At Fredricksburg.com, Michael Zitz today takes a look at Verizon Wireless' new G'zOne Type-V Rugged Phone by Casio. "Casio made the phone compliant to military standards including...

Payback's a bitch... The Inquirer reports today that Dell and Intel have countersued the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), an arm of the Australian government,...

More RFID paranoia courtesy of Engadget's Paul Miller, who picks up on a Techdirt article by Carlo Longino that follows security blogger Bruce Schneier from his paranoia about tracking Nike+iPod...

Wired's Quinn Norton reports today that Berlin's Chaos Communications Congress is allowing visitors (for a fee of 10 euros) to permit themselves to be tracked via RFID "CCC Sputnik"...

Reuters reports that an Indian chess player has been caught using his mobile phone (connected to a Bluetooth headset in his cap) to cheat, resulting in a ten-year ban from the game. "The player,...

Wi-Fi Planet's Adam Stone today looks at BelAir Networks' deployment of wireless connectivity in Dolphin Stadium, home of the Miami Dolphins and the Florida Marlins. "In addition to...

At Computerworld, IDG's Martyn Williams reports on a trial of approximately 10,000 RFID tags and other beacons throughout Tokyo's Ginza neighborhood. Throughout the trial, which will run from...

Wired Magazine's Jenna Wortham looks at the arrival on January 1st of RFID-enabled passports in the U.S. -- and warns that "tampering with a passport is punishable by 25 years in...

SlashGear's Rue Liu today picks up on a review of the MusicGremlin MG-1000 MP3 player by SciFi Tech's Ken C. Pohlmann. "The verdict leans on the positive mainly because the Wi-Fi...

At PCWorld.com, IDG's Stephen Lawson reports that the FCC has "proposed a national radio system for various public safety agencies that would be based on advanced IP broadband...

WebProNews' Philipp Lenssen today picks up on a CNET News report noting that computer expert Matthew Schuster got 15 months in jail for hacking his ex-employer, Alpha Computer Services -- and...

Wi-Fi Networking News' Glenn Fleishman today looks at the news that Singapore teenager Garyl Tan Jia Luo has pleaded guilty to using a neighbor's Wi-Fi network. His mom, apparently, banned...

The Seattle Times' Tricia Duryee reports today that Clearwire has once again filed plans to raise $400 million in an IPO -- this after announcing and then canceling similar plans earlier this...

Techworld's Manek Dubash reports today on the launch of Divine Wireless, which provides access via one account to the majority of hotspots in the UK. "Claiming to be the first of its kind,...

I'm back after a month in antarctica and South Georgia (photo at left, of Jeff and a handful of penguin friends, by Sally Emery). Making the transition from 14 Kbps satellite Internet access near...