CNET's Marguerite Reardon writes that BellSouth will soon announce a 1.5 Mbps wireless broadband service using pre-WiMAX equipment, offered as a backup in case a customer's wired broadband...
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by jeff goldman on March 20, 2006
VNUnet's Matt Chapman writes that the Westminster City Council has deployed Wi-Fi in all 13 of its library buildings. This is all part of the Westminster Wireless City initiative, with BT doing...
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by jeff goldman on March 17, 2006
Network World's Tim Greene looks at the current status of the communications infrastructure in New Orleans, and finds that many people are depending on Wi-Fi on a daily basis for both data and...
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by jeff goldman on March 17, 2006
PalmInfoCenter's Ryan Kairer notes that palm has released a Wi-Fi enterprise security update for the Palm TX, adding authentication and secure encryption for many additional wireless 802.1x-based...
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by jeff goldman on March 16, 2006
According to IT Backbones Security News, anti-virus company Kaspersky Lab announced today that more than half of the 300 or so local Wi-Fi networks set up by companies last week at CeBIT 2006 were...
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by jeff goldman on March 16, 2006
According to TechWeb News, a wireless deployment planned for Gilbert, Arizona by equipment supplier Strix Systems will create a 187-square-mile network when it's completed. The deployment began...
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Cognio today announced additions and enhancements to its line of Spectrum Expert spectrum management platforms, to support the rollout of new services such as wireless VoIP. Spectrum Expert now gives...
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There's been a series of excellent articles lately about the ongoing battles regarding version 1.0 of the high-speed wireless 802.11n specification. At Wi-Fi Planet, Eric Griffith writes that...
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by jeff goldman on March 14, 2006
Techworld's Nicolas Callegari offers an extremely entertaining review of Nokia's new 9300i Communicator. The nokia 9300i, Callegari writes, is basically a new version of the Nokia 9300, with...
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by jeff goldman on March 13, 2006
According to Red Herring, the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company United Villages is working with the Indian NGO Drishtee to network 50 villages in India's eastern Orissa state using...
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At Computerworld, John Cox looks at the challenges of selecting the right technology for wireless Internet access: "If your company is in Tempe, Arizona, you're now faced with a...
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by jeff goldman on March 12, 2006
An article in the Portland Press Herald looks at the ongoing issue of wireless security and finds, to no one's surprise, that people still aren't securing their access points. According to...
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by jeff goldman on March 10, 2006
Well, I thought most people's fears about Wi-Fi were gone, but it looks like we're going to be dealing with concerns about the health effects of wireless for some time to come: according to...
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by jeff goldman on March 10, 2006
From MobileMag, a nice look at ASUS' new Wi-Fi Skype handset, last seen at CeBIT 2006. MobileMag's Michael Kwan notes that at the most basic level, the phone offers standard 802.11g WLAN...
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This week, we spoke by email with George Cooper, the CEO of OnAir, a new company that's aiming to provide a wide range of in-flight communications services for travelers. Following is the...
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by jeff goldman on March 09, 2006
An article entitled 'Wi-Pie in the Sky?' in the current issue of the Economist, by Wi-Fi Networking News' Glenn Fleishman (the jig is up, apparently, even though the Economist doesn't...
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ZDNet UK's Rupert Goodwins today interviews Dr. Kevin Kahn, Director of Intel's Communications Technology Lab, regarding the future of ultrawideband (UWB) and related technologies. Kahn says...
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In a Techworld.com article today, Farpoint Group analyst Craig Mathias clarifies the difference between WiMAX, Wi-Fi and cellular technologies, and looks at the strengths of each technology in an...
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Thanks to Torsten for this one -- everybody's talking today about Intel's announcement that it will be making WiMAX cards available this year. The chipmaker had planned to release the cards...
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