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Qualcomm sues Nokia
The London weekly The New Statesman holds an annual competition for the most boring, platitudinous, boring, not-telling-us-anything-we-don't know-already newspaper headline. A couple of years ago, for example, a London Times headline won: "In India, wherever you go there are people." My contribution to the competition would be: "Qualcomm sues for patent infringement" (the good thing about this headline: You can use it every year). Qualcomm has earned a well-deserved …
counters privacy concerns about its WiFi
believes in the one-two approach. First, it will begin a phased roll out of a free wireless Internet access service in its home town of Mountain View, California, this summer. Second, while the company is still hammering out details with San Francisco officials for its citywide WiFi service there, it has already began a public relations campaign aiming to assuage the concerns more and more people have about the privacy aspects of the company's San Francisco deployment.
These …
Minority media group sues FCC over spectrum rules
The Minority Media & Telecommunications Council (MMTC) and two would-be designated entrants in the Federal Communication Commission's (FCC) planned August auction of wireless spectrum licenses have sued the FCC in federal court to stay recent changes to the auction rules and to delay the auction itself. In April the FCC tightened its rules to try and prevent what was becoming a common practice: Larger telecommunications companies using using smaller, rural, women- or minority-run …
Chicago aims to be the First City of muni-WiFi
The Second City has every intention of becoming the First City -- the first city of muni-WiFi, that is. CHICAGO plans to overtake Houston, Philadelphia, and San Francisco to become the biggest US municipality with city-wide wireless Internet access. Trouble is, skeptics suggest that the system may not work. "It's a leap of faith," says Yankee Group's Roberta Wiggins. "It's not really proven yet in a large place."
There currently about 300 US cities deploying or planning to …
Setback for Sacramento's WiFi network
Earthquakes, mud-slides, Congressman "Duke" Cunningham admits to taking millions of dollars in bribes and goes to jail: Any more bad news for California? In fact, yes: MobilePro is pulling out of a deal to set up a wireless network in Sacramento, the state's capital, saying the city's request for a network funded entirely through advertising is not financially feasible. The Maryland-based company had worked with Sacramento officials for more than a year on the proposal to cover the city …
SPOTLIGHT: Do-it-yourself WiMAX
You knew it would come: WiMAX pioneer Alvarion last week unveiled inexpensive, self-installable indoor WiMAX CPE. "It's cheap and easy to install," said Carlton O'Neal, Alvarion's vice president of marketing. "We think this is a breakthrough. It enables you to go mainstream with WiMAX." The CPE, called the BreezeMAX Si, features simple plug-and-play installation and will lead to nomadic and portable services. O'Neal said the CPE is the size of "a one-slice bagel toaster" and will be …
ALSO NOTED: First also noted headline; second headline; and much more...
> TAGSYS announced it has developed a WiFi-enabled handheld, item-level RFID reader designed to improve inventory tracking and management for libraries. Report.
> Mitel unveiled today its new generation of IP phones and accessories. …