Many thanks to Creative Weblogging's nicole Jacobi for this one -- the Wireless Innovation Network of British Columbia has announced its Wireless Innovation Contest 2006. Companies can submit...
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Not Just 4 Techs notes today that the standard for fixed WiMAX is still up in the air (pun intended...) -- while initial standards were released in November, they haven't yet been ratified....
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Many thanks to Torsten for this one: WiMAX chipmaker TeleCIS Wireless announced today that it had secured $10 million in VC and strategic funding, bringing the company's total funding to $18.7...
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Patrick Mannion notes in the EE Times that the IEEE 802.15.3a task group is likely to vote this week on whether or not to disband. The result would be an end to the standards battle on ultrawideband...
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by jeff goldman on January 16, 2006
RealTechNews notes that over the weekend at the ShmooCon Hacker conference in D.C., hacker Mark "Simple Nomad" Loveless released info on a relatively serious Wi-Fi security flaw that's...
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Televisionpoint.com today picks up on the recent announcement that Wi-Fi TV Inc. is offering a new distribution platform called InterSat, which uses both satellite and Internet delivery technologies...
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by jeff goldman on January 13, 2006
An excellent 'BluePrint' newsletter from ARCchart entitled 'Too Wide for Wi-Fi' takes a look at the way that emerging technologies like WiMAX, EV-DO and HSDPA are threatening the...
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by jeff goldman on January 13, 2006
Finally, the future of air travel is in sight -- Mobility Today notes that the FCC has set May 10 as the auction date of the spectrum required for domestic in-flight wireless Internet access --...
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by jeff goldman on January 12, 2006
From Paul Ferrill at Networking for Pros, more news from CES 2006 -- great news for me, as a user of a wireless print server who would love to be able to scan wirelessly as well:One of the...
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The Register just posted its list of the top ten gadgets at CES 2006, a few of which are wireless -- employing not just Wi-Fi but a wide range of wireless technologies from Bluetooth to...
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by jeff goldman on January 12, 2006
Finally, the next generation of Wi-Fi seems like it's moving ahead. Specifically, that's 802.11n, which uses MIMO to support data rates well over 100 Mbps.ZDNet quotes Motorola Vice President...
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by jeff goldman on January 11, 2006
From Video Games Blogger and Nintendo DS News comes word (with screenshots!) that Nintendo has announced plans for a March 20th release of Tetris DS, a portable version of the classic game with...
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by jeff goldman on January 11, 2006
Okay, so maybe "kills" is a bit of an exaggeration, but according to Gahtan's Technology and Internet Law Blog, some Panera Bread locations are now switching their free Wi-Fi off from...
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Okay, so the big news from MacWorld 2006 is the shiny new MacBook Pro, but via Gadgets on the Go, Wired News points out that MacWorld is also proving to be a phenomenal showcase for ultrawideband...
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As endorsements of new technology go, a billion bucks is pretty good — The Financial Times notes that Rupert Murdoch plans to invest $1bn in a US WiMax network to provide Internet access to...
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by jeff goldman on January 09, 2006
India's NewKarala.com suggests today that India is a major market for WiMax and future 4G technologies, the argument being that such wireless solutions are the only viable way to meet the...
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by jeff goldman on January 09, 2006
An excellent article in today's Columbus Dispatch reminds readers quite how simple it is to keep a home wireless network secure -- there are no longer any excuses for not doing so.The article...
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by jeff goldman on January 06, 2006
Okay, it might be a bit too soon to follow up on my own post of a couple of days ago, but anne Broache wrote an excellent article at CNET News.com today that sums up a key question: should......
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by jeff goldman on January 06, 2006
Russell Shaw at ZDNet suggests that a Wi-Fi-enabled iPod would be a logical next step for Apple, considering that two competing (and threateningly popular) MP3 players now on display at CES 2006 both...
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