One of the things we look forward to every year is San Francisco's annual consumer electronics event called GDGT (pronounced "gadget"). This year's show was utterly packed with vendors and attendees, but that didn't stop us from lugging around a camera (check out our photo gallery of the event) and video camera. We spoke with several vendors about their products, and thankfully none of them were particularly camera shy. On the contrary, they were more than willing to show off their wares.
Logitech had a bunch of products to show off, including an ultrathin keyboard cover for the iPad and several Windows 8 devices.
Microsoft made waves in cyberspace a few months ago when it bid farewell to Hotmail and introduced Outlook.com, a new personal email service described as "the first major improvement to cloud mail in eight years." It's an entirely cloud-based service with some nifty features and will eventually completely replace Hotmail. Outlook.com is currently in beta.
We stopped by the Phorus booth to take a look at the company's wireless audio system/app system for Android devices. It's an extremely fast system that's easy to use, and best of all, the app/service is free!
Linksys was excited to show off its new wireless routers, AC media bridge, and new router options, including easier to configure QOS options. One of the things Linksys is pushing is parental controls integrated into the router. Much to the chagrin of teens addicted to Facebook and Snapchat, Linksys makes it relatively simple to limit access to specific services from certain devices, like an iPhone, at different times.
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savage4naves
December 08, 2012 at 5:02am
Linksys took their already barebones QOS options and ran backwards with it; smart router my ass! In his example the Roku box stutters because of network congestion (browsing the web, somebody playing xbox, etc). Giving the Roku higher priority would most certainly cause the xbox service to lag in return.
I hated the Q.O.S. options in my Linksys E2000 as they never seemed to work. I flashed the router with custom firmware (DD-WRT) and man they took the Q.O.S. concept and ran with it. The myriad of options enables me to download torrents, play xbox online, roommate plays LOL, and browse the web on several devices without any lag.
The new drag and drop interface and limited options are marketed towards regular consumers. Check out DD-WRT to open up your router and setup a more efficient network.
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