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Trapeze WLAN location appliance adds firewall

Trapeze has a released an enhanced version of its wireless location-tracking appliance, now incorporating what had been a separate firewall product.
Google's Android gets native development capabilities

Google moved to boost its Android mobile device software platform this week by offering developers a kit that enables them to call native code from Android applications.
At Pittsburgh hockey games, fans dial up live video, replays from mobile phones

An innovative project from Carnegie Mellon University gives Pittsburgh hockey fans a new way to watch the game.
Alvarion signs $100 million deal with rural WiMAX provider

Equipment vendor Alvarion will be teaming up with ISP Open Range Communications to build out a WiMAX network that the companies say could reach up to 6 million people.
WiMAX corners Atlanta market

Clearwire has officially launched its WiMAX network in Atlanta, which the company says will provide services to nearly 3 million people over the span of 1,200 square miles.
Sprint starts divesting iDEN network

Sprint today announced its plans for the gradual divestment of its iDEN network in portions of the midwestern United States.
Sprint offering $40 monthly mobile business data plan

Sprint is offering business users a mobile data program that gives them 500MB of monthly data for $39.99 a month
E-readers displayed at Computex portend big growth

E-book readers may have been overshadowed by netbooks, smartbooks and laptops at Computex Taipei 2009, but products on display portend big things to come.
Intel invests $43 million in Japanese WiMAX carrier

Intel's venture capital arm is investing US$43 million in a Tokyo-based WiMax operator that plans to launch the world's fastest WiMax service in July.
HP ProCurve converges wireless and wired network access

As wired and wireless devices of all kinds are IP-enabled, HP ProCurve introduces a single-room access devices that lets both connect to a standard-sized wall-jack plate, which combines a Wi-Fi access point with a four-port Ethernet switch.
Aerohive upgrade streamlines WLAN security

Aerohive’s new code lets its distributed access points assign unique pre-shared keys to WLAN clients for which WPA is not possible or not feasible.
'Huh?!' How to translate Wi-Fi vendor-speak

What's beamforming? Airtime fairness? When a vendor claims to support "wireless security," what kind of security are we talking about?
Stimulus bill to provide 'windfall' for wireless providers, ABI projects

The economic stimulus package passed earlier this year will provide a $6.8 billion windfall to the wireless communications industry, projects ABI Research.
Aruba reports Q3 revenues up, net loss narrows

Aruba Networks yesterday reported third quarter results, with revenues increasing by 8% to $45.8 million compared to $42.6 million a year ago.
Microsoft won't let Windows Marketplace users share apps after all

Contrary to an earlier report, Microsoft won't allow purchasers of applications from its upcoming Windows Marketplace for Mobile e-store to share their wares with friends and family.
Best Buy's Palm Pre price a steep $849, possibly to deter advance purchases

The Palm Pre, which goes on sale June 6 from Sprint Nextel Inc., is already appearing on the Best Buy Web site for a whopping $849.99, several times above the $200 price after a $100 rebate that Sprint has announced.
Broadcom chips target unified edge switch for wireless, wired clients

Broadcom's new chips can create a low-cost 802.11n wireless LAN edge for the enterprise without the need for separate WLAN controllers.
Vodafone, 3 set to spread the Android Magic

Vodafone Australia today has listed the highly anticipated Google-based smartphone, the HTC Magic, on its Web site, confirming its exclusive deal on the phone. Customers can now register their interest in the Android-powered HTC Magic on Vodafone's Web site. Vodafone will offer the phone in both black and white and with over-the-air software installation ability.
One in four mobile users admits driving while texting

Despite laws against driving while texting in some states -- and support from cellular carriers for stricter laws to curb the practice -- about a quarter of mobile phone users still text when driving, according to a survey of nearly 5,000 U.S. consumers.
Advanced algorithms enlisted to fight cyberwars

First Estonia. Then Georgia. Increasingly, the theoretical potential for cyberwar is becoming hard reality. One new report argues that the unchecked proliferation of cyber warfare weapons is comparable to that of nuclear warheads. At least one branch of the US military, United States Navy takes the threat seriously and monitors cyber threats on a daily basis.
Cisco unveils a grab bag of wireless LAN products

Cisco unveiled a grab bag of wireless LAN announcements at Interop Tuesday, including much of what you'd expect in the form of new hardware. But there's a somewhat surprising twist: the equipment vendor's wide-ranging emphasis on software applications.
NetScout, Cisco partner to spot performance problems

NetScout integrates its Sniffer Global product with Cisco Mobility Services Engine to help enterprise network managers spot performance problems on wired and wireless networks.
Cisco intros dual band entertainment router

Cisco has introduced the Linksys by Cisco Dual-Band Wireless-N Gigabit router, designed for users to create a media enabled network at home, which promises high performance for both wireless and wired devices.
WiGig fast wireless may change Wi-Fi, home networks

The newly formed Wireless Gigabit Alliance looks likely to play a big role in the future of Wi-Fi, but its high-speed technology probably won't squeeze out wired multimedia networks.
Alternatives for high-capacity Wi-Fi coverage

We left off last time with a discussion of challenges that crop up when trying to design a WLAN for a high-density environment. Using a traditional multi-cell architecture, the main challenge is tuning the power of the APs appropriately so that there can be many small coverage cells. The trick is making sure users have plenty of aggregate capacity to share while avoiding the co-channel interference that lurks when lots of APs occupy a relatively small space. Now, what about single-channel and array architectures?

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