Holiday season is coming. Bang & Olufsen has updated the BeoCom 2 with seven new colour schemes including blue, black, grey, yellow white, bright red, and natural aluminum, that are perfectly suited to be wrapped and placed under the Christmas tree. For your information, the BeoCom 2 is crafted from a single piece of aluminum. This cordless telephone is one of Bang and Olufsen’s masterpiece.

AT&T has begun selling the Sierra Wireless USB Connect Lightning modem that supports the carrier’s faster 7.2 Mbps HSPA network. AT&T sells the USB Connect Lightning for $100 with a minimum $35 monthly data plan, although they will return $100 in the form of a debit card rebate which means the modem is free. The $35 plan provides 200 MB a month but coexists alongside the existing $60, 5GB service.

The Wi-Fi Alliance last week announced Wi-Fi Direct — a peer-to-peer wireless networking method that could replace what we commonly know today as Ad Hoc networking mode. With Ad Hoc, we can usually share internet connection of one computer to other computers through the built-in WiFi.

The new protocol (Wi-Fi Direct) will let any device that implements the standard to connect directly to another device to send and receive data. It feels like the standard it gunning at Bluetooth. Imagine being able to share the internet connection of your mobile phone to all other devices via WiFi? You can also transfer files at the same time.

If Bluetooth has a normal transfer rate of about 2 Mbps, WiFi Direct could reach 54Mbps or even higher. On top of that, wireless connections can go even further, in the hundreds of meters perhaps. Only drawback could be the amount of power it consumes compared to running Bluetooth.

You’re on your way to the office and you want to call your client for something really important. And you realize your mobile phone is running low. Or maybe you’re on a train for a thousand mile journey and you’re running out of power for your iPod. It sucks, doesn’t it? If your device charges with mini USB, your days of running out of power could be over. Thanks to Duracell’s new PowerSource Mini. The device comes in two versions with one designed to power iPods and the other for Blackberry devices. Both have a mini USB connector as well.

The PowerSource Mini uses an internal rechargeable lithium-ion battery pack and has a pivoting mini USB arm for connecting to electronic devices. Duracell says that a second USB port allows you to charge an additional device at the same time. Duracell also ships an AC adapter and DC charger that each has a USB port with the PowerSource Mini. I would rather have something like the IOGear Rescue Charger personally that uses AA batteries. Then I can keep charging as long as I can get my hands on fresh batteries.

Duracell PowerSource Mini Charger