wireless local area networks

LONDON—Red-M announced a new in-building mobile voice strategy and roadmap that it believes will reduce call costs, lower voice infrastructure costs and improve employee productivity. According to Red-M, the solution …

TOKYO—NTT Communications, a long-distance and international business unit of the NTT Group, announced that it will launch wireless local area network (WLAN) service on 15 May at 1,600 yen (US$12.46) …

ORLANDO—ViaFone will team with EDS and Hewlett-Packard at CTIA Wireless 2002 in Orlando. ViaFone will join HP to show off the Quickstart Mobile Sales Solutions from HP and ViaFone. The …

HELSINKI—Nokia introduced the Nokia D211, a multimode radio card that allows for wireless Internet access within GPRS, HSCSD and wireless LAN coverage areas. The card is designed for laptop users …

CANNES, France—The GSM Association continued to move forward with its wide-ranging M-Services Initiative, announcing the second phase of the program, broad support from the supplier community, and a series of …

WEXHAM SPRINGS, U.K.—Red-M will demonstrate its wireless Portable Office Solution, a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)-based system aimed at the mobile workgroup market. The portable office offers connectivity back to …

OXFORD, United Kingdom—The U.K. government has put an effective ban on the use of wireless local area networks (WLAN) within its departments because of rising security concerns. This move follows …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Swedish service provider iobox launched Germany’s first public wireless location arena network system at the Kempinski Vier Jahreszeiten Hotel in Munich using equipment from Swedish vendor Service Factory. Iobox …

TOKYO—A governmental advisory body for the telecommunications ministry on 16 January decided to revise the telecom regulation to let operators use the OFDM system for their wireless local area network …

Boingo Wireless Inc. launched with plans to provide wireless Internet access at speeds up to 11 Megabits per second in major hotels, airports and coffee shops. Founded by Sky Dayton, …

CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom—More than 20 million Europeans will use public wireless local area networks (WLANs) by 2006, according to a new report from Analysys, a U.K.-based research firm. According to …

AUSTIN, Texas—Broadband technology company Bandspeed Inc. and Bluetooth protocol stack provider Open Interface North America announced a new product that combines Bandspeed’s AFH HubMaster with Open Interface’s BlueMagic AFH protocol …

HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia Corp. says it has agreed to supply KPN with its Nokia Gateway products for the operator’s wireless LAN networks. “With the Nokia WLAN ADSL Home Gateway we can …

TOKYO-Wireless local area network (WLAN) service targeting the retail and travel industries is set to expand quickly in Japan. Some market watchers said that once the WLAN business takes off, …

HELSINKI, Finland-Scandinavia has long been the most fertile and concentrated spawning ground for technology innovation in Europe. The torchbearers for this culture have been led by global names such as …

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia—Aptilo Networks signed an agreement to supply South Korean Internet operator Unitel with mobile access servers for a mobile network. Aptilo has delivered a test system, which will …

TOKYO—NTT East and NTT Corporation announced that they will launch a high-speed wireless local area network (LAN) service with a data transmission speed of 36 Megabits per second (Mbps) in …

LONDON-The viability of wireless local area network (WLAN) technology is growing more questionable as its speed continues to lag behind that of wireline LANs, according to one Frost & Sullivan …

TOKYO-NTT Group is performing a field test for a very high-speed wireless system based on NTT’s proprietary advanced wireless access (AWA) technology. Unlike conventional wireless LAN systems, NTT’s Biportable 5 …

TUCSON, Ariz.-Texas Instruments said it is rolling out a new family of 125-MSPS dual digital-to-analog converters for cellular and paging base stations, point-to-point microwave systems, wireless local loop, wireless local …

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah-Sierra Wireless and WirelessReady Alliance members Padcom, Panasonic and AT&T Wireless announced they will together offer a bundled wireless data solution to law enforcement officials and other …

The European and North American wireless local area network worlds got a little closer last week thanks to Germany-based Systemonic AG, which introduced a baseband processor supporting both the North …

NEW YORK-Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Xircom Inc., Intel Corp., Santa Clara, Calif., will begin selling in August two new wireless local area network products, a base station for home …

Although it faces a challenging uphill course, Bluetooth technology is definitely headed for the top, recent Frost & Sullivan research on end-user perception showed, rebuking several reports circulating in the …

NEW YORK-3Com Corp., Santa Clara, Calif., which entered the wireless market with the advent of the high-speed 802.11b data standard, has made available commercially two of three parts of a …