WiFi tag
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Simultaneous WiFi, EVDO, Bluetooth, GSM, VoIP on a cell phone
Is simultaneous WiFi, EVDO, Bluetooth, GSM, VoIP on a cell phone just a pipe dream? One of the problems with cellphones today which currently support WiFi, Bluetooth, broadband data (e.g. EVDO), and a cellular wireless voice standard (3G, CDMA, GSM,...
Posted on April 11, 2006 4:00 PM
ZyXEL dual-mode GSM/WiFi phone
ZyXEL has a dual-mode GSM/WiFi handset phone coming out soon running Windows Mobile 5.0 and will feature a removable SIM card for use with any carrier that supports GSM. The real kicker is that it will also have Skype pre-installed...
Posted on February 1, 2006 6:12 AM
Philips VP5500 WiFi VoIP phone launches
The Philips VP5500 WiFi VoIP phone was announced way back in September 2005 and it was finally launched today in the Netherlands of all places. No offense Netherlands, but how come you get first dibs on this cool phone? :(...
Posted on January 23, 2006 4:23 PM
WiFi and GPS to solve e911 issue
A few companies are leveraging both WiFi and GPS to pinpoint a location during an emergency, such as an e911 emergency phone call. How does WiFi wireless help pinpoint a location, you ask? Simple, it uses a similar concept to...
Posted on January 3, 2006 12:25 PM
Bellsouth the Grinch Who Stole Christmas
According to the Washington Post, "hours after New Orleans officials announced Tuesday that they would deploy a city-owned, wireless Internet network in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, regional phone giant BellSouth Corp. withdrew an offer to donate one of its...
Posted on December 5, 2005 10:06 AM
New SMC Turbo Powerline networking products
Today, SMC Networks announced the shipment of the newest additions to its family of HomePlug 1.0-compatible products, making SMC the first major networking vendor to ship 85Mbps Powerline networking products. Powerline network products let you use your electrical outlets for...
Posted on November 16, 2005 12:27 PM
SMC MIMO enabled wireless routers
Well, it's not an SMC Networks "IP-PBX announcment" like I joked about earlier today in my D-Link SMB IP-PBX post, but SMC Networks has some news about MIMO (multiple input, multiple-output) technology I thought I'd share.SMC Networks (www.smc.com) announced today...
Posted on November 15, 2005 2:23 PM
Samsung BCS IP-PBX goes wireless
Samsung Business Communication Systems (BCS) has a new OfficeServ Wireless application. Running on Samsung's iDCS 500 IP-enabled, iDCS 100 IP-enabled, and the recently introduced OfficeServ 7200 platform, OfficeServ Wireless is designed to bring WiFi VoIP to the enterprise. The most...
Posted on October 17, 2005 11:38 AM
Free WiFi a God given right?
I was just checking out Ubergizmo, and they posted a story about the San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom declaring that Wifi connectivity is a 'fundamental right', the equal of food, clothing, and shelter. This is the same mayor who shortly...
Posted on October 4, 2005 9:22 AM
Secure WiMAX VPN
Wireless security provider Columbitech has announced news on how it helps secure roaming and single log-in capabilities within WiMax and various other networks. Similar to WiFi, WiMAX is a shared network, only with a much larger distance radius. Thus, there...
Posted on September 27, 2005 10:48 AM
JiWire WiFi toolbar
Cool new WiFi hotspot finder utilizing a software toolbar. I'll have to download and check it out.JiWire, the leading provider of information and services to help people connect to the Internet without wires, today unveiled its new WiFi toolbar for...
Posted on September 27, 2005 12:00 AM
Google's Free WiFi?
Rumor is that Google is planning to offer free nationwide WiFi. According to Om's B2Day, San Francisco's mayor Gavin Newsom will hold a press conference today detailing his plans for a citywide WiFi network.Om comments that this is "adding fuel...
Posted on August 16, 2005 1:00 PM
Rotani Solves WiFi Interference
Rotani claims to have solved the issue of WiFi interference, thus allowing for better performance for gaming, video streaming, and VoIP applications. In fact, they told TMC, "AirReferee is a turnkey access point reference design, providing the uninterrupted throughput needed...
Posted on August 10, 2005 11:51 AM
France Telecom and Microsoft team up
According to Reuters, Microsoft and France Telecom are teaming up to offer various communication services, including VoIP. Microsoft Corp. and France Telecom said on Wednesday the first product from their multimedia partnership was likely to be ready within a year...
Posted on July 7, 2005 12:55 PM
Packet8 E911 Real Emergency Phone Service for VoIP
Some E911 news from 8x8/Packet8. 8x8, Inc. (Nasdaq: EGHT) the Packet8 voice over internet protocol (VoIP) and videophone communications service provider, announced that the Enhanced 911 (E911) service it offers Packet8 subscribers, which mirrors that of legacy landline phone service...
Posted on May 12, 2005 4:50 PM
VON WiFi
I'm in the press room at VON and attempted to logon to VON's WiFi network. It asks you for your email address which must be in the VON registration database in order for you to access the show's WiFi network....
Posted on March 9, 2005 2:14 PM
WiFi VoIP
This ZDNet article quotes analyts at Infonetics Research about how slowly WiFi phones are being deployed. In the article, it states, "Despite suggestions that 2004 would see mass take-up of Wi-Fi phones, analysts are now saying said that it will...
Posted on February 10, 2005 10:13 AM
Are Hackers Stealing your Data via Wireless WiFi Signals?
Until I read this "Stealth wallpaper keeps company secrets safe | New Scientist" article, the only way I knew of to block external access to WiFi signals was to line the building's walls with aluminium foil, and use special glass...
Posted on August 8, 2004 5:26 PM
PCTEL WiFi Seeker review
PCTEL’S WiFi Seeker http://www.pctel.com I love Wi-Fi. I know have serious problems when I can be walking in a mall, down a street, a hotel lobby, an airport terminal, or in a store and wonder to myself “Hmmm, I...
Posted on July 13, 2004 4:16 PM
Free city-wide WiFi for Spokane
Here's some interesting news: MSNBC - City installs 100-block WiFi 'hot zone' Wow, free WiFi for an entire city? Boy, the writing sure is on the wall for cheap, ubiquitous broadband! Of course, if you get a greedy power user...
Posted on June 24, 2004 10:02 AM
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