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Topic: Wireless Technology

  

Making Mobile Manageable

Wireless technology is fast becoming an essential facet of doing business for both large and small companies. Here's how it can improve the way you do business.READ MORE

FCC Starts Up Its Radio White Space System, New Wireless Tech En-Route

After a year of dithering, controversy and retro-thinking government meddling, the FCC has finally begun the process of enabling new whitespace broadband Wi-Fi devices. Good news. But if it makes you scratch your head, then let us ...READ MORE

Wireless City, Redux

Last January I wrote about San Diego's move to become the most wireless city in the USA -- based on the city's history of playing host to a number of telecommunications pioneers, and on the unique and creative applications for ...READ MORE

Wireless Wonderland: Unlicensed Wireless Broadband in North America

Patrick Leary is chief evangelist for Alvarion, a manufacturer dealing in point-to-multipoint broadband wireless access. Steve Stroh is editor of Focus on Broadband Wireless Internet Access. Their talk at WTF 2004 incorporated ...READ MORE

Apple Countersues Nokia, Claims 13 Patent Infringements

"Other companies must compete with us by inventing their own technologies, not just by stealing ours," said Bruce Sewell, Apple's General Counsel and senior vice president.READ MORE

Sprint Vaults Ahead in 4G Race, But Verizon is Close Behind

A year ago, I demanded 4G wireless from the powers that be. Just last month, the FCC set about fast-tracking carrier rollouts. This week, 4G operator Clearwire came closer to making my dream come true, pushing even further ahead ...READ MORE

Apple Admits iPad Wi-Fi Connection Troubles, Suggests Fixes

Some iPad users have been reporting troubles connecting (and staying connected to) Wi-Fi networks, and today Apple both admitted that there's a problem and suggested a few ways to fix it.READ MORE

CPR Can Fix Sprint’s Supersonic

Sprint’s first Wi Max smartphone, a beast called Supersonic has emerged, and CPR’s expert service technicians can fix it when it breaks. It will be Sprint’s first WiMax-enabled smartphone, an Android named Supersonic, ...READ MORE

Fast Cities Struggle to Go Wireless

Whether it's delivering Internet to low-income people, busting up a high-speed monopoly, rebuilding a battered community or making their workers more efficient, hundreds of the nation's cities are itching to build wireless networks, often with noble goals in mind. But cities moving too fast to make fast connections are finding some unexpected roadblocks along the way. READ MORE

Talking Wireless with AT&T’s CTO

At Fast Company we’re using AT&T’s 3G network to do our FastCompanyLive interviews on a Nokia cell phone. Here’s AT&T’s CTO, John Donovan, to bring us up to date on the state of the art of its wireless network for cell phone ...READ MORE

Look Ma, No Cables: Wireless Networking for<br></br> Small and Medium Businesses

Put aside your assumptions about wireless networks and properly evaluate whether they're right for your business.READ MORE

Wireless for the Clueless

Everything you need to know to get untethered, at home and on the road.READ MORE

Toshiba’s Refreshed “Satellite” Packs WiMAX

Now that Sprint [S] has announced its big WiMAX launch in Baltimore, bunches of companies are scurrying to announce products that will incorporate the wireless broadband technology. As of this week, the XOHM network in Baltimore ...READ MORE

Sprint Launches WiMax in Baltimore

It's been a long time coming, but Sprint Nextel [S] finally flipped the switch on its long-delayed WiMax hotspot in Baltimore today, as well as revealing its first WiMax devices, made by ZyXEL [TPE:2391] and Samsung [SEO:005930]. ...READ MORE

Samsung Leaks the First U.S. WiMax Device

Samsung's really betting on the future recently--first there's news of its next-gen HDTVs, and now its leaked details on what's due to be the first dedicated WiMax gadget to hit the U.S. market. It's excitingly dubbed the SWD-M100 ...READ MORE

Global Broadband Dongle Proves Verizon Is Merely After Your Cash

Verizon's just expanded its range of USB mobile broadband dongles--this new one is designed with the global traveler in mind. And while that may sound all nice and helpful, it's not necessarily. The annual fees tot up to ...READ MORE

The Insanely Byzantine Radio Spectrum Map [Graphic]

This week, Comcast announced it would begin the first official commercial rollout of 4G wireless broadband in the U.S. in Portland, Oregon, after using Baltimore and Atlanta as test markets. The company plans to bundle the WiMAX ...READ MORE

Ubiquitous Mobile Broadband

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Wireless Message in a Bottle

Riders of public transport in Chicago or Oslo know RFID technology. Just bump your wallet at the turnstile and off you go with no fumbling to swipe cards. Skiers at some ski resorts know it too. And many drivers know the technology ...READ MORE

Beyond the Bar Code

Radio Frequency Identification, or RFID, has been adopted by large companies, such as Wal-Mart and IBM, but is now emerging as a viable way to manage a supply chain and sales transactions in smaller companies.READ MORE

EarthLink's Rethink: Build It and They Will Come?

For cities that do it right, citywide Wi-Fi is cooler than just being able to check your e-mail while sipping a latte downtown – it could save money, save time, and maybe even save lives, when used by first responders and other ...READ MORE

Apple Hits The Living Room

After the runaway success of its iTunes music software and iPod music player, Apple Computer has added a new gadget to its digital music kit -- the Airport Express, a wireless networking device aimed at turning your living room into ...READ MORE

My Way or the... Wi-Fi Way

In July, Charles Fishman took a look at how transportation and logistics companies are using GPS technology to better manage their businesses. In Saturday's Chicago Tribune, Jeanette Borzo considers how long-haul trucking companies ...READ MORE

Wireless Networks to Go: Useful or No?

This week I tried a nifty new gadget from Netgear -- the Wireless Travel Router WGR101. It's an 802.11g wireless router that's about the size of an iPod; add it to the power adapter and ethernet cable inside a slim black case, and ...READ MORE

Tireless Wireless

Muniwireless is a wonderful online guide to municipal wireless network projects. Provided by Lemon Cloud BV, an Amsterdam-based legal and consulting services company, the service addresses "simple downtown hotspots," as well as ...READ MORE