http://www.networkworld.com/community/taxonomy/term/45/9/feed en http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/commercializing-white-spaces-%E2%80%93-thursday-washi?source=nww_rss I've written quite a bit about the White Spaces, but most of that has been about the technology and the regulatory environment. Read more Wireless / Mobile Wireless Commercializing the White Spaces LTE SDR'11 - WinnComm white spaces wi-fi Wireless Innovation Forum Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:07:03 +0000 Craig Mathias 79259 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/android-shopping-apps?source=nww_rss For some shoppers, Black Friday is a holiday, and there are plenty of Android apps to help them celebrate it. Here are three apps to add to your shopping arsenal if you plan to brave the crowds this Friday. Read more Wireless / Mobile Mobile Apps Android App Google Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:20:12 +0000 Rikki Endsley 79252 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/best-tech-videos-week-banana-phones-ipads-tur?source=nww_rss University of Tokyo researchers working in the area of "invoked computing" are turning everday objects into communications and computing devices, such as converting bananas into phones and pizza boxes into laptop PCs. One researcher says they are trying to turn the idea that you need to learn yoru device on its head, and enable devices to learn what you want to do. High-speed cameras, parametric speaker... Wireless / Mobile Wireless iPhone University of Tokyo video Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:06:50 +0000 Alpha Doggs 79244 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/maybe-80211ad-will-dominate-after-all?source=nww_rss My last posting on the subject of 60 GHz. WLANs and 802.11ad was a bit cautionary in nature. Following a briefing with the folks at the Wireless Gigabit Alliance (WiGig), I was surprised that I heard a lot about wireless docking, video streaming, and applications essentially WPAN in nature, but relatively little about the 802.11ad WLAN opportunity. I think all constituencies concerned with 60 GHz.... Wireless / Mobile Wi-Fi 2.4 GHz. 5 GHz. 60 GHz 802.11ac 802.11ad 802.11n beamforming greenfield wi-fi WiGig Wilocity Wireless Gigabit Alliance WLAN WPAN Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:20:39 +0000 Craig Mathias 79243 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/lose-android-phone-its-good-have-plan-b?source=nww_rss Losing your phone, especially if it is still fairly new can be an expensive and traumatizing event. The first thing on your mind is all of the personal information you have on that phone. Next, what is it going to cost me to replace it? What a pain in the butt. But it doesn't have to be that way if you have Plan B. Read more Wireless / Mobile Smartphones Android Android Market iPhone plan b Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:04:42 +0000 Alan Shimel 79237 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/apple-siri-gets-caught-middle-husband-wife-sp?source=nww_rss Apple fanboys and fangirls have had their fun with Apple's Siri voice command technology, but now College Humor pokes fun at the gee-whiz technology that Apple rolled out with its iPhone 4S smartphone (warning, it gets naughty). Read more Wireless / Mobile Smartphones Apple iPhone 4S humor iphone4s Siri video Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:05:27 +0000 Alpha Doggs 79218 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/jedi-squirrels-robotic-polar-bear-steve-jobs-?source=nww_rss It's hard to beat the combination of animals and bleeding-edge technology, but that's what some of this week's hottest Internet videos have captured. One Star Wars freak entertained himself with the squirrels overrunning his backyard by dropping a tiny light sabre on the grass and letting the squirrels do the rest: Read more Wireless / Mobile Wireless Amazon Kindle Fire Apple iPad steve jobs viral videos Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:25:24 +0000 Alpha Doggs 79203 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/too-much-social-media-networking-paranoia-big?source=nww_rss If you think 24/7 connectivity is nothing new for you, and you constantly check in on Foursquare, use location-aware apps, update Facebook or other social media statuses with your geo-tagged photos, then you probably have no location-awareness sharing issues and are not overly concerned if you lose locational privacy. In the year 2014, your futuristic automated smart home can update statuses for you;... General discussions Security Software Wireless / Mobile Security 24/7 connectivity automated smart home emerging technology ENISA information security life-logging location aware mobile devices OSINT paranoid behavior privacy psychology research risk assessment security smart appliances social media social networking surveillance Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:34:57 +0000 Ms. Smith 79197 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/darpa-calls-powerful-secure-wireless-system-l?source=nww_rss Getting a series of small satellites to communicate and act as one unit in space while taking commands from Earth-bound command centers is a gargantuan wireless task.  But the researchers at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are looking for technology that does just that. Read more General discussions Software Wireless / Mobile Wireless DARPA F6 satellites wireless wireless security Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:00:35 +0000 Layer 8 79188 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/gartner-windows-phone-sales-plummet-while-and?source=nww_rss Microsoft is losing what little ground it had in the smartphone market, according to the latest stats from Gartner. Ever hear of Bada? And yet that smartphone OS from Samsung sold more units and owns more of the overall worldwide market than Windows Phone. This despite massive advertising by Microsoft, the Mango update, and all the other expenditures that Microsoft has invested in its smartphone platform.... Microsoft Wireless / Mobile Smartphones Android IOS Nokia Samsung Windows Phone 7 Windows Phone 7 market share Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:39:46 +0000 Microsoft Subnet 79185 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/ibm-analytics-mobile-cloud-social-application?source=nww_rss It's clear by the increasing use of analytics software that companies are struggling to get their hands around the huge amounts of data it takes to run a successful business.  But  developing social, mobile, cloud computing and other applications are also driving the need for new technical skills. Read more Careers Data Center E-commerce General discussions Security Software Wireless / Mobile Data Center Apache Hadoop cloud computing IBM Linux mobile applications social networking Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:45:50 +0000 Layer 8 79181 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/barnes-noble-blows-lid-microsofts-android-pat?source=nww_rss Just a few weeks ago I wrote about Microsoft making more money from Android patent licensing fees than it does from Windows Mobile. A majority of Android manufacturers are paying Microsoft to "license" certain patents that Redmond claims the open source Android system infringes upon. Read more Google Microsoft Wireless / Mobile Mobile Alan Shimel Android Apple Barnes & Noble Microsoft mobile Nokia Novell open source Tue, 15 Nov 2011 05:15:33 +0000 Alan Shimel 79179 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/microsoft-has-no-plans-fix-office-WP7-sync-bug?source=nww_rss Windows Phone 7 won't sync with the 64-bit version of Office 2010. And Microsoft has no plans to fix that, the company says. Read more Microsoft Wireless / Mobile Mobile Apps bugs Microsoft bugs Office 2010 Office 2010 64-bit Windows Phone 7 Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:19:31 +0000 Microsoft Subnet 79175 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/us-snapshot-broadband-world-finds-disparity-a?source=nww_rss Almost seven of 10 households in the United States subscribe to broadband service while 68% of American households used broadband Internet in 2010, up from 64% in 2009 and only 3% of households still rely on dial-up access to the Internet in 2010, down from 5 percent in 2009. Those were but a few of the interesting facts found in a snapshot of broadband use in the US released this week by the Department... E-commerce General discussions LANs / WANs Security Wireless / Mobile Broadband broadband service dial-up access Internet Access US Census bureau Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:36:39 +0000 Layer 8 79154 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/flash-dead-somewhere-steve-jobs-smiling?source=nww_rss Somewhere today Steve Jobs is smiling about Adobe's announcement that they are going to stop development of Flash for mobile platforms. Along with Steve there are plenty of my friends in the security space smiling about it as well (they are still alive though). Read more Wireless / Mobile Mobile Apps Adobe AIR Alan Shimel Android Apple Flash HTML 5 jobs open source Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:52:45 +0000 Alan Shimel 79151 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/newnook?source=nww_rss Last month I made an impulse purchase, thanks to one of those daily deals sites. I bought a Barnes & Noble NOOK Color 8GB eReader with WiFi and 7” Touchscreen for only US$ 135. Did I need a Nook? No, but I was curious. I'm old school when it comes to reading materials. I prefer paper, thank you very much. I like the feeling of a hardback or paperback or glossy magazine in my hands, the act of turning... Wireless / Mobile Wireless Android e-reader Nook Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:54:12 +0000 Rikki Endsley 79140 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/help-me-name-my-poor-nameless-blackberry-phon?source=nww_rss UPDATE: 11/9/11: Turns out that many of you weren't keen on my the BlackBerry names I listed in the poll below, and had ideas of your own that you entered into the Other category. These include: Obsolete, SchwettyBerry, iberry, Dead Phone Walking, nofun, BerryScary, Boldly Go, RottenBerry, BerryBerryPhonePhone, RIMROD, Bad Bobby, iphone wannabe, Barnaby Jones (?), siri and zanadu, plus an obligatory... Wireless / Mobile Smartphones BlackBerry phone RIM smartphone wireless Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:26:00 +0000 Alpha Doggs 79141 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/ipad-iphone-and-android-users-dominate-online?source=nww_rss If you needed any more evidence the mobile world is just exploding look no further than an IBM study out this week that says during this year's holiday season an unprecedented 15% of people in the US logging onto a retailer's Web site are expected to do so through a mobile device. Read more E-commerce General discussions Software Wireless / Mobile Mobile Android Facebook holiday sales iPad iPhone mobile Mon, 07 Nov 2011 02:33:51 +0000 Layer 8 79119 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/limits-anytimeanywhere?source=nww_rss While many continue to worry about radiation exposure from handsets (I still believe that only a tiny number of people with a certain genetic proclivity have anything to fear here) and wireless security (the problem that will never be 100% solved, so go for it on that one), there's another challenge to the use of wireless communications that is surfacing with increasing frequency, and it's sociological... Wireless / Mobile Smartphones cell phones civilized behavior distractions good manners handsets rudeness stupidity Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:56:26 +0000 Craig Mathias 79103 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/globe-lab-future-mainstream-news?source=nww_rss Read more Wireless / Mobile Smartphones Boston Globe Globe Lab google tv Instagram Twitter web app Wed, 02 Nov 2011 21:00:04 +0000 Alpha Doggs 79099 at http://www.networkworld.com/community