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EarthLink will attempt to make the City of Brotherly Love the city of brotherly wireless access as well, with a deal to cover America's fifth largest city with WiFi mesh connectivity over 135 square miles, the largest municipal wireless rollout to date. The undertaking, described as a lifesaver for ...
The image of teens, businessmen and virtually all kinds of consumers talking on cell phones has become common, if not ubiquitous in recent years. As the number of cell phone users in the United States has reached and passed the hundred-million mark, carriers have been hard pressed to find ways to co...
In the Wireless LAN (WLAN) market, thin is in. Faced with declining unit growth and falling product prices in the consumer market, vendors have focused on boosting their sales to enterprises. While this strategy has merit, it has meant that they have had to redesign their wares. Consumers are conten...
Kodak claims it is the first to release its WiFi digital camera, dubbed Easyshare-One, a 4 Megapixel, 3x optical zoom digital camera capable of connecting to the Internet or PC for photo sharing via 802.11, or WiFi-enabled hotspots. The US$599 camera, as well as similar, WiFi-enabled digital cameras...
Smart mobile devices are surpassing the growth in the overall mobile market, according to new research from Canalys. Shipments of converged smart mobile devices, namely smartphones and wireless handhelds, grew from 3.6 million in the first half of 2004 to 9.6 million in the first half of 2005, repre...
In a move to tap into the growing popularity of the digital device type that Apple's iPod has made a household name, the Walt Disney Co. yesterday announced plans to peddle a kid-sized MP3 player. Disney Mix Sticks is about the size of a pack of gum, holds about 60 songs on a 128 Mb storage card and...
Research in Motion (RIM) announced this week that it would be using Intel processors for its next-generation wireless devices, a move one analyst called a big deal for the chipmaker. The companies said RIM will design its Blackberry communication devices with Intel's XScale architecture and PXA9xx c...
These days, a sure way to get attention to something is to associate it to Apple Computer's hot line of iPod digital music players -- even if that association is a dubious one. That seems to be the case with Pod Slurping. A little over a year ago, Gartner Research in Stamford, Conn., cautioned corpo...
Sanyo today unveiled the Sanyo MVP, a multimedia phone built exclusively for ESPN Mobile. Targeted to avid sports fans, the Sanyo MVP is designed to work on a high-speed "EVDO" (Evolution Data Optimized) wireless network, enabling it to deliver the ESPN programming at ultra-fast speeds, as well as f...
Formerly bitter rivals Palm and Microsoft announced an alliance this week in hopes of strengthening both companies in smartphone technology, devices that combine mobile phone functionality and Internet connectivity. And what makes two enemies that have fought fiercely over the mobile handset space c...
Formerly bitter rivals Palm and Microsoft announced an alliance this week in hopes of strengthening both companies in smartphone technology, devices that combine mobile phone functionality and Internet connectivity. And what makes two enemies that have fought fiercely over the mobile handset space c...
Antivirus experts have found a virus that can move from mobile phones to computers, but analysts say the bug is neither very dangerous nor very sophisticated. The Trojan, called CARDTRP.A or Sybos/Cardtrap.A by different antivirus vendors, is rated as a low risk by Trend Micro. F-Secure calls it "un...
In yet another step toward the day when consumers everywhere will watch TV on mobile devices, mobile network operator O2 and broadcaster Arqiva have teamed up with Nokia to kick of the United Kingdom's first trial of a full multi-channel mobile TV. The trial will run for up to six months and is desi...
Google is synonymous with Web search, but now the company is continuing its recent multi-directional movement by going ahead with Google Secure Access, a beta WiFi connection program available for free. Provided to a limited service area, the effort nevertheless marks yet another area in which Googl...
Three hardware heavyweights unveiled notebook computers capable of cellular broadband wireless service from Verizon this week, bolstering support for the wireless technology and improving its performance with plans for built-in, roaming broadband capabilities. Industry analysts indicated that Verizo...
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