As if you needed another reason to constantly check your email. This little device sits neatly on your desktop, cleverly disguised as an envelope. Whenever you receive email, the light inside the notifier will light up, either in green, blue or red. The color depends on what location you’ve received the mail from, for those of you with multiple inboxes, or you can use it to set the volume of your inbox, letting you know when its time to clean out your inbox. The device is priced at $17 and would make a great gift for the email addict you know.

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Having a mobile broadband plan allows me to tether my cell phone to my laptop and connect to the internet on the go. This is usually really helpful, but occasionally I’ll be with someone who would need to connect to the internet as well, and they most likely have an iPhone. That’s where the CradlePoint PHS300 would come into play.

This device simply requires you to plug it’s USB cable into your phone and in no time you have a complete 802.11b/g wireless hotspot. And don’t think it’s a gimped network or anything, as this bad larry has all the bells and whistle you’ll need, like NAT, Firewall, access control, UPnP, and 64/128-bit WEP (11b/g), WPA/WPA2, and WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK.

Costs: $179

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It looks like the saving grace that many had hope WiMax to be has actually proved fairly lackluster when implemented by Buzz Broadband in Australia. The purported 50 kilometer distance that WiMax boasts fell short at a stunningly low maximum of 2 kilometers with speeds so slow that voice calls where unmanageable on the service, similar to how my iPhone is.

With Buzz Broadband and fellow Australian competitors Intermode throwing in the flag, we’ll have to see how Sprint and Clearwire implement WiMax in the States or if AT&T and Verizon will beat them to it with their LTE Technology.

Source: New York Times

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