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Samsung chief steps down after tax indictment

News Photos: Australian broadband goes for a deep-sea dive Photos: Introducing - the world's lightest mobile phone The group's products range from computer chips and mobile phones to supertankers. South Korea's most powerful businessman said yesterday...

Tags: ceo, samsung, tax

[22 Apr 2008]

Microsoft Office 2007 fails to conform with OOXML

News Photos: Australian broadband goes for a deep-sea dive Photos: Introducing - the world's lightest mobile phone Word documents generated by today's version of Microsoft Office 2007 do not conform to the Office Open XML standard under development by...

Tags: microsoft, office, word, ooxml

[21 Apr 2008]

Red Hat: Linux consumer desktop not on the cards

News Photos: Australian broadband goes for a deep-sea dive Photos: Introducing - the world's lightest mobile phone Red Hat has quashed speculation that it was planning a consumer desktop version of Linux to compete with Windows, saying it is focused on...

Tags: linux, red hat, microsoft, eye

[21 Apr 2008]

O2 to launch mobile broadband offering

News O2 will launch its mobile broadband service on Friday, becoming the last major UK operator to do so. O2's pricing for its mobile broadband service is not the most expensive - Orange charges £25 per month for a similar deal - but it does come with...

Tags: dongle, mobile, broadband, o2

[17 Apr 2008]

Microsoft invites hobbyist developers to light a spark

News Photos: Australian broadband goes for a deep-sea dive Photos: Introducing - the world's lightest mobile phone Microsoft is trying to foster more interest in embedded software, encouraging amateur developers to experiment with programmable...

Tags: developers, microsoft

[17 Apr 2008]

Delivering a High-Performance Mobile Broadband Experience

whitepaper Meet Amp'd Mobile. Want to know about large volume transactions and content delivery in a mission-critical, high-availability Web environment? The assignment: Build a Website; an e-commerce platform with order fulfillment and integration to a third...

Tags: knowledge and data management, amp, availability, learn

[17 Apr 2008]

Surf's up with ferry wi-fi

News The Moovera Networks ruggedised wi-fi access points link to T-Mobile's broadband network and will also feature built in GPS for real-time positioning. Wightlink Isle of Wight Ferries will offer 3.6Mbps wireless broadband access on its eight car...

Tags: wireless, broadband, wi-fi

[15 Apr 2008]

Telecommunications Leader Provides New Opportunities With Subscription Computing

whitepaper In recent years, Slovak Telekom sought to broaden its market for broadband Internet, especially among households and small businesses that did not have a modern PC or broadband connections. The telecommunications company joined the Microsoft...

Tags: broadband

[14 Apr 2008]

WiMax to pip LTE 3G at the post?

News Raising the example of Korea, he noted the availability of models which combine both HSDPA (high-speed downlink packet access) and WiBro (wireless broadband) functionality. LTE is touted as the successor to the existing UMTS (Universal Mobile...

Tags: 4g, 3g, wimax

[11 Apr 2008]

Proposal of Adaptive Downlink Modulation Using OFDM and MC-CDMA for Future Mobile Communications System

whitepaper To meet the strong demand for broadband multimedia services by both nomadic and mobile users, it is important to increase the bit rate of future mobile communications systems. In this paper, an adaptive downlink modulation using OFDM and MC-CDMA is...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, capacity, mobile communications, system capacity

[10 Apr 2008]

Multimedia Satellite Networks and TCP/IP Traffic Transport

whitepaper At these frequencies satellite networks are able to provide broadband services requiring wider bandwidth than the current services at C or Ku-band. Most of the next generation broadband satellite systems will use ATM or ATM like switching with...

Tags: quality of service, rate, policies, tcp

[10 Apr 2008]

BT: EU must harmonise telecoms to save cash

News Broadband from A-Z… One of the Commission's chief goals in this is the harmonisation of telecoms services - particularly things such as service levels and ubiquitous broadband access - across the continent.

Tags: eu, ec, telecoms, bt

[08 Apr 2008]

3.5G gizmos mushrooming forth

News The number of 3.5G devices on the market is mushrooming with 150 per cent annual growth in HSDPA gizmos, according to stats from GSM/3G supplier association the Global Mobile Suppliers Association (GSA).

Tags: mobile broadband, 3.5g, hsdpa

[07 Apr 2008]

Ofcom primes WiMax spectrum auction

News Ofcom has released details of the largest spectrum auction to date, which will make available a swathe of spectrum suitable for mobile broadband and advanced wireless services via WiMax and 3G tech. However Ofcom notes there are a number of...

Tags: mobile broadband, ofcom, wimax, spectrum

[07 Apr 2008]

'Super-3Gs' get connected via the Gobi

News Greg Raleigh, vice president of product management for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies, said: "The Gobi solution enables enterprise users and consumers with the freedom of being untethered from wi-fi hotspots and connecting to the internet using...

Tags: hp, wireless, lenovo, dell

[07 Apr 2008]

Generic Access Network Dual-Mode Services: Architectural and Security Implications

whitepaper By extending GSM voice and data services over the wireless broadband connection in subscribers' homes, mobile operators can take advantage of similar favorable economics enjoyed by VoIP-over-broadband providers.

Tags: access technologies

[03 Apr 2008]

Mobile industry slams 'health time bomb' study

News Broadband from A-Z… The mobile industry has hit back at a neurosurgeon's study that claimed there is evidence of a link between mobile phones and certain types of brain tumour. Entitled Mobile Phone-Brain Tumour: Public Health Advisory, the study...

Tags: study, health, mobile

[02 Apr 2008]

WiMax to make it as a 'last-mile' broadband tech?

News WiMax could be used as a 'last mile' substitute tech for DSL broadband by 47 million people within five years, says a new report by analyst Juniper Research. The report, entitled The Last Mile: Opportunities for WiMAX, 2008-2013, says the global...

Tags: dsl, broadband, wimax

[01 Apr 2008]

Mobile Broadband

whitepaper Mobile broadband, based on 3G (third generation) wireless broadband technologies, now provides much greater performance than in the past, with average download rates of 400-700kbps, or about 50x faster than earlier networks.

Tags: broadband

[28 Mar 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 28.03.08

Round-Up Meanwhile, back on the ground and travellers flying with British Airways (BA) and other Oneworld alliance airlines will soon be able to access wireless broadband for free in UK airport lounges. It's a veritable cornucopia of mobile and wireless...

Tags: ofcom, wi-fi, train, plane

[28 Mar 2008]

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