Option Wireless is a company that I met recently at the Consumer Electronics Show. This darkhorse in the mobile world makes some amazing, tiny chips that can convert any electronic device into a data capable machine that can access the Internet for virtually any purpose. That is, by utilizing an Option module in a device,…
Introduction We have had netbooks for quite some time now. In fact, they are all pretty much the same. The magic netbook formula consists of an extremely portable package including an Intel Atom processor, a gig of RAM, a 9 or 10″ screen and wireless Internet access (hence the nameNETbook). These machines don’t have the…
A while back I wrote a GigaOm post (that never published, unfortunately) on netbook and cloud based computing, and discovered the amazing technology in Qualcomm’s Gobi chipset. At a high level, Gobi is a wireless LAN chipset that allows you to connect to different mobile broadband networks, namely EVDO and HSPA. So, whether you have…