Comcast and T-Mobile USA today announced the first-ever outdoor Wi-Fi wireless Internet service. It will be located at Philadelphia’s historic Headhouse Square Plaza and use Comcast cable for the backhaul. Philadelphia-based Comcast, with over 21 million subscribers, says the launch will create “one of the nation’s largest Wi-Fi “hotspots,” [...]
Ubicom, today announced support for Atheros 802.11a/b/g wireless LAN chipsets and high-throughput Super A/G feature set in release 6.2 of its Software Development Kit. With 92Mbps of routing performance, and over 51Mbps of uncompressed, WPA secured, this platform represents the highest performance solution targeted for the home user. [...]
GSM and CDMA operators are in a horse race. The battle for the lead in high speed data is constantly shifting, there are no sure bets, and tens of billions of real dollars are on the line.
The competitors are driving hard. AT&T and Cingular, based on [...]
Day to Day technology expert Xeni Jardin reports about the impact that digital camera technology has had on the war in Iraq (ra). The DOD’s Directive (pdf) doesn’t specifically ban picturephones — it’s more general. Wireless communications is required to encrypt and authenticate voice and data communications. It would ban [...]
The Wi-Fi Alliance has upgraded it’s seal of certification, dropping the radio frequency check box in favor of showing off if a product supports 802.11a, b, or g.
The Wi-Fi Alliance promotes gear that uses the IEEE 802.11 a/b/g industry standards and certifies equipment interoperability.
The old label with a check [...]
Wayport today announced Wi-Fi World, a strategy and business model designed to drive the maximum number of mobile broadband customers to Wayport Wi-Fi enabled locations. Wayport is the leading provider of Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) wireless and wired Internet access in more than 1,500 locations including nearly 800 hotels, 12 airports and hundreds of McDonald’s [...]
EFJohnson has entered into a partnership with Dallas-based MTI to leverage MTI s experience in contract manufacturing projects to help bring interoperable radios to market. EFJohnson provides digital Project 25 compliant interoperable radios for federal, state and local agencies involved with homeland security and public safety. EFJohnson, [...]
Given Imaging, maker of the world’s only swallowable camera capsule for diagnosis of disease of the gastrointestinal tract, is now using an ultra low-power transmitter chip from Zarlink Semiconductor in its M2A capsule endoscope. The M2A capsule (photo), consists of a microchip camera and light-emitting [...]
Both Wi-LAN and Airespace have WiMAX news, today. WiMAX, the non-profit corporation formed to help promote the IEEE 802.16 standard, will be a major focus of the 2004 Wireless Communications Association Conference in Washington DC, June 1-4th. Wi-LAN says they’ve acquired 17 U.S. patents and patent applications. This acquisition, [...]
Sprint has lowered the cost of its Ready Link walkie-talkie service from $15 to $10/month, according to ZDNet.
The price cut makes it the least-expensive push-to-talk service in the United States. Sprint customers previously paid a minimum of $45 a month to use [...]
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