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  • Blog Insights: Bring out the tinfoil hats

    Posted November 27, 2006 - 5:41 pm

    Many schools and college campuses have been using WiFi technology to allow students to have broader and easier access to the Internet. The technology seems to be everywhere. Airports are giving travelers access, and you can even get it at coffeehouses, so you can log on and check your email while you're swilling down your morning coffee. Hospitals are taking advantage of the technology to permit caregivers to have access to computerized patient records at each bedside. I have to admit, my ancient Windows 95 laptop doesn't have WiFi, but I can see the attraction.

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    T-Mobile USA picks Nokia, Ericsson for 3G

    Posted November 27, 2006 - 4:36 pm

    T-Mobile USA Inc. is moving into 3G (third-generation) mobile services with Nokia Corp. and Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson as major equipment suppliers. The fourth-largest U.S. mobile operator is the last of the major operators to deploy 3G but secured a big chunk of radio spectrum in the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's AWS (Advanced Wireless Services) auction in September.

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    Zyxel warms business with WLAN blanket

    Posted November 27, 2006 - 11:32 am

    Zyxel has produced an office wireless LAN system for small-to-medium businesses that will use "blanket" WLAN technology from Extricom instead of traditional switches.

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    Gartner: Mobile phone sales grow - except in Japan

    Posted November 22, 2006 - 10:11 am

    Worldwide mobile phone sales grew 21.5 percent year on year to 251 million units in the third quarter, with India and China driving growth, according to research from Gartner Inc.

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    Google explores separate test network in SF

    Posted November 22, 2006 - 9:49 am

    Google Inc. has asked for the right to use as many as 1,500 San Francisco light poles for wireless equipment on a test network of its own, separate from the citywide Wi-Fi infrastructure that the company proposed along with EarthLink Inc.

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    Vodafone moves to boost mobile enterprise offerings

    Posted November 21, 2006 - 3:02 pm

    With price pressure nibbling away its consumer voice business, Vodafone Group PLC has taken steps to move beyond its traditional mobile phone operations and strengthen its service portfolio in the potentially lucrative enterprise market.

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    Samsung promises slimmest-ever phone LCD

    Posted November 21, 2006 - 2:56 pm

    Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has developed what it claims is the thinnest LCD (liquid crystal display) panel, just the thickness of a credit card, designed for use in mobile phones.

  • Thousands of wireless access points

    Posted November 21, 2006 - 12:29 pm

    How well are you managing your wireless network? Do you know where all your access points are? Do you know how many clients are using those access points at this moment? Now multiply those questions by over 7,000 access points spread across 220 locations, and give me your answers. That was the problem facing the Fairfax County (Virginia) Public Schools and their plan to provide wireless broadband network access for every classroom across their district.

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    GSM operators team on near field communications

    Posted November 21, 2006 - 9:55 am

    Several mobile phone operators are collaborating on an initiative aimed at achieving a common approach to short-range wireless technology in mobile phones that can be used for contactless applications such as ticketing and billing.

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    O2 dismisses mobile-phone Wi-Fi

    Posted November 16, 2006 - 2:22 pm

    Mobile operator O2 has decided to put its weight behind GSM and 3G mobile technology instead of Wi-Fi in its next generation of phones.

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    Mobile Web is a 'bust,' but beginning to open up

    Posted November 16, 2006 - 12:57 pm

    Internet leaders who gathered in London Thursday to applaud the launch of a flat-rate mobile data plan from 3 Group were quick to criticize the progress of the wireless Internet so far, an indication of the difficulties they've experienced entering the mobile market.

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    Qualcomm buys IT monitoring and management vendor

    Posted November 16, 2006 - 10:56 am

    Wireless technologies developer Qualcomm Inc. has acquired nPhase LLC, a provider of "machine-to-machine" technology that helps large businesses manage and monitor dispersed computing devices, Qualcomm announced Thursday.

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    Skype launches first mobile service

    Posted November 16, 2006 - 10:50 am

    Skype Ltd. launched its first mobile voice-over-IP service in collaboration with an operator, 3 Group, whose customers will soon be the first to use it.

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    Apple iPhone rumors multiply

    Posted November 16, 2006 - 10:06 am

    Rumors that Apple Computer Inc. plans to launch a mobile phone next year are gaining momentum, although the company's Taiwanese manufacturing partners are giving little away.

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    No stores and no phones means no clients for EasyMobile

    Posted November 15, 2006 - 11:18 am

    EasyMobile Ltd. plans to shut its mobile phone service in the U.K. on Dec. 13, leaving its 80,000 customers to find a new service provider. The EasyMobile low-cost offering launched first in the U.K. last year, with plans to become available in 12 European countries. Mimicking a successful model spearheaded in Denmark, EasyMobile initially only sold SIM cards but no phones, and had no stores, selling exclusively online.

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    Qualcomm makes headway in Europe and against Nokia

    Posted November 13, 2006 - 11:01 am

    Motorola Inc. will use Qualcomm Inc. chips in future UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications Service) phones in a deal that could give Qualcomm leverage in an ongoing patent licensing dispute with Nokia Corp.

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    Samsung offers look at future of mobile phones

    Posted November 13, 2006 - 9:37 am

    Mobile phones will undergo a dramatic transformation over the next few years, incorporating more powerful processors and more storage, as well as new technologies, including sensors to monitor a user's health and a wider range of entertainment and online services.

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    Emirates to offer in-flight mobile phone service

    Posted November 12, 2006 - 10:20 pm

    As one group abandons its in-flight Wi-Fi Internet access, another hopes to be more successful with an on-board mobile phone service for air passengers. Emirates Airline has signed up for a new in-flight mobile phone service offered by AeroMobile Ltd., a joint venture between communications and systems engineering vendor Arinc Inc. and Norwegian telecommunications service provider Telenor ASA, the companies said Friday.

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    Motorola buys mobile app company

    Posted November 12, 2006 - 10:16 pm

    Motorola said Friday it would acquire Good Technology, the software firm that provides the mobile e-mail application on Motorola's Q smartphone and on many competing devices. Motorola hopes the move can help it gain more customers among mobile professionals, who need enterprise-level security and management.

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    Symbol waves good-bye to Palm OS -- for now

    Posted November 10, 2006 - 11:05 am

    Symbol Technologies Inc. has decided to discontinue its two Palm OS-based devices worldwide, bowing to European Union environmental regulations and a growing demand for Windows Mobile devices.

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    New Linux phone encourages application development

    Posted November 8, 2006 - 2:05 pm

    Taiwanese electronics company First International Computer Inc. (FIC) hopes to replicate the open nature of the PC in mobile phones with the debut of a smartphone running an open Linux-based mobile software platform developed by one of its product managers.

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    Yahoo tests mobile banner ads

    Posted November 8, 2006 - 9:14 am

    After U.S. mobile subscribers have paid their carriers for data plans, advertisers on Yahoo Inc. mobile services this week will start trying to sell them other things.

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    Siemens looks to UWB for broadband video

    Posted November 7, 2006 - 8:36 am

    IPTV (Internet Protocol television) is no good if it can't get from the broadband router to the TV, so a Siemens AG division is going to use high-bandwidth wireless technology in gear that carriers will distribute to their subscribers.

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    Vodafone chooses Microsoft as third phone platform

    Posted November 6, 2006 - 11:09 am

    Vodafone Group PLC has picked Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Mobile as the third operating system it will offer in its line of mobile phones, the company said Monday. Windows Mobile joins Symbian Ltd.'s operating system and Linux, which Vodafone has already said will also drive its phones for the next five years.

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    Aruba upgrades products for 'VoFi'

    Posted November 6, 2006 - 10:38 am

    Aruba will support voice-quality links on office WLANs, disputing competitors' claims that the job needs a whole new architecture

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