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Inbox: iPhone ad, red boxes, wi-fi piggybacking, sci-fi thinking
Comment Wireless broadband users are failing to secure their connections against people who hijack wi-fi hotspots for their own means. The Advertising Standards Authority has banned an ad for the iPhone that promised users... [04 Sep 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Why your broadband's so slow
Comment These days home and office users are able to order and install their broadband connections unaided. So real broadband is coming? I first became aware of this in the US where companies such as Verizon are... [03 Sep 2008]
WLAN (IEEE 802.11B) and WMAN (802.16A) Broadband Wireless Access: When Opportunities Drive Solutions
White Paper In April 2002, the IEEE Standard 802.16 was approved, a standard that focuses on broadband wireless access in metropolitan area networks (WirelessMAN). The Institute of Electrical and Electronics... [02 Sep 2008]
WiMAX Overview and MCI Perspective
White Paper The WiMAX Forum is an industry group formed to promote and certify radio systems based on the recently completed IEEE 802.16 broadband wireless access standard. As envisioned by proponents, WiMAX... [02 Sep 2008]
What's Missing From DSL?
White Paper In the four years since the enactment of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, DSL has firmly established itself as a broadband local access alternative. But is DSL access truly... [02 Sep 2008]
Warning over wi-fi 'piggybackers'
News According to a survey by moneysupermarket.com, a large number of Brits are exposed to 'piggybacking' - where broadband users connect to someone else's wireless router to gain access to the internet -... [29 Aug 2008]
Home broadband gives kids better GCSE results
News Becta, the organisation that advises the government on educational IT, says six years of its research have established a strong link between educational attainment and access to technology - especially when it comes to... [28 Aug 2008]
Third of UK homes still without web access
News Overall, more than half (56 per cent) of UK homes now have broadband internet access - an increase of five percentage points on 2007, according to the ONS report. While broadband... [27 Aug 2008]
Liverpool midwives cull paper with 3G laptops
News The midwives will be furnished with Dell D430 laptops sporting a Vodafone datacard for mobile broadband access and running Nortel's Secure Portable Office (SPO) to create a secure virtual desktop... [27 Aug 2008]
Mobile broadband threatening fixed line?
News Mobile broadband is encroaching on the business of fixed line ISPs, market research company YouGov is claiming. However the survey also shows evidence of dissatisfaction with the dongle experience: 11 per cent of... [20 Aug 2008]
CIOs rate MBAs
News AOL Broadband director of systems and operations Steve Clarke, said personally an MBA was no use, but might have been early on in his career. Steve Clarke, director of systems & operations, AOL Broadband [19 Aug 2008]
Google's lobby site ups US "white space" debate
News That said, much of the white space spectrum that will be available will be in sparsely populated rural areas where there are fewer TV broadcasters and little access to broadband. And because the spectrum... [19 Aug 2008]
Brits spending record time online
News Yet use of mobile phones, PC ownership, home access to the internet and broadband take-up were all lower than average in this age group. Broadband penetration also grew in the last year,... [14 Aug 2008]
£68m 'snooping' database: Little impact on serious crime
News Broadband from A to Z The legislation would mean that hundreds of public bodies licensed under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act - including local councils, health authorities and government agencies - will have... [13 Aug 2008]
Femtocells to save mobile operators over $5bn?
News It expects more than 40 million of the broadband-piggybacking indoor base station devices will be deployed by the end of 2013 - and reckons this installed base could help operators offload up to eight per cent of total... [13 Aug 2008]
