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Archive for September, 2007

NYC Subways Go Wireless

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 20th, 2007

New York City subways will be getting cellphone service in all 277 city subway stations, reports the New York Times.

A company called Transit Wireless will pay New York City Transit $46.8 million over 10 years, on top of the estimated $150 million to $200 million the network will cost to build.
“It took Alexander [...]

Nokia Phones Home via UMA

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 20th, 2007

Nokia’s new 6301 handset does Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA), handing over a live cell phone call from a carrier’s cellular network to a WiFi network. The ability of a cell phone to use WiFi for calls is expected to save users money and improve reception indoors.
Nokia says the phone will be available first in [...]

Verizon Jumping to LTE?

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 20th, 2007

Vodafone and Verizon Wireless are working towards adopting Long-Term Evolution, reports Unstrung.
Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin and Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg both told a Goldman Sachs investor conference Wednesday that they are planning to use the same technology in the next major evolution of their wireless networks, and that the two companies are involved in LTE [...]

AT&T’s Wi-Fi BlackBerry

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 19th, 2007

AT&T announced the new BlackBerry 8820, with Wi-Fi networking, will be available starting tomorrow for US$300, after rebate, and with a two-year contract from the carrier.
The first BlackBerry with both Wi-Fi and cellular connectivity, the 8820 is designed to allow users to move from Wi-Fi hot spots, including 10,000 from AT&T, into wide-area wireless connections [...]

Car Sharing by Phone

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 19th, 2007

Zipcar, the world’s largest and fastest growing car sharing service, today announced a mobile strategy that will provide instant, anywhere access to its vehicle fleet from members’ mobile devices. In the first phase, Zipcar will launch a mobile version of its web-reservation site, enable text message options, and announce a partnership with uLocate Communications to [...]

Airspan USB WiMAX: 2.3-5.8 GHz

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 19th, 2007

Airspan Networks announced its next generation personal Mobile WiMAX client device family called MiMAX. The first product in this family is the MiMAX USB, a USB2.0 based device that turns any laptop into a high performance Mobile WiMAX client.
Airspan’s MiMAX USB supports all of the target Wave 2 MIMO Mobile WiMAX certification profiles (2.3 GHz, [...]

WiFi Trends Reported by iPass

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 18th, 2007

The iPass Wi-Fi Hotspot Index summarizes data collected by iPass across its base of approximately 1,000,000 quarterly users. It’s designed for those interested in Wi-Fi connectivity trends, including reporters, analysts and researchers.

iPass says it can offer a unique global perspective on the use of Wi-Fi hotspots by enterprise mobile workers using its [...]

Fujitsu’s Tiny Tablet

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 18th, 2007

Laptop Magazine reviewed the tiny Fujitsu Lifebook — and liked it — giving it a 3.5 out of 5 rating.
The $1,000 Fujitsu U810 convertible tablet features a bright 5.6-inch Crystal View SVGA display, a Tablet interface, a fingerprint reader, a 0.3-megapixel webcam and a microphone for videoconferencing, but suffered from a slowish 800MHz A110 [...]

Intel Developer’s Forum ‘07

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 18th, 2007

Intel CEO Paul Otellini is expected to outline the company’s plans to transfer its newly developed 45nm process into mainstream products during a keynote speech at today’s Intel Developer Forum (IDF), which runs September 18-20 in San Francisco (agenda, FAQ and
content catalog). PC Magazine and C/Net have complete coverage.

Intel is expected to reveal more details [...]

Ads on Cellphones

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 18th, 2007

Google said Monday that it will begin selling ads on cellphones. The search giant’s new product, AdSense for Mobile, will establish a cellphone advertising network in which Google would match ads with the content of mobile Web pages, much as it does online.
The company has been running mobile ads through its auction-based AdWords program since [...]