Tech Today w/ Ken May

Anyone keeping track of Amped Wireless ‘ new range of dual-band products might have spotted that repeater-shaped hole in the team. It should come as no surprise that the company is now unveiling its SR20000G repeater, capable of extending your wireless network by a further 10,000 square feet. Built with the same five Ethernet jacks and USB 2.0 port for file sharing that we saw on its brother , it’ll set you back $180 when it arrives later this month. Continue reading Amped Wireless caps off its new range with a dual-band repeater Amped Wireless caps off its new range with a dual-band repeater originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink | | Email this | Comments

Verizon has been promising shared data plans for awhile, so it’s with some relief (and trepidation) we can say they’re here. Share Everything, as it’s called, starts off with the assumption you’ll want unlimited voice and messages and then bolts on shared data along with a maximum of 10 individual devices: a core plan starts at $50 per month for 1GB of data and requires that you tack on $40 a month for every smartphone, $30 for basic phones, $20 for hotspots and $10 for tablets. Of course, Verizon will gladly let you pay for more data if your family loves to stream Netflix on 4G all day, up to $100 for a common pool of 10GB. A stiff price, but it also includes tethering or hotspot creation support on any device in the mix. The new plans will be ready to tempt you away from your unlimited data on June 28th. Verizon’s Share Everything data plans go live June 28th, let you add family (or a tablet) for a little extra originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 12 Jun 2012 08:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink | Verizon | Email this | Comments

After furnishing its latest machines with fresh Ivy Bridge processors, Velocity Micro has decided to tend to its high-performance gaming machines. The desktop’s Overdrive BigBlock GTX promises to be “the new benchmark for extreme speed and luxury.” It reckons it accomplishes this with a Core i7 3960X processor, “hyperclocked” to 4.6GHz, 32GB of quad-channel memory, three (yes, three) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 graphics cards in Tri-SLI and two SSDs backed up with a weighty 2TB hard drive. The machines will also get treated to a splash of sports car-style paint, aiming to mirror the likes of Ferrari and BMW. Naturally, all that top-drawer tech corresponds to a similarly top-drawer price tag. The gaming rigs start from $8,000, which helps soften the blow of another recent product launch . Continue reading Velocity Micro relaunches Overdrive gaming desktop: overclocked to 4.6GHz, with trio of GeForce graphics Velocity Micro relaunches Overdrive gaming desktop: overclocked to 4.6GHz, with trio of GeForce graphics originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 12 Jun 2012 09:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink | Velocity Micro | Email this | Comments

We saw a fair amount of OS X Mountain Lion when Apple dropped its developer preview a few months ago. And not only will the $20 download bring all the iOS-ified features promised to all the OS X machines you own, it will also serve up more than 1700 new APIs, added iCloud functionality , a redesigned Safari, Siri-like dictation capabilities, along an all new feature—Power Nap. More »