O2 and IT partner IBM have revealed a back-up tape potentially containing customers'personal data has been lost,more than a year after it went missing in Ireland. The telecoms provider says IBM only informed it the tape,used for routine ...
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Nokia Siemens Networks is selling its optical networking business unit to private investment firm Marlin Equity Partners, the latest in a series of sell-offs as the vendor concentrates on mobile broadband networks. The two companies ...
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Marvell's upcoming 8864 chipset for the 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard can achieve gigabit speeds thanks to multiple antennas for reception and transmission, but wireless routers and access points based on the component won't arrive until the ...
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RF component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA has launched has introduced the AWB7129 small-cell power amplifier (PA), which is optimized for Band 8 WCDMA and LTE applications, including picocells, enterprise-class femtocells, and ...
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PC World-AT&T held onto its last place position in Consumer Reports ranking of the four major U.S.cellphone carriers.But the company can point to one bright spot in the annual ratings published by Consumer Reports Thursday:AT&Ts 4G service ...
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IDG News Service-Lenovo has delayed shipment of the highly anticipated ThinkPad Tablet 2,which will now become available to buyers in December. The 10.1-inch tablet,which comes with Microsoft's Windows 8 and an Intel Atom Z2760 ...
A plan by a satellite carrier to make better use of its spectrum could open up an extra channel for Wi-Fi in the U.S.,though how and when consumers would get to use it isn't yet clear. The proposal that satellite operator Globalstar ...
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Sprint announced Monday it has activated faster LTE wireless service in 11 more cities and counties, reaching a total of 43 markets. The new areas will continue to be expanded in the coming months. They are: Anderson, Muncie and South ...
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NTT DoCoMo,Japan's largest mobile provider,said Friday it will soon launch the world's first femtocells to support both 3G and LTE networks. The company said it will begin using the new femtocells commercially from next month on its ...
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IDG News Service-The initial public offering of Ruckus Wireless on Friday highlighted the growing importance of Wi-Fi in mobile networks as service providers try to meet the demands of smartphone and tablet users. Ruckus,a maker of Wi-Fi ...
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AT&T announced general availability of its Enhanced Push-to-Talk service on Tuesday,taking on Sprint's Direct Connect Now app as the carriers vie to attract users of the fading Nextel network. Nextel pioneered push-to-talk(PTT)long before ...
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IDG News Service-HTC and Verizon Wireless on Tuesday announced the Droid DNA smartphone,which comes with Android 4.1 and a 5-inch high-definition display that the company said is the most advanced in the market today. The Droid DNA ...
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IDG News Service-AT&T will start offering the first Windows RT tablet with LTE capabilities on Friday with prices beginning at US$499,the U.S.wireless carrier said on Tuesday. AT&T will offer Asus'VivoTab RT tablet,which has a 10.1-inch ...
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Acer has started shipping the C7 Chromebook netbook starting at$199 with Google's Chrome OS and Intel's Celeron processor. The low-power laptop has an 11.6-inch screen,and is for those who do most of their computing on the web,Acer said ...
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The schedule for the long-awaited, and much-delayed 4G spectrum auction has been finalised by communications regulator Ofcom, and could see further 4G services becoming available by next May. Mobile operators O2 and Vodafone are expected ...