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Sprint has rolled out a new service that leverages broadband networks to let Sprint cellular customers use their existing phones to make calls in places where they have weak or nonexistent cellular signals. For home users, that might be the basement, bathroom or backyard. The new service, called "Ai...
Look closely next time you stop at a traffic light -- it could contain an access point for a wireless mesh network. Multiple applications are being developed for wireless mesh networks to enable users in the vicinity to bounce video, audio, text and other signals among their devices. Public utilitie...
EarthLink has bowed out of its agreement to build a network that would provide free WiFi in San Francisco. The news follows the company's announcement this week that it is eliminating 900 jobs -- half its workforce -- and closing offices in four cities, including San Francisco. The beleaguered WiFi ...
The Los Angeles Police Department has come a long way from relying on walkie-talkies to hear descriptions of suspects on the run -- now they can watch video of crimes in progress in real time. Last year, the department installed 10 surveillance cameras and a multi-radio wireless broadband network, a...
WiFi has became pervasive. Not just laptops, but an arsenal of palmed-sized devices including smartphones, PDAs and mobile media players, now connect to the Internet using Wireless Fidelity technology. However, many users are clueless about security and connect to password-protected accounts and fin...
WiFi is not just for laptops anymore. All sorts of devices now connect to the Internet via Wireless Fidelity technology. Smartphones -- think Apple's iPhone, among others -- mobile media players and even gaming machines often come with WiFi features to enhance usability. At the same time, more and m...
Recent events have raised questions as to whether San Francisco's municipal WiFi project will ever reach completion. Indications both from the city and from EarthLink, which is developing the project, point to the sudden uncertainty. EarthLink Chief Executive Rolla Huff recently suggested the compan...
In an effort to leverage its growing WiMax mobile Internet initiative, Sprint has called on Google to collaborate on a new mobile portal. The two companies will work together to bring Sprint WiMax mobile Internet customers search, interactive communications and social networking tools that will incl...
Network connectivity has quickly and quietly become necessary -- and is sometimes even taken for granted -- in today's high-tech, instant-communications environment. With the emergence of next-generation networks has come the need to comply with new, more stringent information security regulations a...
With the emergence of wireless networking, ultra slim notebooks, PDAs and smartphones, mobile communications have quickly become an integral part of doing business. Mobile capabilities are set to take another leap forward with the introduction of new standards for wireless broadband wide- and local...
Enterprise IT departments are straining despite huge increases in network capacity in the past decade. There are growing concerns over bandwidth availability, interoperability and security, as online video, VoIP, social networking and on-demand application services proliferate. Network providers are...
Wireless networking continues to make inroads in metropolitan and rural areas across the U.S. as the development of 802.1x technologies and associated standards forges ahead. Wireless broadband and VoIP have both gained momentum and are moving inexorably forward. It's now possible to connect to the ...