award-winning KR1. The KR2, besides supporting 802.11n, is designed to work with PCMCIA, ExpressCard and USB devices for wireless connectivity. It can also also act as a regular router via wired connections. A dedicated button helps setup and bolster wireless security, with the router featuring VPN-L2TP and enhanced encryption for network security.

If you like being the center of attention, and absolutely need to know when you are in a hot spot, then the Wi-Fi detector shirt is for you. It displays the current wi-fi signal strength on your chest, thanks to a battery pack hidden in a small pocket within the Shirt.
The glowing bars on the front change as the wi-fi signal strength fluctuates. Sure, it won’t win you any friends, but you will be part of a growing network of shirt wearers that provide a valuable public service to the rest of us as we pass you by, with our devices.

The animated decal is removable so you can wash the shirt easily and not create your own B.O. signal strength. It will display signal strength for 802.11b or 802.11g and they say that it will run for several hours using 3 AAA batteries. It will cost you $29.99.

Zipit Wireless, a developer of wireless consumer electronics, unveiled today a new Wi-Fi instant messaging device targeted at teens. The Zipit Wireless Messenger 2 is priced at around $150 and should be available in October.

The Zipit Wireless Messenger 2 is a portable handheld device which offers wireless IM connectivity with no monthly or per message fees and supports all the major IM platforms — AOL, Yahoo and MSN. It works with any open wireless hotspot and allows one to have multiple, concurrent conversations. It also lets one listen to music, view photos, play games and customize it with backgrounds, themes and other content.

T-Mobile along with RIM launched a new, upgraded BlackBerry Curve today that not only features Wi-Fi for data but can also connect voice through the Wi-Fi connection via Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) and the HotSpot@Home service. The BlackBerry 8320 can take advantage of both the current EDGE network or a Wi-Fi connection when available, seamlessly switching between the two during a call.

When using UMA, users of the 8320 can talk through a 802.11g wireless home network or public Wi-Fi hotspot without racking up any talk-time minutes as they would through the standard cellular EDGE voice connection. The new Curves from T-Mobile will come in new colors of titanium silver (shown here) or a pale gold (exclusively through T-Mobile) but other than that are pretty much the same as the original BlackBerry Curve. The BlackBerry 8320 has a 2 megapixel camera, media player, microSD expansion slot, full QWERTY keyboard and takes advantage of T-Mobiles myFaves for 5 friends from any carrier.

Nokia launched a pretty cool product yesterday with the Nokia 6301 mobile phone. The device features a thin, sleek design and looks similar to many other mobile phones that are released these days, but it has a more unique feature you’ll probably be seeing more of going forward.

The 6301 phone is able to seamlessly switch between GSM cellular connections and Wi-Fi connections, allowing voice connectivity through each when needed. The phone can pick up standard cell coverage when you’re out and about like any other cell phone. When your indoors where you might not get the best cell coverage it can switch over and start utilizing your Wi-Fi network instead through Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) technology.

Linksys has some new Wi-Fi products on the market as part of the new LinkSys RangePlus family which promises to increase the range of your home wireless network at affordable prices. The new products include a wireless router (WRT100), notebook adapter (WPC100), PCI adapter (WMP100) and USB Notebook adapter (WUSB100).

The WRT100 router (pictured here) has dropped the Linksys blue color and has taken the flat black look more common of its Cisco parent. The family of RangePlus products uses Multiple Input, Multiple Output (MIMO) technology to provide better coverage in a larger area with fewer dead spots. Although Linksys would like you to buy all the products as they are designed to work together, they will likely support the standard 802.11 b/g. The products do however feature some added features unique to Linksys that make setup a little easier.

Start up airline Virgin America is reaching out to the tech loving crowds by announcing its plans to potentially be the first U.S. airline to offer wireless Internet. It has teamed with AirCell, a provider of global airborne telecommunications and the winner of the FCC’s exclusive broadband frequency license in 2006, and promises to have the service up and running in 2008.

The new air-to-ground broadband internet service will be available to flyers through a Wi-Fi enabled personal device or the airline’s Red Inflight Entertainment system found at each seat. People will be able to browse the Web, check email and use the airline’s onboard chat system to access instant messaging services like Yahoo and Skype.

Along with all the cool new stuff announced by Apple today the company also unveiled a new upcoming, wireless music download service called the iTunes Wi-Fi Music store.

The Wi-Fi Music store allows owners of the iPhone or the iPod touch to access and download over six million different songs through any Wi-Fi hotspot directly to their mobile device through a new iTunes button.

You may not have heard of Venzero before but this is the 8th player the company has released, this one called the Venzero LINQ. Just like the name sounds this little media player is packing WiFi to allow streaming media from your PC via Windows Media player 11. It also supports wirelessly playing internet radio stations which will likely bring more attention to this player compared to its predecessors.

On top of the WiFi connection the LINQ player houses some of the more standard features found in a portable media player these days including an FM tuner, voice recording and supports multiple file formats including MP3, WMA, AAC, OGG, and WAV audio’s along with video support for AVI’s and MPEG-4′s. Media is stored on 4GB of internal flash memory and there’s also …

Tired of having those bland little rectangle-shaped networking components? Would you like to try and add a little style to the clutter of cables and boxes in your office? Top Global thought you might and took a little Egyptian inspiration in making the 3G Phoebus WiFi router.

While this is not ground-breaking technology the package is certainly something different. The Phoebus is shaped like a pyramid and works as a WiFi router to share your 3G card (EV-DO, UMTS, HSDPA and EDGE/GPRS) with multiple computers or anyone else within range. You’re not going to get the speed you would find from a WiFi router connected to broadband but if you’re in an area without much in the way of internet connections (but you can get your world phone signal) the 3G Phoebus will serve you well.

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How wide is wide enough when it comes to a digital picture frame? What if that frame was also wireless? Those are the two main ideas behind the newly announced PhotoVu PV1965w ($1,199).

The PhotoVu PV1965w sports a 19-inch widescreen display capable of showing photos in a 16:10 format. The digital photo frame automatically resizes images sent to it wirelessly or through an attached USB device automatically to 1440 x 900. The PV1965w supports 802.11b wireless technology, though it can be upgraded to 802.11g as well. A recessed accessory pocket lets one connect portable storage devices such as USB flash drives.

Denon has been coming out with a number of products lately with one of the cooler ones being this WiFi iPod dock. The small round docking station connects to your home theater components via RCA and S-Video to let you stream music and pictures to them wirelessly from your PC, or from the iPod that’s docked in it.

Controlling the device is done through an included remote control and can be visually navigated on-screen through your connected television, which will also show information on the current track playing and can control your iPod when docked. The dock is compatible with any 3rd generation iPod on up including iPod video, iPod Nano and iPod Mini and will also charge the devices when connected.

The WiFi iPod dock is available in colors of gloss white or black and will be available in September for $229.99

Source: Crunchgear

Mobile Wi-Fi fans, here is your BlackBerry. Research In Motion (RIM) has now officially launched that new dual-mode smartphone we’ve all been waiting for. The Blackberry 8820 sports the desirable broad connectivity of working on global cellular networks (quad-band GSM/GPRS and EDGE) as well as 802.11a/b/g Wi-Fi networks and it even has GPS built-in.

“The BlackBerry 8820 is an extraordinary business phone for people who really care about mobile communications and productivity. It features all the renowned power and usability of the BlackBerry platform with executive class styling and unprecedented connectivity features, including cellular, Wi-Fi and built-in GPS,” said Mike Lazaridis, RIM President and Co-CEO in the RIM press release.

The 8820 is RIM’s thinnest smartphone yet with a full QWERY keyboard, 320 x 240 display and it supports memory expansion through microSD / microSDHC. The Wi-Fi capabilities …