Mobile Tech

The latest addition to cell phone services allows Sprint customers to listen to radio over their handsets. Sprint today announced a deal with RealNetworks to broadcast Rhapsody Radio over its cellular network. Seven cell phone models will be able to access the streaming radio for a monthly service f...

We live in a world where people can now carry their laptop computers around town and plop them down to surf the Web or check e-mail simply by finding a hot spot, a location where a company provides the public with wireless Internet access, often for free. Airports, coffee shops and hotels are some o...

Campus Connectivity: No Wires

College has always represented a degree of independence -- free from parents, free from the constraints of childhood, and sometimes free from the "real world" of work, but U.S. campuses are also increasingly representing independence from wires, with mobile phones and notebook computers becoming as ...

Airgo Networks today announced its third generation True MIMO chipset with support for data rates up to 240 Mbps. The company said its technology makes wire-free offices a reality. Like its earlier generation products, Airgo's third generation chipset is based on MIMO (Multiple Input, Multiple Outpu...

In a move to enter a realm dominated by Research in Motion (RIM), Nokia today unveiled software for delivering corporate e-mail to mobile devices. Dubbed Nokia Business Center, the application consists of server-side software and a choice of two different device clients. The Java-based client softwa...

Wireless technology giant Intel is deploying a next-generation, broadband wireless technology to provide survivors of Hurricane Katrina and relief workers a link to loved ones and assistance via the Internet. While some tech industry officials have opined that the devastated region is ripe for such ...

Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP), which the electronics and entertainment company hopes can rescue it from financial doldrums, staged a record-breaking launch in the United Kingdom, shattering existing sales records as gamers scooped up the console and compatible games as soon as they became availa...

Nikon this week announced two WiFi-enabled digital cameras, the Coolpix P1 and P2. The models allow consumers to immediately transmit images wirelessly directly to a computer or printer adapted for wireless printing. Analysts said the Coolpix eight-megapixel P1 and the five-megapixel P2 are indeed ...

Verizon is moving forward aggressively with plans to expand its broadband offerings, throughout the U.S. But experts tell TechNewsWorld that the moves are necessary, and timely, because broadband competition is rapidly accelerating, especially in the wireless market. Last week, Verizon began offeri...

WISPs About to Wither?

Telecommunications services providers have been searching for ways to stay afloat in a tough, highly competitive market. Recently, a group of them, dubbed Wireless Internet Service Providers (WISPs), have crafted business plans based on the supposition that wireless Wide Area Networks (WANs) are mor...

A pact between chip king Intel and Research in Motion (RIM), Canadian maker of the Blackberry mobile communication device, appears less imminent than originally reported. Rumors of a technology exchange deal between the companies spread like an airborne virus on Monday following a CNBC report predic...

Intel and Cisco announced this week they would bolster wireless local area networks (LANS) and the use of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) by businesses with a new wireless suite. The two companies said they had jointly produced a new set of features that pull together Cisco's wireless infrastruc...

Consortia led by Hewlett-Packard and Earthlink are the finalists for a proposed city-wide WiFi network in Philadelphia that government officials hope to have online within two months. While San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is making headlines in the west, back east, the city WiFi network is close to...

Intel and Cisco announced this week they would bolster wireless local area networks (LANS) and the use of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) by businesses with a new wireless suite. The two companies said they had jointly produced a new set of features that pull together Cisco's wireless infrastruc...

After nearly two weeks of speculation, Intel this week began detailing its switch from existing NetBurst chip architecture to a new processor platform that borrows heavily from its Pentium M mobile chip, a move that rival AMD is paralleling in order to adjust to the market preference for notebooks a...

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