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    PalmOne licenses Microsoft Exchange for mobile e-mail

    Posted October 6, 2004 - 9:14 am

    PalmOne Inc. has licensed technology from Microsoft Corp. to make its devices work directly with Microsoft's Exchange e-mail server, the companies said Tuesday. The first PalmOne device to include the Microsoft technology will be a new Treo smart phone, scheduled to be available before the end of the year.

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    SAP, Infineon unveil RFID management system

    Posted October 5, 2004 - 10:59 am

    German business software vendor SAP AG and chip maker Infineon Technologies AG have launched a new software management system for connecting RFID (radio frequency identification) hardware and software from multiple vendors, the companies announced Tuesday.

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    ZigBee future under doubt

    Posted October 5, 2004 - 9:45 am

    Low-power wireless technology ZigBee is in danger of succumbing to the fragmentation so far avoided by standards-based specs such as Wi-Fi and WiMax, according to market researchers.

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    Dual-band Wi-Fi products hit the home market

    Posted October 5, 2004 - 9:31 am

    Many observers had given the 802.11a standard up for dead in home WLAN equipment. But with streaming video becoming a popular home application, equipment manufacturers like Netgear and Linksys are introducing dual band home routers that can handle both 802.11a and 802.11b/g signals.

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    Early adopters send mixed messages about RFID

    Posted October 5, 2004 - 9:28 am

    Early RFID adopters extolled the benefits of the technology at a recent conference, but not all potential RFID users are convinced that the wireless tags will produce real financial benefit in the short term.

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    WLAN switch vendor Legra vanishes

    Posted October 5, 2004 - 9:25 am

    WLAN switch startup Legra has apparently disappeared from the scene - an event that could herald the beginning of the long-anticipated wireless shakeout.

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    How to do it: Securing your wireless LAN

    Posted October 5, 2004 - 9:22 am

    If you're looking for the details of securing your Wi-Fi network, this article well help you out, with lots of information on current and coming security standards.

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    Follow the code

    Posted October 5, 2004 - 7:59 am

    When it comes to cell phones, Japanese consumers are all over the wireless Internet. By August, more than 71 million Japanese cell phone users -- or 86 percent of all Japanese subscribers -- had wireless Internet service on their phones, according to the Telecommunications Carriers Association. That's a huge audience just waiting to be tapped by marketers in a variety of ways, but doing so will take some creative thinking.

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    Apple software makes advances in the mobile market

    Posted October 4, 2004 - 10:08 am

    Apple Computer Inc.'s gentle push toward the mobile market continues, as wireless carriers Verizon Wireless Inc. and SmarTone Telecommunications Holdings Ltd. adopt QuickTime.

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    More random thoughts: Municipal Wi-Fi and WLAN spectrum

    Posted October 2, 2004 - 4:20 pm

    One of the reasons for Wi-Fi's rapid spread is the fact that it occupies unlicensed spectrum space. But with municipalities moving into the Wi-Fi space, we may see attempts to regulate Wi-Fi use in different ways - and enough interference to drive users to the currently underused 802.11a and n bands.

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    Via calls for WiMax licensing group

    Posted October 1, 2004 - 4:09 pm

    Via Licensing Corporation is seeking to assemble a group of companies who hold patent rights to technologies that form an essential part of the coming WiMax standard. Via hopes to create a single license for the technology that will allow for the easy implementation of WiMax products and a dedicated revenue stream to patent holders.

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    New systems cut cell phone finger work

    Posted October 1, 2004 - 10:09 am

    When it comes to cell phones, Japanese consumers are all over the wireless Internet. By August, more than 71 million Japanese cell phone users -- or 86 percent of all Japanese subscribers -- had wireless Internet service on their phones, according to the Telecommunications Carriers Association. That

  • Bandwidth to nowhere

    Posted September 30, 2004 - 11:28 pm

    Those of you gearing up for temporary sales sites and locations for the holiday season should thank your lucky stars you don't work for a paleontologist. Imagine your pain at getting a service request to provide Internet and voice connections for 30 people in eastern Wyoming. By the way (don't you hate that phrase?) the nearest road is 20 miles away, and running a single voice line to the site will cost over $3,000, which is (of course) not in your budget.

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    Lucent focuses on wireless LAN optimization

    Posted September 30, 2004 - 7:34 pm

    Two papers published by scientists at Lucent indicate that the company is embarking on ambitious work to optimize WLANs.

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    AT&T Wireless reaches out to data-driven profits

    Posted September 30, 2004 - 7:31 pm

    AT&T Wireless recently released its first non-voice product: the Ogo, which sells for $99 and is aimed at the wireless text messaging crowd. The move indicates part of a larger strategy of betting on data rather than voice services.

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    Going it alone with RFID

    Posted September 30, 2004 - 7:27 pm

    RFID is definitely seeing interest from customers. But systems integrators are having a hard time finding help in assembling RFID systems.

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    Radwin extends Wi-Fi range

    Posted September 30, 2004 - 7:25 pm

    WiMax holds great promise for long-range wireless networking. But an Israeli company has just released a Wi-Fi-based product line that it claims achieves WiMax-level long-distance performance.

  • RFID is the next big thing in inventory management

    Posted September 30, 2004 - 11:41 am

    Just this week, separate news announcements from Microsoft, Sun, and middleware vendor Oat Systems bolstered the slowly growing excitement about RFID.

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    Speakers debate RFID benefits, challenges

    Posted September 30, 2004 - 11:28 am

    While speakers at the EPCglobal Inc. U.S. conference Wednesday talked up the benefits of radio frequency identification (RFID), analysts watching RFID adoptions said many U.S. companies are still waiting to see a clear reason to adopt the technology.

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    Linksys goes dual-band on Wi-Fi

    Posted September 30, 2004 - 10:48 am

    With its eyes on the future of home entertainment and a relatively uncluttered band of radio spectrum, Cisco Systems Inc.'s Linksys division on Wednesday unveiled a line of IEEE 802.11g/a wireless LAN products.

  • As It HappensRSS

    VoWi-Fi gets location services

    Posted September 29, 2004 - 2:07 pm

    tekVizion and Ekahau are teaming up to offer Wi-Fi-based location services to voice-over-WLAN phone users. The most obvious use of such services would be for E911 calls, but the companies envision a number of commercial applications as well.

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    Sun, IBM, HP move ahead with RFID

    Posted September 28, 2004 - 9:09 am

    As part of an EPCglobal Inc. RFID standards conference in Baltimore, Maryland, this week, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp, and Hewlett-Packard Co. all announced new RFID initiatives.

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    PalmSource unveils network-savvy OS revision

    Posted September 27, 2004 - 5:43 pm

    PalmSource has released Cobalt 6.1 OS, the latest version of its operating system for handhelds. The new OS has support for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth built in, signaling that it is meant to go head-to-head with Microsoft and Symbian's offerings in the smart phone market.

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    How Vodafone moved to a mobile environment

    Posted September 27, 2004 - 5:38 pm

    When British mobile carrier Vodafone moved its headquarters to a brand new office campus, it had the opportunity to reinvent its telephone infrastructure as well. Not surprisingly, the new telephony system is built around mobile phones.

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    Your simple guide to wireless

    Posted September 27, 2004 - 5:34 pm

    Confused by all the acronyms and buzzwords in the wireless world? This guide can help you tell your Bluetooth from your WiMax.
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