Heavyweight in the end-to-end wireless coverage market, Powerwave Technologies, used Communicasia 2010 in Singapore last week to announce and show off its new DAS and WiFi Performance Boost offering, which the firm says supports 2G, 3G, 4G and WiFi a/b/g/n protocols.
Starbucks to offer unlimited free Wi-Fi at 6700 US locations starting July 1st announced CEO Howard Schultz today in New York at Wired’s Business Conference “Disruptive by Design.”
At a recent Google event the search engine giant’s co-founder raised an important issue that is still very much an unsolved problem for the mobile industry.
As mobile phones become smarter and smarter, one firm firmly believes your home phone shouldn’t be left behind. DSP Group, which has been churning out wireless chipsets for over two decades thinks it’s time for people to have smart-home-phones and is the first company to come up with an Android based home phone product.
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) has launched several more lawsuits against major telcos - AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile - in its battle to receive payment for patents it holds on Wi-F
In an era where the Internet has become almost ubiquitous, an Arizona school district is proving it’s up to speed, having kitted out a school bus with Wi-Fi and plans for more to come.
One completely ingenious product spotted at WiMAX Forum Congress Asia 2010, was a little mobile WiMAX to WiFi device running on an integrated Lithium ion battery which can be slipped into your bag, briefcase or even left in your car. Users simply log it...
Logging onto the Internet for free at many New York City parks has become another casualty of the financial crisis.The vendor, WiFi Salon, which won the contract from the city's Department of Parks and Recreation in 2004 to wire 10 parks in four boroughs,...
Qualcomm has licensed Skyhook Wireless's Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS), a method of combining massive professional wardriving databases with geographical latitude and longitude.
Airlines can't afford to spend money on much of anything beyond fuel these days, but that's not stopping them from pouring cash into the technology that will let passengers surf the web at 36,000 feet. Most of the systems they're playing with are still...
OYSTER BAY, New York-Dual-mode cellular/Wi-Fi mobile phones will enjoy support among business users and could grow to as much as 7 percent of the worldwide handset market by 2009, according to new research from Allied Business Intelligence.The firm said shipments of devices that can...
KIRKLAND, Wash.-Wavelink Corp. has partnered with Europe's Wificom Technologies and Aptilo Networks to enable communications service providers to offer wireless Internet access in public areas including airports, coffee shops, hotels and conference centers.The companies will offer wireless management tools to carriers, including the Wavelink...
NEW YORK-GuestWiFi, which provides wireless local area network access at small and mid-sized hotels, has teamed with Pronto Networks, a Pleasanton, Calif., provider of carrier-class operations support systems for hot spots.In this partnership, New York-based GuestWiFi will handle sales and installation and provide hotel...
NEW YORK-LaGuardia, John F. Kennedy and Newark airports, all operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, will have public and private wireless local area network access by year-end.Concourse Communications, Springfield, Mass., has begun deployment of the neutral host network at...
SANTA MONICA, Calif.-Boingo Wireless said it has introduced what it described as the first full-featured WiFi application for Pocket PC 2002. It can be downloaded from Boingo's Web site, which is www.boingo.com, or the new PDA-tuned Web site, www.pda.boingo.com."Pocket Boingo gives road warriors simple...
SAN FRANCISCO-Starbucks Coffee Co., Hewlett-Packard Co. and T-Mobile International have combined to launch a hot spot service in Starbucks coffee houses, allowing customers to connect to Internet applications using 802.11b technology."As easy as ordering their latte, Starbucks customers can check e-mail, surf the Web,...
PALO ALTO, Calif.—WiFi Metro Inc. and Gatespeed Broadband Inc. launched a wireless "HotZone" in downtown San Jose, Calif., spanning more than six city blocks.The HotZone allows users to establish a wireless high-speed Internet connection via a laptop computer or personal digital assistant. WiFi Metro...
One of the big stumbling blocks remaining for widespread Bluetooth adoption continues to be interference issues in the 2.4 GHz unlicensed spectrum band, which the technology uses. In addition to household items using the spectrum band, numerous local area network standards also use the...
