The Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) has completed the 802.11r standard better known as “Fast Basic Service Set Transition”. The 802.11r is a standard that lets Wi-Fi devices roam quickly between wireless access points (WAP) and  improves the performance of VoIP on enterprise LANs.

Traditional 802.11 devices take around 100ms to roam from one access point to another. The latency time to re-establish is not good for applications like VoIP.

The new IEEE 802.11r standard will help improve Wi-Fi VoIP connectivity by allowing the network to establish a security and QoS state for the device at the new access point, before it roams between the two, so the transition can take place in less than 50ms - the standard required for voice roaming.

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Dell has announced two new notebooks under the Vostro brand aimed at the business segment. They are the Vostro A860 and A840 notebooks which run on the same technical specification and the only difference is the size of their screen. The A860 comes with a 15.6-inch HD ready LCD while A840 has a 14.1-inch widescreen XGA LCD.

The notebooks sport an Intel Core Duo or Core 2 Duo processors, an upgradeable 1GB RAM, HDD support of up to 160GB for A860 and 120GB for A840, DVD combo or DVD burner, Wi-Fi, LAN and an optional Bluetooth. Users can choose Ubuntu Linux with an Office Suite or Windows Vista.

The A840 will come in late August while the A860 will be available in early September.

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Technorati, a blog search engine and advertisement network has  acquired BlogCritics, a 6-year old blog network that draws around 1 million unique monthly visitors. Technorati competes with Google Analytics, Alexa, Compete, and Quantcast in the analytics space, with Google Blog Search, Live.com, Yahoo.com, and Ask.com in the blog search sector and with many advertising companies in online advertising.Technorati plans to integrate BlogCritics into their Media division.

Below is an excerpt from Technorati CEO Richard Jalichandra’s blog:

“Blogcritics brings us closer to an open community of bloggers and the audience that follows them. It also gives us a lot more advertising inventory. What’s in it for them? Our combined resources will help that community grow and expose their work to an even wider audience. We’ll also work more closely with Blogcritics authors so they can monetize their own blogs.”

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If ASUS has Eee PC, Albatron Technology has a mini-tablet PC called Tee PC. Albatron Tee PC is not something that you can wear, it is a  mini-tablet PC in the form of a netbook. It has a 7-inch touchscreen with a resolution of 800 x 480,  an ARM926 400MHz processor,   128MB NAND flash Memory Storage and 128MB DDR memory. Other features include a built-in Bluetooth, WiFi, and a Swivel 1.3-megapixel webcam.The Albatron Tee PC comes with a docking station that enables the mini-tablet to have  USB ports, audio ports and integrated speakers.

If Eee PC stands for “Easy to learn, Easy to work and Easy to play” PC, could it be possible that Tee PC stands for “Touchable, Easy to work and Easy to play“ PC? Hmmmnnn, what do you think?

There is no word yet about the pricing and availability date of the Tee PC as of posting time.

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After testing for four years, Google Suggest, an auto-complete feature for searches will finally be implemented in Google.com. The auto complete feature allows users to see the most-commonly searched phrases and number of search results for each phrase as the users are entering a few letters in Google’s search box. The feature will help users formulate queries easily, reduce spelling errors and save keystrokes.

Google, however is not the pioneer in this service, similar feature is being used by Yahoo and the newly launched search engine Cuil.

For those who can’t wait to see Google Suggest in action, you may CLICK HERE.

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