PARIS-Paris may soon offer widespread Wi-Fi coverage, according to a recent report in the Inquirer. According to the report, a Cisco Systems Inc. representative told BBC World Service news that Cisco, in a partnership with Linksys, plans to install a Wi-Fi access point at...
Though staged at the White House, Commerce Secretary Don Evan's launch of the Digital Freedom Initiative on March 4 did not attract much press attention. Perhaps deservedly so. The White House tends to host such photo ops all the time. The DFI-combining efforts of...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, United States-Several companies have announced support for the new Wi-Fi Alliance security standard known as Wi-Fi Protected Access, which replaces Wired Equivalent Privacy.WPA is the alliance's third product certification and part of its security roadmap.The following companies have announced their 802.11b...
NEW YORK-Airespace Inc., San Jose, Calif., hatched in the Storm Ventures incubator 18 months ago, reached a fledgling milestone last weekwhen it made the first commercial shipment of its Wireless Enterprise Platform for managing and securing in-building and campus wireless local area networks.At customer...
In the sweepstakes of third-generation (3G) contracts, smaller equipment vendors hope to outplay the bigger names by taking advantage of their product strengths and delays in Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) rollouts.Companies like Motorola, Nortel Networks and Lucent Technologies are at the low ebb...
NEW YORK-Vernier Networks, Mountainview, Calif., will make commercially available in late April two new 6500p products, Access Manager and Integrated System, which are based on a draft wireless local area network standard governing Power over Ethernet.The 6500p line takes advantage of the four unused...
PLANO, Texas-MetaSolv Software Inc. announced enhancements to its service activation capabilities.Extended service capabilities include Internet Protocol services device support for Alcatel 7670 MPLS switches, Cicso Catalyst layer 2 switches and Cisco Modular QoS CLI, as well as full support for operational support services through...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Cisco Systems Inc., announced a definitive agreement to acquire The Linksys Group Inc., a privately held provider of home networking products including wired and wireless products for consumers and small office/home office users.The acquisition represents Cisco's entry into the consumer/SOHO networking market.According...
PORTSMOUTH, N.H.-Meetinghouse Inc., Portsmouth, N.H., has introduced its AEGIS Client for Pocket PC 2002, which it said, "supports a broad range of Extensible Authentication Protocol methods, including MDS, TLS, TTLS, Cisco LEAP and PEAP, to meet the security needs of enterprise networks."In addition to...
The latest shakeup in the wireless enterprise market claimed struggling AvantGo Inc., as software infrastructure and integration company Sybase Inc. purchased the company in a $38 million cash merger.Sybase will add AvantGo to its iAnywhere Solutions subsidiary, which makes software that allows workers to...
The exit of Sir Christopher Gent from the chief executive post at Vodafone marks a milestone for the company and the industry. Unlike many of his counterparts, Gent is stepping down from his post rather than being forced out. Gent, named RCR Wireless News...
The latest shakeup in the wireless enterprise market claimed struggling AvantGo Inc., as software infrastructure and integration company Sybase Inc. purchased the company in a $38 million cash merger.Sybase will add AvantGo to its iAnywhere Solutions subsidiary, which makes software that allows workers to...
The exit of Sir Christopher Gent from the chief executive post at Vodafone certainly marks a milestone for the company and the industry. Unlike many of his counterparts, Gent has chosen to step down from his post rather than being forced out. Gent has...
LONDON-Following on a promise he made earlier this year, Vodafone Group plc chairman and former RCR Wireless News Person of the Year Christopher Gent said he would retire from the world's largest wireless company on July 30 immediately following Vodafone's annual general meeting.Vodafone announced...
In today's soft economy, the benefits of outsourcing are becoming clearer to many manufacturers.Since the outsourcing trend intensified in the past few years, companies have said it has enhanced economies of scale, time to market and what one industry expert described as design to...
NEW YORK-The Liberty Alliance Project has released for public review on its Web site at www.projectliberty.org a draft of specifications for an open, interoperable standard for federated network identity for the Internet, designed to enable a single sign-on for individual businesses and consumers."In a...
NEW YORK-Centurion Wireless Technologies Inc., Lincoln, Neb., has signed an agreement to acquire Allgon Mobile Communications, a designer and manufacturer of antennas for mobile communications devices, for an undisclosed sum."Centurion and Allgon Mobile Communications have complementary antenna product lines, engineering vision and operating philosophies,"...
TORONTO-Bell Canada announced its official entry into the wireless local area network (WLAN) market, through partnerships with U.S.-based Cisco Systems and Symbol Technologies .Using the 802.11b or Wi-Fi standard, Bell's package of WLAN products can be used in hospitals, warehouses, universities, restaurants, hotels, airports...
LINCOLN, Neb.-Citing unfavorable market conditions, Centurion Wireless Technologies Inc., a Lincoln, Neb., supplier of wireless phone antennas, has withdrawn its plans to go public.Centurion said it hoped to raise $81 million to pay dividends on preferred stock and for general corporate purposes in an...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Describing the product introduction as networks in motion, Cisco Systems Inc. has rolled out a new mobile access router that will work in airplanes, ships, tanks and trains, raising the stakes for ubiquitous data coverage in the wireless world."Enabled by standards-based mobile...
NEW YORK-Major wireless players have complied with the Securities And Exchange Commission's guidelines to file their certifications confirming their financial results. Foreign-based companies, who are not required to comply, however filed with the SEC under the recently signed corporate fraud law.Motorola Inc., Qualcomm Inc.,...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Regardless of concerns expressed by European third-generation (3G) license holders, the German telecom regulator, RegTP, expects wireless local area networks (WLAN) networks to complement 3G services and plans to make more spectrum available for WLAN in the 5 GHz band.RegTP said it...
ATLANTA-BellSouth Corp. reported it is implementing a Cisco wireless local area network at St. Vincent's Hospital in Birmingham, Ala., enabling health care providers to access real-time and historical clinical data via wireless devices as well as wireless bedside registration.
NEW YORK-The Open Source Development Lab, Beaverton, Ore., a vendor-neutral non-profit organization dedicated to enabling Linux and Linux-based programming for enterprise and carrier-class functionality worldwide, has posted materials for open source developer community feedback on its Web site at www.developer.osdl.orgIn its June 28 announcement,...
