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You can definitely feel the oncoming rush or portable WiFi hotspots now that we’ve got products like Novatel’s insanely slick MiFi on the way to market, and now Option’s stepped up with its own flavor. While the end result is the same as Novatel’s offering, to get the GlobeSurfer X·1 surfing any kind of 3G data network, you’ll need to add a USB 3G modem of your own. Designed as a home of office connectivity device to enable printer sharing, local network sharing, and access to back up services that leverage an existing USB 3G card — or at least we assume. We’ll get more on this as soon as we can find one

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It’s a sad day for Cox internet subscribers, ’cause if the FCC or some other almighty agency doesn’t step in soon, your traffic could be slowed. The carrier has just announced a rather significant update to its data management policies, as it lays out plans to test a system next month that will “give priority to Internet traffic it judges to be time-sensitive, like web pages, streaming video and online games.” We’re also told that “file downloads, software updates and other non-time sensitive data may be slowed if there is congestion on the local network.” Thankfully, “streaming video” was listed in the category that’ll supposedly get first dibs on available bandwidth, but one always has to wonder what kind of juju is going on behind closed doors when a plan such as this is announced. If all goes well in the Kansas / Arkansas test markets, the system could be rolled out to all Cox internet customers (business users notwithstanding) by the year’s end. Lovely.

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By Evan Ackerman

Well, okay, maybe it’s not literally zero steps. You do have to plug something in and go to a website. But in practically zero steps, you can turn any USB hard drive into a networked hard drive that’s accessible from absolutely anywhere, without going through all of the complicated and nausea inducing networking drama that’s usually required to do something like that.

Pogoplug is a piece of hardware that looks like one of those A/C adapters we all hate because they’re huge and they take up a bunch of outlets. On the bottom, it’s got a USB port, and an ethernet port. You attach your USB HD to the Pogoplug, and the Pogoplug to your router. Then you go to the Pogoplug website, set up an account, and you’re done. You now have access to your drive just like it was physically plugged into your computer, except it works like that from anywhere you have internet (it just might be a little slower). You can even get at your files via an iPhone app.

I got a demo of the Pogoplug at CES yesterday, and it seems to work exactly as advertised. There was a drive showing up on the demo computer as local network storage, except that the physical location of the drive was in Arkansas or something. It’s completely, impressively transparent. The file browsers online and on the iPhone are simple to use, and I’m told the security is excellent. Oh, and you can even hook up multiple USB drives to one Pogoplug using a USB hub.

Pogoplug is on pre-order at the moment for $79, and even though Pogoplug is also a service, there’s no subscription fee. Look for it in March of this year.

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