WiFi tag

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In-car P2P solution streams video in vehicles going 100mph

This from the weird & wacky. The Public Safety Broadband Consortium, a group that includes InfiNet Wireless, Lockheed Martin Information Technology, Public Safety Broadband and Wi-Fi Citywide, will be demonstrating the use of live streaming video from law enforcement vehicles... Full Story

Posted on October 24, 2006 10:10 AM

Panasonic to launch Skype WiFi phone

Panasonic plans to launch a new Skype WiFi phone. This now makes six major partners producing WiFi devices with Skype bundled on them out of the box. Panasonic, NETGEAR, Belkin, SMC, Edge-Core and the Sony Mylo. The Panasonic Phone will... Full Story

Posted on September 1, 2006 10:12 AM

D-Link VWR Vonage device packs 4-in-1

Vonage and D-Link announced the availability of the VWR, a Wireless-B/G Broadband Router with 2 phone ports bundled with Vonage's service. The product leverages the Texas Instruments' TNETV1060 VoIP gateway chipset for QoS and good voice quality. The D-Link VWR... Full Story

Posted on August 23, 2006 7:27 AM

Paragon hipi dual-mode GSM phone

Paragon Wireless released the world first commercial GSM/VoWLAN dual-mode smart phone, hipi, in March 2006 and was my pick to be a winner in this years' TMC Labs Innovation Awards. With a tri-band GSM/GPRS (Class 10) radio and an IEEE... Full Story

Posted on July 23, 2006 11:18 PM

WiJET.e gadget streams DVD video over WiFi

The new WiJET.e from Pegasus Wireless Corporation is a cool new wireless video streaming gadget that can connect to your home entertainment system and stream 5.1 surround sound audio and high definition video (up to 2048 x 1536) in real... Full Story

Posted on July 20, 2006 11:12 AM

Linksys WIP330 Wireless-G IP Phone Review

RatingsScoreInstallationDocumentationFeaturesUsabilityValuePerformanceOverallThe Linksys WIP330 Wireless-G IP Phone is one of the coolest gadgets I've tested in awhile. Linksys sent me a WIP330 for a product review two weeks ago and I played around with it quite a bit, but just never... Full Story

Posted on June 12, 2006 2:39 PM

Siemens, Time Warner Cable Successfully Demo IMS

According to my ABI Research Daily newsletter, Siemens and Time Warner Cable have successfully demo'ed IMS which will certainly usher in the promise of a converged blend of personalized wireless and fixed consumer services, bringing entertainment, telephones, Internet applications and... Full Story

Posted on May 3, 2006 4:16 PM

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,... Full Story

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... Full Story

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? :(... Full Story

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... Full Story

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... Full Story

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... Full Story

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... Full Story

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... Full Story

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... Full Story

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... Full Story

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... Full Story

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... Full Story

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... Full Story

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... Full Story

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... Full Story

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.... Full Story

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... Full Story

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... Full Story

Posted on August 8, 2004 5:26 PM