Swiftpoint’s tiny mouse finally up for pre-order, shipping in August

It’s been a long couple of years since we last heard from Swiftpoint, but the company is back with a (tiny) bang and introducing its eponymous ultraportable mouse. Touting a pen-like grip, tilt-scrolling, and a 30 to 40 percent better efficiency than your touchpad, this little thumb accessory wants to be seen as the solver of an eternal problem — namely, getting all the utility of a desktop rodent without having to deal with its full size

Bluetooth 4.0 specification gets official, devices expected by Q4 2010

Outside of Samsung’s Wave , we’re having a hard time thinking of a meaningful device that has shipped with Bluetooth 3.0 onboard.

Wireless presentation controllers prove juicy targets for hackers

Wireless presentation controllers have changed corporate life forever.

Nokia sells wireless modem business to Renesas in order to focus on core business

Nokia just announced a $200M-ish deal to sell its wireless modem business — a business it entered just a few years ago — to Japan’s Renesas Electronics Corporation . The deal is part of a broader alliance to develop HSPA+ and LTE modem technologies while working together to research future radio technologies.

Skyhook hones in on another partner, Samsung’s Wave to geo-locate like no other

Skyhook Wireless seems to have located itself yet another major partner in its continued quest to pinpoint every single cellphone owner in the world. Sure, we’re exaggerating a bit just to get you riled up, but there’s no arguing the fact that the company fulfills “hundreds of millions of location requests every day across over 100 million handsets, netbooks and cameras.” Or so it says, anyway.

EVO 4G gets 802.11n WiFi by changing two lines of code

The EVO 4G has a lot of weight in the smartphone arena thanks to WiMAX and that 4.3-inch screen, but though its Broadcom BCM4329 silicon also technically supports 802.11n WiFi over 2.4GHz, the protocol was disabled for some reason. Thankfully it’s just a matter of ten characters to enable greater throughput, as the fine folks at xda-developers recently discovered. Better yet, you don’t even have to edit those characters yourself — if your EVO’s nice and rooted and the word “brick” doesn’t inspire fear, you’ll find instructions and flash-ready ZIP files at our source link

Vizio rolls out dual-band ‘HD’ router, trio of WiFi-equipped Blu-ray players

WiFi-equipped TVs may have been Vizio’s big focus at CES earlier this year, but it’s now expanding things to some other devices as well — it’s just announced a trio of WiFi-equipped Blu-ray players, and a dual-band ‘HD” router to go along with them. That router, the XWR100, apparently earns the ‘HD’ designation by prioritizing HD media streamed to Vizio’s VIA-enabled devices, like the company’s three just-announced Blu-ray players. Those include the VBR210, VBR220 and VBR231, the latter of which is the first dual-band wireless Blu-ray player, and all of which include Vizio Internet Apps (or VIA) to stream content from Vudu, Netflix and other services.

Sprint ships dual-model 3G / 4G 250U USB WWAN modem, invites Mac to the party

Remember that cute-as-a-button 3G / 4G dual-mode WWAN stick that Clearwire outed a few days back ? That little guy just made its way over to the Sprint side of things, giving folks yet another option when it comes time to pull the trigger on a device to get you onto the WiMAX superhighway. The Sierra Wireless-built 250U is available now through Business Direct and Business Solutions Partners followed by full channel availability by mid-July, with this bugger being the first in Sprint’s arsenal to offer native dual-mode support in OS X as well as twin antenna ports.

Mad Catz Xbox accessory shocker! Kinect, wireless controller get stands at E3

Mad Catz, our favorite provider of gaming accessories that happens to be named after mentally ill house pets, has announced a plethora of devices for the new Xbox 360. First off, if there is a Kinect in your future you are probably thinking: “where am I gonna put the damn thing?” Well, you can stop thinking right now! the Xbox 360 Kinect Floor Stand includes a weighted base, 2.5-foot mounting pole, and it costs $30.

Starbucks sets its own Independence Day: free WiFi for all starting July 1st

Starbucks has been providing gratis WiFi to iPhone users and AT&T subscribers for years now, but everyone else has been conveniently shunned. All that’s fixing to change on the first of July, with the famed coffee shop announcing via Twitter that WiFi will be completely free to all patrons in around a fortnight.

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