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News that's changing the Wireless World!
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Tuesday, September 16, 2003 |
Source: C|Net
The chipmaker develops a gadget to help measure what happens to a device and a user's experience as they roam across multiple types of wireless networks.
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7:22:20 PM 
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Source: C|Net
Motorola will be the first handset maker to use Texas Instruments' new chip that packs three Wi-Fi radios into a single cell phone.
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5:49:20 PM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Speakeasy is always raising the bar on Internet services: Its newest set of services includes a $49 deal that gets you all the Wi-Fi gear and support you need to get set up at home. For a short time a while back Speakeasy was giving away the gear for new customers, but that was a shortlived promotion. Speakeasy is also offering what it calls personal technology assistant which means you can talk to the same help desk person when you have a problem, instead of explaining your situation over and over to a new person each time you call. The ISP also decided to automatically double upload speeds for most customers. Speakeasy tends to cater to serious bandwidth users like gamers for whom upload speeds are as important as download. Speakeasy Networks remains one of the only ISPs, and certainly the only well-known national ISP, that allows unlimited bandwidth at no additional charge coupled with unlimited sharing of network connections with neighbors and customers....
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5:07:20 PM
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Source: Wi-Fi Planet
Vertical Networks adds support for SpectraLink's wireless phones to its InstantOffice platform.
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2:11:10 PM
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Source: Wi-Fi Planet
The Wi-Fi network monitoring solution from Network Instruments gets a new version that includes new analysis and an expanded memory buffer that captures 40 times as much troubleshooting data.
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2:09:50 PM
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Source: C|Net
The software giant announces new gear that uses the 802.11g standard. The company had initially passed on the technology, losing market share as a result.
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11:53:03 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Network World has a nice Q & A with Netgear's chairman and CEO, on the heels of the August IPO: The story is a bit all over the place but has a couple of useful tidbits. Netgear's chairman and CEO says the company has an advantage over Linksys because Netgear is independent—it can move faster and won't suck resources from a parent company. But it may not be moving fast enough, seeing as Netgear plans to introduce a WLAN switch early next year, a bit behind the pack. The CEO also says that 60 percent to 70 percent of Netgear's product line will have wireless built-in within 18 months....
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11:53:01 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Portland will beef up Wi-Fi even more: Already known for being one of the most Wi-Fi friendly cities around, Portland's city government is really working to cement that distinction. The Portland Telecommunications Steering Committee is trying to make it as easy as possible for companies to deploy Wi-Fi in the city. It plans to offer the rooftops of city buildings to Wi-Fi operators that want to place their antennas there. In exchange, the operators must offer some tier of service to citizens for free. While Seattle city leaders aren't nearly cool enough to come up with a plan like this, it looks like there may be a bit of competition among these two Pacific Northwest towns. An Intel survey found Portland to be the most unwired city in March but recently when Cometa announced a deal in Seattle it clamed that Seattle would have the most hotspots. Let the games begin… [via Nigel Ballard]...
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11:53:00 AM
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Source: C|Net
The U.S. carrier signs a roaming deal with wireless service provider Airport that allows it to offer Wi-Fi hot-spot access to the Internet in another 685 public spaces.
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11:00:40 AM
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Source: C|Net
The number of broadband subscribers worldwide surged 72 percent in 2002, to 62 million, as more households upgraded their dial-up modems for speedier access, a new study finds.
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10:45:30 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
U.S. Robotics is selling its 802.11g gear in some Walmarts: It's a sign that Wi-Fi is truly going mainstream when you see press releases of this sort....
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10:40:34 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
If you can make it to San Diego next week, the 2003 International Wireless Symposium starts Sept. 22: They’ve got a bunch of wireless industry folks lined up to speak and are touting a panel on ultrawideband. There will also be a venture capital panel on Tuesday, for anyone trying to get their hands on some cash....
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10:40:33 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
U.K. phone booths to get Wi-Fi: Like Verizon in New York City, BT is unwiring some of its phone booths in big cities so folks in nearby cafes or restaurants can use Wi-Fi. It's shooting to have 4,000 up and running by next summer. Ian Fogg, an analyst at Jupiter Research, makes a good point in the story. He wonders if the service may compete with Wi-Fi access that cafes and restaurants may be offering. It'll be interesting to watch how competition works in Wi-Fi when multiple operators offer service in the same areas....
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10:40:32 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Nomadix backs up Hughes:Hughes Network Systems is building Wi-Fi networks in "leisure HotSpots," which means RV parks and marinas, using satellite links for backhaul. The network uses Nomadix on the backend so that users don't have to re-subscribe each time they roll into a new location. This should be a cool service for folks on the road and they may find that the probably slow service is better than nothing. Reports from RVers indicate that bandwidth is generally scarce at parks, and the folks travelling -- no matter their age -- are actually heavy email and cell phone users. Providing enough bandwidth at these location is an actual problem needing a solution, not just a marketing machine message....
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10:40:31 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
It's called "Wireless-G": SmallNetBuilder reports that Microsoft has officially launched its 802.11g gear, acknowledging that Broadcom is its partner. Chipsets from Atheros, however, are behind the Xbox wireless adapter....
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10:19:29 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Planet
This new WLAN switch startup says that several patents it owns used in its new products erase the RF interference found between typical access points.
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9:05:59 AM
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Source: InfoWorld
New products improve power consumption of 802.11a, 802.11g wireless networks
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8:21:21 AM
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Source: InfoWorld
Products aimed at rivals Cisco, Netgear, and D-Link in wireless market
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8:21:20 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Planet
Microsoft has returned to the wireless home networking market with new products using 802.11g -- including one tied in directly to the Xbox game console.
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8:09:40 AM
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Source: The Register
UK VoD experiment to offer unbundled broadband lines
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3:08:39 AM
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