Archive for September, 2008

Wireless Internet

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

NEW YORK, Sept 30 (Reuters) – AT&T Inc (T.N: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) is set to tweak its management structure, aiming for better coordination between its wireless and landline businesses amid increasing competition with cable Cont

Australian wireless broadband subscriptions have almost doubled in the last six months to reach 809,000, according to a report released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The ABS’ Internet Activity report said the massive boost Cont

WASHINGTON: The eastern port of Baltimore became the first major city in the United States on Monday to be blanketed with a wireless broadband network that uses next-generation mobile WiMAX technology. US telecom provider Sprint Nextel Corp Cont

This story was written by Brett Winterford and Julian Hill. The leaders of three of Australia’s largest ISP’s have declared the Net neutrality debate as solely a U.S. problem–and further, that the nation that pioneered the Internet might want to Cont

Comcast Corp. said Tuesday that its investment in a joint venture to offer mobile Internet access to subscribers could be finalized by the end of the year. Steve Burke, president of Philadelphia-based Comcast, said the new service would let cable Cont

BEIJING, Sept. 29 /PRNewswire/ — Trapeze Networks, a Belden brand, has won the Hangzhou Wi-Fi Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) project, the largest Wi-Fi MAN in China. Trapeze Networks is deploying more than 3,000 access points in Hangzhou, allowing Cont

WASHINGTON: The eastern port of Baltimore became the first major city in the United States on Monday to be blanketed with a wireless broadband network that uses next-generation mobile WiMAX technology. US telecom provider Sprint Nextel Corp Cont

WIFI

Monday, September 29th, 2008

If you live in Baltimore, Md., and want to experience fast, wireless Internet speeds, then congrats, you’ve chosen your place of residence wisely. On Monday, Sprint announced that Baltimore, Md., would be the first U.S. city to have access to its new More Here

MUMBAI, India, Sept. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), (BSE: TCS.BO, NSE: TCS.NS), a leading global IT services and business solutions firm, today announced that The Wall Street Journal, the world’s leading business More Here

THE GIZMO: Logitech Squeezebox Boom ($299.99) and CC Wi-Fi Internet Radio ($214.99). RADIO GA GA: If you build a 20 times more exciting radio, will people jump for it? That’s the multi-million-dollar question implicit in two new, compact, easy-to-use More Here

This story was written by Brett Winterford and Julian Hill. The leaders of three of Australia’s largest ISP’s have declared the Net neutrality debate as solely a U.S. problem–and further, that the nation that pioneered the Internet might want to More Here

On Monday Sprint Nextel Corp. launched its ultra-fast wireless Internet service for mobile customers in Baltimore. The pioneer WiMax network technology is twice as fast as the current cellular broadband networks of the big service providers, which More Here

NEW YORK (Reuters via COMTEX) — Sprint Nextel Corp announced a one-market launch of Xohm , its next generation high-speed wireless data service based on WiMax , with pay-per-day options as well as monthly service fees. The Monday launch in Baltimore More Here

Broadband

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, September 26 /PRNewswire/ — Nanoradio today announced that its “Always On WiFi“(TM) solution has been commercially launched inside the world’s first 3G UMA phone. The same “Always On WiFi“(TM) solution was also recently launched Read More

Computer maker Asus has announced its Eee PC mini laptop is to get embedded 3G for the first time. The Eee PC, which launched back in 2007 and has since spawned myriad of copycat diminutive laptops as well as expanding into a range of Eees, has Read More

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When Bill Barton is hungry for Italian beef and manicotti, he doesn’t want to wait for it. So, he opened Cafe Spumoni in Collinsville, where Italian food lovers like him can get their fix of bistro fare. “We make our own pasta salad, Italian dressing Read More

Dozens of countries participated in this year’s “One Web Day,” an international holiday for the Internet. In San Francisco, teams of volunteers fanned out across a low-income neighborhood with the goal of providing free, wireless Internet access to 1 Read More

Cablevision Systems, one of the biggest cable providers in the New York City metro area, announced that it s completed the first stage of a massive Wi-Fi network project called Optimum WiFi that will eventually cover the New York/New Jersey Read More

The Zune has a long way to go to become a threat to the iPod. But it is getting closer. With updated Zunes and new iPods hitting the market recently, I spent some time with each: a black-on-black version of Microsoft Corp. ’s music and video player Read More

High Speed Internet

Friday, September 26th, 2008

When Merlin Mann is on the go and needs to access his computer information he steps into the cloud. Mann, a 41-year-old technology blogger, is one of thousands of Americans who are shunning packaged software in favor of programs served up as services Cont

holding company. Its subsidiaries and affiliates, AT&T operating companies, are the providers of AT&T services in the United States and around the world. Among their offerings are the world’s most advanced IP-based business communications services Cont

The consortium, OpenNet, will operate an islandwide network offering every home and office Internet speeds of up to 1Gbps completed by 2010. — ST PHOTO: NG SOR LUAN A CONSORTIUM comprising Canada’s Axia NetMedia, SingTel, Singapore Press Holdings Cont

Over 1 Million Households in North Texas Can Now Access EarthLink High-Speed Internet Service ATLANTA , Sept. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — EarthLink, Inc. ELNK , today announced that it has introduced high-speed cable broadband service in the Dallas Cont

High Speed Internet

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

NEW YORK – The first phone that harnesses Google Inc.’s ambition to make the Internet easy to use on the go was revealed Tuesday, and it looks a lot like an iPhone. T-Mobile USA showed off the G1, a phone that, like Apple Inc.’s iPhone, has a large Read More

Chipmaker Broadcom has won the latest battle in a long patent war with Qualcomm . On Wednesday a federal appeals court affirmed that Qualcomm is infringing on two cell phone patents. It also upheld an injunction against Qualcomm selling products with Read More

Avenue hotel’s assistant controller Pablo Merchan will be running the Chicago Marathon for the first time this year, and provided partial inspiration for the package. The event will take place on Sunday, October 12, 2008 at Chicago’s Grant Park. “The Read More

- CTIA – The Wireless Association(R) President and CEO Steve Largent issued the following statement today in advance of tomorrow’s House Domestic Policy Subcommittee Hearing into wireless phones and health effects: “CTIA and the wireless industry Read More

High Speed Internet

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Verizon Wireless is offering cell phone subscribers the chance to go month-to-month with their cell phone service without signing a pesky contract. The second largest wireless operator in the U.S. announced Monday that it will offer month-to-month Cont

A group of residents and city officials have teamed up to bring Wi-Fi internet access to downtown West Union. This is all possible through a grant from the Alliance of West Virginia Champion Communities. Here’s how it works: broadband users in the Cont

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NOT SAFE: Indian Mujahideen used Ken Haywood’s unsecured Wi-Fi network to send the threat e-mail With terror threat e-mails being sent using unsecured Wi-Fi networks, the sale of Wi-Fi connections has dropped by 40 per cent. So far, three e-mails Cont

Wireless Internet

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Verizon Wireless continues to invest in Indiana. It has activated three new cell phone sites in Tippecanoe and Benton counties. The company says the locations should improve coverage in communities outside Lafayette such as Otterbein and Romney Cont

Microsoft Corp. doubled sales of the Xbox 360 video game machine last weekend after cutting the price by as much as 29 percent in a bid to narrow Nintendo Co.’s lead. Retailers reported a 100 percent increase in sales for all models compared with the Cont

VANCOUVER, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – Sierra Wireless (NASDAQ: SWIR – TSX:SW) today announced the company’s participation in the CIBC World Markets 7th Annual Eastern Institutional Investor Conference, to be held September 23 – 24, in Montreal Cont

I was just reading Mitch s post on ebooks this morning and stumbled across the Engadget post announcing three new iRex Digital Readers . These ebooks readers are very high priced at US$649, US$749, and US$849 so you need to be a serious ebook fan Cont

DALLAS, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — AT&T Inc. announced today the introduction of AT&T HomeManager(TM) — an innovative home phone that combines access to Internet content and popular wireless phone applications with traditional home phone Cont

High Speed Internet

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

I n December 2004, a committee led by no less than the principal scientific advisor to the government of India, R. Cut to 2008, and the agency that was to play the pivotal role in implementing these recommendations, the National Technical Research Cont

Tags: csiro , wi-fi , patent , court , us , buffalo , wlan , appeal Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has come one step closer to defending its patent relating to several Wi-Fi standards, with defendant Cont

NEW YORK – The Zune has a long way to go to become a threat to the iPod. But it is getting closer. With updated Zunes and new iPods hitting the market in the past week, I spent some time with each: a black-on-black version of Microsoft Corp.’s music Cont

I wrote about Logitech s Squeezebox Boom Wi-Fi-enabled music streamer a couple of weeks ago (and will have a hands-on review later this week), and mentioned that at $299, the Boom wasn t really going to take Internet radio much closer to the Cont

The upcoming 802.11v standard will lower power consumption in wireless LANs, according to Matthew Gast, principal engineer at Trapeze Networks. The upcoming 802.11v standard will lower power consumption in wireless LANs, according to Matthew Gast Cont

Tags: hp , ipaq , 912c , pda , smartphone , keyboard , battery HP has done its homework. The 912c’s pragmatic design is far from revolutionary, but the company has been smart enough to pinch a few good ideas from its competition. In addition to the Cont

Even with a big update , there are still many areas where the Zune comes up short when compared to Apple’s iPod. It’s easy to argue that Apple still has the lead in styling, breadth of video content, add-on accessories, and software and compatibility Cont

High Speed Internet

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. phone company AT&T Inc plans to eventually link Apple Inc’s iPhone to its high-speed Internet and video service called U-verse, and introduce new features like using the phone as a remote control. At an event on Monday to More Here

MADRID, Spain & SAN DIEGO, BUSINESS WIRE — Telefonica Moviles Espana and Novatel(TM) Wireless Inc. (Nasdaq:NVTL), a leading provider of wireless broadband solutions, today announced the launch of the Ovation (TM) MC990D USB Modem, capable of More Here

Just a few months ago, I finally left the dark ages of the internet age and went from dial up service to high speed internet. Suddenly, all these things were available to me that I had only heard of and seen from afar. I was able to rapidly view More Here

Comba Telecom Enables Ubiquitous Wireless Coverage in China’s New High Speed Railroad Seamless Mobile Connectivity at Up to 350 Kilometers Per Hour More Here

Broadband

Monday, September 15th, 2008

W hen Christine Karpinski visited downtown Chicago on a business trip a few weeks back, her lodgings were definitely on the luxe side. “I had a gorgeous, corner view from the 32nd story, wireless Internet, big flat-screen TV, plush linens and towels Cont

BEIJING , Sept. 10 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ — KongZhong Corporation KONG , a leading wireless value-added services and wireless media company in China , today announced that Tian Jie Online , a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG Cont

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google Inc (GOOG.O: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) is betting it can revolutionize wireless Internet service on mobile phones the way that it transformed the search business on PCs. The search behemoth Cont

As personal computers go, the new rash of ultra-mini laptops are full of geeky goodness. Light, portable and powerful, they are almost perfect. Almost. But like a rowboat in your backyard or a flat-screen TV in a blackout, most of these new PCs Cont

Mumbai: The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad has decided to transfer the case regarding the threatening email sent by terror group Indian Mujahideen to the local police and focus on tracking suspected mastermind Tauqeer and his associates, a senior Cont

Fans Vote via Text Messages; Only College Football Honor Determined by Fan Voting ATLANTA , Sept. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Four nominees for the AT&T All-America Player of the Week award have been announced after the third week of college Cont

I’ve been trying out a trio of pocket-size gadgets that let me get and send e-mail, send instant text messages, read Web pages, listen to music, or dial up pretty much anyone on earth. And not one of these devices is a cellphone. Cheap Cont