Wireless

There’s a new announcement from Samsung and T-Mobile: the Samsung Katalyst will support the T-Mobile HotSpot @HomeSM service. Of course, this will be in addition to the extra fee added on a customers bill for the @Home service:
“Samsung and T-Mobile USA today announced the availability of the new Samsung Katalyst (SGH-t739). The Katalyst adds a [...]

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It’s almost here, folks. The WiMax chipset from Intel is coming up sooner than many of you might think!

What can I say, those mobile carriers really want to have that wireless access! And who are to argue, it helps us all out.

Even though I ripped on this sort of thing in a recent GnomeREPORT, I stand by the belief that it will run into problems back here in the States.

Verizon Wireless and Korean game maker WiderThan are teaming up to bring you some more action packed fun to your phone. Get It Now will make available CubeTrix and Crazyball for download to Verizon enabled mobile devices. Describing Crazyball as “a modernized version of the classic ‘Pong’ video game,” users will be able [...]

Once again, we hear all about the WiMAX promise, yet I am still waiting for some concrete substance or proof of concept ready for the PUBLIC eye.

Panasonic has shown off its new cordless phone with built-in Skype at CeBIT. Based on the popular KX-TG9000 phone, this phone will allow “some European” customers to plug in an RJ-45 cable into the phones base and just dial a Skype user. No Wi-Fi, no PC, no hassles. The phone also supports [...]

All the mom-and-pop coffee shops offer free Wi-Fi. In fact, most everyone does except Starbucks. The Seattle-based coffee house gets its hotspot piped in by T-Mobile. It’s been reported for years that store managers at Starbucks has been complaining to upper management for a while about losing business because customers don’t want [...]

The man who has all the power in the world to shut down the largest messaging tool in the United States has done…nothing. U.S. District Judge James Spencer adjourned the NTP vs RIM case with no decision. But the judge didn’t leave the press wondering what he thought as he did express “skepticism” [...]

OK, admit it. Having the ability to carry your own mobile WiFi unit with you and therefore ensuring that you can create a wireless network anywhere you go is pretty darn cool, no?

I guess Google’s too busy making sure Chinese citizens can’t find stories on VPs shooting friends by accident while duck hutting to have enough resources to focus on San Francisco’s free city Wi-Fi deal. So today, Google’s partner spilled the beans onto the world, wired and wirelessly, and announced that it, EarthLink, would assist [...]

Donald Trump’s got the casinos, the real estate, the TV show, and now a wireless transmitter on top of Trump Towers in New York that will send a 90 minute video to another tower a mile away in 6 seconds. Ya, the guys got it all, doesn’t he?
GigaBeam is showing off its new point-to-point [...]

Living in San Jose most of my life, I was hard pressed to find even a point something of dead air on the radio. Man, from 88.1 up to 107.7, it was packed. Trying to use an FM modulator on anything was fruitless. I found out Silicon Valley wasn’t the only one [...]

Watch out, but Intel has ambitions of hitting the 1Gbps playing field with wireless USB by 2010. According to the USB 2.0, Hi Speed USB FAQ on Everything USB, question nine kinda slips in the fact that Intel’s roadmap states it feels that it will have wireless USB streaming at a blazing speed of [...]

Looking to see what’s causing interference to your Wi-Fi connection? Need to see if it’s that pesky microwave of yours or bleeding signals from your neighbors? How about problems coming from cordless phones? Baby monitors can be an issue with the 2.4GHz range, too.

 Looks like IBM isn’t going to sell it’s notebook division and die in the mobile PC world completely.  Nope, its just shown off a “revolutionary” Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) chipset that will allow folks like you and I to connect to other computers at gigaspeeds from a little tiny chip one day!  It’s a [...]

Everyone’s seen the fake e-mail about Congress debating a bill to tax e-mail but now comes news of a real tax proposal that could effect ever laptop and home user with 802.11.  President Bush’s 2007 Budget has a measure in it to tax “un-auctioned” radio signals.  Auctioned signals are those sold off by the Federal [...]

Dude, looking to extend your wireless a bit further then a few hundred feet?  Really want to impress the entire block and dish out a free and insecure wireless signal for all to use?  What?  Forget the block, you want the neighborhood?!  Well my friend, head on over to QuickerTek cause they got a transceiver that [...]

Who said Chi-town is the place to be in Illinois? Just a bit away from the windy city, Illinois third largest city, Rockford, will be going with a muni wireless network. Bringing two private companies, Airpath Wireless and ROC-net Services, in to make it all happen, Rockford will first spread the 8o2.11 signals [...]