The Wireless Broadband Alliance has announced that it is teaming up with the Small Cell Forum to deepen integration between Wi-Fi hotspots and licensed small cells. A number of companies already manufacture small cells that incorporate ...
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Tech watchers have had plenty to buzz about following Sandy, the superstorm that walloped the East Coast. From cell site outages to Wi-Fi network issues to a story on how to spot a fake storm photo, here's a roundup of what's been ...
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It really was apples-to-apples. The $100 million price differential between the Alcatel-Lucent and Cisco proposals to refresh California State University's 23-campus network that we wrote about earlier this week was based on an identical ...
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Computerworld - Apple today launched OS X Mountain Lion, the ninth version of the 11-year-old Mac operating system. As promised yesterday by the company's chief financial officer, Mac OS X 10.8, aka Mountain Lion, was released to the Mac ...
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Computerworld - With 15 million packages to sort each day, UPS workers are taking advantage of new wearable scanning technology that speeds up package loading and quickly transmits online tracking data to customers. Motorola Solutions ...
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IDG News Service - Softbank Mobile said Wednesday it will launch a new mobile router next week providing download speeds of up to 110Mbps on its LTE network. The Japanese company said the modem, made by Huawei Technologies, will also ...
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Three advocacy groups plan to file a formal complaint against AT&T, alleging the carrier is violating the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules for blocking a video-conferencing application on Apple's iPhones and ...
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Computerworld - The maker of Roomba, the robotic vacuum, has stepped up its game and Tuesday unveiled a 5-ft., 4-in.-tall, 140-pound "telemedicine" robot aimed at aiding hospital patients in emergency situations, especially during nighttime ...
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A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday reversed an order by the U.S. International Trade Commission that ruled that Nokia did not infringe two wireless cellular patents of InterDigital Technology Corporation. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the ...
Apple on Wednesday took the wraps off its new iPhone 5, which has a larger screen than its predecessors and works on high-speed LTE wireless networks. All Apple phones so far have had 3.5-inch screens, but the iPhone 5 has a 4-inch ...
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In some ways, the iPhone 5 is a significant technological step up over its predecessor with its two times faster A6 processor, longer battery life, larger scratch-proof sapphire glass lens cover, and LTE network support. So why no wireless ...
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New software from Web security specialists Blue Coat Systems allows companies to restrict what employees can do on their cellphones while logged into the corporate Wi-Fi. The software, which works with Blue Coat's ProxySG Web filtering ...
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Google has started shipping units of the highly anticipated Nexus 7 tablet, but multiple retailers said the tablet has sold out and that they are struggling to fill orders. GameStop has pulled the Nexus 7 tablet order page from its ...
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Japan's FujiFilm is suing Google's Motorola Mobility subsidiary over four patents associated with digital camera and photo technology in cellphones. The lawsuit has its roots in April 2011, when FujiFilm says it first notified Motorola ...
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Fabless semiconductor firm RFaxis Inc of Irvine,CA,USA,which designs RF semiconductors and embedded antenna solutions for the wireless connectivity and cellular mobility markets,has started sampling its latest 5GHz 802.11ac RF Front-end ...
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