Wednesday, May 21, 2003

Report: Nokia's CDMA effort falters. The handset maker--king of phones based on the dominant GSM standard--has been pushing to sell product based on CDMA, popular in North America and Asia. Bad luck, a report says. [CNET News.com]
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SBC Charges Ahead With Wi-Fi. The broadband provider is planning a public hotspot network to edge cable rival Comcast, which is taking a wait-and-see approach. [allNetDevices Wireless News]
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No Wi-Fi From Comcast, at Least Not Yet. Verizon's new Wi-Fi service for broadband DSL subscribers has the cable broadband provider keeping a wary eye on how it fares, as analysts note a shifting dynamic in the cable vs. telco high-speed data race. [allNetDevices Wireless News]
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Symbol Launches Voice Over Wi-Fi Pocket PC. Symbol Technologies combines imaging and voice over wireless LAN support in its latest handheld computer. [allNetDevices Wireless News]
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Spectralink Unveils PBX to VoIP Gateway. Got a PBX you don't want to part with but wish you could take advantage of the new wave of Voice over IP wireless phones? Spectralink's new trunked gateway can bridge the gap, cheaper. [allNetDevices Wireless News]
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Tropos: New Name, Big PR Score. On the first day with its new name, Tropos gets New York Times coverage: FHP Wireless changed its name to Tropos and relaunched its product line, focusing on a small deployment in Half Moon Bay, California, that piqued the Times's interest. Also, the CEO of Tropos is the son of the Hanna in Hanna-Barbera, the folks who brought us the Jetsons, the Flintstones, and other animated translations of The Honeymooners. Tropos's products product mesh networking combined with local 802.11b access points in a single box. They can use a separate radio for mesh communication with like units. Edge units bring in backhaul outside the mesh network. Adding units increases density without reconfiguration.... [Wi-Fi Networking News]
5:16:53 PM    comment   

Dvorak Agrees on Intel Everywhere. PC Mag columnist Dvorak agrees that Centrino is the first stage in Intel's communications drive: Handsome, brilliant John C. Dvorak, a man for whom statutes are raised in every town, praises this site and my insights on Intel's Centrino. Okay, so I let it go to my head.... [Wi-Fi Networking News]
5:16:19 PM    comment   

WLAN Switches Explained. Network World explains the whys and whos of WLAN switches: My colleague Nancy Gohring offers an in-depth explanation of the various WLAN switches on and coming to the market, their differences, and insight from analysts.... [Wi-Fi Networking News]
5:14:28 PM    comment   

Schlotzsky's Unwires Public Libraries. Schlotzsky's extends its free Wi-Fi to help Austin public libraries: Just got off the phone with a PR person for Schlozsky's Delis who pointed me to this Austin Chronicle article. Schlotzsky's is offering free Wi-Fi in several of its stores as a test -- which they say has increased business on average by six percent in those outlets -- but it's also trying to help the community by unwiring libraries.... [Wi-Fi Networking News]
5:04:42 PM    comment   

Juniper Lowers Hot Spot Costs?. News.com story might miss point on turnkey hot spots: The story makes the point that Juniper's turnkey hot spot solution developed with Colubris is cheaper than the $2,000+ offerings from Cisco et al. But Toshiba has a sub-$1,000 system (isn't it $199 plus some other costs?), and Colubris makes the Boingo Hot Spot in a Box for under $1,000 as well. (See, for instance, my article on turnkey hot spot systems.)... [Wi-Fi Networking News]
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Tea Aids Oral Health [Scientific American]
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The Son of a 'Jetsons' Creator Works on a Wireless Future. Tropos Networks has equipped a one-square-mile area in a Northern California coastal town with a network technology that gives mobile computer users Internet access. By Matt Richtel. [New York Times: Technology]
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Interview: Cell phone, PDA makers don boxing gloves. Mobile-device makers jostle for enterprise crowd [InfoWorld: Top News]
3:27:13 PM    comment   

Think hard before starting your own company [Computerworld News]
3:24:53 PM    comment   

DHS details future border-control system. The centerpiece of the planned VISIT program will be biometric identifiers that will allow authorities to authenticate the identities and criminal histories of foreign visitors. [Computerworld News]
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GM offers wireless tracking, data option to truck fleet buyers. General Motors will offer small and midsize truck-fleet buyers a wireless data dispatch and fleet-tracking service based on Gearworks mobile software and Nextel phones. [Computerworld News]
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BEA gains ally in battle with IBM. The software maker gets a boost in its ongoing application server fight with IBM through a bundling deal with Hewlett-Packard. [CNET News.com]
3:23:18 PM    comment   

Commentary: HP's integration success. Defying huge challenges--and conventional wisdom--Hewlett-Packard has mostly been successful in digesting Compaq. While there are hurdles ahead in services and middleware, enterprise buyers should feel comfortable putting it on their shortlist. [CNET News.com]
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