Wireless N + Bluetooth into Single Card by Atheros

Atheros has recently come up with a mini card which combines both wireless N (150Mbps) and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR into one single chip. It is not uncommon to see few netbook vendors still pumping out netbooks without Wireless N and Bluetooth. The card offers a Wireless-N connection up to 150Mbps (single-stream, as opposed to 300Mbps in other dual-stream Wireless-N solutions found mostly in desktop computers).

This new combination transforms the mobile computing experience to enable a wide array of simultaneous wireless applications on the same device. For example, a netbook will be able to support concurrent audio and data transfer applications such as playback on Bluetooth-enabled speakers of music from a laptop, while browsing the Internet and syncing a smartphone’s contact database. The mini-card is named AR9002WB-1NGB and it will support Linux, Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7.

More Maemo based devices coming – Nokia to develop Maemo based devices for high-end segment

Nokia has decided to focus on the development of the Maemo based MIDs (Mobile Internet Devices) for the high end mobile computing segment. Few days back, Nokia unveiled Nokia N900 which is based on Maemo platform and now Nokia will releasing even more MIDs in the future

It is unclear whether the upcoming MIDs will have cellphone functionality or not.

Intel and Nokia shake hands to create the next era of mobile computing

Today, Intel and Nokia announced a long term partnership that will “shape the next era of mobile computing”. Their new collaboration involves several open source Linux software projects.

both companies are expanding their longstanding relationship to define a new mobile platform beyond today’s smartphones, notebooks and netbooks, enabling the development of a variety of innovative hardware, software and mobile Internet services.

It will be interesting to see what kind of innovations are made in the field of mobile computing. Nokia-book anyone?