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BT: No More Cloud Sharing

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 1st, 2008

British Telecom’s Openzone, which has had a 5 year Wi-Fi roaming deal with The Cloud will end it’s relationship on Thursday, after the two communications firms failed to resolve unspecified issues over commercial terms, reports ZD Net.
Customers of each network will no longer have access to the other network’s hotspots starting 2 October. It will [...]

Aruba Extends Network Management

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 1st, 2008

Aruba Networks has unveiled a new release of software that’s designed to improve wireless LAN throughput and reliability, reports Network World.
The 2.0 version its Adaptive Radio Management software adds features that automatically shift WLAN clients to different channels or frequencies for better performance. The automated adjustments can boost throughput for individual clients, and increase the [...]

Exalt: GigE on 5 GHz

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 17th, 2008

Wireless backhaul vendor Exalt Communications, this week introduced the industry’s highest-capacity wireless Gigabit Ethernet, covering all three 5 GHz bands in a single carrier-class system.
The EX-r GigE series backhaul radios enables wireless operators, enterprises and broadcasters to have the bandwidth they need for campus connectivity, camera backhaul, 3G or 4G backhaul, WiMAX backhaul, and [...]

Vertical Applications = Big Bucks for Broadband Wireless

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 15th, 2008

Vertical services will reach 24% of WiMAX subscriptions and 14% of LTE subscriptions by 2014, and represent a huge growth opportunity for operators facing flat ARPUs, says a new report from Senza Fili Consulting.
Enterprises who have historically shunned mobile data applications are warming up to specialized, vertical applications including mobile-to-mobile (M2M), in-vehicle telematics [...]

Smart Cards: Dumb?

Posted by Sam Churchill on September 2nd, 2008

According to Engadget, Mythbusters was all set to do a show exposing the weak security behind most RFID implementations of Smart Cards, but was shut down by lawyers from “American Express, Visa, Discover, and everybody else… [who] absolutely made it really clear to Discovery that they were not going to air this episode.”

Since Discovery [...]

Telework Takes Off

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 29th, 2008

There has been a sharp increase in the number of North American employers offering telecommuting as an option, reports Telephony Magazine. According to an annual survey by WorldatWork, a global human resources association, 42% of U.S. employers said they offered a telework option, up from 30% in 2007, while in Canada, the jump was even [...]

Students Get Free iPhones

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 28th, 2008

Abilene Christian University, in Albilene, Texas, will hand out Apple’s iPhone 3G to two-thirds of this year’s entering class of 950 freshmen.
Students will be expected to use the devices to brainstorm ideas and get virtual handouts and podcasts during class while instructors will use them for such tasks as monitoring attendance.
“This is a [...]

Qwest Runs DNC Fiber

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 25th, 2008

After more than a year of careful planning to accommodate the Democratic National Convention at Denver’s Pepsi Center, Qwest Communications found itself scrambling at the last minute to also wire up Invesco Field at Mile High, when Barack Obama’s campaign decided he would make his acceptance speech there, reports Telephony Magazine.

Invesco Field, home of the [...]

Universities Unwire with “N”

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 25th, 2008

Universities, already early-adopters of earlier flavors of Wi-Fi, are also leading the charge towards 802.11n, especially in North America, says ABI Research.
“Although current penetration of the higher education market is only 2.3%, that still represents a good rate of uptake for such a new, pre-standard technology,” says ABI Research vice president and research director Stan [...]

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 [...]