Wireless Internet

MONTREAL — Quebecor Inc. gave strong signals yesterday it’s open to negotiating a deal with potential partners that could advance the media company’s plan to build a data-rich wireless communications network. “We’re certainly well-positioned to More Here

The top four wireless providers in the U.S. are being asked by a senior senator to account for their text-messaging prices. Sen. Herb Kohl (D., Wis.), who is chairman of the Senate Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee, sent letters Tuesday to Verizon More Here

Korea is considering allowing companies to provide voice call services based on WiBro, a once-touted homegrown mobile Internet technology, to prompt further investment and competition in the telecom sector, a government report said Wednesday. WiBro More Here

Satellite company O3b Networks has linked up with Google and other investors to bring cheaper, high-speed wireless Internet access to areas unlikely to see investments in fibre infrastructure. O3b stands for “other 3 billion,” a reference to the More Here

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DUBLIN, Ireland –(Business Wire)– Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/c51277/brazil_convergen) has announced the addition of the “Brazil – Convergence Broadband and Internet Market” report to their offering. Workforce More Here

Mushroom Networks, Inc. today unveiled PortaBella, the industry’s first one-sided wireless broadband bonding appliance delivering the fastest available mobile Internet connection for downloading and uploading media-rich data. Powered by the company’s More Here

The key to a fast roll-out of high-speed broadband will be to stimulate and aggregate demand for it, says the chairman of the UK’s main broadband advisory group. Antony Walker, chairman of the Broadband Stakeholders Group , said high levels of pre More Here

Verizon Launches Broadband Service in More Communities WORTHINGTON, Mass. , Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/– Consumers and businesses in Colrain , Plainfield and Worthington, Mass. , now have access to the Internet — at rocket speeds powered by Verizon. More Here

The key to a fast roll-out of high-speed broadband will be to stimulate and aggregate demand for it, says the chairman of the UK’s main broadband advisory group. Antony Walker, chairman of the Broadband Stakeholders Group , said high levels of pre More Here

SANTA CLARA, Calif. and TOKYO, Sept. 9, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Foundry Networks(r), Inc. (Nasdaq:FDRY), a performance and total solutions leader for end-to-end switching and routing, announced that Kintetsu Cable Network (KCN), a cable television More Here

Sick of hearing broadband providers harp on about speeds and contention ratios? Magnet chief executive, Mark Kellett, has said providers should offer something different and, true to his word, today the company introduced free, live IPTV to PCs on More Here

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Keri Rainsberger isn’t rich. She works in the nonprofit world for a relatively low-profit salary. Yet, as many Americans are scrimping for every penny, she hardly feels the pinch. She still tithes 10 percent of her income to her church, even as other More Here

First there were the propane lamps. Then wind turbines, followed by solar panels that powered William Shay’s off-the-grid vacation home overlooking Lake Billy Chinook. And now, two decades after the first road was paved in Shay’s central Oregon More Here

For some reason, I found myself reading my Internet Service Provider s End-User License Agreement. Don t ask me why I entertain myself with such an exciting bedtime reading; I will just read pretty much anything I stumble across. Under Prohibited More Here

Company’s Network Easily Delivers More than 4 Million Additional Data Transmissions in Downtown Saint Paul SAINT PAUL, Minn. , Sept. 5 /PRNewswire/ — The votes are in and the results show that the 45,000 Republican National Convention (RNC More Here

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Company’s Network Easily Delivers More than 4 Million Additional Data Transmissions in Downtown Saint Paul SAINT PAUL, Minn. , Sept. 5 /PRNewswire/ — The votes are in and the results show that the 45,000 Republican National Convention (RNC Read More

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Garmin Ltd. has settled a trademark infringement lawsuit filed earlier this year by an Internet telephone provider over Garmin’s new wireless phone. Nuvio Corp. claimed in a lawsuit filed in federal court in Kansas City, Kan., in Read More

( AOL Autos ) — Driving a car is a complex physical and mental operation. Not only does it require coordination and reflexes, it also requires rapid assessment skills and good judgment. Beyond being a recipe for indigestion, eating behind the wheel Read More

The implosion of EarthLink‘s citywide Wi-Fi business may have been the best thing that ever happened to Wireless Philadelphia, the nonprofit charged with helping Philadelphia bridge the digital divide. Independence Hall, Philadelphia (Credit Read More

Innovation Capital Management (ICM) through its subsidiary DiscoverNet has been providing internet services to rural Americans since 1996 and for more than a year has been developing its wireless broadband network throughout six counties in Western Read More

Verizon Wireless Also Urges East Coast Residents, Travelers And Visitors To Prepare Their Own Emergency Communications Plans BASKING RIDGE, N.J. , Sept. 5 /PRNewswire/ — With weather forecasters predicting a series of especially violent hurricanes Read More

Broadband

Shopping for a computer can be fun. Shopping for a wireless router? Not so much, especially when you have to decipher a combination of numbers and letters that may seem harder to interpret than the Dead Sea Scrolls. Do you go with 802.11g or 802.11n Read More

Google ‘s new Web browser is widely viewed as keen competition for Microsoft ‘s Internet Explorer. Here’s another thought: Chrome, which debuted Tuesday, takes computer users a step closer to an environment where they may no longer need an operating Read More

MERIDEN, Conn. , Sept. 3 /PRNewswire/ — In a continuing effort to provide the best wireless service for local residents in New Haven County , Verizon Wireless has activated a new cell site. The new site increases high-speed wireless data coverage Read More

Wireless law enforcement, a text savvy teen who saves the day, and an update on where state policymakers stand with the issue of wireless consumer protection are featured segments in this month’s “Wonder of Wireless” (WOW) webcast, produced by CTIA Read More

DALLAS, Sept. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) today announced that its restoration efforts are well under way across Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Texas in the aftermath of Hurricane Gustav. Service Restoration The company’s Read More

Review: Google Chrome lacks polish under the hood AT&T wireless data network goes out in East New music site gives fans a cut of tune sales CEO of embattled Web-tracking firm NebuAd leaves Summary Box: Review finds Chrome lacking polish NEW YORK Read More

One Hundred Percent of Verizon Wireless Cell Sites Have Battery Back-Up and Ninety-Five Percent of Company’s Cell Sites in North Carolina Have Back-Up Generators WILMINGTON, N.C. , Sept. 3 /PRNewswire/ — While North Carolina has been spared a direct Read More

Wireless Internet

A mobile phone released recently could lead to a shake-up of the compact camera market with the quality of its pictures, experts predict. The Samsung phone is the first in the UK with an eight-megapixel image sensor, producing images of identical Cont

Comcast Corp., the nation’s second-largest Internet service provider, says it would set an official limit on the amount of data subscribers can download and upload each month. (AP Photo) Last week, Comcast — the second-largest Internet service Cont

Everyone enjoys music, but most people can only listen to their favorite songs in a single room. A stereo or computer may play audio, but the moment you step out of that room, you ll leave your music behind. Since wearing ear buds and carrying an Cont

Bangkok, Thailand (AHN) – Asia-Pacific is the world’s largest broadband market but poor countries in the region have limited and low speed Internet access, according to a report by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). The Cont

BOSTON , Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ — Verizon customers in three more Massachusetts communities can experience breathtaking high-speed Internet access as the company today expanded the availability of its Verizon FiOS suite of Internet services to Danvers Cont

Alexandria, La. – Hoping to avoid the communications breakdown it experienced during Hurricane Katrina, the Army has turned to mobile command vehicles built from the ground up to coordinate with first responders in the aftermath of Hurricane Gustav Cont

Nearly 5,000 more households across the Haliburton Highlands could soon receive high-speed Internet service if the county is successful in its bid for funding under the province s Rural Connections Broadband Program. At the August 19 meeting of Cont

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LONDON (Reuters Life!) – Feeling stressed or anxious at an inability to access the Internet? Don’t worry, you’re not alone and now there’s a word for it: “discomgoogolation”. Nearly half of Britons — 44 percent — are discomgoogolation sufferers Cont

Fibre could be laid through the UK’s sewer ducts to help speed up the rollout of super fast broadband to homes and businesses across the country. Telecoms regulator Ofcom has launched a review into the most financially viable ways of replacing the Cont

NEW DELHI: A movement has been launched in the country to bring the government, industry associations and private enterprises together to mobilise people, resources and infrastructure that will connect citizens to information, ideas, people, capital Cont

In the old days – a year ago in the fast-paced world of mobile technology – the only way to get broadband was through your fixed-line connection at home. To upload photos to your web page, check the latest videos or look up that nagging query, you Cont

NEW YORK (AP) _ It sounded like a winning proposition free money for Internet access providers. By tracking their subscribers’ personal Web surfing habits, they could help deliver ads targeted to the consumers’ interests, and claim a share of Cont

Comcast Corp., the nation’s second-largest Internet service provider, says it would set an official limit on the amount of data subscribers can download and upload each month. (AP Photo) Last week, Comcast — the second-largest Internet service Cont

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/1f8576/united_kingdom_b) has announced the addition of the “United Kingdom – Broadband – Fixed Network Overview, Statistics & Forecasts” report to their offering. The UK has a Cont