Dongle
Dongle
A dongle is a small hardware device that connects to a computer to authenticate some piece of software. This was its primary meaning in the computer industry in the 1980s and 1990s. When the dongle is not present, the software runs in a restricted mode or refuses to run. Dongles are used by some proprietary vendors as a form of copy prevention or digital rights management because it is much harder to copy the dongle than to copy the software it authenticates.
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Wireless USB set to kill off Bluetooth 200 companies ready wireless USB devices for year-end Wireless USB products will be in the shops by Christmas and the widespread adoption of the technology will rapidly kill off Bluetooth, Intel has claimed at its Developer Forum in San Francisco.
The wireless USB protocol will be completed by the end of March and the access controller specification should be approved by the end of the year. Wireless USB is designed to be used at ranges of less than 10 met......
[more] Wireless USB finally ready, but no support from Microsoft Products supporting the standard out by Christmas but with no driver support Products using the new wireless USB standard should finally be available to buy from the back end of this year, but they won't have native Windows driver support. Plenty of products are on show at the Intel Developer Forum, ranging from digital cameras and printers to humble four USB ports. The standard allows products to transfer data wirelessly, rather th......
[more] Researcher creates £10 Bluetooth crack tool A security researcher has demonstrated that it's possible to put together a Bluetooth sniffer out of an inexpensive wireless dongle, raising fresh questions about the security of the wireless technology. Security researchers have demonstrated a number of methods for cracking Bluetooth devices - which increasingly include laptops and other computers - but such efforts often rely on sniffer hardware that can cost thousands of pounds. Max Moser, who work......
[more] 4G mobile phone network comes to Scandinavia Swedish and Norwegian mobile users could be among the first to use a fourth-generation (4G) mobile network. Mobile phone firm TeliaSonera has completed work on two 4G networks in Oslo and Stockholm. The company said that the first customers will be able to start using the networks in early 2010.
Despite the launch of the network, no handsets can yet use 4G. Initially customers will connect via a dongle and a laptop.
Fourth-generation, 4G, networks ar......
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