Filed in archive 4G
by jeff goldman on October 30, 2006
T3's Mike Cooper reports from Tokyo, where he visited the headquarters of NTT DoCoMo to experience a prototype 4G phone, intended for release in... 2015. The handset, which runs over a 1 Gbps...
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Filed in archive Wi-Fi
by jeff goldman on October 29, 2006
CNET News' Marguerite Reardon reports on FON's plans to unwire San Francisco and other cities worldwide. As part of that effort, the company gave away its Wi-Fi routers for free in San...
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The Korea Times' Cho Jin-seo reports today that U.S. military officials recently visited Samsung Electronics in Korea to demo the company's WiBro technology, and are currently negotiating a...
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Filed in archive Mobile
by jeff goldman on October 26, 2006
TMCnet's Niladri Sekhar Nath reports that Cingular Wireless has teamed up with HP to offer a new multi-mode PDA smartphone, the HP iPAQ hw6920 Mobile Messenger, which supports five wireless...
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Filed in archive Mobile
by jeff goldman on October 26, 2006
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that cell phones may be tied to male sterility, noting oh-so-delicately that phones are often "used near wrong part of body to cause such harm"... The research...
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Filed in archive RFID
by jeff goldman on October 26, 2006
Gizmodo's Travis Hudson reports that Digital Angel has been awarded a patent for their embedded biosensor, a diabetes monitoring system that uses an implanted RFID chip. The chip will be marketed...
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At Voice Over WLAN News, Glenn Fleishman picks up on a New York Times report that T-Mobile has launched converged cell/Wi-Fi services in Seattle. "It's in my own backyard, but I haven't...
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Filed in archive Mobile
by jeff goldman on October 25, 2006
PCS Intel's Christopher Price notes that Verizon Wireless' latest advertisement for the Motorola Q "shows the Q doing a lot of different things, including what appears to be streaming...
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Filed in archive RFID
by jeff goldman on October 24, 2006
According to RFID Journal, The New York Times is reporting that a team of scientists in the RFID Consortium for Security and Privacy (RFID-CUSP) were able to read the names, account numbers and...
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Filed in archive Wi-Fi
by jeff goldman on October 24, 2006
ITPro's Guy Matthews reports that a study of more than 1,000 Wi-Fi users by free-hotspot.com found that Wi-Fi users are actually "disposed to buy goods or services from businesses that offer...
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Filed in archive Wi-Fi
by jeff goldman on October 23, 2006
AVING News Network's Nikki Hwang reports that Samsung and Eidicom presented their new EW-700 Wi-Fi smartphone at last week's Korea Electronics Show. The device includes a Web browser,...
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Filed in archive Mobile
by jeff goldman on October 23, 2006
The Orlando Sentinel's Chris Cobbs reports that the coming year will see cell phone use permitted on many airlines worldwide. "A European carrier, Ryanair, is expected to introduce cell...
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Filed in archive Wi-Fi
by jeff goldman on October 20, 2006
Red Herring's Scott Martin notes today that Apple Computer has filed a patent (PDF file) that would allow an iPod to record music over wireless, transmit song samples to a server, and enable...
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Filed in archive Wi-Fi
by jeff goldman on October 20, 2006
Gizmodo's Louis Ramirez reports on the arrival of the first robot to be "specifically designed for the voyeur inside us all." Bandai Robot Laboratory's NetTansor is controlled via...
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Filed in archive Wi-Fi
by jeff goldman on October 20, 2006
The Times-Picayune's Pam Radtke Russell reports that the City of New Orleans will be taking down its free Wi-Fi network once EarthLink's system is up. Mark Kurt, the city's director of...
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Filed in archive Wi-Fi
by jeff goldman on October 18, 2006
The following is from Peter Kremer of Holland's Wireless Baard: When northwest Tanzania's Family Alliance for Development and Cooperation (FADECO) began exploring the possibility of extending...
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Filed in archive Mobile
by jeff goldman on October 18, 2006
FierceWireless is running a contest to determine the best blogs in the wireless industry -- the Fierce Favorites contest runs through October 31st. As an incentive to vote, one lucky voter will win a...
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