Tag Archives: USB

Powered Flight…

… or in other words, having a good charging solution for your charge hungry smartphone, MiFi and tablet. This is where the A-solar Power Bank Pro comes in. I have always prided myself on always having the best tech, particularly when it comes to smartphones, Wi-Fi gadgets and tablets. However one of the banes of [...]

iOS4.2, the iPad and the Laptop/Netbook

Brook Crothers of CNET seems to believe he can now make the iPad work for him… CNET’s Brook Crothers claims that with the launch of iOS 4.2, he is pretty much ready to abandon his MacBook Air in favor of full-time use of his iPad. Even before the upgrade to the mobile OS, Crothers found [...]

Never caught short of power

One of the most useful features of the modern laptop is the always powered USB port – a port (or all ports) that have their 5V, 500mA supply always available regardless of whether the laptop is on or off. How is this useful? Well if you are like me and have pretty much all of [...]

Corporate USB Flash Drives – The new era in Mobile Data Security?

With equipment loss and theft at increasingly high levels, according to a recent survey commissioned by Dell, “up to 12,000 Laptop Computers were lost weekly and up to 600,000 lost annually in U.S. Airports with 53 percent of mobile professionals carrying confidential company information”, the decision of where to store data is a common one, [...]

Mobile Charging

There has been much press today about how the mobile phone companies have standardised on a single charger and cable interface for future mobile phones. This will obviously simplify the whole mobile situation when you are in need of quick charge and have not brought your charger with you – you can borrow one, but [...]