Wednesday | 9 July, 2008
Stories by: Peter Judge
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How important is the 3GPP femto standard? 11 June, 2008 11:54:47
Last week's announcement of a standard for femto cells took a lot of people by surprise. How did it happen so fast, and how important will it be? And are there other issues that might cause problems in future? - +
Femto cells get a surprise standard 06 June, 2008 08:40:45
Operators and vendors have agreed a standard which could speed up the arrival of femtocells -- the indoor base stations which are designed to improve coverage of 3G networks indoors by piggy-backing on home and office broadband. - +
Low energy Bluetooth breaks cover 28 April, 2008 11:44:15
Bluetooth's low-power variant could be everywhere starting next year, and other low-power networking options had better watch out, say the new standard's backers. - +
Ruckus launches enterprise 802.11n mesh 23 April, 2008 09:42:32
Ruckus Wireless has added an enterprise-scale controller to its 802.11n wireless LAN and delivered mesh - which it claims can outperform other vendors' equipment, while only using the 2.4GHz Wi-Fi spectrum. - +
Ruckus does 2.4GHz-only business 802.11n 10 March, 2008 08:43:12
Ruckus Wireless has launched enterprise wireless LAN equipment that complies with the emerging 802.11n standard - but is reserving its dual-band equipment for service providers for now. - +
NEC announces femtocells and proposes a standard 07 February, 2008 07:55:46
NEC has thrown its hat into the femtocell ring, with an indoor base station, and has proposed a femto technology standard to the Femto Forum. - +
Siemens claims 802.11n power problem cracked 24 January, 2008 12:10:05
Siemens is launching a wireless LAN system that it claims can run full 802.11n on normal power over Ethernet, but refuses to divulge how it has managed a trick that is beyond other players including Cisco. - +
WiMax plans 3G-killer option 18 January, 2008 08:48:17
Equipment vendors are quietly working on a WiMax technology that could challenge options for cellular telecoms networks, by allowing the technology out of its small spectrum "ghetto," into the main 3G band due to be allocated this year. - +
Aruba buys multi-vendor WLAN firm AirWave 10 January, 2008 08:13:15
Enterprise Wi-Fi vendor Aruba Networks is going to buy AirWave Wireless, a multi-vendor WLAN management company, in a bid to take business from Cisco. The purchase may prove awkward for rival companies who work with Airwave. - +
Xirrus offers free Vista Wi-Fi security tool 29 November, 2007 08:54:15
Wi-Fi switch maker Xirrus is doing a good turn to Microsoft Vista users - a tool that monitors the status and security of Wi-Fi connections. - +
RIM working on iPhone rival 26 November, 2007 07:00:38
RIM, once the maker of the most corporate-looking handhelds, is rumored to be working on a touch-screen phone that will compete with the iPhone and - for the first time on a BlackBerry - have no hard keyboard.
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The last of our panel sessions recorded live at CeBIT 2008. Today, the topic is storage. Data is growing at an enormous rate, so what does the future hold?
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YouTube stars gather in Boston, a laptop is gone in 90 seconds, a look at new robots, a tearful farewell to Bill Gates and a look inside a cable laying ship.
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Zepto release the Mythos, the 2nd installment in the Centrino 2 refresh 09 July, 2008 12:05:00
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With the help of Oakton, V/Line - Victoria's regional public transport provider - utilised Microsoft SQL Server 2008 to develop an Executive HR Dashboard report.
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