According to TG Daily's Tom Higgins, Belkin has delayed shipment for its new ultrawideband (UWB) CableFree USB hub until July. The product, which won numerous awards at CES 2006, was supposed to...
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by jeff goldman on February 28, 2006
LinuxElectrons today picks up on a recent In-Stat study which finds that the wireless LAN chipset market is "on a phenomenal growth pace that is projected to continue over the next few...
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According to The Korea Times, South Korea's military is going to start a pilot program on March 2nd to explore the potential applications of WiBro technology. "We plan to form a...
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Azaire Networks recently announced a deployment and a demonstration of its fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) solution. In a VoIP Planet article published today, I looked at the announcement, their...
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An excellent (and lengthy) InternetWeek article suggests that Americans are losing the race for broadband Internet access, big time. Reporter Christopher T. Heun writes, "After ranking as high...
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Via Neoseeker, news of ASUS' concept of a modular "Green PC." It's not even a prototype yet, but it's a great idea -- every part of the PC is an interchangeable module that gets...
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by jeff goldman on February 23, 2006
TelecomWeb reports that NTT DoCoMo today claimed that it had demonstrated a successful 2.5 Gbps downlink packet transmission while moving at 20 kilometers per hour in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture in...
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by jeff goldman on February 23, 2006
Okay, so the title of the article ("Stunned Londoners see Wi-Fi Work on Water") might be a bit much, but The Register notes today that Thames Online will be providing about 12 kilometers of...
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According to the Korea Times, South Korea's KT announced today that it will start testing and demonstrating WiBro service on March 2 for its 200 employees, and will then open it to the public in...
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Broadband Wireless World April 26-28, 2006 Caesars Palace Las Vegas, NV See All the Wireless Access Tools for Today's Broadband Network at Broadband Wireless World. The emergence of WiMAX has only...
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We would like to welcome the mobile coupon service Cellfire, which has graciously joined the Wireless Weblog as a sponsor. As Om Malik noted recently, Cellfire is "a very interesting opt-in...
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by jeff goldman on February 21, 2006
An article in today's Chicago Tribune suggests that the city's plans for a citywide wireless Internet service could falter simply because there's so much Wi-Fi already available, in the...
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by jeff goldman on February 20, 2006
An excellent Bloomberg article today looks at the battle over airport Wi-Fi currently raging at Boston's Logan airport. It's a simple enough issue: the Massachusetts Port Authority...
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by jeff goldman on February 20, 2006
Silicon.com notes today that the City of London has signed an agreement to cover London's Square Mile (the City's financial district) with blanketed Wi-Fi access, installed and managed by UK...
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by jeff goldman on February 17, 2006
An excellent BusinessWeek editorial today by Tropos Networks CEO Ron Sege argues that it's extremely dangerous to consider taxing Wi-Fi services -- which he says could easily happen in the near...
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Telecommunications Online today looks at a serious problem with FMC (fixed-mobile convergence) GSM/Wi-Fi handsets: their batteries drain very, very fast.Netcentrex VP Erik Larsson says, "You...
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by jeff goldman on February 16, 2006
An excellent Wi-Fi Planet article today looks at the struggle to deploy citywide Wi-Fi in New York City. With Michael Bloomberg in charge -- a pro-free-market mayor who's unlikely to support any...
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MarketWatch today looks at the market potential for both multi-mode and Wi-Fi-only phones, and at the threat they pose to mobile operators in terms of lost revenue.Interestingly, the article suggests...
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by jeff goldman on February 15, 2006
An article in today's Seattle Post-Intelligencer entitled "Telecom Industry Attacks City-Run Wi-Fi" looks at the ongoing battle over citywide Wi-Fi deployments. The article quotes...
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