Good news - you can win a Motorola RAZR V3 (locked to T-Mobile) if you take part in our contest! All you have to do is to invest about 3 minutes of your time and answer our 15-question survey.......
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With all the news of strife coming out of Belarus these days, it's nice to be able to note a positive development: at e-belarus.org, Mikhail Doroshevich reports that the country's Ministry of...
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BetaNews' Ed Oswald looks at the current state of WiMAX in the United States via an interview with Dean Chang, Director of Product Management at Aperto Networks. "Chang [says] it is the...
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Cellular-news.com picks up on a report from research firm Maravedis predicting that there will be 768,000 BWA/WiMAX subscribers in Brazil by 2010, of whom two thirds will be using WiMAX. "The...
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by jeff goldman on March 30, 2006
At America's Network, John C. Tanner takes a look at the current state of citywide Wi-Fi. "It's been almost a year and a half since the carrier world and legions of free-market...
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by jeff goldman on March 29, 2006
At Wi-Fi Networking News, Glenn Fleishman reports on HotelChatter's ratings of the world's best and worst Wi-Fi hotels. HotelChatter's Best Wi-Fi Hotels include Kimpton Hotels, where...
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CNET's Michael Kanellos reports today that Intel's VC arm Intel Capital has created a venture fund that will invest $50 million in Brazilian startups. The key focus of the fund will be on...
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Bad news today for Freescale Semiconductor, and great news for lots of ultrawideband (UWB) startups -- the Bluetooth SIG has chosen the WiMedia Alliance's MB-OFDM UWB technology for integration...
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Techworld's Peter Judge today picks up on the news that xG Technology, which offers a high-efficiency, low-power and low-cost version of WiMAX that it demonstrated last November, has announced...
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by jeff goldman on March 27, 2006
Speedus Corp. announced today that New York City's Bryant Park has chosen the company's Wibiki software for its free wireless network in order to make the network both more secure and simpler...
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by jeff goldman on March 27, 2006
InformationWeek's Rob Preston today takes a look at the economic and logistical challenges inherent in making citywide Wi-Fi work. The political battles over metro Wi-Fi, Preston says, are...
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Wi-Fi Networking News' Glenn Fleishman today picks up on a report from ClickZ noting that a patent filed by Google in September of 2004 seems to be trying to claim ownership of a wide variety of...
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by jeff goldman on March 24, 2006
At Networking Pipeline, Preston Gralla picks up on a bit of news from the Rockford Register-Star -- local resident David M. Kauchak was given a $250 fine and a year of court supervision for using...
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by jeff goldman on March 23, 2006
Following up on our optimistic look at Wi-Fi in New Orleans from last week, Red Herring now reports that a political storm may soon shut down the wireless network that's helping to keep the Big...
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The Farpoint Group's Craig Mathias reports on his experiences this week at CeBIT 2006, noting that the show has proven to him that the U.S. is finally catching up with the rest of the world in...
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by jeff goldman on March 22, 2006
A new report from ABI Research says the world is in urgent need of "simpler, more user-friendly security features in consumer Wi-Fi equipment." ABI analyst Sam Lucero says it's not that...
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by jeff goldman on March 22, 2006
Deborah James at icLiverpool writes that Liverpool is to become one of the first cities in the UK to get blanket Wi-Fi coverage throughout its city center. Service will be provided by The Cloud and...
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by jeff goldman on March 21, 2006
Bytesector.com picks up on the news that the Wi-Fi-enabled Nintendo DS is adding two new games -- the classic Tetris DS, and Metroid Prime Hunters, the company's first shooter for the DS. Both...
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Carmen Nobel at eWEEK writes that cellular network infrastructure provider Airvana has announced the launch of a new Universal Access Gateway (UAG) that will let wireless carriers extend their...
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