Nearly six million customers are using UMTS 3G services today and that number is expected to more than double by the end of the year,” stated Chris Pearson, President of 3G Americas, the promotional arm of GSM, GPRS, EDGE, and UMTS throughout the Americas.
“We have seen the commercial launch [...]
Ugly truths about mesh networks – they dont scale – for now.
As founder and CTO of a Wireless Mesh networking company, I have pondered long and hard about whether or not I should submit this.
The buzz on mesh networking certainly works in our favor. However, there [...]
Muniwireless.com, which tracks municiple broadband wireless deploymnets, is one year old. The website is an initiative of Lemon Cloud BV (based in Amsterdam), a legal and consulting firm devoted to tech companies.
To celebrate, author Esme Vos created a comprehensive pdf report which lists over 80 regions, cities [...]
The Short Message Service has a new star. Kimberly Yeo, 23, typed a complicated 26-word message on her phone in 43.66 seconds, in a recent contest, making her the world’s fastest SMS typist.
In heats held a few days ago in Singapore, she beat the previous record of 67 [...]
Sun Microsystems, BEA Systems, IBM and other industry heavyweights are launching new products at the JavaOne Developer Conference, this week in San Francisco. E-Week has details.
Sun’s J2ME Wireless Toolkit is meant for developing Java applications that run on cell phones, PDAs, and other small mobile devices running Linux or [...]
Netopia announced a hotspot-in-a-box (pdf) today.
Their $300 hotspot needs no computer; you just hook it to your DSL connection. Service requires a $40/month Netopia support fee (and probably at least $60/mo for local DSL). Netopia’s service allows individual retailers to set their own pricing for [...]
AT&T Wireless will begin offering a bundled device and service package that enables a Bluetooth-enabled iPAQ, to access AT&T’s Wireless EDGE service by using a Bluetooth-enabled Nokia 6820 phone as a portable, high-speed modem.
The company stated that while many business customers want integrated voice and data-capable PDAs, [...]
Netgear’s WGR101 54 Wireless Travel Router, is a pocket-size 802.11g router designed for supplying WiFi in hotel rooms or conferences. It provides added security with a double firewall along with routing functionality, and can be used in both single and multi-user environments.
Tim Higgins explains a three-mode [...]
