Latest Wireless news
AT&T kills St.Louis’ citywide Wi-Fi plan: Yet another city-wide Wi-Fi plan has bitten the dust. AT&T informed St. Louis city officials it was pulling the plug on a planned free wireless Internet access plan that was supposed to roll out over the next two years.
Inside iPhone 1.1.1, 10/24/07: There’s more to last month’s iPhone 1.1.1 software update than just bricked phones and blocked apps. The software update for Apple’s mobile phone added several fixes and features — most notably support for the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store — but many of those changes were drowned out by the clamor over disabling unlocked iPhones and third-party applications.
Municipal Wi-Fi vs. 3G, 10/26/07: As municipal Wi-Fi projects have stumbled, carriers are pouring more funds into their 3G wireless offerings.
Research in Motion (BlackBerry) vs. Palm, 10/26/07: Palm was the first to make a handheld computer practical, rather than a short-lived oddity.
Selecting the ‘right’ client devices, 10/29/07: An interesting discussion at last week’s CTIA Wireless I.T. and Entertainment 2007 conference in San Francisco focused on how enterprises should go about selecting end-user devices from the ever-increasing myriad of choices.
Unlimited gall to cost Verizon $1 million, 10/29/07: New York state has given Verizon Wireless a million new reasons to understand that the word “unlimited” when used in advertising should mean what it means elsewhere in polite society.
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