Trendnet to release 150Mbps mini wireless N USB adapter

Trendnet has recently introduced a 150Mbps mini wireless N USB adapter (TEW-648UB), bringing enhanced efficiency of wireless networking. This tiny adapter is believed to be little larger than a quarter, weighing merely 1.3 inches (3.3cm).
The device helps in connecting a personal computer or laptop to a wireless network at up to 6x speed and 3x coverage of a wireless connection. Its one-touch Wi-Fi Protected Setup or WPS technology simply reduces the necessity of convoluted codes. Coexistent, this technology assists in connecting to a wireless network. In order to connect, users merely need to press the WPS button on a suitable router and then press the WPS button on 150Mbps mini wireless N USB adapter.
“We have looked high and low and are confident in our claim that the TEW-648UB is the smallest adapter on the market today. In fact it is half the size of the average wireless N USB adapter,” said Zak Wood, Director of Global Marketing for Trendnet. “Despite its diminutive size, it performs well. We welcome all independent tests against any other 150Mbps (or 1×1) adapter on the market today. The adapter features an equally small price tag. With a predicted street price in the low $20 range, this adapter sets a new price-to-performance standard.”
The device’s highly-forward wireless encryption also ensures securing of important information. Further, its Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM) Quality of Service places higher significance on eminent video, audio along with gaming traffic for delivering superior wireless experience.
Users can purchase the new 150Mbps Mini Wireless N USB Adapter model TEW-648UB for $24.99 (approx Rs. 1,197).

Reliance Comm to sell its 10% stake in Rel Infratel

Reliance Communications Ltd., India’s second-largest wireless carrier has announced to sell its 10% stake in its Reliance Infratel Ltd.

Reliance Infratel Ltd is a telecommunications infrastructure unit. According to the latest updates, Reliance Communications is seeking regulatory approval for sale of its 10 percent stake in its Reliance Infratel Ltd. unit.

Earlier to this, the telecom infrastructure unit has already sold a 5 percent stake to seven global investors for about $290 million in 2007. Earlier, the company has plans to sell off plans back in 2008, but the company delayed its plans in view of slumping India’s benchmark stock index. The India’s benchmark stock index slumped 52 percent.

The sale will also help Reliance Infratel to pull funding for nationwide network of 48,000 towers as demand for leasing networks increases.

The related sources cited that Reliance Infratel is reviving its plan to raise around $1 billion by selling shares.

Google News witnesses two hours outage

Google News, the online news aggregation service by Google witnessed outage yesterday for long two hours. It would have affected referral traffic on many of the online publications, says market watchers.

The unavailability of news service for long two hours has led to a decline in referral traffic across many online news publishers. This is not the first time that Google is facing such a problem. Few days back, Gmail also faced the same problem. The mail in fact had faced the outage problem thrice this year.

According to the recent updates, Google News service was down from about 12:25 p.m. to 2:20 p.m. PDT. However, the issue has been resolved for now but it again fuels the debate of cloud services over conventional approach. The problem occurred due to a router overload after some routers were taken offline for maintenance.

The related sources said that web services are commonly faced and indicated that even Facebook users faced problem while logging into the site on Monday.

The outage seems to be a recurring problem with many of the Google free services. To maintain the performance scale of many of its paid service, Google maintains an Apps Status Dashboard but no such information is offered for its free services.

Vodafone unveils its Internet service, Vodafone 360

Vodafone, the second largest mobile telecom group in the world has announced a Web service meshing social networks, contacts and entertainment to compete with Apple, Google and Nokia.

Vodafone said that its “Vodafone 360” service would be available on two Samsung mobiles and four Nokia phones in eight European countries by this Christmas. The new service will offer visitors to synchronize their contacts from social networks such as Facebook and other Internet accounts.

Analysts predict that the vendor is planning to increase customer loyalty and data revenues in the face of stiff competition from Apple's iPhone, RIM's Blackberry and Google's Android platform, which all offer applications such as games and music applications.

At present, Vodafone 360’s catalog offers over 1,000 applications will be available at launch. However, non-Vodafone customers will also be able to access some of the services.