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Google 'wireless coverage' across Silicon Valley
The free wireless Internet service in Silicon Valley, California, where Google is headquartered, was officially used on August 16, after 9 months of testing.
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The new generation Wi-Fi standard has been postponed to 2008
802.11n technology, which allows laptops to connect to wireless access points faster and safer, will not be available soon. This makes many notebook manufacturing compan…
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81% of Alvarion's device-integrated WiMAX networks
Sky Light Research, a wireless broadband technology analytics company, has just released a report on the WiMAX market in 2005, saying Alvarion has a market share of 81%…
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Intel confirmed the Centrino Wi-Fi vulnerability
The world's leading chip maker has just suggested that some bugs in Centrino's wireless connectivity technology risk remote exploits by hackers and disseminating malicio…
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Verizon Wireless develops new technologies for wireless platforms
Verizon Wireless, a joint venture between Verizon Communications Inc. and Vodafone Group Plc on July 27 said they are developing new technologies for next-generation wir…
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Rosedale 2 - Intel's next-generation Wimax silicon device
Intel's next generation WIMAX silicon device, codenamed Rosedale 2, was selected by the world's top 10 WiMAX equipment vendors to offer new generation solutions for WiMA…
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Wireless networks are easy to crack
Security firm McAfee warns wireless networks are vulnerable to hackers' attacks, even if encryption is enabled.
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The new wireless card reaches speeds of 270 Mbps
Dell's 1500 Draft 802.11n product, introduced yesterday, is five times faster and has twice the coverage of today's popular 802.11g Wi-Fi standard. Along with that is a…
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China tightens the wireless service sector
The Ministry of Information and Technology of China (MII) has decided to tighten wireless service provision activities in the country by accusing 102 companies of illega…
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D-Link product has a buffer overflow error
In a warning message issued yesterday (July 18), security firm eEye Digital Security said hackers could exploit this security flaw to execute binary code or take full co…
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Wireless chips with matchboxes store 100 pages of text
Experts at HP's lab have successfully developed a tiny wireless data chip that can store up to 100 pages of text.
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High-speed wireless chips are just as small as rice grains
After four years of research, HP computer experts have successfully developed mini wireless data chips that can store 100 pages of text at speeds of up to 10 Mbps.
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Deploy telecommunications network in Pakistan
Wateen Telecom, a member of Warid Telecom International, has chosen Motorola as its first provider in the planning, design and deployment of wireless broadband data and…
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Upgrade wireless network security
Do you think the wireless network that I am using is really safe? It is better to reconsider this issue. The latest Wi-Fi security standard, called Wireless Protected Ac…
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Intel invests heavily in wireless Internet
Yesterday (July 5), Intel announced it would invest US $ 600 million in wireless Internet access companies to promote the development of this type of access technology.