Zune HD To Hit The Market On September 15th

Come September and the Zune HD is going to hit the market. Microsoft announced that this media-player will bang into the retail market on 15th September. This will be available for pre-orders at selected stores like Best Buy, Amazon, Walmart and the Microsoft Store. The 16GB version is priced at $219.99 and the 32GB version at $289.99.

The warfare between Apple and Microsoft is quite evident now with the latter introducing next-gen portable player which is gonna be a provider of rich and meaningful connection to music, videos, podcasts and endless features. The player is the first touch-screen Zune. It is enabled with a potent playback technology; experience the media like never before. Incomparable software and other features like Zune Pass are included to provide error-free connection. Both the versions will be available in five different colors.


Notable features

In-built HD Radio signal receiver: It provides you higher-quality sound than the traditional radio channels and access to additional programming through HD2 and HD3 multicast channels from any of your favorite FM radio stations. And that’s also without extra charges.

Video output competence: It supports HD video playback through a premium HDMI A/V docking station directly to an HD TV, making the quality far better than your old DVD player.

Touch screen: It allows you to easily flip through music, movies and other contents. The 3.3 inch screen having a 16.9 wide display puts forward a fine viewing experience.

In-built Wi-Fi: It allows you to browse or download music from Zune Marketplace.

Web-browser: You can just browse the web with a full-screen view with exciting gestures like zoom-in and zoom-out.

Accessories: No matter where you are; whizzing in your car or sitting in your room, you can play HD radio, music and podcasts from your Zune HD gadget through your car-stereo with the help of the Zune premium car pack.

Zune HD is available in selected stores in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Miami, Minneapolis/St. Paul, New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington DC.

Is southwest Airlines planning to launch in-flight wi-fi?

Southwest Airlines ended up their testing of in-flight wi-fi on four aircrafts. These days, many airline companies are actually implementing this facility in their airbuses. So it is about time that the company has joined in the bandwagon. The testers certified it as quite satisfactory and the authority is content with the outcome. Though it was tested in four flights at this beginning, it is more likely that the company will instigate the service more widely by the beginning of 2010.

And how interesting was this testing? Commuters were allowed to watch videos online, browse the internet and check their mails on their laptops as well as on their smartphones. As all the other airlines do, the company restricted the usage of video chatting and VoIP for the security and privacy.

But Southwest Airlines has not opted for AIRCELL satellite-based broadband connection like its predecessor Delta and American Airlines. Instead, it has chosen ROW 44 for the data connection. Although the authority did not confirm about the service-charges for the passengers, they will never be much cheaper. That’s for sure. By the end of this year, they are likely to come up with the details of their in-flight wi-fi.

D-Link offers pioneering and inexpensive Digital Home Wi-Fi

D-link, a top dealer of wi-fi connectivity for small, medium and big enterprise, provides wi-fi connectivity to homes in this back to school season. It’s innovative and affordable, I bet. Whether you are on your way to college, setting up a study area in the room or looking for multimedia infotainment, d-link boasts of offering their clients a vast range of needs and budgets.

D-link is offering the d-link wireless n router (DIR-615) for the schools wanting a wireless internet connection. This can offer a better wireless connectivity for the user’s network than the conventional one, 802.11. D-link has claimed that switching over to DIR-615 will be beneficial for the customers who want to share an internet connection as well as files such as video, music, photos and documents. D-link’s intelligent antenna technology is good enough to transmit multiple torrents of data which facilitates a user to obtain connectivity from any corner of the house.

The D-link Xtreme n dual band router (DIR-825) provides an extra speed. Being a true dual band wi-fi router, it facilitates the users to surf the net to the 2.4 GHz band along with VoIP connection as well as connect their game console or HD media player at 5GHz. It is almost like a two-in-one router. D-link has averred that its 10” wireless photo frame (DSM-210) combines the benefits of a digital frame with the wi-fi internet connectivity to make it possible to experience the whole new digital photo frame. They can now view their favorite photos anywhere in the home.

The D-link 2-Bay network storage enclosure (DNS-323) with its two internal 3.5” SATA drives gives the chance to to share their content with everyone within the network.

Google wi-fi network still active

Metropolitan wi-fi did not actually meet the expectation high and was crushed down due to low 3G connectivity and many people questioned the network’s effectiveness. But one metropolitan wi-fi infrastructure remained that perfect, that is the one installed in Mountain View, Calif. The network has spent three successful years. All you need to do to connect to the wireless network is to sign in your g-mail account and that is absolutely free of charge.


Tropos, which is the owner of the routers on the network, told that the Google wi-fi network covers 12c square miles and within that area 16,000 to 19,000 users are served at a time. Everyday the network transfers at about 600 gigabytes of user data. This is a doubled volume compared to that of two years ago. Tom Ayers, Tropo’s chief executive, claims that the network handles data more than any other comparable network on this planet.

And this demand is surprisingly going up everyday. Nearly 25% percent of all the devices are handsets. Number of those handsets were at the beginning just a big zero.