Filed in archive Wi-Fi
by jeff goldman on June 15, 2007
ComputerWorld's Matt Hamblen reports that city officials in St. Louis Park, Minnesota are providing Wi-Fi access throughout the 10-square-mile Minneapolis suburb using 400 solar-powered wireless...
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Filed in archive 4G
by jeff goldman on June 15, 2007
WirelessWeek's Joni Morse reports that AT&T Wireless may skip the wimax technology that Sprint and others are counting on, and move straight on to high-speed 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution)...
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Filed in archive Wi-Fi
by jeff goldman on June 14, 2007
The Register's Chris Williams reports that, in spite of the U.K.'s recent panic about Wi-Fi radiation, London is now the "Wi-Fi capital of the world." "For the first time,...
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CNET News' Marguerite Reardon reports that WiMax operator Clearwire today announced a partnership with satellite providers DirecTV and EchoStar (a.k.a. dish network) to deliver wireless broadband...
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Filed in archive Wi-Fi
by jeff goldman on June 13, 2007
SlipperyBrick's Chris Weber looks at Kensington's new Ci70 wireless keyboard and mouse, calling it "the sleekest and thinnest we've seen." "The footprint on the keyboard is...
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Filed in archive RFID
by jeff goldman on June 13, 2007
United Press International reports today that ClearCount Medical has received FDA approval "to sell a radio-frequency-based, sponge-counting system to prevent sponges being left in...
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Filed in archive Mobile
by jeff goldman on June 13, 2007
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Tim Logan reports on a growing debate between a group of companies calling themselves Keep America Connected, and another group calling itself Connecting Rural...
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Filed in archive Wi-Fi
by jeff goldman on June 12, 2007
The Register's Lewis Page reports that DARPA, the United States' Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has announced plans to develop what it calls LANdroids, tiny crawling robots with...
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Filed in archive RFID
by jeff goldman on June 12, 2007
TUV Product Service News reports that Identec Solutions has developed an RFID tag that uses GPS to track a single item's specific location. "The tag uses satellite data with RFID technology...
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ComputerWorld's John Blau reports today that Nokia's Wibree technology will soon be added to the Bluetooth specification, under an agreement between the Wibree Forum and the Bluetooth SIG....
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Filed in archive Wi-Fi
by jeff goldman on June 09, 2007
Reuters reports today that police in China "have detained three people for running a high-tech cheating scam involving wireless microphones during the national college entrance exam." the...
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Filed in archive Mobile
by jeff goldman on June 08, 2007
The AP's Elliot Spagat reports that the ITC's recent import ban on Qualcomm chips could result in a number of hot new phone models disappearing from the U.S. market, including this cool new...
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Filed in archive Mobile
by jeff goldman on June 07, 2007
TMCnet's Prabhala Ranga Sai reports that Belgian wireless technology company Option has announced an agreement with Intel to "optimize WWAN modules for mobile internet devices (MIDs) based...
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ITWire's Stephen Withers reports that a team of scientists at MIT "have demonstrated a wireless power transfer scheme they have dubbed 'WiTricity' or wireless electricity."...
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Filed in archive Mobile
by jeff goldman on June 06, 2007
In the surest sign yet of the importance of mobile media, RCR Wireless News' Kelly Hill reports that starting next month, The Nielsen Co. will measure mobile phone media access through a new...
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Filed in archive Wi-Fi
by jeff goldman on June 05, 2007
Wi-Fi Planet's Eric Griffith reports on the announcement of a new solar-powered outdoor Wi-Fi repeater from Meraki Networks, the San Francisco-based company that offers the $49 Meraki Mini access...
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Silicon.com's David Meyer reports that Ofcom's decision (PDF) to allow the power output of 5.8 GHz wireless base stations to be doubled to four watts will result in better coverage in rural...
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Filed in archive Mobile
by jeff goldman on June 04, 2007
Reuters' Scott Hillis reports that the Apple iPhone will launch on June 29, calling it "a debut that will test whether the company's design success with Mac computers and iPod media...
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Filed in archive Wi-Fi
by jeff goldman on June 04, 2007
Silicon.com's Tony Hallett today looks at the legal risks inherent in naming a Wi-Fi network. "The increasing trend of naming Wi-Fi networks to promote a web site or physical location such...
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