AT&T has delayed its broadcast mobile TV service launch to early 2008. Verizon Wireless launched it’s MediaFLO USA service under the V-Cast brand last March. Eight months ago AT&T committing to launching a similar service by the end of the year.
The carrier is now aiming to launch the MediaFLO-powered service in January or February, says [...]
WiMAX has its problems, says Network World. But it might be a better bet than Municipal WiFi.
Take St. Louis. Please. AT&T said Friday that it’s scrapping plans to provide WiFi across the city’s 62 square miles. It’s a good idea, the company said, just too expensive. Instead they will build a pilot project in the [...]
China’s TechFaith , an ODM focused on research and development of cell phone solutions, today announced the launch of Gallic, the world’s first Windows-based GSM/CDMA dual mode dual standby pocket PC phone.
Gallic is based on Windows 6.0 and allows users to load one GSM card and one CDMA card. The phone’s features include a 2.0 [...]
Colubris Networks, has been selected by Alcatel-Lucent and SFR, a major French telecom operator, to provide Wi-Fi equipment for the “Paris Wi-Fi” project. The project is the largest municipal Wi-Fi network in Europe, offering Internet access to the greatest number of Parisians and tourists using Wi-Fi technologies.
The City of Paris will set up its own [...]
BridgeWave Communications has announced they have deployed Gigabit Ethernet wireless links to enable faster speeds at lower costs for the State of Oregon’s Judicial Department.
The Oregon Judicial Information Network (OJIN) traditionally linked 70 remote sites to its network backbone using a multitude of traditional leased-line T1s.
Network expansion from applications like public Internet kiosks [...]
Unstrung was right. Cisco Systems announced today an agreement to acquire WiMax vendor Navini Networks for $330 million in cash and assumed options.
The acquisition of Navini instantly makes Cisco a player in the WiMax market. WiMax is seen as particularly useful in the developing world, notes C/Net, where fixed infrastructure is scarce or nonexistent.
Navini’s [...]
CTIA’s Wireless I.T. & Entertainment 2007, the largest wireless data event in the industry, is chock full of news and events this week.
The Day One keynote features Steve Ballmer, who will focus on the integration of wireless technologies into vertical business markets. Day Two features in-depth sessions are broken into four different “tracks” or categories—Mobile [...]
Wikipedia overviews the California wildfires of October 2007. The city of San Diego is using a reverse 911 system to get the word out while dozens of Social Media Networks are tracking the California Fires. San Diego residents Nate Ritter and Dan Tentler have been busy posting rapid-fire updates to Twitter as they gather information [...]
NBC News will begin broadcasting Oct. 22 from two newly renovated studios at 30 Rockefeller Plaza as part of the integration of NBC News and MSNBC into a combined operation under one roof, the network announced last week.
The new NBC News world headquarters (slide show) will be home to the operation’s newsroom and house the [...]
So sayeth Walt Mossberg:
. . . “A shortsighted and often just plain stupid federal government has allowed itself to be bullied and fooled by a handful of big wireless phone operators for decades now. And the result has been a mobile phone system that is the direct opposite of the PC model. It severely limits [...]
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