Mobile & Wireless

Municipal Wi-Fi is overcoming legal opposition and is on the verge of becoming reality in a number of cities. Pronto Networks wants to use the coming ubiquitous wireless access world as a piggyback to provide its own services.

As is the case with many technologies, in the RFID realm the drive for new features may have left security behind. That's why it's key for organizations thinking of adopting RFID technology to do the due diligence on how it will affect their security level.

Chip vendor picoChip Designs aims to bridge a chasm that is one barrier in the path of WiMax wireless broadband networks. The fabless semiconductor company on Wednesday launched a set of reference designs for both base stations and subscriber equipment that will work for both the current fixed and the future mobile standard for WiMax.

Pushing an end-to-end package to enterprises, Nokia Corp. on Wednesday introduced the first three phones in a new series aimed specifically at business users.

Palm Inc. has lowered the cost of acquiring a personal digital assistant (PDA) with Wi-Fi connectivity, and also is courting technology novices with a new, inexpensive PDA.

Mobile e-mail isn't just for the chief executive and president anymore. At least, that's what many of the companies presenting at Symbian Ltd.'s Smartphone Show said on Monday. Companies including Visto Inc., Nokia Corp. and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB are all talking about their "push" e-mail applications that aim to be attractive throughout the enterprise as well as to smaller businesses.

BEA Systems Inc. has stepped up its efforts to help customers deal with the mountains of data collected by RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) systems by agreeing to purchase privately-held RFID middleware vendor ConnecTerra Inc., BEA announced Tuesday.

During the first quarter next year, Sony Ericsson will start selling the first smart phone to be based on Symbian OS version 9.1 and the UIQ 3 software platform.

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More than two dozen leading manufacturers of wireless LAN equipment have formed an industry coalition aimed at breaking a deadlock in efforts to establish a new, faster Wi-Fi standard.

I live in San Francisco, the city where Wi-Fi access is considered a fundamental right. Seriously, that's what our mayor, Gavin Newsom, said recently. Of course, in a densely packed city full of badly configured routers, free Wi-Fi is already a reality for many San Franciscans. In my building, anybody can just tap into an unsecured router cleverly named WLAN whenever they get the urge. I already have five wireless networks visible from my home PC, so you'll forgive me if I sometimes mistakenly believe that I'm already living in a world of ubiquitous Wi-Fi.

Maspro Denkoh, a Japanese manufacturer of wireless communications equipment, has developed a transmission system that can send Wi-Fi signals as far as 5 kilometers. The system relies on high-gain antennas produced by the company and is compatible with standard 802.11b/g communications equipment.