Archive for July, 2008

High Speed Internet

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

We’ve been getting lots of mail on our tipline lately about our Airport WiFi Map . We read it all, and we appreciate it! Your notes have given us even more places to add to our mashup, which is already stocked with dozens of airports worldwide that Read More

Tags: Airport WiFi , Airport-WiFi-Map , Airport WiFi Guide , BUD , RNO , PHX , RST , FSD , RAP , TLV ( all tags ) We’ve been getting lots of mail on our tipline lately about our Airport WiFi Map . We read it all, and we appreciate it! Your notes have Read More

The launch of the iPhone 3G can be summed up in one word that starts with a c. Instead I will go with comedy of errors. Activation delays , long lines , online issues, application roll-out issues – it has been a train wreck that makes Brittany Read More

We have seen the on and off saga of free WiFi at AT&T hotspots for a couple of months now and it looks like iPhone users may again have access to free WiFi at AT&T locations, such as Starbucks. There doesn t seem to be any time limit on access Read More

WESTFIELD – FairPoint Communications in Westfield announces that its broadband connectivity along Main Street in the Village of Westfield is now available at no charge to the general public as well as to FairPoint subscribers. Non-subscribers can Read More

Broadband

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

McCollum Hall will become more friendly to laptop users in the fall. ResNet will install the wireless Internet service in the common areas of the Daisy Hill residence hall, with plans pending for other halls on the hill. Student Senate sponsored the More Here

Free wireless Internet access is now available in more Riverside locations, as the gradual build-out of what will eventually be a citywide Wi-Fi network continues, it was announced today. Wi-Fi service expanded last week to the Orangecrest and More Here

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- T-Mobile USA, a unit of Deutsche Telekom AG (DT), flew in its chief technical officer Thursday to plead with the Federal Communications Commission to reconsider an airwave sale in which the winning bidders would have to offer More Here

The Challenge Of Wireless Cities: Who Pays? Several cities that envisioned creating wireless networks with the goal of free Internet access for all have been stung by partnerships with the private sector. More Here

HANOVER, Ohio , July 17 — In the news release, Verizon Wireless Expands Wireless Broadband Network in Ohio to Portions of Licking County, Ohio , issued earlier today by Verizon Wireless over PR Newswire, we are advised by the company that the More Here

High Speed Internet

Friday, July 18th, 2008

The federal opposition has attacked the government over the likelihood of a further delay to the roll-out of a national high-speed broadband network. The timetable for the construction of the network has been under a cloud because project proponents More Here

Erik Huggers has been confirmed by the BBC as its new director of future media and technology, replacing Ashley Highfield. Huggers, who MediaGuardian.co.uk revealed would get the job on Tuesday , will step into the new role on August 1. Currently the More Here

BT has pledged to bring super-fast broadband to 10m homes within four years by spending 1.5bn on a new fibre-optic network. In his first major act since becoming BT’s chief executive in April, Ian Livingston undertook yesterday to transform More Here

HANOVER, Ohio, July 17 /PRNewswire/ — Verizon Wireless announced today that it has expanded the national rollout of its high-speed wireless network to portions of Licking County, including the town of Hanover along portions of SR-16 on the eastern More Here

Hoping to cash in on advertising dollars leaving print and moving to the Internet, Vogue magazine and marketing company IMG next month will launch a 12-episode online series called “Model.Live” that will offer viewers an inside look at the modeling More Here

This week saw BT’s announcement of its plan to invest 1.5bn in fibre-based broadband – a move I thought was pretty significant. But as soon as I’d written about it I received an e-mail from someone who wasn’t impressed at all. “There is a More Here

Police and firefighters using videoconferences for training. High school students taking college-level courses online. Residents telecommuting instead of racking up mileage and gas bills. Carroll County officials envision these scenarios, and more More Here

Wireless Internet

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

areas along SR-16 on the eastern edge of the county. infrastructure reached nearly USD190m in 2007. Find Solutions for Enterprises, SMBs & Service Providers at the INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference and EXPO West, September 16-18, 2008. Los Angeles Cont

BRUSSELS (Thomson Financial) – The European Commission said it has approved 1.7 million euros aid earmarked by the Lithuanian government to bring broadband access to unserved areas of Lazdijai and Alytus. The support, which involves European Union Cont

High-Speed Network Gives Verizon Wireless Customers Access to Fast Wireless Internet, E-mail, Full-track Songs, Videos and More LEWISTOWN, Pa. , July 17 /PRNewswire/ — Verizon Wireless has expanded the national rollout of its high-speed wireless Cont

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — FiberNet, the feisty telecommunications upstart, has embarked on perhaps its biggest growth spurt yet. The company, formed just 12 years ago, has invested $100 million in the state and now has about 3,000 route miles of fiber Cont

del.icio.us Starting today, TiVo subscribers with a broadband Internet connection and up-to-date digital recorders will be able to browse, search and watch YouTube clips on their television sets. TiVo is among a handful of companies, including Sony Cont

Washington – DISH Network has announced that they will be bringing more HD channels to customers. The new HD channels will be thanks to the launch of their new broadband satellite. This will allow them to compete with their biggest competitor Cont

Distribution Deal Includes NBC Universal Olympic Content for Verizon FiOS TV, Broadband and Wireless Customers, and Expansion of National HD Lineup NEW YORK and ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J. , July 17 /PRNewswire/ — Verizon and NBC Universal have reached Cont

Wireless Internet

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

HONG KONG, July 17 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — GigaMedia Limited (Nasdaq: GIGM) announced today that it has secured an exclusive license to offer in China the highly anticipated EA SPORTS(TM) title NBA STREET Online, an exciting new sports game Cont

NASHUA On Wednesday morning, Christopher Williams, president of the Greater Nashua Chamber of Commerce, cut one of the cords tethering downtown residents and visitors to their homes and offices. Although it’s been operational for a week, the Cont

To make it easier for users to communicate with friends and family on the Wii game console, Logitech introduced the new Logitech Cordless Keyboard for Wii, supporting chat-oriented games and the Wii Internet Channel. With its compact, slim design Cont

The Internet was supposed to send America’s public libraries the way of eight-track tapes and pay phones. “I’ve read opinion pieces about that, articles over the years about how libraries might change,” said Pat Birchenall, manager of the Newark Free Cont

Thirty years ago, as new computing and communications technology started to come to the fore, technology researchers and analysts began to talk confidently about the coming paperless society. Today, many such experts would settle for a society that Cont

HONG KONG, July 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — BROADBAND WORLD FORUM ASIA 2008 — Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today announced that two of its innovative broadband solutions have been awarded the InfoVision Award, presented by the International Cont

High Speed Internet

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

BT unveiled plans yesterday aimed at revolutionising television viewing in Britain, with a 1.5 billion investment intended to connect ten million homes to high-speed fibre-optic broadband by 2012. The technology’s vast capacity will allow high Read More

As many as 10 million homes will get access to super-fast, fibre-based broadband by 2012 following a 1.5 billion investment from BT that will give some customers speeds of up to 100Mb/sec, the company claims. The telecom giant announced today that Read More

As long as it’s allowed a good return on its investment, British Telecom is ready to pump $3 billion into a UK fiber optic network. At the moment, British Telecom (BT) has to provide a copper cable connection to homes in the UK, something that s Read More

BT has pledged to bring super-fast broadband to 10m homes within four years by spending 1.5bn on a new fibre-optic network. In his first major act since becoming BT’s chief executive in April, Ian Livingston undertook yesterday to transform Read More

1.5 billion programme to give up to 10 million homes access to fibre by 2012 Plans dependent on regulatory regime and certainty Dividend guidance reaffirmed, share buyback suspended from July 31 2008 BT today announced plans to roll out Read More

“COMSTAR – United TeleSystems” JSC (”Comstar” or “the Group”) (LSE:CMST), the leading integrated telecommunications operator in Russia and the CIS, today announced that it has selected Nortel (NYSE/TSX:NT) equipment to develop the first mobile WiMAX Read More

High Speed Internet

Monday, July 14th, 2008

BT is hoping to gain ground in the broadband battle and score new customers by giving away subscriptions to digital television channel Setanta Sports 1 with its BT Vision package deals. The former telephone monopoly is offering its broadband Cont

www.researchandmarkets.com – Research and Markets ( www.researchandmarkets.com/research/0d5355/2008_asia_teleco ) has announced the addition of the “2008 Asia – Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband in Malaysia and Philippines” report to their offering Cont

IN MANY of the nation’s metropolitan areas, people race around the Web on broadband roadways built on cable, fiber optics, DSL, and wireless systems. In coffee shops or in the privacy of their own homes, users can shop, attend college, and run Cont

Proxim Wireless Corporation (NASDAQ: PRXM), a leading provider of end-to-end broadband wireless systems that deliver the quadruple play, today announced that Stephouse Networks, a Portland, OR based ISP, has deployed Proxim equipment to provide the Cont

Rural telcos are being offered a new broadband technology that can give their customers access speeds of up to 400mbps. The new technology is called Bonded DSL Rings (BDR) which relies on existing copper wire infrastructures. With BDR, telcos can Cont

VANCOUVER, British Columbia –(Business Wire)– Corinex Communications Corp. today announces a new partnership with EMPRESA ELECTRICA QUITO (EEQ) which has selected the Consortium of TELCONET S.A., GILAUCO S.A. and BRIGHTCELL S.A. to deploy a Corinex Cont

Wireless Internet

Monday, July 14th, 2008

The WRT54G2 is strictly for those of you who don’t need the extra speed that an 802.11 draft-n-based router can provide. Consider it only if you want a basic router that won’t be distributed among many devices and long distances. If you don’t need a More Here

Frank Kalamuzi is a resident of Mushya sector, Rwamagana district in the Eastern Province. He walks 4 kilometres everyday from his home to Rwamagana town purposely to access internet services. He is one of the millions of Rwandans who still find it More Here

This fall, San Francisco will test 6,000 of its 24,000 metered parking spaces in the nation s most ambitious trial of a wireless sensor network that will announce which of the spaces are free at any moment. More Here

The rumors of a $50 price cut for Microsoft Corp.’s 20-gigabyte Xbox 360 video game console were true — but the reduction isn’t exactly what it appeared. In reality, it’s more like a clearance sale, designed to empty the shelves for a new Xbox 360 More Here

BRISTOL, Va. Finalizing an arrangement with investors is all that prevents the Twin City s historic train station from finally reopening, a member of the ownership group said Friday. The Trainstation Foundation is working with a Chicago law More Here

Miami Valley Customers Can Now Enjoy Next-Generation Integrated TV, Internet, Wireless and Voice Services – All on One Bill DAYTON, Ohio , July 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Miami Valley residents now have a new — and better — choice for their More Here

High Speed Internet

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

A GROUP of Australian scientists has found a way to make the world’s internet run more than 60 times faster than today’s best technology. The breakthrough, announced during a special session at a photonics conference in Sydney yesterday, breaks Read More

TEXAS CITY It s a tight squeeze on some shelves in the Moore Memorial Public Library. The books rest snugly against one another, and the books stacking up in a shelving room have nowhere to go. The last expansion of this building happened in Read More

BENNINGTON A recently announced expansion of digital subscriber line (DSL) service by Fairpoint Communications will affect a large swath of Bennington County. The expansion will mean an increase in DSL access in Bennington, East Dorset Read More

For as long as consumers have had high-speed Internet at home, they have surfed the Web as much as they wanted, downloading any content while paying their service provider a flat monthly fee. Those days may be ending. Internet service providers Read More

WASHINGTON George W. Bush is smiling upon Kevin J. Martin. So are George H.W., Jeb and Barbara, with big toothy grins in a blown-up picture hanging behind his desk at the Federal Communications Commission. Martin was appointed by President Bush Read More

FairPoint Communications is expanding its high-speed Internet service to 26 communities in Vermont. The company announced Wednesday that its plan is on target to increase access to high-speed Internet service to 75 percent of its lines by the end of Read More

W hen you think of Downtown hotels, a few major names spring immediately to mind, all of them members of major international chains with commanding structures along the Nile, fancy interiors, upscale dining options and hundreds of rooms. Other than Read More

Broadband

Friday, July 11th, 2008

It s getting easier for travelling enterprise WiFi users to connect to local WiFi hotspots. Boingo federates access to networks operated by different suppliers. And now Verizon Business ( News – Alert ) has launched a new WiFi interface that makes Read More

While everyone on their mother went on queue today to buy the iPhone 3G, there were a handful of Palm fanatics who snatched the new Treo 800w from their local Sprint store. Check out the full gallery of images here . Spec sheet for those of you who Read More

I’ve been at the Apple store in Palo Alto, Calif. all morning watching the crowds snap up the new iPhone. Some people spent the night in line but there weren’t nearly as any people as there were on June 29, last year when Apple released the original Read More

Looks like a BlackBerry Bold doesn’t it? That is actually the BlackBerry Javelin and while it may look like the Bold, it lacks 3G and well that’s about it. The 2 megapixel camera in the Bold is now a 3.2 megapixel in the Javelin, the all black Read More

Cincinnati Bell Inc. (NYSE: CBB) recently launched Fusion WiFi and the Unlimited Everything Family Pak, two product offerings that differentiate the company from its competition and make it easier and more affordable for customers to stay connected Read More

A court in Germany has ruled that a man is not to blame for illegal downloading as he has an open WiFi connection. The whole case came to light when an unnamed musician sued a man for downloading one of their songs on a P2P site. Even though the Read More