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In the near future, you won’t need to have cable to connect to USB peripherals. Dell and Lenovo just announced the first notebooks with embedded Certified Wireless USB chips, which will enable cable-free connections to USB peripherals hooked up to Certified Wireless USB hubs that D-Link and IOGear also announced. Additionally, D-Link and IOGear announced Certified Wireless USB adapters that you can plug into USB ports to add the functionality to notebooks and PCs that don’t have it built in.

The first two notebooks that receive Wireless USB Certification are Dell Inspiron 1720 and Lenovo ThinkPad T61 and T62p. There are also wireless hubs and wireless USB adapters from D-Link and IOGear. They’re expected to ship in time for back-to-school and holiday-season purchases.

Wireless USB uses ultra-wideband technology, which enables short-range connections (15 to 30 feet) at much faster speeds (up to 480 megabits per second at 10 feet and 110 mbps at 30 feet) than Bluetooth while consuming much less power than Wi-Fi.

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