Posted on May 23rd, 2007 by ElectroGeek
The Apple iPhone, due out next month, has been breathlessly hailed as offering consumers the ultimate wireless experience.
It also could give AT&T, its exclusive U.S. distributor, the ultimate experience for a wireless carrier: an easy way to handcuff rivals and steal customers.
AT&T has exclusive U.S. distribution rights for five years — an eternity in the [...]
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Posted on May 22nd, 2007 by ElectroGeek
Mobile units turn rent-a-cars into rolling hot spots
Avis Rent A Car System has made good on its January 2007 promise to offer mobile Wi-Fi Internet access in its vehicles.
The rental car agency has launched the service this week for renters at San Francisco International Airport, with plans to roll out the service in San Jose, [...]
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Posted on May 16th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
After the incredible success of the RAZR came a range of updates including different colours, the original 3G RAZR, the new slim 3G RAZR, the KRZR and the RIZR – but the RAZR 2 is the true next-gen update we’ve all been waiting for!
Officially titled the Motorola RAZR2 V9, you’ll undoubtedly see it written up [...]
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Posted on May 9th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
When you’re firmly in the lead, you can coast for quite a while before falling behind the competition. The Palm Treo 755p certainly has momentum in terms of ease of use, power, and the success of Palm’s celebrated Treo 700p. For the 755p, Palm sawed off the antenna and slimmed down the body somewhat. That [...]
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Posted on May 2nd, 2007 by ElectroGeek
The Motorola laptop card, designed for Clearwire’s WiMAX network, fits into a standard Type II card slot on a laptop PC, and will give users high-speed wireless access to the Internet over WiMAX networks. Clearwire is busy putting up WiMAX networks throughout the U.S., while Sprint-Nextel is also on the job, building its own mobile [...]
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Posted on April 21st, 2007 by ElectroGeek
Equipment based on the emerging 802.16e standard is leading the way
Mobile WiMax, hyped for years by Intel Corp. and other vendors, has turned a corner toward reality, according to industry observers.
Mobile technology is outpacing the licensed wireless broadband market overall, and gear based on the emerging IEEE 802.16e mobile WiMax standard is leading the way, [...]
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Posted on April 18th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
Intel has announced that it will ship its first dual-mode Wi-Fi and WiMax chip in the second quarter of 2008, as part of its forthcoming Montevina platform aimed at mini-notebooks.
Also at the IDF show in Beijing, Intel confirmed the arrival of its Ultra Mobile platform 2007, codenamed McCaslin, the first example of which is Samsung’s [...]
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Posted on April 18th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
Research In Motion’s massive BlackBerry e-mail outage this week highlights how vulnerable the company’s network has become as it tries to keep up with demand for its popular service.
Research In Motion did not provide details of what caused the outage, which left millions of BlackBerry subscribers without access to e-mail on Tuesday evening and into [...]
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Posted on March 28th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
EM-SEC Technologies Announces Successful Test of
Wireless-Blocking “Paint”
EM-SEC Coating Creates an “Electromagnetic Fortress” that Safeguards Businesses and Government Facilities from Wireless Attacks
EM-SEC Technologies, LLC announced that the tests performed around the perimeter of their “painted” SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility) yielded successful results for the protection of wireless devices and other electronic [...]
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