July 26, 2006
A trial began this week in Independence, Mo., in which prosecutors say a man forced a cell phone down a woman's throat but the defense say says the woman swallowed the device on purpose to hide data on whom she...
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July 18, 2006
A recent paper at IEEE Distributed Systems outlines a way to adapt Web services to mobile environments by using mobile agents....
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July 18, 2006
Wireless packs strapped to 50 of the 4-pound cane toads show the amphibian pests are spreading faster through Australia by traveling along roads and highways....
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July 17, 2006
Motorola recently unveiled the latest version of its Prizm net management application for the Canopy line of fixed, broadband wireless products....
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July 12, 2006
Our revamped and expanded Buyers Guides now include a brand new Guide devoted to security products, with a section for wireless LANs. Just click on the link and scroll down to "wireless LAN security."...
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July 06, 2006
In a recent security test, 20 thumb-sized USB drives were scattered around a company's offices. Each drive had a disguised program written to collect software written to collect user names, passwords, and systems data. Guess how many were picked up...
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July 06, 2006
Intel has invested $600 million in Craig McCaw's Clearwire wireless broadband venture, which will use WiMAX radios to create a nationwide net of wireless broadband connections....
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July 06, 2006
A Dutch company, Innovalife, offers high-performance latex sheaths that slip over your mobile phone to make them "water dirt mud paint sweat blood snow proof."...
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June 30, 2006
The sheriff's department in Douglas County, Colorado has a new mandate: warning wireless users that their access points or routers are unprotected....
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June 22, 2006
Chaska, Minn., has been the poster child for municipal Wi-Fi deployments. Now comes word that until recently, the wireless mesh net was a mess net....
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June 22, 2006
For your summer reading list, the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has just released a draft guide on 802.11i-based wireless LAN security....
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June 22, 2006
Two security researchers have discovered a way to exploit buggy code in a range of WLAN device drivers and seize control of a laptop PC....
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June 13, 2006
Can you bring together different kinds of wireless nets in an enterprise infrastructure? Network World's John Gallant explores the subject in one of our Hot Seat video interviews with Cathy Zatloukal of MobileAccess Networks (broadband link recommended)....
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June 12, 2006
International talks over China's homegrown wireless LAN encryption standard, called WAPI, turned bitter when the Chinese delegation withdrew from the talks, charging the IEEE with unfairness....
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June 12, 2006
French cellular carriers are embracing VoIP over Wi-Fi wireless connections, giving those subscribers with cell phones that also have Wi-Fi a less expensive alternative to cellular minutes....
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June 12, 2006
A key issue at last week's recent Globalcomm show was how the increase in wireless access means increased wireless threats, and what network professionals are doing about them. NW's Jim Duffy has the story....
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May 31, 2006
On June 1, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo takes over the top spot at Nokia, as the company enters a time of increasing competition, fast-changing technology, and pressure on revenues and profits....
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May 26, 2006
Reaping another municipal network deal, EarthLink this week got a green light from the New Orleans city council to build a Wi-Fi mesh network for the hurricane-battered city....
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May 23, 2006
Teresa Meng, a co-founder of Wi-Fi chipmaker Atheros Communications, has sold $17 million worth of the company's stock during the first four months of 2006. Even after taxes, that's a tidy nest egg....
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May 22, 2006
Boingo Wireless, the Wi-Fi net aggregator, has released a developers toolkit for connecting client devices to a Wi-Fi network....
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May 22, 2006
A startup is raising funds and seeking FCC approvals for a wireless broadband net that will sell high-speed capacity to service providers and offer free, but slower, access to the general public....
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May 12, 2006
A new study from Spyglass Consulting finds that a growing number of healthcare providers are investing in remote patient monitoring technologies, including wireless....
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May 10, 2006
Kimberly-Clark has now slapped Gen2 RFID tags for the first time on individual cases of its well-known consumer products, which include brands such as Kleenex, Scott tissues and Huggies....
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May 10, 2006
Research in Motion is still the mobile messaging leader for the enterprise market, according to a new analysis from Standard & Poor's....
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May 08, 2006
An innovative vision system coupled with portable computers and a tactical wireless mesh net could help soldiers find their way through battlefield chaos more accurately and safely....
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May 08, 2006
Israeli researchers report that signal strength data, which is automatically collected at cellular towers, can be more accurate than weather radar for calculating rainfall....
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May 08, 2006
Microsoft and Qualcomm have agreed to share with wireless handset and equipment makers more data on how Windows software and Qualcomm's cellular radio chips work with each other....
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May 02, 2006
More colleges and universities are now requiring incoming students to bring a notebook PC with them, usually with a wireless LAN card....
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April 28, 2006
Qualcomm has signed its first patent deal on technology essential to WiMAX, the wireless broadband radio standard now gaining traction around the world....
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April 28, 2006
Rhode Island is launching a pilot project that could eventually be a $20 million wireless net spanning the entire state....
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April 26, 2006
Ever wonder what happens to all those zillions of old cell phones that people don't use because they bought a cool new one, which will in turn be replaced by a cooler one?...
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April 24, 2006
More medical schools are requiring students to use handheld PDAs to store data and access a range of clinical applications. Users say the devices, often with wireless access, save time and reduce errors....
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April 21, 2006
Weschester County N.Y. has gone ahead with a plan to require wireless business nets, such as public hotspots, to install basic security measures. The measure was first proposed last fall....
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April 21, 2006
In a 2003 paper from an Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) conference, the two authors detail a way for a WLAN to client avoid being triangulated and its location tracked....
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April 19, 2006
The Wichita public school system is buying 730 Palm TX handhelds as the client device for its 7th grade technology curriculum....
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April 19, 2006
A Lehigh University researcher has won a grant to create algorithms to compress data transmitted over wireless sensor nets....
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April 06, 2006
A San Francisco panel has selected the Google/Earthlink proposal for a free city-wide Wi-Fi net. The city and the two vendors will start final negotiations on a contract....
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April 05, 2006
A VoIP carrier called Viper Networks says its vPhone product now works with broadband wireless cards for the Verizon and Sprint cellular nets....
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April 05, 2006
At LinuxWorld this week, MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte dismissed criticisms of the project, which intends to distribute cheap wireless computers to third-world students, and said first shipments could begin in early 2007....
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March 31, 2006
A U.K. startup is creating a cloth interface to portable computing devices: it's actually a touch sensor woven in fabric, which can be incorporated into some article of clothing....
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March 30, 2006
Connexion by Boeing, which offers wireless Internet connectivity on board airliners, says passengers really like being able to surf and check e-mail instead of watching inflight movies on crummy screens, and trying to ignore crying babies and the person who...
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March 30, 2006
Intel this week announced the results of a study that found the nation's capital to be the best city for teleworking, a phenomenon the chipmaker says is being fueled by mobile computers and more pervasive wireless networks....
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March 28, 2006
SyncML is a standard for automatically updating data between mobile devices and backend servers. We have a Technology Update this week on SyncML....
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March 24, 2006
With Research in Motion mired in its high-profile patent battle, Palm beefed up sales and marketing efforts push its Treo handheld as a more fully-featured alternative to RIM's popular BlackBerry device. It seems to be paying off, for now, according...
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March 22, 2006
Our just-concluded IT Roadmap event in Boston featured a thorough overview of wireless broadband trends by consultant Craig Mathias....
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March 22, 2006
A new cycle of more powerful solar storms is due to start this year or next. Their shockwaves could disrupt electronic nets of all kinds, including wireless voice and data nets....
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March 16, 2006
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates this week riduculed the plan for a handcranked, wireless $100 laptop being designed for the world's poorest kids. His comments have ignited a firestorm of criticism on the Web, even though he made essentially the same...
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March 16, 2006
We interview consultant Craig Mathias on the impact of wireless in the enterprise, and how to deal with it. It's part of our March 20 IT Roadmap: Boston....
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March 16, 2006
A British threat management software company says that warnings that RFID chips are vulnerable to malware are theoretical and there is no cause for panic....
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March 16, 2006
Certicom recently posted a 13-page PDF (registration required) on "Securing VoIP Networks: the importance of device security....
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March 16, 2006
Researchers are experimenting with wirelessly administering drugs through implanted devices that contain a postage-stamp sized microchip and scores of tiny addressable reservoirs of medicine....
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March 15, 2006
ABI Research is predicting that the area covered by municipal Wi-Fi nets will jump from a mere 1,500 square miles to nearly 100 times that by 2010. That's an area the size of New Mexico, or if you prefer, Poland....
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March 15, 2006
A group of researchers say they've shown that computer viruses can infect the microchips in radio frequency identification tags....
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March 14, 2006
Wi-Fi Protected Access 2, a wireless LAN security specification from the Wi-Fi Alliance, is now mandatory on all WLAN equipment certified by the Alliance's tests....
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March 14, 2006
Paul Thomas has been named CEO for Network Chemistry, which sells wireless security products for enterprise WLANs and mobile users....
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March 09, 2006
Samsung unveils an "ultramobile" handheld based on Microsoft's Origami operating system, and targeted at business users. And Microsoft and Intel shed some more light on future plans for Origami....
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March 08, 2006
Intel's Sean Maloney this week laid out some details of the company's drive to make computing more mobile. He talked about the next generation of Centrino, which will include 802.11n, and mobile WiMax....
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March 07, 2006
NetGear says it will introduce wireless LAN products based on the existing IEEE 802.11n draft specification for 600Mbps by June....
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March 06, 2006
RIM has signed a deal with patent adversary NTP, paying $612.5 million to settle all outstanding patent claims. The long-running federal court case against the Blackberry maker was dismissed Friday after the deal was signed....
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March 06, 2006
This year could see deployment of scores of municipal wireless nets, using a combination of 802.11-based mesh nets combined with WiMax backhaul links....
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March 03, 2006
"I was stuck with a 56k modem for nine years because no other option is available in my town." An epic tale of desperation, determination, digging, 14,000 pounds of concrete, and wireless broadband obsession....
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March 02, 2006
This seems like a strange idea to me. In this BusinessWeek analysis, Rachel Rosmarin picks up suggestions by two key stockholders in Palm,...
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March 02, 2006
Philadelphia Mayor John Street this week signed four agreements between Earthlink and the city-chartered non-profit group Wireless Philadelphia....
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March 02, 2006
The last access points have been placed to completely cover the 40-square-mile area of Tempe, Ariz. The WAZTempe (for Wireless Access Zone) net has about 550 Access/One outdoor mesh access points from Strix Systems. Each device, mounted on...
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March 01, 2006
Wireless security vendor Bluesocket has announced that CEO Ralph Calisti, who joined the company in August of 2004, has "decided to leave…to pursue other interests." Vice President of Engineering James Funucane has been named by the board of directors as...
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February 27, 2006
EVDO cell nets promise anywhere-access at up to 2Mbps. But Wi-Fi proponents argue a wireless LAN mesh is cheaper and can do more. The debate heats up in California....
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February 24, 2006
Reuters reports that U.S. District Judge James Spencer stopped short of ordering an immediate shutdown of the BlackBerry e-mail service. But Spencer found RIM to be infringing on the NTP patents and said he would issue a decision on an...
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February 24, 2006
The Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Univ. is looking at how the practice of carriers locking your cell phone so it can only use one network is affecting consumers and the public interest....
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February 24, 2006
A federal judge today could set a date for closing down RIM's BlackBerry service in the U.S., and decide how much the company has to fork over to patent holder NTP. Or not....
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February 23, 2006
The president of Lakehead University says the "jury's out" on whether Wi-Fi radio signals are a health threat, especially "in younger people (who have) fast-growing tissues."...
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February 23, 2006
At the recent RSA Conference on security, legendary cryptographer Adi Shamir revealed details on how a cellphone could be used to attack and compromise RFID tags within its range....
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February 21, 2006
Republican Senator George Allen has introduced the Wireless Innovation Act (WINN Act), while Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Senator Ted Stevens, also Republican, introduced the American Broadband for Communities Act (ABC Act)....
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February 21, 2006
The City of Bath in England has announced a multi-million dollar city-wide wireless net project. Normally, that wouldn't be news....
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February 17, 2006
Millimeter wave, or E-band, radio fires a very high-frequency, pencil-like narrow beam between two points. It can carry up to 2.7Gbps, according to the vendors. College campuses are deploying it successfully. http://www.campus-technology.com/article.asp?id=17889 And the FCC Web page on the technology...
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February 16, 2006
The consumer focus of much of the mobile industry means wireless products and services fail to meet enterprise requirements, according to Cisco's CIO, who spoke this week at the 3GSM World Congress....
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February 16, 2006
The FCC has taken the final step in adding more spectrum, and therefore more channels, in the 5.4-GHz band, as reported by our "Wireless in the Enterprise" Newsletter Editor, Joannie Wexler. New devices in this band will now have to...
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February 15, 2006
The semiconductor industry analysts at Merrill Lynch have come up with some interesting thoughts in their latest report on the Wi-Fi chip market (12-page .PDF file)....
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February 14, 2006
We reported earlier on the Microsoft news from 3GSM World Congress. Slashdot.org already has a lively thread, laden with comments....
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February 14, 2006
The Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network is co-hosting the second annual National Summit for Community Wireless Networks. The Summit will bring together technology geeks, policy wonks, network builders and operators, and enthusiasts March 31-April 2 at Lindenwood University in St. Charles,...
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February 14, 2006
BusinessWeek Online has a rather routine analysis of issues and trends at the 3GSM World Congress this week in Barcelona....
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February 09, 2006
Early this morning, Research in Motion unveiled the first public details of what the BlackBerry maker is calling its "WorkAround Strategy." And some in the Blogosphere are not happy....
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February 09, 2006
The annual DEMO conference, unfolding this week in Arizona, always covers a wide range of emerging products, including wireless and mobile. You can find a bunch of DEMO bloggers for commentary, and our day by day online coverage....
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February 09, 2006
Lucent is incorporating into its IP Multimedia Subsystem for carriers a PCTEL application that lets a handheld device roam seamlessly between cellular and Wi-Fi nets....
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February 07, 2006
Three companies have banded together to create a ready-to-use reference design for a low-cost smartphone that has built-in Wi-Fi and GSM support....
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February 07, 2006
A wireless service provider called Xanadoo has launched a wireless broadband Internet service to blanket Lubbock, Texas. Xanadoo's net is based on the same gear, from Navini Networks, that BellSouth is using in its trial network in Atlanta....
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February 03, 2006
One of Palm's biggest investors is urging the company's board of directors to consider "strategic alternatives," including selling it off. Yay or Nay?...
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February 03, 2006
Who needs the National Security Agency when you can use a Web site to track and record someone's movements based on their cell phone?...
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February 02, 2006
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected a key patent in the ongoing battle between NTP, which holds the patents, and BlackBerry maker Research in Motion....
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February 02, 2006
The City of Cambridge, Mass. and one of its big name property owners, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will partner to deploy a "free" Wi-Fi wireless mesh to the city's 100,000 residents by summer 2007....
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February 02, 2006
The real value of those built-in cellphone and PDA cameras comes not in taking pictures but in scanning information, according a report from ABI Research....
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January 31, 2006
Our review this week of the IT venture fund investments for 2005 shows wireless start-ups were the big winners. But a couple of other reports suggest investors are leery of WiMAX, one of several standards for wireless broadband nets....
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January 30, 2006
Chris Thomas, chief strategist and director of strategic initiatives at Intel, says the chipmaker is seeing double-digit returns on its investment internally on mobile computing. He's in "Network World's Hot Seat with John Gallant," our five-minute video interviews....
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January 30, 2006
Our "Tech Insider" package this week focuses on the rise of 3G cellular data services. Among other topics, Mark Lowenstein looks at 3G trends for notebooks and other client devices....
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January 24, 2006
A key technology in simplifying wireless LAN deployments, and holding down their costs, is power-over-Ethernet, which lets a wireless access point draw power from the switch to which it's attached over an Ethernet cable....
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January 23, 2006
The U.S. Supreme Court said it will not review the patent infringement dispute between Research in Motion and its adversary NTP....
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January 20, 2006
Cool Tools Editor Keith Shaw takes the first Windows-powered Palm device for a spin on Verizon's EV-DO cellnet. Check out his video review....
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January 19, 2006
As expected, the IEEE 802.11n Task Group has voted unanimously to accept a proposed compromise specification as the basis for a new high-throughput wireless LAN standard. Incredibly,......
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January 19, 2006
In court arguments against a possible shut down of its Blackberry service, Research in Motion warned that halting service could threaten U.S. public safety and cripple the economy. Meanwhile......
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January 19, 2006
WiMAX silicon start-up Beceem Communications, San Jose, Calif., says it has released the first client-side chipset that supports the recently ratified IEEE 802.16e mobile WiMAX standard....
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January 18, 2006
Scotland is testing lampposts with solar panels that not only power the light but also a wireless access point, which could use either Wi-Fi or WiMAX radios....
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January 17, 2006
Apparently, there's some dispute over how long the effort to create a 480Mbps short-range wireless standard has to live....
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January 17, 2006
NW's Ron Nutter has some suggestions for diagnosing wireless troubles on your laptop. What's been the most frequent, or the biggest, trouble for you?...
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January 13, 2006
As if there wasn't enough for network professionals to worry about. Ex-Forrester Research analyst John Robb describes a project that modifies a single-use film camera, to create a short range microwave pulse that can fry nearby RFID tags. Robb says...
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January 12, 2006
Manufacturers of radio-operated garage doors are getting swamped with complaints about malfunctions, which are due to spread of a new two-way portable radio system at military posts across the U.S....
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January 11, 2006
Nokia introduced its 802.11-based 770 Internet Tablet last May, and products began shipping last Fall. It looks like a hit.......
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January 11, 2006
The Netgear Skype phone, unveiled last week at the Consumer Electronics Show, is generating a lot of enthusiasm among users of Skype's VoIP service. And some frustration: Netgear isn't saying much about the phone....
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January 09, 2006
Drugmaker Pfizer is pasting onto all bottles of Viagra a product label with an RFID tag, in a bid to foil drug counterfeiters....
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January 09, 2006
When WLAN vendor Vivato shut down operations last month, it threw a monkey wrench into Pittsburgh's plan for a municipal wireless LAN covering parts of the downtown area....
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January 09, 2006
Wireless guru Craig Mathias spotlights an "almost unbelievable" wireless technology: real-time transmission of uncompressed HDTV signals, up to 1.5Gbps over a wireless LAN connection. How? Read on.......
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January 06, 2006
We asked wireless guru Craig Mathias, principle of the Farpoint Group, to share some impressions and thoughts on this year's CES. Here's his first post…...
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January 03, 2006
The federal government is preparing to shift a bunch of its fixed wireless usage to an obscure section of the spectrum, paving the way for cellular carriers to bid for the radio waves being vacated. The UPI story reports the...
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January 03, 2006
The Stompbox project cobbles together some of this and some of that to forge a link between an EV-DO 3G cell net and, via 802.11 wireless LANs, local client computers. In effect, it's a portable access point tethered to a...
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December 27, 2005
The city's recently released request for proposal for a citywide Wi-Fi net has only intensified the controversy over the way Mayor Gavin Newsom has turned a technical issue into a political one....
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December 27, 2005
South Korean prosecutors will start using mobile phone text messages to notify suspects that they've been indicted, according to this Reuters story. Over 75% of the population carry mobile phones, so officials have decided to move from paper notifications to...
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December 23, 2005
David Cowan, a co-founder of wireless e-mail provider Visto, clears up some confusion over Visto's recent licensing deal for NTP patents and its patent infringement suit against Microsoft...
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December 23, 2005
With the advent of wireless access on passenger jets, guess what? You face the possibility of being hacked by the passenger in the seat behind you. Or in front of you. Or next to you....
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December 21, 2005
Research in Motion is turning brinkmanship into an art form. The company is publicly blastingl egal adversary NTP, emphasizing a recent but preliminary Patent Office ruling that found the remainder of NTP's wireless e-mail patents invalid....
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December 21, 2005
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita may have spurred progress on creating the federal Integrated Wireless Network, a proposed multi-billion dollar net that would be used by thousands of federal agents and employees in the Homeland Security, Treasury and Justice departments....
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December 20, 2005
RIM's co-chief executive Jim Balsillie says the company will soon reveal details of the software that will let the Blackberry service keep running, without violating patents owned by NTP, according to a Reuters interview....
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December 20, 2005
IBM's Developerworks Website as an article on retrofitting Web content to make it accessible to mobile clients connecting wirelessly....
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December 20, 2005
This seems like a good time of the year to revisit "Top Ten 802.11 Myths of 2005", by Matthew Gast, author of "802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition" from O'Reilly Media....
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December 16, 2005
Okay: it hasn't happened...yet. But what is YOUR company going to do if the worst happens -- if RIM and NTP refuse to settle and a federal judge grants an injunction to shut down BlackBerry service in the U.S.?...
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December 14, 2005
A security Web site called Black Alchemy has a Linux-based program that generates thousands of fake wireless Access Points....
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December 14, 2005
NTP says it has rejected the latest offer from Research in Motion to settle NTP's patent infringement suit against the maker of the BlackBerry e-mail handhelds, according to this Reuters story....
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December 12, 2005
Handheld computers and wireless nets are making possible "media-rich" classrooms for students K-12, according to this AP story....
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December 09, 2005
A RIM executive has confirmed that the BlackBerry maker has been meeting with a court-appointed mediator and NTP for several days, in an effort to resolve NTP's 4-year-old patent infringement suit, according to this ComputerWorld story....
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December 08, 2005
Are you forging ahead with Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2, also known as IEEE 802.11i) in your enterprise wireless LAN? What's the experience been like? What issues are you running into? If you're not deploying WPA2, then rethink, says our...
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December 08, 2005
The IEEE on Wednesday took the final step http://ieee802.org/16/arc/802-16list2/msg03069.html in approving a standard for mobile wireless broadband metropolitan-area networks. Mercifully, we have two shorthand alternatives: 802.16e-2005, or "mobile WiMax." Mobile WiMax means you're moving around with a computer or phone...
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December 07, 2005
The first cell phone for dogs will be available in early 2006, according to this story: "Hung off Fido's collar, the PetCell is a bone-shaped cell phone that will let dog owners talk to their best friend over a two-way...
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December 06, 2005
We know the Wireless Revolution has truly arrived. More and more Americans are logging wirelessly into the Internet - from their bathrooms....
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December 05, 2005
Some New Orleans officals are saying, according to this Washington Post report that BellSouth was so angered by the city's announcement of a wireless net for free Internet access that the telco cancelled its offer of a building to house...
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November 30, 2005
Hurricane-ravaged New Orleans announced yesterday it's phasing in a free, wireless mesh Internet access service. It may be the nation's first municipally owned and operated wireless mesh offering free service. At least temporarily....
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November 29, 2005
Netgear has settled a class-action suit that claimed the wireless LAN vendor exaggerated the true data speeds of its equipment....
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November 28, 2005
Strix Systems last week announced a deal to blanket the Republic of Macedonia, all 1,000-plus square miles, with a multi-radio wireless mesh, using Strix's Access/One Outdoor Wireless System....
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November 28, 2005
The Mercury News' Jessie Seyfer has a story about how your Web experience will get better someday, partly through 3G cellular connections, with much higher throughput, and partly through Web browsers and applications that are better designed for midget cell...
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November 28, 2005
The "LA Times" weighed in last week on the question of whether, and how, municipalities should create wireless LAN-based metro nets for Internet access....
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November 23, 2005
We're a bit tardy picking this item up. You may not have wondered what "Wi-Fi" means because you already knew, right? It means "wireless fidelity," of course. Or not....
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November 22, 2005
A story at Slate looks at how 802.11 wireless access in classrooms is distracting students and wonders whether its really worse than the traditional low-tech distractions....
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November 22, 2005
This week we're honoring groundbreaking network projects at 50 companies and organizations. Click to see the 50 grouped by technology, scroll down to find the nine wireless winners. The projects include wireless asset tracking at Beth Israel Deaconess medical center,...
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November 21, 2005
The multi-billion dollar plan by Australian cell carrier Telstra, to go national with a unified IP and 3G GSM net is being attacked by Unwired, a network operator that is the chief Australian champion of WiMAX wireless broadband....
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November 21, 2005
Check out what's news in Network World this week: Cisco's new Aironet 1500 outdoor wireless mesh access point raises some interesting issues for network folks. Tom Henderson tests two radio airwave scanners, from AirMagnet and Network Chemistry. Cisco takes the...
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November 16, 2005
Korea Telecom this week started the trial run of its WiBro personal wireless broadband service, the first to be based on the soon to be finalized IEEE 802.16e standard, also known as WiMAX....
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November 15, 2005
MIT has an experimental, homegrown 802.11b/g wireless mesh network, called Roofnet, currently with about 20 nodes active in and around the Cambridge, Massachusetts campus (see their map). It's a project of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, which is...
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November 14, 2005
Ubuntu H2 is a Linux desktop distribution. But Tom's Hardware has a mobile take on this: store the Ubuntu OS and your applications on a USB storage device, take it with you, and plug it into almost any device with...
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November 11, 2005
A dozen WiMAX vendors, and two equipment test companies, were part of the latest WiMAX Plugfest, this time in China on the eve of the WiMAX Forum Plenary Meeting, held in Beijing....
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November 09, 2005
The Michigan Department of Transportation has begun testing a Motorola wireless mesh to reduce accidents and congestion....
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November 08, 2005
Venture capitalists are pouring money into wireless-related private companies, as Network World's Cara Garretson reports this week. The flow of funds indicates some of the products enterprise network professionals will be seeing in the future, with most of the action...
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November 07, 2005
Andy Spano, county executive of Westchester County in New York, has found something else for government to do: securing your wireless connections at Wi-Fi hotspots....
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November 04, 2005
You can you can make your voice heard, enter into a conversation, share a thought or a question or a conviction just by clicking on a link, like my e-mail address here - john_cox@nww.com. That's one of the most striking...
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November 03, 2005
As we reported in March, Airespace (now part of Cisco) had been developing a 802.11-based outdoor wireless mesh access point. The installation manual for the new and as yet unannounced Aironet 1500 product has been posted on Ciscos's Web site....
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November 02, 2005
Socket Communications has released a new version of its GPS Nav Kit, a toolkit for adding GPS navigation features to a mobile device, including those running Windows Mobile 5.0....
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November 01, 2005
This was a new thought to me, anyway, in today's column by David Hayes, senior technology writer for The Kansas City Star - cellular wireless is no longer about the handset, and even less about the radio net; it's about...
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October 31, 2005
The latest Linux kernel, 2.6.14, now includes the open source Linux Wireless Extensions API, which will simplify writing applications that can run on wireless Linux devices....
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October 28, 2005
The October 25 editorial accuses the Massachusetts Port Authority, which runs Boston's Logan International Airport,, of an "audacious assertion of power" in moving to shut down wireless LANs run by its airport tenants, such as airlines....
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October 28, 2005
You can get a glimpse of what your own WiMAX wireless broadband router might look here by checking out Aperto Networks' newly announced PacketWave subscriber stations (photo) and Soma Networks' Somaport 300....
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October 27, 2005
About 3000 people, and most of them seem to be squads of marketers from a vast array of vendors, are meeting today and tomorrow in Boston to whip up excitement about WiMAX, a standard for broadband wireless, in both licensed...
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October 26, 2005
The editorial writers at the city's newspaper of record are now on the record as concluding that the Wireless Philadelphia project is an unqualified Good Thing. But the editorial wasn't very inquiring....
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October 25, 2005
A pilot project at the UCLA Medical Center lets doctors with smartphones and PocketPCs wirelessly access patient medical data, according to a report. The system, dubbed Global Care Quest system (GCQ), works not only over the hospitals internal wireless LAN...
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October 13, 2005
The starting point for Andy Seybold's latest commentary is San Francisco's decision to create an 802.11-based municipal wireless net, and Google's offer to build it, and offer free service at a minimum 300K bit/sec rate all over the city....
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October 10, 2005
A non-profit group, acting on behalf of elected Philadelphia officials, is negotiating the final contract with Earthlink to create a 1M bit/sec wireless mesh over the city's 135 square miles....
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October 05, 2005
A company called AdtekMedia has the bright idea of using wireless LAN connections to beam TV commercials, movie trailers and other drek to flat plasma screens, 17-30 inches wide....
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September 12, 2005
Wireless LAN and WiMAX markets face years of healthy growth according to a new study from Tempe, Ariz.-based Forward Concepts....
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August 29, 2005
You might think with all the announcements about WiMAX (or 802.16) licensed and unlicensed wireless broadband products that there would actually be WiMAX products available....
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August 29, 2005
Chipmaker Broadcom recently patted itself on the back by sending out champagne bottles made of dark chocolate, in honor of shipping its 50 millionth 54g wireless LAN chipset....
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July 25, 2005
Enpocket, which sells "mobile community applications," claims its latest quarterly survey shows that people think mobile phones are really important. Kind of....
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July 07, 2005
A "St. Petersburg Times" story on stealing Wi-Fi opens and closes by focusing on a rare incident: the arrest of a man caught in the act of allegedly [we have to use that word] stealing someone else's Wi-Fi connection to...
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June 27, 2005
A group promoting fuel cell technology for mobile PCs has issued a document for battery makers to use in designing fuel cells....
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June 22, 2005
The city of Orlando has pulled the plug on a 17-month wireless project that let downtown users access the Internet at no charge....
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June 09, 2005
While members of the IEEE 802.11n task group continue their squabbles over a high-throughput wireless LAN standard, with a minimum of 100M bit/sec, a Germany-based research consortium, with the acronym WIGWAM, is looking ahead to 1G bit /sec wireless nets....
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May 30, 2005
Silicon Valley has coughed up another start-up, Funambol (pronounced "foo-nahm-ball"), which offers an open source-based software package for synchronizing and provisioning mobile applications and managing the devices on which they run....
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May 30, 2005
That's the implication of a new In-Stat study, which to be fair focused on the latest experiment in wringing cellular minutes from subscribers -- the Multimedia Phone....
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May 30, 2005
Sister site Techworld.com has a dispiriting interview with Bob Heile, chair of the IEEE 802.15.3a group, which is trying to craft a standard for ultra-wideband radio nets....
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May 06, 2005
The scare over a potential epidemic of cellphone viruses is overblown, says In-Stat's Alan Nogee in a lucid and succinct analysis....
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April 21, 2005
A study commissioned by the City of Philadelphia has concluded that residential and business users will need more than a WLAN card plugged into their PC to access the proposed citywide wireless net, originally estimated to cost $10 million....
April 14, 2005
The Army's Stryker Brigade will shortly be deploying land mines that can be selectively detonated over a wireless connection, from a soldier armed with a laptop computer, according to an Associated Press story....
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March 21, 2005
If the Danish maker of the well-known interchangeable plastic blocks made cell phones, we'd probably be able to switch around both hardware and software to make just the kind of handset we wanted. And then change it into something else....
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March 14, 2005
Chipmaker AMD has released a new processor designed for the newest, thinnest notebook PCs. The chip is the latest move to wrest marketshare in this fast-growing segment from arch rival Intel, with its Pentium CPU. Chipmaker AMD has released a...
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February 22, 2005
I4U, "future technology news," has a reference on NTT's human area network research, a project called RedTacton. The transmission medium is the body's weak electrical field....
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February 18, 2005
The New York Times has a preview story on Philadelphia's upcoming municipal wireless announcement. Unfortunately, it doesn't break any new details on the ambitious plan to blanket the entire city with a 802.11-based wireless mesh. Philly Mayor John Street still...
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February 17, 2005
A recent survey of cab companies by Pointsec Mobile Technologies found that tens of thousands of cell phones, PDAs, and laptops are being lost each year. And every one of those gadgets is crammed with personal and corporate data....
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January 21, 2005
Network security guy Martin McKeay picks up this story and offers some practical suggestions of his own and points off to two entries on this topic at the SAS Internet Storm Center, last Sunday (scroll down to "Thoughts on hotel...
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January 20, 2005
The BBC has a warning about the threat posed by fake hotspots, or public access WLANs, such as those offered by retailers, airports, libraries and other venues....
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January 10, 2005
It's safe to say that most of the people at the giant Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, including users and manufacturers and installers, didn't have the next generation Internet, or IPv6, "top of mind" as the marketers like to...
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January 10, 2005
Verizon announced it will introduce VCAST, an EV-DO data service that will send television and other multi-media content from MTV, NBC News, Newscorp, 20th Century Fox and others....
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December 21, 2004
That's the contention of Civitium LLC, a consultancy founded to "assist public and private organizations in the construction of Digital Cities," according to the firm's Web site....
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December 20, 2004
A new RFID chip, called Surgichip, is designed to ensure surgeons are cutting up the right part of the right patient, according to "Electronic Design" magazine....
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December 16, 2004
A Michigan man who hacked into the Lowes hardware chain's corporate net from a WLAN at one of its stores, has been given the longest prison sentence ever for a federal computer crime case, according to this Associated Press story....
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December 14, 2004
A start-up has unveiled a tiny chiplike microprocessor that runs a version of Microsoft .Net designed for embedded applications in small devices like watches and sensors....
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December 13, 2004
"Mother Jones" magazine had a recent story that documents how deputy undersecretary of Defense, John Shaw, orchestrated a swarm of government officials, Republican legislators, corporate flunkies, and lobbyists to win a favored place for Qualcomm and its patented CDMA celluar...
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December 08, 2004
NextHop Technologies, which develops Layer 3 IP routing software for router and other network hardware vendors, has added over $6 million more to its Series A round of financing, bringing the round's total to $24.5 million....
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December 06, 2004
City-wide WLANS designed to give residents and businesses wireless Internet access are gaining ground across the U.S., and sparking opposition from carriers and service providers. We have a story in this week's edition here....
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December 01, 2004
A study in Korea shows that e-mail is rapidly being supplanted by other online technologies such as instant messaging, SMS on cell phones, and something called mini-homepages, which may be what we call blogs. Students and the young in general...
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November 29, 2004
The IEEE recently launched a new project for evaluating WLAN performance. The idea is to come up with a common set of measurements that can be used to determine how WLAN gear actually performs....
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November 29, 2004
Drug makers plan to adopt wireless radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to block counterfeiters, according to this Associated Press story. The technology is intended to let manufacturers and federal agencies track the drugs from factory to pharmacist. The maker of...
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November 29, 2004
By 2007, 65% of companies will have at least one wireless application, according to research by Meta Group, a market research firm in Stamford, Conn....
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October 11, 2004
Jim Harper, one of the libertarian-minded writers at the Technology Liberation Front blog points to an assessment by the left-of-center Progessive Policy Institute has on radio frequency identification (RFID) wireless technology and privacy....
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October 11, 2004
Nancy Gohring at the Wi-Fi Networking News site takes note of an editorial in the "Twin Cities Pioneer Press" arguing against tax-payer funded public WLANs. The link to the editorial is here (but fill-in-the-blank, free registration is needed to view...
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October 11, 2004
Think about designing your WLAN for optimal capacity instead of optimal coverage -- packing your wireless zone with lots of access points instead of trying to get by with as few as possible....
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September 20, 2004
You can check out www.mobidogs.com. The site is focused on programmers working on mobile, embedded, or location-based applications running on Windows operating systems....
September 20, 2004
The Fall Wireless Developers Survey by Evans Data Corp. finds that the number of developers working with the Java2 Micro Edition (J2ME) mobile platform has reached a new high point: 40% of respondents say they're working with it, and another...
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September 20, 2004
enture Development Corp. has launched a study on the enterprise software stack for mobile applications. The firm has a brief note on some of the issues and requirements for scaling business critical mobile applications, and an outline of the proposed...
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August 18, 2004
Project uses Wi-Fi and amplifiers to create a wireless zone for Internet access by villagers. An Associated Press story on the project via siliconvalley.com....
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August 17, 2004
Michigan man pleads guilty to federal misdemeanor of unauthorized access to a protected computer. He used an unprotected WLAN access point in a Lowe's home improvement store in suburban Detroit. Security Focus has details here....
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August 11, 2004
Techdirt.com has some thoughts on the Intstitute for the Future's thoughts on whether Wal-Mart might deploy fixed wireless broadband base stations and become, in addition to everything else, a telecommunications company....
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August 09, 2004
Several users and readers sent us comments on Brador, apparently the first full blown malware aimed at PDAs, but too late for our print deadline this past Friday. Here's some of what they had to say:...
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August 02, 2004
Aruba Networks says it has documented an attack that exploits over wireless several well-known and long-standing RADIUS vulnerabilities. The WLAN vendor says it plans to submit the documentation in the form of a draft proposal to the IETF, meeting this...
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July 26, 2004
This week, we have a Tech Update on a promising wireless technology called MIMO -- multiple inputs multiple outputs. Essentially, these new radios use multiple antennas to send and receive signals, and algorithms that turn the interference created by multipath...
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July 22, 2004
A highly technical argument is unfolding online about the bandwidth limits of wireless mesh networks. Or of some wireless mesh networks....
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June 28, 2004
The IEEE has formally approved the 802.11i WLAN security enhancements. The changes correct a number of shortcomings in Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP), the encryption protocol in the original 1999 standard....
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June 23, 2004
A British company has come up with a wall covering, based on the material used to make stealth aircraft stealthy, that apparently blocks radio transmissions....
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June 23, 2004
A scientific team from Univ. of South Hampton, U.K., is using wireless in specially designed sensors, which look like 6-inch-long allergy capsules, to monitor and track conditions and movement at the base of glaciers....
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June 23, 2004
The Toronto Wireless User Group is focused on business users and applications, and it keeps an archive of presentations made to its members. Many of these are from WLAN hardware vendors and mobile software or middleware vendors. But there are...
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June 07, 2004
This week, we look at how wireless is changing sensor networks, and opening the door to networking "everything except the kitchen sink." You can expect a lot of these devices, all directly addressable, to show up on your enterprise net,...
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June 07, 2004
Symbol Technologies sent out a press release last week with the headline "No criminal complaint filed against Symbol Technologies" which is probably the best that anyone could do, given the fact that you don't want to call attention to the...
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June 07, 2004
If you're in the Baltimore area this week, check out the Wi-Fi Planet conference and exhibition, which bills itself as the only all-Wi-Fi show. find more information here on sessions, exhibitors, and directions. We've got additional coverage of the show...
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May 24, 2004
Wi-Fi Networking News (wifinetnews.com) runs a report about a Portland Oregon coffee house has become part of a study by Intel Research on building "communities-in-place" via 802.11 WLANs....
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May 24, 2004
NW reporter Denise Pappalardo reports this week on Cometa's closing, despite being backed by IBM, AT&T, and Intel. You can find the story here....
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May 17, 2004
This week we've got a story on Bluetooth security issues. More enterprise net managers are noticing that more Bluetooth radios are showing up, some of them as almost standard features in the next laptop or PDA upgrade for their company....
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May 10, 2004
WLAN access points, with broadband access to the Internet, spring up at truck stops across the U.S., and long-haul truckers are willing to drive extra miles to get it, according to this Associated Press story....
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April 26, 2004
"Pentesting" is a conflation of penetration testing -- finding out where the weak points are in your network, especially your wireless network....
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April 26, 2004
Marvell Technology Group and Cavium Networks have announced a jointly created reference design for highly secure enterprise WLAN switches....
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April 19, 2004
College and university campuses are hotbeds of wireless activity and innovation. And Intel, which is itself no slouch in those areas, wants you to know about it....
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April 05, 2004
The recent March CTIA conference, billed as THE cellular wireless show, had an extensive non-cellular wireless infrastructure, both official and unofficial, according to a survey by AirDefense, a vendor of WLAN monitoring software....
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March 29, 2004
1. Don't forget to check out our first Virtual Showdown, this one on WLAN switches, which begins today. Six vendors will stand up to be hit with questions and comments, first from wireless consultant Craig Mathias and me, then by...
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March 22, 2004
From the gigantic CeBIT high-tech show in Germany last week came word that interoperability problems with WLAN gear are growing....
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March 22, 2004
This week is the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association's CTIA Wireless 2004 conference, in Atlanta. You can find the conference schedule here. One issue that's emerging is how cellular carriers, which offer "long-distance wireless," are dealing with WLAN services, or...
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March 15, 2004
On Monday March 29, we'll launch our first "Virtual Showdown," featuring an online debate with, and among, six WLAN vendors. The event is an online version of the vendor debates "Network World" has hosted at shows such as Networld+Interop. You...
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March 15, 2004
This week, the IEEE 802.11n task group will be meeting at the regular 802.11 plenary, which will at Walt Disney World Resort, in Florida....
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March 10, 2004
At least a little. Wi-Fi cameras are being used for everything from building security to nanny surveillance to, um, adult entertainment. The bad news: the cameras can be wirelessly monitored. The good news: there's not, apparently, very much to see....
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March 08, 2004
As my story in Network World this week suggests, MIMO is emerging as a key technology for dramatically boosting WLAN throughput and performance, without using more spectrum, and with a modest increase in price and battery demand....
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February 12, 2004
Cisco has submitted to the IETF a draft document for a new Extensible Authentication Protocol type that's designed to fix security weaknesses in its proprietary Lightweight EAP, or LEAP. The draft, dubbed an "information draft" in IETF lingo, can be...
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February 02, 2004
Atheros Communications has begun sampling a single-chip 802.11g 54M bits/sec radio. The company claims its latest silicon product could make 11M bits/sec 802.11b radios obsolete, especially because its no more costly than the multi-chip products offered by rivals....
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January 12, 2004
One of the hot areas for mobile computing and WLANs is healthcare, but even here, deployments remain pretty basic. That's one result from a 2003 study by Spyglass Consulting, Menlo Park, Calif. Author, Managing Director,and Founder Gregg Malkary says he...
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December 15, 2003
In this week's issue of "Network World," you can find some interesting points that suggest wireless LANs in the enterprise are going to be less of a phenomenon than we though as recently as, oh, say, last week. Vendors like...
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December 08, 2003
The annual Bluetooth Americas Conference runs this week in San Jose, Calif., where the drums will beat, again, for this low-bandwidth, short-range radio technology. We've written recently about Bluetooth's gains, with the Bluetooth Special Interest Group celebrating the fact that...
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December 01, 2003
Our spanking-new "How To" issue includes one article on "How to lock down your WLAN." I asked three of the Network World Test Alliance experts -- Dave Newman, Tom Henderson and Joel Snyder -- to offer their thoughts on this...
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November 24, 2003
After sitting through some Comdex sessions on network-based security threats to corporate productivity and data, I don't think I'll look at my Windows 95 Compaq notebook the same way again....
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November 03, 2003
Six years old and you're "mature." That's high-tech networking. Bluetooth is an industry specification for a wireless connection based on a low-power radio with a range of about 30 feet. It was unveiled in 1998 as, simply, a way to...
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October 06, 2003
A new user study by Infonetics Research is forecasting that wireless voice-over-IP is already growing in the enterprise. Findings include: - end-user WLAN spending will be $1.49 billion this year, $2.94 in 2006 - IP network performance and quality of...
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September 29, 2003
The IEEE 802.11 working group has blessed creating a new 100M bit/sec WLAN standard, called 802.11n. That's good news. Isn't it? The idea is that more bandwidth for, and to, the end user is always good....
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September 15, 2003
Intel's view of wireless is its view of Ethernet: one more form of networking that puts more demand on Intel's bread-and-butter -- the microprocessor at the heart of your computing device. Intel doesn't care what the device is: Windows notebook,...
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September 08, 2003
There are some interesting user experiences emerging from Network World's latest Wireless LAN Technology Tour, which continues later this month in Houston and San Jose. [For more information, click here] The tours are hosted by Network World Events Editor Sandra...
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September 01, 2003
A wireless connection, whether WAN or LAN, doesn't do you much good if you can't do anything with it. And a database of phone numbers and addresses on your handheld has a limited utility, too. Palm, finally, is taking some...
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August 25, 2003
If you have a PalmOS or PocketPC handheld, you already use something called "mobile middleware" - the software that synchronizes the data on your handheld with data on your PC, usually via the handheld's cradle and a cable. A recent...
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August 18, 2003
You can notice two things in the latest batch of reports from analysts covering the wireless LAN market. 1. Vendors are selling more wireless LAN access points and adapter cards. 2. There is no "number 2." And this means, class,...
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August 11, 2003
Mobile and wireless applications are still pretty basic, according to users chatting on a recent online user roundtable hosted by Sage Research. Wireless e-mail and calendaring are the most common mobile applications, according to the group of about 10 enterprise...
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July 21, 2003
Vienna, Austria -- The day before what promises to be a grueling weekend touring and toasting this historic city, members of the Internet Engineering Task Force, meeting here, took on a new wireless LAN standard....
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July 14, 2003
Consumer privacy concerns about wireless radio frequency identification (RFID) were stoked last week by Wal-Mart's decision to cancel an in-store trial of the inventory tracking technology (See our news story and my analysis) But what you should really be worried...
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July 09, 2003
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is well on the way to becoming a lightening rod for a lot of post-Enron consumer fear and loathing. RFID combines a very small chip and a wireless radio into a tag that can be attached...
June 09, 2003
About three years after Palm executives said they were going to embrace and cuddle up with with millions of Java programmers, they're saying it again. But this time, they say, it's serious....
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May 26, 2003
The IEEE 802.11g Task Group has crossed the last 't' and dotted the last 'i' in the draft standard that is expected to quickly replace the 11b standard for wireless LANs. The final remaining step is for the IEEE in...
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May 19, 2003
There seem to be two basic opinions about "return-on-investment" in wireless LANs. It's important It's not important Obviously, how you define ROI largely determines where you stand....
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April 28, 2003
A draft proposal submitted to the Internet Engineering Task Force outlines a standard protocol to be used by switches or routers to control a group of IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN access points and make their deployment much simpler than is...
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April 21, 2003
Next week, net executives attending Networld+Interop in Las Vegas will have a chance to see and touch this emerging class of so-called "wireless LAN switches." A pack of these vendors, including established wireless LAN vendors, a bewildering array of start-ups,...
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March 31, 2003
Wireless LAN communications results in some astonishing inventiveness. A solar-powered camera installed over 4,000 feet high at the Wildcat Mountain Sky Area in New Hampshire uses a Wi-Fi 802.11b wireless radio to transmit images five miles to the summit of...
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