Archive for April, 2008

Broadband

Monday, April 28th, 2008

The Full-Featured Business-Class Wireless Access Point Delivers Draft 2.0 Wireless-N at Either 5GHz to Avoid Interference from Legacy 802.11b/g-based Devices or 2.4GHz to Provide Backward Compatibility with Them las vegas, April 28 /PRNewswire Cont

Love it Apr 28, 2008 Rating: 9 out of 10 (Spectacular) Pros: WiFi, Flash/VOB player, records/edit video, USB host Cons: No radio, pay for many add-ons. Cont

RESTON, VIRGINIA–(Marketwire – April 28, 2008) – Wireless Matrix Corporation (TSX:WRX), a leader in mobile resource management, today announced Maria C. Izurieta, chief financial officer, is a finalist for the 2008 Greater Washington Technology CFO Cont

las vegas, April 28 /PRNewswire/ — INTEROP las vegas 2008 — Agito Networks, Inc.(TM), the company pioneering new technology in enterprise mobility, today from Interop las vegas 2008 announced new, innovative business-class enterprise fixed mobile Cont

Telkonet, Inc. TKO , the leading provider of innovative, centrally managed solutions for integrated energy management, networking, building automation and proactive support services, announces its latest contract win within the education market Cont

Broadband

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

The so-called “D Block” of the FCC’s gigantic 700 MHz broadband auction was supposed to attract bidders willing to share this spectrum with a public safety communications system made available to the nation’s emergency service providers. The D Block Cont

The big business idea of the last 20 years is going rancid. Last week, Boeing’s embarrassed chief executive announced the third major delay to its much-hyped 787 Dreamliner project. Unbelievably, although nearly 900 of the aircraft have been sold Cont

U.S. Air Force Photo by Airman 1st Class Danielle Grannan – Brig. Gen. Jim Jones (center), 55th Wing commander, discusses capabilities of the new WiFi at the Thomas S. Power Library with Chief Master Sgt. Kenneth Funderburg, 55th Wing command chief Cont

Department of Posts and Jayalakshmi: Launch of Financial Inclusion Program, Meera Dutta, Principal Chief Post Master General, Karnataka Circle is Chief Guest, Frazer Town Post Office, Frazer Town, 4 pm. Bangalore University: 117th birthday of Cont

Police will be able to use wireless video cameras to spy on crime suspects in their homes for up to three months, as a result of an impending law change and technological advances. Justice Minister Annette King announced the Government would support Cont

WIFI

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Podium Venture Group, Inc. (Pink Sheets: PODM) announced today its subsidiary, Coastal Broadband, is anticipating it will receive its six new towers within the next week. Coastal Broadband will then begin its network expansion to increase its network More Here

SEOUL, April 25 (Reuters) – KT Corp (030200.KS: Quote , Profile , Research ), South Korea’s top fixed-line and broadband operator, reported on Friday a worse-than-expected 60 percent drop in quarterly profit as marketing costs continued to weigh amid More Here

American farmers have been growing genetically modified crops for years, from seeds engineered to resist pests and chemicals. These patented seeds produced bigger crops and profits for farmers who bought them from companies like DuPont and Monsanto More Here

A technology upgrade at the Sioux Falls police department is making officers more efficient. Their squad cars were already equipped with computers to help officers on patrol. Now, 71 of them are equipped with broadband internet through Sioux Falls More Here

Broadband

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

Archos has released a 99 GPS in-car holder designed to turn its 605 WiFi portable media player into a satellite navigation system. Archos believes its 4.3in touchscreen display makes the 605 WiFi an eminently suitable device for this purpose and Read More

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c89929) has announced the addition of “Satellite Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Market Study” to their offering. This Frost & Sullivan research service titled Satellite Machine-to-Machine (M2M Read More

Announce New Alliance to Market an Exciting New Product and Service to the Cellular Masses Through VoIP-PAL.com’s Niche Sales Channel LOS ANGELES, April 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — In a statement this morning, Mr. Lipman, President of WorldTel Read More

MIAMI, April 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — PhoneBrasil International, Inc. (OTC Pinksheets: PHBR), releases a shareholder update. PhoneBrasil CEO Anderson Dias stated, “I have been working diligently on arranging personal and or conventional funding Read More

Earlier this week, portable media player maker Archos announced that is to start selling its first GPS satellite navigation devices from late May. There were a few critical gaps in what was announced, however, so we asked Archos to clear up just how Read More

SAN ANTONIO — AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) and Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) today announced the beginning of the rollout of AT&T Wi-FiSM service at company-operated Starbucks stores, kicking off a nationwide effort that will continue through 2008. At the 2008 AT&T Read More

Stiglitz, 65, was a co-winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in economics for work he did on the impact of asymmetric information. His paper said markets can be distorted if one side has more information than the other, implying intervention may be needed Read More

Broadband

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Wireless users in more Bay Area locations are now experiencing expanded voice and data coverage thanks to the addition of seven new cell sites from Verizon Wireless, the carrier with the highest customer loyalty. The new sites improve overall Read More

Starbucks and AT&T Inc. have begun rolling out AT&T Wi-Fi service at company-owned coffee shops as part of a nationwide effort to make wireless Internet more accessible to its customers. AT&T (NYSE: T) has already begun equipping the Starbucks Read More

April 25 (Bloomberg) — Ericsson AB , the world’s largest maker of wireless networks, rose the most in five years in Stockholm trading after reporting first-quarter profit and sales that beat analyst estimates as North American sales surged. Ericsson Read More

This is a press release courtesy of the City of Eugene Free, public, wireless Internet access is now available at all three City of Eugene pools and five city community centers. Members of the public who have laptops with built-in Wi-Fi or a Wi-Fi Read More

SouthernLINC Wireless, a Southern Company (NYSE: SO), today announced it has been named the official two-way wireless provider for upcoming Nationwide Tour and LPGA Tour events in Georgia and Alabama. As part of the agreement, the company will Read More

Starbucks and AT&T Inc. have begun rolling out AT&T Wi-Fi service at Starbucks-owned coffee shops as part of a nationwide effort to make wireless Internet more accessible to customers. AT&T (NYSE:T) has already begun equipping the Starbucks locations Read More

The Sioux Falls Police Department has made a technology upgrade. Now more than 70 squad cars are equipped with high-speed wireless Internet that they can access anywhere in the city. It used to be that officers had to drive to a wireless hot-spot Read More

High Speed Internet

Friday, April 25th, 2008

SEOUL, April 25 (Reuters) – KT Corp (030200.KS: Quote , Profile , Research ), South Korea’s top fixed-line and broadband operator, reported on Friday a worse-than-expected 60 percent drop in quarterly profit as marketing costs continued to weigh amid Read More

NEW YORK(Reuters) – Juniper Networks Inc (nasdaq: JNPR – news – people ) reported stronger-than-expected quarterly results Thursday on growing demand for advanced telecommunications networks, even amid the weaker U.S. economy. The company, which Read More

Company Delivers Supercharged Wireless Access to Mobile Applications and Interactive Content to More Places in the Garden State PARSIPPANY, N.J., April 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — AT&T Inc. T has announced the expansion of the third-generation (3G Read More

Presumptive Republican presidential candidate John McCain visited Inez, Kentucky Wednesday. The visit by McCain comes on the heels of new polling data that shows American voters have become more concerned about the economy than the war in Iraq. “You Read More

Broadband internet service topped the list of products and services that received the most complaints last year with mobile telephony and the cell phone coming just below. According to Korea Consumer Agency, among 260,000 consumer complaints and 22 Read More

NEW YORK, April 24 (Reuters) – Juniper Networks Inc (JNPR.O: Quote , Profile , Research ) on Thursday reported higher-than-expected profit and sales for the first quarter as growing Internet traffic encouraged more telecommunications service Read More

Internet users in Birch Creek subdivision who are seeking Charter high speed services will have to wait, according to a company official. Eddie Trower, government affairs director with Charter Internet, Monday told the Union Parks, Building Read More