Wireless USB will help cut the cords

0 Comments | USA TODAY, August, 2007 | by Michelle Kessler

SAN FRANCISCO -- Get ready to be perplexed: There's yet another kind of wireless in town.

Dell and Lenovo plan to launch the first mainstream laptops equipped with Wireless USB in the next few months. The technology allows electronics, such as a PC and a printer, to communicate without cables.

Sound familiar? Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, WiMax and several other wireless technologies all do essentially the same thing: They use radio waves to send bits of data through the air.

The difference is that Wireless USB can transmit bigger chunks of information at a time. It's fast enough to easily stream a movie from a PC to a TV. Or it can send a huge document from a PC to a printer in seconds. Most other kinds of wireless, such as Wi-Fi, are slower.

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