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    Agere shifting Wi-Fi focus to VoIP

    Posted October 13, 2004 - 12:16 pm

    Wi-Fi pioneer Agere, moving to where it believes the money lies, is shifting its focus to work on voice-over-WLAN and combined Wi-Fi/cellular phone equipment.

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    ZigBee's future is debated

    Posted October 13, 2004 - 10:10 am

    Bob Metcalfe is at it again. Mr. Ethernet, now a venture capitalist, technologist and pundit, is making wild predictions and this time it's ZigBee, the 2.4GHz wireless standard - IEEE802.15.4 - aimed primarily at monitoring and control rather than data transfer.

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    Motorola will add NFC payment function to cell phones

    Posted October 13, 2004 - 9:10 am

    Motorola Inc. is the latest company to move towards adding a payment function based on Near-Field Communication (NFC) technology to its line of cell phones, the company announced Tuesday.

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    Belkin's latest in Wi-Fi certified despite pre-N worries

    Posted October 12, 2004 - 4:58 pm

    Belkin has released the first of its "pre-N" products - Wi-Fi equipment built to match the not-yet-solidified 802.11n standard. But the Wi-Fi Alliance threatened to revoke the Wi-Fi certification of WLAN products that interfere with other Wi-Fi equipment, as some fear that pre-N technology will do.

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    What do we worry about for large-scale WLAN deployments?

    Posted October 12, 2004 - 4:56 pm

    There's a lot to think about if you're planning to roll out a truly big Wi-Fi network. This article contains tips for the experts to consider before launch.

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    ETRE: Orange's 3G handsets are coming soon, CEO says

    Posted October 11, 2004 - 11:07 am

    Orange SA will soon make a few 3G (third generation) handsets available to its customers, anticipating that the convergence of telecommunications and data services will start to take hold in 2005, the French mobile carrier's chief executive officer (CEO) said Monday.

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    European business travellers uninterested in WLAN hotspots

    Posted October 8, 2004 - 11:29 am

    The number of European Wi-Fi hotspots doubled in the first half of 2004. But according to IDC, one of the main targets for such hotspots - business travellers looking for a broadband fix - were largely uninterested in using them.

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    Corridor brings Wi-Fi to the 'burbs

    Posted October 8, 2004 - 11:26 am

    Corridor Communications is providing high-speed Wi-Fi access to a broad swath of rural and exurban Oregon, going to places where cable and DSL don't reach. Does it signal an opportunity for WiMax - or a missed boat as Wi-Fi moves in first?

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    Cracking the wireless security code

    Posted October 8, 2004 - 11:22 am

    Wireless products all claim to protect your network -- but who delivers? One lab put 23 products to the test to find out.

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    Google introduces wireless service

    Posted October 7, 2004 - 2:36 pm

    Google Inc. on Thursday launched a beta test version of Google SMS, a new service that lets users of wireless devices query Google for specific information, such as business or residential phone listings, product prices and word definitions, the company announced.

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    iPass adds Wi-Fi device fingerprinting

    Posted October 7, 2004 - 9:40 am

    iPass is offering new security functionality that will help move beyond the username/password model. iPass products will now be able to identify the device with which a user is attempting to connect to a wireless network as well.

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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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