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Mountain climbers can now browse the Web from the top of Mount Everest

Friday, October 29, 2010 - 3:16am

There's no excuse not to climb the world's tallest mountain anymore. Mount Everest just got an upgrade — a 3G one, courtesy of Nepali mobile network operator Ncell. Ncell claims to have a base station that reaches up to the mountain's summit.

Man 'hacks' U.S. iPad 3G to work in Europe (with a meat cleaver)

Kevin Hall

Thursday, May 6, 2010 - 3:18am

We do love clever hacks here at DVICE, though John Benson is taking the concept literally. Who knew all you'd need to convert the iPad 3G to U.K. cellular standards is a pair of scissors? Or, as John Benson prefers,...

Samsung Galaxy S: sexier than the Droid?

Stewart Wolpin

Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - 7:35am

If not for the Sprint HTC Evo, the Samsung Galaxy S would have been the most innovative and bleeding-edge phone introduced here in Vegas. First unveiled as a series of features in Barcelona earlier this year, Galaxy S includes many...

DARPA wants military App Store for Android, 3G for battlefields

Kevin Hall

Thursday, March 4, 2010 - 5:34am

We've written about "war apps" before, but now the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, aka DARPA, is getting down to the specifics on what it wants to see when it comes to marrying advanced consumer phones to the military. In...

Wi-Fi and not 3G to push iPad, according to AT&T (the 3G provider)

Kevin Hall

Wednesday, March 3, 2010 - 5:01am

You'll be able to pick up your very own Wi-Fi version of the iPad this month, though if you wait until April you can spring for a 3G-powered Apple tablet with service provided by AT&T. 3G service, according to AT&T,...

Huawei unveils circular 3G football dongle

Adario Strange

Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - 1:16am

The movie Star Wars gave us our first peek at robotic balls with a mind of their own and now Huawei offers us a real world orb of information. The Huawei football dongle was designed to commemorate the upcoming FIFA...

Netgear router turns 3G wireless into WiFi

Tuesday, February 9, 2010 - 7:01am

Are you sick of paying for cable internet when you only use the internet for light surfing and email? Well, you could always switch completely to 3G wireless internet, provided you trust your wireless provider to not crap out on...

Skiff takes e-readers to new territory: flexible screens (but not bendy readers)

Wednesday, January 6, 2010 - 1:34pm

The Skiff e-reader, unveiled today at CES, has a special feature that will appeal to newspaper and magazine junkies: a flexible screen. The Skiff is just a quarter of an inch thick, and its E Ink screen has no glass...

The biggest tech story of 2009: Everything you bought this year is obsolete already

Stewart Wolpin

Monday, December 21, 2009 - 7:55am

If I were a product manager, the most orgasm-inducing fantasy ever would be a product with instant obsolescence — just buy it and throw it away. Were I a product manager with such an immediately disposable commodity, ah, be still...

Scandinavia gets world's first LTE network; U.S. still puttering at 3G

Monday, December 14, 2009 - 12:03pm

In a move that bodes well for that website to download a little faster on your cellphone, Scandinavian service provider TeliaSonera just switched on the world's first Long Term Evolution (LTE) cellphone network in Stockholm and Olso. Right now the...

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Mountain climbers can now browse the Web from the top of Mount Everest

Man 'hacks' U.S. iPad 3G to work in Europe (with a meat cleaver)

Samsung Galaxy S: sexier than the Droid?

DARPA wants military App Store for Android, 3G for battlefields

Wi-Fi and not 3G to push iPad, according to AT&T (the 3G provider)

Huawei unveils circular 3G football dongle

Netgear router turns 3G wireless into WiFi

Skiff takes e-readers to new territory: flexible screens (but not bendy readers)

The biggest tech story of 2009: Everything you bought this year is obsolete already

Scandinavia gets world's first LTE network; U.S. still puttering at 3G

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