Archive for February, 2008

Broadband

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

PR Newswire – To ensure a seamless user experience, the RoamAnywhere Mobility Router provides fast, automatic handover between the enterprise WiFi networks and any carrier cellular network. More Here

RF Design – According to the developer, its solution is designed to support upcoming generations of mobile devices featuring 802.11n (WiFi), 802.16e (mobile WiMAX), mobile TV and 3GPP-LTE communication standards. More Here

Star Online – On a single charge, I managed to eke out about three to four hours of use when running Windows XP, playing movies half the time and surfing using WiFi the other half. More Here

DailyTech – Unfortunately, WiFi and GPS functionality are not in the cards with the Ace — it also incompatible with microSD cards larger than 2GB. The device runs on the Windows Mobile 6 operating system, so expect to become familiar with mobile versions of More Here

MacNewsWorld – Free WiFi Hotspot Locator from TechNewsWorld Wondering where to find the nearest publicly available WiFi Internet access? Our global directory of more than 100,000 locations in 26 countries is a terrific tool for mobile computer users. More Here

WIFI

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

New York Times – Cablevision offers a bundled package, which combines cable TV, Internet and phone services. Other companies offer similar deals. We combined our cable television, high-speed Internet and telephone service under one umbrella or if you are up on Read More

Holland Sentinel – About 95 percent of Ottawa County residents will have access to high-speed wireless Internet thanks to a new agreement the county will announce today. A Midwest-based communications company, iPCS Wireless, will invest $1 million in 2008 to upgrade Read More

International Herald Tribune – many operators, who are being required to invest more to soup up their networks and unclog the data bottlenecks caused by the high-volume Internet surfing and streaming video. “There is so much data moving now, the infrastructure is not up to speed Read More

TriVallyCentral – MILAN – High-speed Internet access and high-definition digital cable may soon be on their way for a number of town residents. Roger Connor, director of government relations for Cablevision, appeared before the Milan Town Board last week to discuss a Read More

WIFI

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

Daily Express – Perhaps I should have waited until my home laptop was set up for wi-fi and then opted for wireless internet radio. I’d be interested to know if readers have invested in such technology and how they have found the results. The speed of technological Read More

Delaware Online – The new space has the same amount of dimmers (288) as The Grand. It has wireless Internet and 236 light fixtures. Its capacity of 471 seats is about 100 more than in the previous theater. Read More

Bangor Daily News – HERMON, Maine – As of Friday, a low-cost wireless Internet service being installed in town will reach across 50 percent of the community, a company official said. Only about 25 subscribers had switched to the service to date, but RedZone Wireless Read More

Times-Argus – The Kelsey Group, a market research company in Princeton, N.J., estimates sales revenue from Internet yellow pages, searches for local businesses, and searches on wireless devices will increase to $13 billion in 2010 from $3.4 billion in 2005. Those Read More

Tulsa World – If your wireless phone has advanced features such as text or instant messaging, Internet browsing, an MP3 player or an integrated camera, it is digital,” the FCC says. “If your wireless phone uses a SIM card (a small, removable card Read More

WIFI

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

Detroit News – Motors Corp.’s concept plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, the Chevy Volt, gets an enormous amount of attention on the Internet sent out holidays, to be sent via text messages,” said Mark Collins, vice president of data marketing for AT&T’s wireless unit More Here

Medical News Today – If you need information, the Internet offers a wealth of resources. But if you’re hunting down a person or a thing, a The project is one of the largest experiments looking at wireless tags in a social setting. The RFID Ecosystem project aims More Here

Forbes – The integrated EthoStream platform for wired and wireless high-speed Internet access (HSIA), differentiated by outstanding remote management tools and dedicated customer support facilities. — Telkonet SmartEnergy, achieving More Here

San Jose Mercury News – The free, citywide wireless Internet network that city leaders have discussed for several years is stalled as questions mount on funding sources and the best technology for the project. City officials canceled public meetings in the fall intended to More Here

Broadband

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

ZDNet Blogs – A few of these new application processors STMicro s Nomadik and Qualcomm s QST series are part of broader chipsets that incorporate some of these other functions such as power management, GPS and WiFi. Eventually nearly all smartphone Cont

AZCentral.com – NEW YORK – The popular wireless technology known as Bluetooth could get a lot faster next year by taking advantage of Wi-Fi technology already built into many gadgets. Linking Bluetooth and Wi-Fi may make it easier and faster to transfer large Cont

ZDNet Blogs – I was unable to get connected at all yesterday since I was in meetings most of the day and the WiFi at the hotel and on the show floor is virtually non-existent. There is so much happening here and I will try to catch you up as fast as I can. I just Cont

Drowned In Sound – i m actually not. i m in mcdonald s – in hackney no less. i m going nowhere. and i m so full of banana milkshake that i can t actually think clearly, let alone read. having recently discovered that mcdonald s do wifi, and having Cont

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle – In the zones, people with WiFi enabled computers, PDAs and telephones will be able to access the Internet at no charge. Much of the network, including Pittsford’s free zones, is up and running. Installation is expected to be complete in 60 days. In Cont

Guardian Unlimited – Desk, free WiFi and wired internet access in all cabins. From 25 for four hours, 56 per night B&B. yotel.com 2. Home from home: Hotel 55 This substantial Edwardian house converted into a modern hotel is something of a rarity in a large city Cont

High Speed Internet

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

MSN MoneyCentral – Your other option is to search out a WiFi hot spot where you’ll then have to pay yet another connection fee. When you go mobile, all of a sudden you are forced to pay attention to the network and you shouldn’t have to.” The demand for better Cont

Stockhouse Canada – V.DIL , Bullboard) Tuesday announced the launch of its consumer Voice over IP (VoIP) over WiFi service under the brand “JustCallMe.” Embedded within a Nokia device, the IP Telecommunications solutions provided by Digifonica will allow customers to Cont

MSN MoneyCentral – The Cirronet exhibit will include a broad range of Cirronet brand wireless sensor networking products in a broad range of technologies including ZigBee, 802.15.4, proprietary FHSS and DSSS mesh protocols, Bluetooth(R), and WiFi. The exhibit will Cont

Guardian Unlimited – Desk, free WiFi and wired internet access in all cabins. From 25 for four hours, 56 per night B&B. yotel.com 2. Home from home: Hotel 55 This substantial Edwardian house converted into a modern hotel is something of a rarity in a large city Cont

Forbes – Autonet Mobile ensures a secure, broadband-level connection to any WiFi-enabled device within close proximity to the vehicle. About Autonet Mobile Autonet Mobile is the world’s first in-car Internet service provider. Founded by a corporate Cont

WIFI

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

ABC News – Most of the phones support either HSDPA or its slightly slower (but still considered broadband) sibling, UMTS–although some only support the latter in Europe (and are therefore unlikely to ship in the U.S.). Sony Ericsson officials downplayed the Read More

CNET News – The Mobile World Congress, which gets started February 11 in Barcelona, Spain, puts the spotlight on mobile broadband gear, services, software, and strategies. Read CNET’s full coverage here. CNET Reviews’ Kent German says that what (little) sets the Read More

MacNN – Sierra Wireless has introduced two new HSPA mobile broadband modems — the AirCard 885E ExpressCard and Compass 885 USB modem . Both devices boast a small form-factor and offer the latest high-speed mobile broadband technology for use worldwide. Both Read More

Forbes – BARCELONA, Spain, February 11 /PRNewswire/ — The GSM Association (GSMA), representing the global mobile industry, today announced Dell and Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) as the winners of its Mobile Broadband Notebook competition to stimulate the Read More

CNET News – Bulky satellite transmission units are gradually being replaced by portable broadband-based gear. Last year, ABC News assigned seven young journalists to serve as one-person bureaus in foreign countries where the network had not previously assigned Read More

News.com.au – AUSTRALIA must develop a world-class broadband communications system. In a relatively isolated island nation it is critical for international and domestic business and for private use. Federal Communications Minister Stephen Conroy says the Read More

Forbes – Hatteras Networks, the Mid-Band Ethernet(TM) market, technology, and services leader, today announced that it has been chosen by Demand Broadband as the primary supplier of Mid-Band Ethernet for the Brisbane, Australia company. Demand Broadband is Read More

Broadband

Monday, February 11th, 2008

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MSN UK News – One hot topic will be mobile broadband, which already is taking off in countries like Sweden, Finland and Austria. The technology delivers high-speed Internet to areas where there aren’t existing cable networks or where the network quality is poor Read More

Electronic Engineering Times – Under the agreement, Ericsson is to supply, implement and maintain full turnkey microwave and optical transmission solutions that allow optimization on both network and sites acting as the backhaul of M1’s wireless broadband and cellular traffic Read More

News.com.au – Telstra comes to broadband party TELSTRA has finally “flicked the switch” on providing faster broadband to as many customers as possible, after the government endorsed the competition watchdog’s decision not to regulate the service. Read More

Wireless Internet

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

MSN MoneyCentral – The Santa Fe Public Schools will invest between $500,000 and $750,000 to deploy wireless local-area networks (WLANs) set up by Meru Networks of Sunnyvale, Calif. The WLANs will cover 35 buildings, facilitating wireless Internet connections for about Read More

MSN MoneyCentral – bnetTV.com, Inc. ( www.bnettv.com ), a subsidiary of Winmax Trading Group, Inc. (Winmax) (PINKSHEETS: WNMX), will be streaming Live on location over the Internet, to wireless devices, and mobile phones (where available) at the International Mobile Read More

Hindustan Times – There is a battle building up out there and it s got to do with that little mobile phone you carry around as an extension of your limbs. The mobile Internet market is beginning to boom with the arrival of wireless broadband, and phone makers Read More

KYW News radio – Suburban law enforcement officials have a warning for anyone who uses a wireless Internet router in their home. Make sure you shield it from anyone outside. The warning comes after a man pleaded guilty recently to downloading child pornography Read More

Daily Times – Tiffany Best, a Maryville freshman at Union, was taking shelter with 14 other people in her dorm and one of the girls had a laptop computer that was still getting a wireless Internet signal. As the tornado passed by, the doors started shaking Read More

Herkimer Evening Telegram – FRANKFORT – The village of Frankfort is one step closer to implementing a new system in which electric and water meters on houses can be read over the village-owned wireless Internet system. At Thursday’s Board of Trustees meeting, Department of Read More

Wireless Internet

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

ABS-CBN – The Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) said the increse in the cost of the national broadband network (NBN) project was due to President Arroyo’s to expand its coverage nationwide. In a press conference Sunday, DOTC Secretary More Here

Xinhua News Agency – BEIJING, Feb. 10 (Xinhua)– China’s information industry authority plans to expand broadband service to more than 95 percent of the nation’s villages in 2008. Some of the central and eastern provinces will have all their townships and villages More Here

News-Star – CenturyTel is a leading provider of communications, high-speed Internet and entertainment services in small-to-mid-size cities through broadband and fiber transport networks. Included in the S&P 500 Index, CenturyTel delivers advanced communications More Here

Forbes – Novatel Wireless, Inc. (NASDAQ:NVTL) is a visionary leader in the provision of wireless broadband access solutions for use in portable personal computers, handheld computing and mobile devices. The company’s innovative solutions enable increased More Here

Tacoma News Tribune – I m a leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband access, among other things, and I m one of the largest innovators in the communications biz, with a portfolio of more than 25,000 active patents spanning virtually every technology area. My More Here

MSN MoneyCentral – When cable and telephone companies began to promote their own broadband connectivity, AOL began to feel less relevant. For the first time in more than a decade, AOL is now watching over fewer than 10 million paying subscribers. That figure stands as a More Here