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Topic: Wireless and Mobile Networking

  

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»

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»

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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»

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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»

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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»

Wireless for the Clueless

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

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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»

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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»

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»

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»

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»

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Ubiquitous Mobile Broadband

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Work/Life: Have Mobile Tech, Will Travel

While business travel has taken a hit from the recent up tick in ticket prices, increase in air traffic congestion and a decrease in passenger comfort, I see mobile technologies as one ray of sunlight on the road warrior's ...READ»

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The Six Tech Marvels We Had Better See In 2009

As 2008 comes to a close, here are the six tech marvels that are ready to explode into ubiquity. And after a year of almost-breakthroughs -- fast-but-spotty 3G; cheap-but-slow netbooks -- we deserve them. After all, this is the future, isn't it?READ»

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»

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What's Next for Mobile Content Adaptation?

Video is responsible for the recent explosion in broadband Internet traffic. Whether it is an online news report, sports highlights, last night’s TV episodes, user-generated content or simply posting from friends and families, video ...READ»

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»

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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»

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Trilliant Snaps Up SkyPilot Networks in Smart Grid Domination Attempt

Smart grid developer Trilliant announced that it purchased SkyPilot Networks yesterday in an attempt to future-proof the smart grid. SkyPilot, a broadband wireless company, delivers over 10-times the bandwidth of cellular networks ...READ»

Nothing but Net

Future Tense: 802.11b Wireless Networking TechnologyREAD»

Wireless in San Diego

For a view of how wireless telecom will change the way we work and live, head to San Diego--where everyone from pharmacists to real-estate brokers is now coming unplugged.READ»

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3G Networks Start to Whine About FCC's Net Neutrality Rules

Only yesterday the FCC's chairman spoke up about net neutrality rules, and already the big U.S. 3G broadband providers are beginning to shake their rattles, cry out loud and demand that people listen: Net neutrality is bad, they ...READ»

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Lenovo to Release 3G Netbook

A Lenovo netbook with a nine-inch screen is making its way through FCC approval as we speak, according to several blogs. And unless Lenovo is populating a seriously redundant product line, this one probably has a new trick up its ...READ»

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Media Convergence

Convergence, the long-promised Holy Grail of consumer electronics, has arrived. At least, that's what the industry is telling us.READ»

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Sprint's Golden Hour Cometh

AT&T [ATT] and Verizon [VZ] are today's behemoths in the mobile service provider marketplace. But with its fast network, forward-thinking technology, and value-oriented plans, the next decade of cell users could all belong to the ...READ»