Novatel’s MiFi Router Gets Smarter, with Apps
October 5, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
PCMAG.COM reported partnerships between Novatel Wireless and several software companies, including Nomadesk, to provide imbedded applications for their MiFi 3G-to-WiFi router.
Novatel Wireless on Monday announced a plan to embed applications in the company’s MiFi portable 3G-to-WiFi router, which has its own Linux-based operating system. The first MiFi apps will let the device act as a shared network drive, negotiate VPNs and upload photos.
The MiFi’s first three application partners will be Eye-Fi, Nomadesk and Alcatel-Lucent, Novatel chief marketing officer Rob Hadley said. Nomadesk will offer an app that turns a MiFi with a memory card into a shared network drive for anyone accessing it, and also synchronizes the MiFi with Internet-based storage.
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