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Nortel banks on 4G
Last week we reported of 4G developments in South Korea, but the Europeans are not standing still. Say what you will about Nortel, but the company puts its money where its mouth is: Last week the company sold its 3G access business to Alcatel so it could concentrate on developing OFDM-based 4G equipment for use in core operator networks. 4G mobile data services will offer up to 40 Mbps of bandwidth to end-users. Darryl Edwards, European president of Nortel, boldly told Computing …
Cellular is fighting back
A few months ago the venerable Economist ran a cover story on VoIP and similar services now being offered to consumers. The story contained dire predictions about the eroding economic basis of traditional telephony, proclaiming the coming end of telephony as we knew it.
Traditional telephony providers, though, are not just standing there waiting for the boom to be lowered. They are fighting back. As we wrote a few weeks ago, the main weapons in their armory are small …
RedZone's broadband plans for Maine
Rugged Maine has beautiful beaches, but not many broadband subscribers: About 21 percent of U.S. households have broadband connection, but in Maine only 15 percent of households have broadband. RedZone Wireless, a start-up located in Rockland, Maine, wants to change that. Because it is a local company, RedZone knows that the state has only one big city, Portland. Any broadband strategy must find a way to make money in rural areas and small towns. The company's approach, therefore, is to …
T-Mobile to offer dual mobile phone
T-Mobile has always looked a bit under-nourished and anemic next to its three sturdier sisters--Cingular, Verizon and Sprint Nextel. Still, these have been two good weeks for T-Mobile. Last week, both Paul Taylor of the Financial Times and Walter Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal offered rave reviews of the BlackBerry 8100, aka BlackBerry Pearl, RIM's latest offering. The Pearl, as is the case with its predecessors, offers a great e-mail feature, but adds to it video, …
Confidence in WLAN security grows
WiFi has many benefits, but since its inception the suspicion has lingered that security was not one of them. True, more and more users now feel confident about the security of their networks, but worries about security remain high on users' priorities.
Joanie Wexler reports that security concerns top the list of enterprise WLAN deployment challenges. Still, there is improvement here, since in 2006 "only" 70 percent of enterprise respondents ranked security as their most pressing …
SPOTLIGHT: Who will guard the guardians?
You may recall the story of a fire fighter in New Mexico a few years back who started a small forest fire so she could perform heroically--and receive the proper recognition for--bringing the fire under control. Trouble was, the weather conditions and wind patterns combined to make the fire spread out of control, to the point of threatening the nuclear labs at Los Alamos. Now we hear that some computer and network security specialists--especially, it would seem, if these specialists …
ALSO NOTED: Canada's largest WiFi zone goes online;Five 802.11n routers; and much more...
> Toronto Hydro has just switched on Canada's largest WiFi zone at the heart of the city's financial district. Report
> Bartlesville, Oklahoma also gets a downtown WiFi. Report
> See the review of five 802.11n routers.
> New …