wifi

WiFi Analyzer 3.6.2 Improve your wireless Internet connection using WiFi Analyzer, a handy new application for your favorite Android device. This tool helps you choose the best channel for your wireless router. Results are presented through a clear ... and easy to understand interface. http://a.farproc.com/wifi-analyzer Anvil Studio 2013.09.02 Record and edit your music with Anvil Studio. This program allows you to record, compose, sequence, and play music on your PC. You can also print sheet music using the optional Print-Sheet accessory. This program is available for Windows XP, Vista, Windows ... (view more)

ServiWin 1.55 NirSoft's popular ServiWin utility gives users access to information related to all drivers and services installed on their Windows computers. Useful information displayed includes service or driver name, description, and version. This ... free software tool also allows you to stop and start any service or driver you wish. http://www.nirsoft.net WiFi Guard 1.0.2 SoftPerfect's WiFi Guard is designed to help home and small business WiFi users protect their network from hackers. This program will immediately alert you any time someone tries to access your network without authorization ... (view more)

US-based aerospace and defense firm Boeing is working to improve the WiFi Internet service on its commercial aircraft. Surprisingly, the company is using potatoes as a low-tech solution to a high-tech problem. Recently, Boeing loaded passenger seats ... on a grounded aircraft with 9,000 kilograms (kg) of potatoes in sacks for several days, as technicians meticulously checked WiFi signal strengths. Because of their overall chemistry and high levels of water content, potatoes absorb and reflect radio wave signals much the same as human bodies. This makes standard spuds a suitable substitute for ... (view more)

Most city-dwellers have had at least one scare while crossing the street or riding a bicycle through traffic. But General Motors now believes it can prevent pedestrian and cyclist injuries and fatalities with a new smartphone application. According ... to GM and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, in 2010 more than 4,000 pedestrians and more than 600 cyclists lost their lives after being struck by a moving vehicle. Clearly, something needs to be done to prevent such tragedies from occurring. (Source: csmonitor.com ) WiFi Tech: Vehicles, Smartphones Interact GM has been working for ... (view more)

Microsoft's much-hyped rival to the iPad, the Surface, may not be as attractive to consumers as it once appeared. Reports from reputable sources indicate the new device may have only WiFi capabilities, and not the ability to use cellphone networks ... to access the Internet. The Surface, officially unveiled last week , is similar in size and shape to the iPad. However, rather than forcing users to rely on a touchscreen, its case houses a built-in physical keyboard. Microsoft's new tablet computer also runs Windows 8, the company's newest operating system (set to launch this fall). Microsoft's ... (view more)

Virtual Wi-Fi Router 2.0.1 Windows 7 Virtual WiFi Router allows users to convert their computers into a WiFi hot sport that can be used to access wireless Internet through a mobile device. The new version of this program has been simplified to make ... creating a WiFi hotspot easier than ever before. http://www.virtualwifirouter.com iPhone Configuration Utility 3.4.0.283 The iPhone Configuration Utility is a software program that lets you easily create, maintain, encrypt, and install configuration profiles on your iPhone. It also lets you track and install provisioning profiles and authorized ... (view more)

Apple's iPad may have sold hundreds of thousands of times over the course of its opening weekend, but that doesn't mean the new device is without its problems. Already Apple is feeling the sting from hundreds of user complaints about the iPad's weak ... WiFi abilities, reports say. "[The] signal is weak, downloading anything is painfully slow and it will drop the signal and go offline every 5-10 minutes," complained user "mbell75" on Apple's support forum website early last week. WiFi Trouble Forum Grows at Rapid Pace In the past week and a half, a thread entitled "Weak wifi" has accumulated 547 ... (view more)

Got to get your fix for a Big Mac but can't stop writing that report? Then you'll be happy to know that fast food goliath McDonald's will soon be unveiling free WiFi Internet access at about 80 per cent of its U.S. locations. Thanks to a new pact ... signed with AT ... (view more)

Microsoft Research Virtual Wifi Virtual WiFi helps a user connect to multiple IEEE 802.11 networks with one WiFi card. It works by exposing multiple virtual adapters, one for each wireless network to which connectivity is desired. Virtual WiFi uses ... a network hopping scheme to switch the wireless card across the desired wireless networks. http://research.microsoft.com Files To Phones Send any files from PC to a mobile phone. Files to Phones provides free transmission of any files (TXT, MP3, JPG, 3GP, MP4, vCal, vCard) to any Bluetooth devices (mobile phones, smartphones, hand-held devices, ... (view more)

Apple has formally applied to launch the iPhone in China. The move, earlier than expected, appears to have been made possible once the firm agreed to drop WiFi capability. There are both political and technical reasons for WiFi issues in China. ... Until April this year, the government refused to allow any WiFi handsets. Officially that was because of fears users would add Internet phone services such as Skype and use those to make calls, to the detriment of China's phone companies. Unofficially it was thought the government believed WiFi would make it harder to monitor communications. Censorship ... (view more)