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Nine Wireless Companies to Watch

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 15th, 2008

Oops there goes a billion kilowatt dam.

Network World’s article Nine wireless companies to watch, focuses on products and services that can impact corporate computing. What topped their list? RedFly from Celio.
Redfly Makes Your Smartphone a Laptop. It’s a smartphone terminal, not unlike the ill-fated Palm Folio, with an eight-inch screen and full keyboard. It enables [...]

2008 Summer Olympics: On Demand

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 6th, 2008

Fasten your seatbelt.

The Olympic flame arrived in Beijing Tuesday, August 5. The last torchbearer lit the fire cauldron at the historic Temple of Heaven in Beijing, marking the beginning of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing (NBC Olympics, NY Times Event Tracker, Sound Slides, Gigapixel images and Olympic Theme, MP-3).
The Opening Ceremony of the [...]

PepWave OfficePoint: Powerful Enterprise Mesh

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 5th, 2008

PePWave today introduced a new enterprise-level Wi-Fi solution, combining their new Wi-Fi access point, OfficePoint, with the recently updated central management system, InControl. It allows businesses to deploy large-scale wireless networks without a large-scale technical staff.

PepWave says OfficePoint is a full featured Wi-Fi AP, without the expensive price. No complicated controllers that are associated with [...]

AccessKenya WiMAXes

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 28th, 2008

Alvarion, announced today that it was chosen by AccessKenya, Kenya’s leading ISP, for a large scale WiMAX deployment in Kenya.
The wireless broadband network, using Alvarion’s 802.16e BreezeMAX solution on 3.3 GHz, will provide broadband access in Mombasa and Nairobi.
Nairobi is currently the 4th largest city in Africa with 2.1 million inhabitants while Mombasa, [...]

Mobile Banking on Verizon

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 22nd, 2008

Verizon Wireless has announced mobile banking for BlackBerry users.
The carrier introduced a mobile banking application that works on BlackBerry Curve 8330, BlackBerry Pearl 8130 and BlackBerry 8830 World Edition smartphones. The mobile banking application also is available on several Get It Now-capable phones, said the company.
The application allows customers to view account balances and transaction [...]

Olympic Marketing Metrix

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 7th, 2008

NBC Universal plans to use its coverage of the Beijing Olympic Games to launch a new system for measuring viewership across an array of different media, including video-on-demand, cellphones and the Web, as well as traditional television, reports the Wall Street Journal.
NBC hopes the new system — which will be offered to advertisers at the [...]

Updated Devicescape Agent

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 25th, 2008

Devicescape Software today announced Devicescape Agent 2.1, an embedded software package for handsets, cameras, and all types of Wi-Fi devices. It allows instant access to Wi-Fi hotspots, right out-of-the-box. No user setup is required.

Devicescape makes connection to AT&T WiFi, BT Openzone, FON WiFi, Google WiFi and other networks fast and easy by remembering your [...]

Aircell Takes Off

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 25th, 2008

American Airlines and technology provider Aircell staged a dress rehearsal of their WiFi service in planes on a round-trip flight between New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport and Los Angeles International Airport today. BoingBoing and WiFiNetNews helped promote it.
Broader customer trials on flights between New York and San Francisco and between New York and [...]

ABI Ranks Enterprise “N”

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 25th, 2008

Aruba Networks and Meru Networks have been ranked at the top of the latest Vendor Matrix released by ABI Research, essentially tied for first place as the leading 802.11n Wi-Fi equipment vendors.
Motorola claimed the second spot in the company’s new evaluation of worldwide vendors.
The Vendor Matrix is an analytical tool developed by ABI to provide [...]

Blue Sky for Satellite Broadband?

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 24th, 2008

Northern Sky Research, a satellite analyst firm, expects satellite broadband users in North America will break the one million mark in late 2008 or early 2009. About 1.25 million Americans will use satellite broadband in their homes and small businesses by 2011, up from 600,000 last year, according to Pike & Fischer while global [...]