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 of 57 networks in 21 [...]
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 is more hype than reality around mesh [...]
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 and towns that have deployed large wireless [...]
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 seconds, set last year by Briton [...]
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 another embedded OS for which [...]
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 Wi-Fi services at levels consistent with local demand. Netopia [...]
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