Tag archive: NETGEAR

Believe it or not, the holidays are only days away. And that means it's time to start checking people off your gift list. Often the most difficult person to buy for, however, is the one who seemingly already has all the major gadgets covered. But with this handy list of hot geeky gifts, you'll have the favorite techie in your life taken care of in no time. Root iPad 2 case ($79) By most accounts, Apple's iPad 2 tablet is… Read More

To celebrate its 15th anniversary, Netgear is taking home networking beyond the PC and home. At its pre-CES press conference a few minutes ago, Patrick Lo, CEO and founder of Netgear announced eight new wireless routing products, all of them aimed at extending Wi-Fi connections to non-PC products like tablets, smartphones, and HDTVs. In addition, the company is launching a new device that allows you to organize & stream video, pictures, and… Read More

The market for streaming video solutions that put Internet-delivered content on people's living-room TV screens continues to get more competitive. Boxee has just announced it will begin offering movie content from Vudu next month, while rival Roku has announced the addition of television content from PlayOn. And while Boxee is demonstrating its upcoming Boxee Box to be distributed by D-Link, Roku has announced its entire… Read More

Networking gear maker Netgear is aiming to tap into all the digital media content folks have stashed on computers and devices around their homes and bring it to the living room HDTV with its new NeoTV 350 HD and NeoTV 550 Ultimate HD media players. The devices are designed to easily enable people to tap into movies, photos, and music on their personal digital media collections via a home network, and bring them out to the the HDTV and home… Read More

For all the improvements set-top media boxes have made to ease-of-use, price and yes, even remote controls, the quality of video they actually deliver hasn’t moved forward all that much in recent years. Netgear will attempt to remedy that with new technologies incorporated into its own Digital Entertainer streaming media devices throughout 2010, claiming it can enhance both the smoothness and image quality of video from the net.

Finding a suitable wireless Wi-Fi router can be challenging. Prices can be outlandish, short range connections atrocious, and we know there is nothing more irritating than getting thrown off the Web due to a bad connection. Well put all of those worries aside because we rounded up a grand selection of top-rated wireless routers. Here are our top picks for the best wireless Wi-Fi routers of 2009. Netgear WNDR3700 Netgear’s speedy WNDR3700 is a… Read More

Netgear booth tour showing the new dual-band router and media streaming gear.

Netgear has added two new powerful routers to their line-up, will offer new digital streaming products (one that lets you access YouTube.com videos easily with a cool search mechanism), and has announced a new business unit that will sell direct to the small biz market. Unfortunately, the one missing item from their CES showfloor is a 450Mbps router to match the new products that D-Link and Trendnet announced this week. According to… Read More

Netgear’s characteristically small CES press conference held few surprises this year, but 2009 promises to be a fruitful year for media enthusiasts with a need to bring content from the Web and their computers to the their TVs. The company’s general manager of home and consumer products, Vivek Pathela, demonstrated three of the 15 new products the company will unveil at this year’s expo. Making an appeal to the… Read More

Wireless routers may not traditionally be among the best-known energy hogs of the computing world, but that hasn’t stopped Netgear from attempting to make them even more environmentally friendly with “Netgear Green” features on its latest 802.11n routers. The company announced the new label, along with two near wireless-N routers on Monday. The WNR2000 and DGN2000 both deliver high-speed wireless connectivity using the… Read More

Networking purveyor Netgear has announced an agreement to acquire business storage provider Infrant for $60 million in cash. Infrant was a privately-held company; Netgear's main interest in the company is its ReadyNAS network storage appliances, which offer RAID arrays and data protections designed for use in small business with significant storage needs. “This acquisition fits Netgear's strategy of expanding its product… Read More

Netgear and Skype earlier this week announced pricing and pre-order information for their upcoming VoIP WiFi phone. The new Netgear Skype WiFi Phone SPH101 is priced at $249.99 and should be available sometime in June or July. The Netgear Skype WiFi Phone SPH101, said the two companies, is a "Skye Certified" device which lets users make unlimited free domestic and international calls to other Skype users worldwide when near a WiFi… Read More

Netgear and Powerline communications chip maker DS2 today announced a plan to bring a 200 Mbps Powerline HD solution to market so that consumer can get higher broadband speeds in home networks. New Netgear products with DS2′s chips in them are expected to begin selling in the second quarter of this year. This new partnership, said the two companies, will turn any electrical outlet into a high speed, 200 Mbps broadband connection.… Read More

Routing and communications-gear maker Netgear has announced it plans to ship a computer-free WiFi Skype VOIP handset in the first quarter of 2006, enabling Skype users to communicate using VOIP without a computer from any location they can get wireless Internet access The Netgear WiFi phone will come pre-loaded with Skype software and operate without a computer. Whenever a user is in a location with wireless Internet access (such as at… Read More

NETGEAR yesterday unveiled a new powerline networking device which they say offers up to six times more throughput than its first generation predecessor. The NETGEAR 85 Mbps Wall-Plugged Ethernet Switch (XE104) and should be available shortly for $99.99. The 85 Mbps Wall-Plugged Ethernet Switch, said NETGEAR, turns any electrical outlet in a home into a four-port Fast Ethernet (10/100 Mbps) connection. Users connect one XE104 to a router… Read More