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Friday, February 20, 2004 |
Source: Ziff Davis
IDF Spring 2004 Wrap Up
The issues sparking discussion at this year's IDF ranged from 64-bit extensions to DDR2 memory, from the digital home to ultrawideband wireless. Did you catch it all?
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4:24:45 PM 
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Source: Extremetech
IDF Spring 2004 Wrap Up
The issues sparking discussion at this year's IDF ranged from 64-bit extensions to DDR2 memory, from the digital home to ultrawideband wireless. Did you catch it all?
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4:24:44 PM
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Source: C|Net
For the U.S., a 3G wake-up call in Cannes
U.S. carriers were once ahead of global rivals in the race to offer third-generation wireless broadband services. Now Europe and Japan are in the lead, say execs gathering for next week's 3GSM Congress.
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1:40:43 PM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Update: TI Has Not Decided to Produce Chinese Standard Gear
A Texas Instruments spokeswoman said that a TI executive was misquoted in a mid-February article that said TI would launch products using China's proprietary Wi-Fi encryption scheme by June: We wrote earlier today about the possibility of the U.S. filing a WTO complaint about China's decision to only allow Wi-Fi gear that uses a proprietary encryption method, known as WAPI. In Mid-February, an article quoted TI and Atheros execs who said they'd build products to the Chinese standard. But a TI spokeswoman said that's not the case. "We are working with the U.S. government to resolve the WAPI issue with China and we hope to come to some resolution soon. We believe the best solution is for 802.11 products to continue to be sold and used in China using recognized standards that are worldwide, rather than country specific standards," the spokeswoman said. We've asked Atheros to clarify its position but Atheros hasn't responded to our questions yet....
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1:39:14 PM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
WTO Complaint an Option in Chinese Wi-Fi
According to a Reuters story, the U.S. isn't currently planning to file an official complaint against China over its proprietary encryption technology: But an unnamed official said the U.S. hasn't ruled out such a complaint. In the mean time, the official said the U.S. government is using other means to pressure China to change its plans. The story also notes that the Wi-Fi Alliance says that no U.S. chipmaker has agreed to comply with China's requirements, though some are exploring the requirements. A story that ran in the middle of February, however, quotes TI and Atheros executives saying that they are working on products based on the Chinese standard. More on this to come....
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10:19:33 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
InStat Says AT&T Wireless/NTT 3G Commitment Off
InStat says DoCoMo will retreat from enforcing its requirement that AT&T Wireless install 3G service in four U.S. cities by 2005: Analyst Alan Nogee wrote in a recent newsletter (apparently not archived online) that NTT DoCoMo will write off what he describes as a $3 billion loss, and that the equipment that AT&T Wireless had contracted for has probably not even been shipped yet. The W-CDMA flavor that AT&T Wireless would have to deploy in the U.S. is unique. Other reports indicated that DoCoMo faced a $10 billion cash loss from its investment and much higher paper losses, and that the amount in questions was over $6 billion that AT&T Wireless would have to repay if it failed to meet the 3G target buildout. Nogee's comments in a newsletter dated today directly contradict a report earlier this week at internetnews.com in which they interviewed the principals....
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9:58:04 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Suburban Chicago Libraries Have Wi-Fi
Lincolnshire's Vernon Area library will start offering free Wi-Fi access in March, joining a handful of other libraries in Chicago's suburbs: This story lists a number of other locations in the area including Kinko's and Starbucks that charge for Wi-Fi access but also says that the Westfield Shoppingtown Hawthorn mall is covered by a free hotspot....
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9:16:03 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Asia Grows Fastest
Researchers at BWCS found that the Asia-Pacific region saw the most dramatic increase in hotspots last year: In 2002, Asia had 1,953 hotspots and in 2003 that number grew to 21,308. Korea Telecom is the most ambitious, with over 10,000 hotspots and 300,000 Wi-Fi subscribers. The study also cites hotspot growth over the year in Australia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore....
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8:54:43 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
TeliaSonera Roams with Orange
TeliaSonera HomeRun continues to expand roaming with partnership with France's Orange network: HomeRun now has roaming access to 3,000 locations in 16 countries through a single login with unified billing for their customers, plus the 450 Swedish and 250 Finnish hotspots in their home network. These are all bilateral roaming agreements, which opens HomeRun to those networks' users. They're also all pay for usage based, as I understand it: it's just a negotiated, single-billed rate for roaming....
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7:21:23 AM
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