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IPass, which focuses on bundled services for remote workers, announced today it will offer enterprise customers monthly and annual flat rates for WiFi connectivity within the United States. The company has partnered with T-Mobile to add more than 5,000 hot spots to its network. The flat-rate offerin...
Corporations often need more wide area network (WAN) bandwidth but are deterred by its high cost and slow speed. Pricing for these lines runs from hundreds to thousands of dollars per month, and typically the links deliver 1.5 Mbps of throughput. Now a small but growing number of firms are opting to...
Wireless operators across Europe and the Asia-Pacific region announced this week a series of roaming agreements in which crossing borders does not translate into loss of service or fear of fees. The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) -- which includes BT, Maxis, NTT, T-Mobile, Telstra and StarHub -- ...
Rio Rancho, N.M., may not provide its citizens with all of the services available in larger cities like San Francisco and Philadelphia, but the small city six miles north of Albuquerque is leading the technological race to provide a citywide WiFi network. The rollout of wireless Internet access is a...
Bluetooth just got faster and its lobbyists are claiming the technology is moving full speed ahead with a new three-year road map. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) today announced the adoption of Bluetooth Core Specification Version 2.0 + Enhanced Data Rate (EDR), which is designed to impr...
Verizon Wireless said it has reached an agreement to buy all the spectrum licenses held by NextWave Telecom for US$3 billion in cash, just the latest instance of consolidation in the wireless industry and one that ends a years-old legal dispute with regulators. Verizon, the second-largest wireless c...
Facing fierce competition, some cellular carriers are looking to take on more of the development work associated with building cell phones. A small but potentially growing number of carriers are writing their own specifications for new handsets and then working directly with third-party original des...
Nokia is betting on device convergence with three new gadgets with multiple functions. The announcements were tied to the annual Nokia Mobility Conference in Monaco and Destination Nokia in Bangkok. The company announced the 7710, a smartphone PDA; the 3230 camera and video recorder smartphone; and ...
Gadget geeks got a rush today when PalmOne officially announced its latest smartphone, the Treo 650, a year after its Treo 600 debuted and a week after it accidentally leaked its own press release on the product. Despite the interest in the new device -- rumors of its features began popping up on W...
Biometric technology has been around for more than a decade with little fanfare. However, interest is heating up for biometric security devices in communications. Iris scanners, voice recognition modules and fingerprint readers promise to raise the bar on locking down access to computers, networks, ...
A group of tech heavyweights have joined forces to push a mobile security specification they say will clear the way for a boom in m-commerce. Wireless carrier NTT DoCoMo, chipmaker Intel and IBM said the spec they call "Trusted Mobile Platform" will protect mobile devices against viruses and other a...
A multifunction Toshiba TV that emitted an aircraft emergency signal triggered a transcontinental chase earlier this month to an apartment in the college town of Corvallis, Oregon. When a rescue team knocked on his door, student Chris van Rossman was watching his 20-inch Toshiba flat-screen TV. The ...
Cell phone users may have more to worry about than poor reception or using too many minutes, according to a recently released study from Sweden's Institute of Environmental Medicine. The three-year study included 750 participants, 150 of whom suffered from acoustic neuroma, a normally benign tumor t...
You're sitting at a restaurant waiting for a friend who is 10 minutes late. The maitre de tells you that if your friend does not arrive in the next 5 minutes, your table will be given to another group. You try to remember your friend's mobile phone number but can't, so your only option is to sit and...
Search superstar Google rolled out a new short message service this week, delivering its search and other Internet data to mobile phones of several major vendors through text messaging. The company indicated it will be testing a beta version of the free service in the U.S., where text messaging has ...
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