Why 2013 won’t be the year for super speedy WiGig products
Certification for WiGig products meant to stream data over short distances at up to 6 Gbps may not happen in 2013 after all, which could delay products well into 2014. Read more »
Gamers rejoice: New screen-shifting tech coming to high-end phones
photo: Silicon Image
Silicon Image has developed a new, smaller WirelessHD chip to let mobile gamers project their games from their smartphones or gaming devices onto their TVs. Will the same company that pushed HDMI be able to popularize a new wireless standard? Read more »
Nitero gets $3.1M in funds for gigabit Wi-Fi chips
Several startups are working on new multi-gigabit Wi-Fi (WiGig) chips that use the 60GHz band and can be used to connect devices such as computer displays and peripherals. Nitero of Austin, Texas is one of them and it just got $3.1 million in new funds. Read more »
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CES 2012: a recap and analysis
This year’s CES was the biggest in the show’s 44-year history. It boasted 15 miles of exhibit hall aisles, 3,100 booths and 153,000 attendees. It is easy to be jaded by the endlessly repetitive products, but the thousands of innovations point toward a future of connectivity. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Coming Soon to Your HD Home Theater…7Gbps
The Wireless Gigabit Ethernet Alliance today came out with its first version of a standard designed to send video wirelessly around the home at transmission rates of 7 gigabits per second, or 10 times faster than what you can do using the fastest Wi-Fi out today. Read more »
