Archive for February, 2008

Wireless Internet

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

Philadelphia Inquirer – In January 2006, Delaware County detectives traced images of child pornography found on the Internet to the address of a computer located at an Upper Darby home. Shortly after they confiscated the suspect’s computers for forensic examination, he fled Read More

MSN MoneyCentral – SATS) more deeply in the emerging market for wireless Internet access, targeting mobile devices. The company previously announced a joint effort in China to develop satellite-to-wireless device services in that country. EchoStar’s investment in Reston Read More

OhmyNews – In mid- to late 2005, hopes were high in United States municipal government circles that deploying citywide wireless Internet networks would not only allow for more efficient coordination of core functions, such as maintenance, but also for free or Read More

Boston Globe – We forgot that Ristuccia Arena lacks cell phone or wireless internet capability, so we won’t be providing in-game updates. The teams are scoreless after one period. Check back in after the game for a full recap Read More

Forbes – These values will be available in its full range of electronic products, including PDAs, Smart Phones, Blackberry devices, microbrowsers, wireless phones, Internet suite, data feeds, custom applications and lead generating services. “We live in a Read More

Wireless Internet

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

Financial Times – EarthLink , the internet service provider, is to sell its citywide Muni WiFi wireless broadband internet access business as part of its plans to return to profit after six straight quarterly losses. The decision follows a strategic review of More Here

Charleston Post & Courier – The inside has 10-foot ceilings, wireless Internet, Surround Sound, central vacuum system, coffered living room ceilings, heart pine or white oak floors and high-end Viking stainless steel appliances. Lots are 1/10 of an acre. The 2,632-square-foot More Here

Philadelphia Daily News – EarthLink will try to sell its business of providing wireless Internet access throughout cities and towns, including its contract to power Wireless Philadelphia. The announcement was expected after Atlanta-based EarthLink last year laid off 900 More Here

Edinburgh News – Apple said iPod revenue rose 17 per cent from a year earlier the strongest growth in a year, according to executives as the debut of a $400 ( 205) model with a touch screen and wireless internet capability lifted average selling prices. Steve More Here

Bloomberg – The money-losing Internet service provider decided to sell its citywide wireless Internet business to help revive profit after six straight quarterly losses. Electronic Data Systems Corp. (EDS US) dropped the most since July 2003, falling More Here

MSN MoneyCentral – This service portfolio includes local voice and data services, long distance, Business Class High Speed Internet, wireless, satellite TV from DIRECTV(R), enhanced data network services, voice and data communication equipment and managed network More Here

Salt Lake Tribune – Posted: 5:52 PM- Utah Transit Authority begins offering wireless Internet service on express buses Friday. The agency announced that the service is available on all 60 of its MCI buses, the larger highway coaches used mainly on intercounty express More Here

WIFI

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

Greenville News – He said the Wi-Fi grant will fund a study to determine what type of infrastructure would be needed for wireless Internet, where it would need to be located and the cost of establishing a wireless connection throughout the three counties. “The idea Cont

Detroit Free Press – Patterson acknowledged that at least one of his pet proposals, a plan to blanket the county with free wireless Internet service, is behind schedule. The service, initially slated to begin early this year, won’t start until at least the end of the Cont

Silicon.com – Time Warner Cable has filed a lawsuit charging a New York apartment complex and its wireless internet provider with illegally reselling its high-speed Road Runner service over a wireless network. The suit, filed on Monday in the Southern district of Cont

Forbes – For consumers, EMBARQ offers an innovative portfolio of services that includes reliable local and long distance home phone service, high-speed Internet, wireless, and satellite TV from DISH Network(R) — all on one monthly bill. For businesses Cont

Salon – Changi has a free movie theater, a swimming pool and wireless Internet for all passengers. But don’t get too comfortable. The following night we are headed down under, nonstop to Melbourne on Qantas Flight 10. Accommodations are at the Melbourne Cont

CNBC – The firm lobbied on legislation and regulation related to wireless airwaves use, employment issues and ‘Net neutrality _ the practice of treating all Internet traffic equally. Capitol Solutions was paid $160,000 in the second half of 2007, according a Cont

Baltimore Sun – All rooms will have wireless Internet access. The Marriott’s sister hotel – the Marriott Inner Harbor – just completed renovating its ballrooms and public spaces and is launching a renovation of guestrooms that will also replace televisions with flat Cont

WIFI

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

Forbes – Disney Connection is an advertising-free broadband service available to subscribers of Verizon FiOS Internet and High Speed Internet services, among others, as an added benefit to their regular monthly Internet service, at no additional charge. The Cont

Daily News – We’re filling a gap that hadn’t been filled, giving rural people high speed Internet,” McCann said.Ag Wireless is a fixed wireless provider, one that doesn’t involve satellite to provide the high speed Internet. Customers hook into a certain access Cont

CNET News – In the second decade of the Internet Age, who still believes you can rely on This blog initially misstated Google’s 52-week high. It is $747. On his way to Ethanol production is moving full speed ahead, thanks in part to huge government Cont

Forbes – Net access line additions/(losses) (38.2) (44.0) 5.8 13 —– —– —– Average access lines 3,221.5 3,240.5 (19.0) (1) High-speed Internet Cont

Stuttgart Daily Leader – Suddenlink customers in the Stuttgart area will be able to enjoy increased Internet speeds, according to a Wednesday announcement by Suddenlink Communications. The company s preferred residential high-speed Internet service, previously 1 megabytes Cont

Broadband

Friday, February 8th, 2008

Bloomberg – TeliaSonera said it plans capital spending of about 15 billion kronor this year, mainly focused on broadband and mobile capacity. TeliaSonera forecast “stable growth” in sales in 2008 from last year, and may top 100 billion kronor in sales this Cont

Globe and Mail – Assuming you have a broadband Internet connection (and a 360 equipped with a hard drive, for Xbox owners), you press one button, answer a question about joining or hosting a session, and you’re in. Suddenly there can be six or seven people driving Cont

CNBC – CARLSBAD, Calif. – ViaSat Inc. on Friday named Tom Moore senior vice president and president of its ViaSat-1 Ka-band broadband satellite program. ViaSat-1 is expected to make high-speed Internet services more readily available to U.S. and Canadian Cont

Times Online – BT closed down 10 per cent after the group said that its quarterly profits had fallen, hit by the declining profitability of its broadband service and by worries over whether its multibillion-pound investment in its 21st Century Network would pay off Cont

Wireless Internet

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

Wall Street Journal – The Internet and high-speed networks make it possible for remote development labs to work closely with engineers located thousands of miles away. But the auto makers are still taking a risk. Among the big challenges Nissan faces is a lack of More Here

New York Sun – The building features a 24-hour doorman, a lounge and media bar with a wet bar, a garden, storage units, high-speed Internet, and cold storage facilities. The Mark 992 Madison Ave. Price a square foot: $4,518 Contact: Corcoran Sunshine at 212-772-1600 More Here

Times Online – It s lunchtime at a high school (Liceo) in Rome s historic centre, and older Singles bars are thin on the ground in Rome, and speed-dating never really took One common strategy is noted by Katherine Feeney, an internet agony aunt. In this More Here

Turkish Daily News – Greece plans to spend 3 billion euros ($4.4 billion) over the next five years to catch up with other European Union countries in the usage of high-speed Internet and new technologies. About 2.5 billion euros will be spent to create a fiber- optic More Here

Denver Post – Ford’s Work Solutions package, available on the 2009 F-150, will feature an in-dash computer with high-speed Internet. (The Associated Press ) CHICAGO Ford will soon offer an in-dash computer with high-speed Internet access and a battery-powered More Here

WIFI

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

Financial Times – Didier Lombard, chairman, said the company s strong performance was a vindication of his strategy of cutting costs, rolling out packaged high-speed internet, television and fixed-services and expanding in fast-growing markets, such as Africa. Net More Here

News.com.au – One that plugs into laptop computers and delivers a high-speed internet experience anywhere. Thanks to the development of the cellular network that is now possible. The introduction of 3G (third generation) networks, which cover more than 96 per cent More Here

Forbes – In contrast, data revenue increased 1.6 percent to C$976 million as the company added 29,000 high-speed Internet customers in the quarter. Video revenue rose nearly 18 percent to C$351 million as the subscriber base grew by 2,000 customers to total 1 More Here

MSN MoneyCentral – is currently making modifications to the new injection system focused on increasing the speed of filling the system with particles for high Drilling call at least 10 minutes prior to the start time, or access it live over the Internet by More Here

WIFI

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

CBC News – The University of Toronto will get $23.3 million in provincial funding for four new technology projects, including to prevent infectious diseases using nanotechnology and to place wireless internet services in rural communities, the government said Cont

Forbes – please click on the following link: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-08-28A1.pdf. CTIA is the international association for the wireless telecommunications industry, representing carriers, manufacturers and wireless Internet Cont

St. Petersburg Times – The previously released 8 GB version of the hybrid cell phone, multimedia player and wireless Internet device costs $399. The new iPod Touch comes with 32 GB of memory and retails for $499. The older 16 GB and 8 GB versions of the combination Cont

22 WSBT – SOUTH BEND If you use someone else’s wireless internet connection, you could be breaking the law. Local investigators say Wi-Fi theft is very difficult to police. It seems like wireless internet access is everywhere these days in restaurants Cont

ITWeb – WiMax, or Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access, enables wireless data delivery over long distances, allowing faster Internet downloads while on the move. Fujitsu, which supplies equipment to local carriers NTT DoCoMo and KDDI, expects Cont

Reuters UK – Tuesday’s pause prompted speculation that bidding for the C block spectrum may have run its course, and that the most likely possible winner could be either Verizon Wireless or Internet search leader Google Inc. Bidders’ identities are kept secret Cont

Sun Journal – Tourists will have wireless Internet throughout downtown New Bern beginning June 1. The date for the service to be provided by the Craven County Tourism Development Authority was announced Tuesday as one of several new joint ventures to entice Cont

Broadband

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

San Diego Union-Tribune – He was back in practice on the lush confines of Lower Otay Reservoir by the end of the week, sleeping in dorms with cable TV and wireless Internet, eating at the cafeteria, paddling boats without holes, preparing to represent a West African country Cont

Forbes – Wall Street Washington CIO Network Enterprise Tech Infoimaging Digital Infrastructure Internet Personal Tech Sciences Security Wireless Bonds Commodities LONG BEACH, Calif., Feb. 5 /PRNewswire/ — Epson America Inc. today announced the Epson Stylus(R Cont

Berkshire Eagle – PITTSFIELD Berkshire Community College is going wireless. The college’s information technology department will use the school’s Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) to provide Internet access to students, staff, faculty, and the public in multiple Cont

Australian IT – Like the popular Intel-powered ASUS Eee PC, the Classmate PCs are aimed at primary school students and come with a wireless internet connection, although many other fully fledged laptop features are excluded. State education departments in NSW Cont

Bloomberg – third- largest phone company, may report full-year profit jumped 29 percent as it added mobile clients, sold more Internet Sales may have risen 2.3 percent to 52.9 billion euros from 51.7 billion euros a year earlier, bolstered by wireless client Cont

Forbes – to support a range of applications including mobile backhaul, video surveillance, storage and business continuity, premium internet access, and other voice, video and data services. The RedACCESS product family includes the AN-50e high speed wireless Cont

University Daily Kansan – Four more buildings on campus went wireless last week. Malott Hall, Haworth Hall, Summerfield Hall and Murphy Hall received wireless Internet access as part of the two-year KU wireless initiative. The goal of the project is to achieve wireless Cont

WIFI

Monday, February 4th, 2008

Chicago Tribune – Most customers with AT&T’s high-speed DSL Internet service will be charged an additional $5 a month, the company said Friday. The increase affects DSL plans, each with a different connection speed, that now have monthly charges of about $15, $20 and Read More

Christian Science Monitor – New Delhi – With Internet speed slowing to a crawl across much of India, some of the country’s call centers have been forced to In other countries, such as Egypt, the figure was as high as 70 percent. The two Mediterranean cables cut Wednesday Read More

News.com.au – OPEL cost may leap by $100m KERRY Stokes’ wireless broadband group Unwired has this week begun negotiations with Optus, which could see the No2 telco forced to spend as much as $100 million extra on its proposed OPEL regional high-speed internet Read More

Seattle Times – lets users rent online movies, isn’t finished, Apple said. The company said two weeks ago the software would be released in January. Apple TV costs $229 for the 40-gigabyte model and $329 for the 160-gigabyte model. It requires a high-speed Internet Read More

Donga.com – Industry sources said yesterday that KT will propose a slew of discount bundle plans combining land-line service with high-speed Internet connection, cell phone services, Internet TV and mobile Internet. A KT source said, The incoming Read More

Chicago Sun-Times – on a trade can mean everything, access to reliable, light-speed communication networks is crucial. Yet while downtown Internet generated information service and oft-cited reference for high school term papers. Local venture capitalist and Internet Read More

MSN MoneyCentral – Interactive Optimum(R) digital television, Optimum Online(R) high-speed Internet, Optimum Voice(R) digital voice-over-cable, and its Optimum Lightpath integrated business communications services. Cablevision’s Rainbow Media Holdings LLC operates Read More