The FCC today fined three wireless carriers for failing to meet deadlines for providing E911 service to their mobile phone customers. Sprint Nextel was fined $1.325 million, Alltel was fined $1...

The California State Senate yesterday passed Bill 362, which would make it illegal to force anyone to have an RFID device implanted, by a vote of 28 to 9 - Wisconsin and North Dakota have already...

Cisco this week announced the results of a study conducted by InsightExpress which found that a large number of companies are planning to increase spending on wireless security by as much as 20...

With the recent demise of EarthLink's entire Municipal Networks division, along with cancelations of planned Wi-Fi networks in cities across America, a wide range of pundits are weighing in on...

San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom today confirmed that EarthLink's restructuring will mean that the company will no longer be involved in his city's planned Wi-Fi network. According to the...

Over the next two years, VeriChip will be implanting 200 Alzheimer's patients in Palm Beach County, Florida with its VeriMed RFID chips. According to the South Florida Business Journal, the...

Sprint announced this week that it's giving Samsung the contract to deploy the WiMax infrastructure for its Xohm services in the New York area, with availability for Sprint customers expected by...

On the same day that Chicago ended its plans for citywide Wi-Fi, EarthLink announced a total corporate restructuring that will result in the company firing 900 employees (almost half of its...

Chicago is ending its plans for citywide Wi-Fi, after talks with both EarthLink and AT&T led to a stalemate. According to the Chicago Tribune's Jon Van, the city had offered infrastructure...

Seventeen-year-old George Hotz of New Jersey (not to be confused with McLovin of Hawaii) recently announced on his blog, with the generous PR assistance of the Associated Press, that he had completed...

Ubiquiti Networks and the Italian Center for Radio Activities (C.I.S.A.R.) announced this week that they had set the world record for a 5 GHz Wi-Fi link, by covering a distance of 304 kilometers...

In response to yesterday's news that a man was arrested in London for accessing an unsecured Wi-Fi network, ZDNet's George Ou wonders, "Can owning a Wi-Fi Skype phone land you in...

Thank God London's streets are safe again! According to the wonderfully named Richmond and Twickenham Times, a 39-year-old man was arrested yesterday in Prebend Gardens, Chiswick for using an...

Computerworld's Gregg Keizer reports today that the latest update for the Apple iPhone, version 1.0.2, appears to have "significantly boosted its wireless reception." On the MacRumors...

RealNetworks, MTV Networks and Verizon Wireless today announced plans for a new Rhapsody service, accessible via PC, MP3 player or mobile phone. The aim is to merge RealNetworks' Rhapsody service...

The Detroit News' Eric Morath today looks at Sprint Nextel's deployment of its FanView devices at the Michigan International Speedway (for a $50 rental fee) as a demo of its WiMax offering....

In-Stat today released a new report entitled The Road to 4G: Will LTE, UMB and WiMAX Just Be Stops Along the Way?, which says 4G technology won't really roll out until the 2010 to 2012 timeframe....

In its announcement of its unfortunately-named XOHM WiMax service today, Sprint mentioned that it's planning to spend approximately $5 billion to roll out the network - $2.5 billion by year-end...

The Associated Press' John Curran today looks at MicroStrain, Inc.'s efforts to use wireless sensor technology to monitor the strain being placed on bridges. "The wireless, solar-powered...