The Wall Street Journal has a story on prepaid, or pay-as-you-go, phones. Lately, a growing number of people looking to trim household budgets appear to be discovering them. Prepaid phones eliminate the monthly bill. You buy a card with minutes.
The phones are sold at mass retailers like Wal-Mart (right), with service provided by carriers such [...]
The U.S. Department of Commerce and the White House are opposing the FCC’s plan to promote free wireless Internet, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
The Journal reported that Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez sent a letter (pdf) Wednesday saying that the White House wants the airwaves auctioned without price or product mandate. [...]
SkyPilot Networks says their new SyncMesh™ Client, a downloadable firmware image, can swap out the software running on Ubitquiti’s Wi-Fi clients with more rugged, synchronous protocol.
End users can then connect directly to a network of SkyGateways and SkyExtenders base stations using Skypilots more rugged, synchronous protocol rather than standard WiFi. The disadvantage, of course, [...]
For proponents of citywide Wi-Fi projects, this has been a tough year, says the Wall Street Journal this week in a review of Citywide Wi-Fi. Earthlink abandoned their municipal WiFi networks, and other projects stalled or were scaled back. The WSJ maintains that municipal WiFi can work, using the “anchor tenant” model to ensure a [...]
WiMax vendor Alvarion will cut 11 percent of its 1,000 employees by the end of this year in an effort to stay profitable throughout 2009 and weather the global economic slowdown, the company said today.
The company will also cut management salaries and introduce other cost saving initiatives, which altogether, are expected to result in annual [...]
Broadcom, today announced the availability of a wireless combination chip that enables mobile phones to support FM radio reception as well as including a tiny transmitter for use with a car radio, for example. The company says their solution offers far more functionality than any other single-chip solution on the market, with cost, [...]
UJet Holding, a privately held company based in the Netherlands, is planning the launch of low-cost WiMAX voice/data handsets for emerging markets next year. In volumes over 500,000, it projects prices of $40 per handset.
Working in partnership with a consortium of operators, as well as chipset manufacturers - the names of which are undisclosed - [...]
Omnilert, maker of e2Campus, the leading emergency notification system for higher education, announced that Pacific University of Forest Grove, Oregon is the first school in the country to integrate their Facebook and Twitter accounts into the e2Campus emergency notification system.
This allows Pacific University to send e2Campus alerts automatically and simultaneously to the school’s Facebook and [...]
Nokia has announced a new flagship smart phone, the N97, in Barcelona on Tuesday.
The N97 combines a touch screen, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi, Web-based widgets, GPS, high-speed Internet and even Flash video. The bulky phone houses a powerful ARM11 processor, a 5-megapixel camera with 640 x 480 video recording, 32 Gbytes of on-board memory [...]
RAD Data Communications has unveiled its new Airmux-400 broadband wireless multiplexer, a full-duplex, 50-Mbps multi point-to-point broadband wireless transmission device using license-free 2.3 to 2.5 GHz and 4.9 to 5.9 GHz bands.
RAD’s Airmux multiplexers consist of an outdoor unit and an indoor unit with redundant DC power supplies. The outdoor unit is suitable for mast [...]
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