Celulares con SO Android son el futuro.

May 22nd, 2009 Panasonic: Open-source smartphones are the future Paul Boutin "The global market for smartphones based on open source platforms including Android will reach 100 million units in three years." That's the claim made by Panasonic's director of mobile terminal business, Keisuke Ishii, at a press conference on Thursday. [Image by Rich Dellinger from richd.com] A hundred million units is a lot. It's comparable to today's entire smartphone market. But Panasonic is, at least publicly, placing its bet on Android and other open-source platforms to replace today's "feature phones" — industry jargon for dumbphones that aren't smartphones — and to aggressively compete with other smartphones, mainly iPhones and BlackBerrys. Despite Ishii's boostery talk on Android, Panasonic didn't actually introduce or pre-announce any open-source phones at the event. The only Android phone from a major Japanese carrier is NTT's HT-03A, made by HTC. Ishii declined to specify when Panasonic would actually enter the market. Abrir atículo del Blog "Venture Beat" en su Browser. © 2004-2008(c) Matt Marshall. All rights reserved. Site produced by RubyRed Labs, Evan Levelle powered by Wordpress

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Enchufes/Computadoras a $99 dólares.

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Plugging In $40 Computers By Saul Hansell. May 21, 2009, 7:45 am

What would you do with a $40 Linux computer the size of a three-prong plug adapter?

Marvell Technology Group is counting on an army of computer engineers and hackers to answer that question. It has created a "plug computer." It's a tiny plastic box that you plug into an electric outlet. There's no display. But there is an Ethernet jack to connect to a home network and a USB socket for attaching a hard drive, camera or other device. Inside is a 1.2 gigahertz Marvell chip, called an application processor, running a version of the Linux operating system. All this can be yours for $99 today and probably for under $40 in two years.

Sheeva Plug.

"There's not much in there," said Sehat Sutardja, Marvell's chief executive and co-founder, just a few chips and the sort of power supply used to charge a cellphone battery. Because this computer uses chips designed for cellphones, it uses far less power than chips designed for regular computers. In its 13 years of existence, Marvell Technology Group has become a major player in semiconductors, with annual sales of more than $2 billion a year. It makes more than half of the microprocessors that control hard disk drives and is also a supplier of chips that go into cellphones. Mr. Sutardja envisions an explosion of innovation about to hit home users because of the combination of open-source software and very powerful chips that are becoming available at very low costs. The first plausible use for the plub computer is to attach one of these gizmos to a USB hard drive. Voila, you've got a network server. CloudEngines, a startup, has in fact built a $99 plug computer called Pogoplug, that will let you share the files on your hard drive, not only in your home but also anywhere on the Internet. "This creates a smart data center for the home," Mr. Sutardja said. Another application might be to connect a security camera to the Internet, adding enough intelligence to help analyze images to distinguish between a stray dog and a cat burglar.

Sheeva Architecture.

Scientific American asked some "alpha geeks" at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory what they might do with a plug computer. One researcher imagined a system to automatically turn on and off appliances as people moved around the house. Another described a "life filter" that might weed out boring e-mails before sending them on to his computer. Ultimately, these computers may well be used in more mainstream devices, especially for home entertainment. "We wanted to seed the thinking of people in the market place with what you can do with our processors," Mr. Sutardja said. "Eventually you won't see the plug. We want this device to be in your TV, your stereo system, your DVD player." The Marvell chips are based on designs by ARM Holdings, which have emerged as the leading rival to Intel's x86 chip architecture. ARM dominates the cellphone market because of its chips' low power usage. ARM licenses its designs to Marvell and many other chipmakers. A year ago, Warren East, the chief executive of ARM, predicted what would happen when the price of ARM's processors fell from the $10 range to 50 cents. At that level, every light switch may well be an Internet connected computer, he said. The plug computer idea is clearly a step in that direction. And it is part of an even broader array of chips designed initially for phones that will add features to many other devices. Mr. Sutardja talked about the sort of digital photo frame you can now buy for about $50. Add $2 in chips, and it can display high definition movies, he said. Another $2 adds a camera. And less than a dollar adds several microphones. "You now have the sort of video conferencing that corporations buy for much more money," he said. Not surprisingly, in Mr. Sutardja's view, it is the sort of brain that Marvell makes that will be in the center of all this. "The uses of an application processor are endless," he said. "It is up to smart people to imagine what it can do."

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Sistema móvil de acceso a Internet utilizando redes 3G.

Mayo 9, 2009. Sistema móvil de acceso a Internet utilizando redes 3G. DePapaya.com Vicente A Aragón D. Solución para crear un sitio WiFi(Internet) utilizando la señal celular 3G y un "plan de datos" de cualquier proveedor local de Telefonía Celular que ofrezca ModemsUSB activados con "plan de datos." (Para captar la señal 3G también sirve un celular "smartphone" activado con plan de datos y con cable de salida USB; actuando como ModemUSB.) Esta solucion móvil es ideal para dar acceso a servicios de visualización con cámaras inalámbricas IP y de VoIP; en areas sin servicio de Internet ADSL/Cable; por ejemplo fincas de recreo, pequeños trapiches, escuelas veredales, etc. etc. Sin cables, permite compartir su conexión Internet/3G en cualquier lugar donde haya servicio de telefonía celular. Permite crear sitios WiFi de acceso a Internet en sitios de construcción, sucursales del negocio, eventos especiales, fincas; en síntesis en donde acceso a Internet por DSL/cable no se consiga. Permite tener en hogares y pequeños negocios, acceso a banda ancha 3G como una alternativa a acceso a Internet por DSL/cable El sistema requiere de un router para difundir la señal de banda ancha Internet/3G, de un modemUSB/3G activado para para recibir la señal Internet/3G del proveedor de telefonía celular ó un "smartphone" actuando como módem 3G. Especificaciones del dispositivo Netgear: 3G BROADBAND WIRELESS ROUTER. MBR624GU Descripción del dispositivo Huawei : 3G USB MODEM. E230 Ir al post "Cómo conectar el movil con una computadora" para mayor información de la opción: Utilizar un "smartphone" para que sirva como módem 3G.

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Router WiFi portatil para Internet/3G.

INTERNET/3G Wi-Fi to Go, No Cafe Needed By DAVID POGUE Published: May 6, 2009 Novatel's MiFi, a 3G Wi-Fi router. Someday, we'll tell our grandchildren how we had to drive around town looking for a coffee shop when we needed to get online, and they'll laugh their heads off. Every building in America has running water, electricity and ventilation; what's the holdup on universal wireless Internet? Getting online isn't impossible, but today's options are deeply flawed. Most of them involve sitting rooted in one spot — in the coffee shop or library, for example. (Sadly, the days when cities were blanketed by free Wi-Fi signals leaking from people's apartments are over; they all require passwords these days.) If you want to get online while you're on the move, in fact, you've had only one option: buy one of those $60-a-month cellular modems from Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile or AT&T. The speed isn't exactly cable-modem speed, but it's close enough. You can get a card-slot version, which has a nasty little antenna protuberance, or a U.S.B.-stick version, which cries out to be snapped off by a passing flight attendant's beverage cart. A few laptops have this cellular modem built in, which is less awkward but still drains the battery with gusto. But imagine if you could get online anywhere you liked — in a taxi, on the beach, in a hotel with disgustingly overpriced Wi-Fi — without messing around with cellular modems. What if you had a personal Wi-Fi bubble, a private hot spot, that followed you everywhere you go? Incredibly, there is such a thing. It's the Novatel MiFi 2200, available from Verizon starting in mid-May ($100 with two-year contract, after rebate). It's a little wisp of a thing, like a triple-thick credit card. It has one power button, one status light and a swappable battery that looks like the one in a cellphone. When you turn on your MiFi and wait 30 seconds, it provides a personal, portable, powerful, password-protected wireless hot spot. The MiFi gets its Internet signal the same way those cellular modems do — in this case, from Verizon's excellent 3G (high-speed) cellular data network. If you just want to do e-mail and the Web, you pay $40 a month for the service (250 megabytes of data transfer, 10 cents a megabyte above that). If you watch videos and shuttle a lot of big files, opt for the $60 plan (5 gigabytes). And if you don't travel incessantly, the best deal may be the one-day pass: $15 for 24 hours, only when you need it. In that case, the MiFi itself costs $270. In essence, the MiFi converts that cellular Internet signal into an umbrella of Wi-Fi coverage that up to five people can share. (The speed suffers if all five are doing heavy downloads at once, but that's a rarity.) Cellular wireless routers, as they're called, have been available for years. The average person hasn't even heard of this product category, but these routers are popular on, for example, Hollywood movie shoots. On-location cast and crew can kill their downtime online, sharing the signal from a single cellular card that's broadcast via Wi-Fi. Those machines, however, get no cell signal on their own; you have to supply your own cellular modem. They're also big and metal and ugly. But the real deal-killer is that they have to be plugged into a power outlet. You can't use one at the beach or in the woods unless you have a really, really long extension cord. The MiFi is remarkable for its tiny size, its sleek good looks, its 30-foot range (it easily filled a large airport gate area with four-bar signal) — and the fact that it's cordless and rechargeable. How is this amazing? Let us count the ways. First, you're spared the plug-and-unplug ritual of cellular modems. You can leave the MiFi in your pocket, purse or laptop bag; whenever you fire up your laptop, netbook, Wi-Fi camera or game gadget, or wake up your iPhone or iPod Touch, you're online. Stuart Goldenberg Last week, I was stuck on a runway for two hours. As I merrily worked away online, complete with YouTube videos and file downloads, I became aware that my seatmate was sneaking glances. As I snuck counter-glances at him, I realized that he had no interest in what I was doing, but rather in the signal-strength icon on my laptop — on an airplane where there wasn't otherwise any Wi-Fi signal. "I'm sorry," he finally said, completely baffled, "but how are you getting a wireless signal?" He was floored when I pulled the MiFi from my pocket, its power light glowing evilly. If he'd had a laptop, I would have happily shared my Wi-Fi cloud with him. The network password is printed right there on the bottom of the MiFi itself. That's a clever idea, actually. Since the MiFi is in your possession, it's impossible for anyone to get into your cloud unless you show it to them. Call it "security through proximity." The second huge advantage of the MiFi is that, as with any wireless router, you can share its signal with other people; up to five road warriors can enjoy the same connection. Your youngsters with their iPod Touches in the back of the van could hop online, for example, or you and your colleagues could connect and collaborate on a corporate retreat. Verizon points out how useful the MiFi could be for college students working off-campus, insurance adjusters at a disaster site and trade show booth teams. (Incredibly, Verizon even suggests that you could use the MiFi at home as your primary family Internet service. Sharing a cellular-modem account was something it strenuously discouraged only two years ago.) Some footnotes: First, the MiFi goes into sleep mode after 30 minutes of inactivity, to prolong its battery life. Yes, it means that a single charge can get you through a full day of on-and-off Internet noodling, even though the battery is supposed to run for only four hours a charge (it's rated at 40 hours of standby). But once the MiFi is asleep, your Wi-Fi bubble is gone until you tap the power button. It's probably the height of ingratitude to complain about having to press a single button to get yourself online. But if the MiFi is flopping around somewhere in the bottom of your bag, just finding it can be a minor hassle. Fortunately, you can turn off that sleep feature, or even change the inactivity interval before it kicks in. This gizmo is a full-blown wireless router with full-blown configuration controls. If you type 192.168.1.1 into your Web browser's address bar — a trick well known to network gurus — the MiFi's settings pages magically appear. Now you can do geeky, tweaky tasks like changing the password or the wireless network name, limiting access to specific computers, turning on port forwarding (don't ask) . A final note: If your laptop has a traditional cellular modem, you can turn on a Mac OS X or Windows feature called Internet Sharing, which rebroadcasts the signal via Wi-Fi, just like the MiFi. But the MiFi is infinitely easier to use and start up, doesn't lock you into carrying around your laptop all the time, has better range and works even when your laptop battery is dead. (The MiFi recharges from a wall outlet; it still works as a hot spot while it's plugged in.) It's always exciting when someone invents a new product category, and this one is a jaw-dropper. All your gadgets can be online at once, wherever you go, without having to plug anything in — no coffee shop required. Heck, it might even be worth showing the grandchildren. Go to Pogue's Posts E-mail: pogue@nytimes.com

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