mobile technologies
Nokia, Qualcomm settle patent dispute
News Nokia, the world's biggest maker of mobile phones, and chipmaker Qualcomm announced yesterday they had entered into a new licensing agreement that settled all patent litigation between the two companies. [24 Jul 2008]
Flight booking checks into mobiles
News Justtheflight.co.uk, a flight booking website based in the Isle of Man, claims to be the first to launch a search-and-book facility for the mobile phone. The company, owned and operated by Online Retail Travel Group (ORTG), offers consumers the... [23 Jul 2008]
Workflow Partitioning in Mobile Information Systems
White Paper The increasing success of wireless technologies is sustaining the diffusion of mobile information systems, but the youth of the underlying technology and its peculiar characteristics are impacting the development of such systems. [23 Jul 2008]
EC shies away from data-roaming regulation
News Pointing to mobile applications and technologies such as the mobile office, field sales automation and telemetry, White said the idea of a single European business market needed to be supported by a single European telecoms market. [22 Jul 2008]
QoS-Enabled Internet-on-Train Network Architecture: Inter-Working by MMP-SCTP Versus MIP
White Paper Using real handover measurement data of several common broadband wireless technologies, the paper compares two possible inter-working mobility solutions: Mobile Multi-Path SCTP (MMP-SCTP) and Mobile IP (MIP). [18 Jul 2008]
An End-to-End QoS Framework for 4G Mobile Heterogeneous Environments
White Paper The IP protocol will glue multiple technologies, for both access and core network, in a common and scalable framework that will provide seamless communication mobility not only across those technologies, but also across different network operators. [18 Jul 2008]
Whitehall IT to be carbon neutral by 2020
News Mobile device consolidation also features as a green strategy, with the report advising: "Rather than a mobile phone and a PDA (e.g. IT should also play a major role in reducing emissions elsewhere in government by enabling more work to be done... [17 Jul 2008]
Security heading for the cloud
News Gartner said the increase in use of cloud-based office software, such as Google Apps or salesforce.com, means online security services will be necessary to protect mobile IT users accessing business data and services outside the corporate network. [17 Jul 2008]
ASAP: An Adaptive QoS Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
White Paper However, to support QoS in Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs) is more challenging than in fixed and last-hop wireless access networks. With the increasing widespread use of wireless technologies, the need arises for QoS provisioning mechanisms for... [17 Jul 2008]
NAC 2.0: A new model for a more secure future
White Paper New pressures from a constantly changing threat environment and an increasingly mobile workforce require a new NAC model that will offer more finely controlled network access, an increased agility of response, and a better focus on network... [15 Jul 2008]
Unified Communications Pocket Guide
White Paper Emerging technologies, including fixed mobile convergence (FMC), presence, IM, and video -- the components of UC VoIP technologies and standards This comprehensive guide, intended for technical IT staff, voice system managers, and CIOs, provides a... [14 Jul 2008]
A Study on the Feasibility of Mobile Gateways for Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks
White Paper Vehicles with Wireless LAN radios can use other vehicles with both Wireless LAN and Cellular radios as mobile gateways and connect to the outside world. Development in Wireless LAN and Cellular technologies has motivated recent efforts to integrate... [11 Jul 2008]
Prediction Based Routing for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
White Paper Vehicles with only WLAN radios can use other vehicles that have both WLAN and WWAN radios as mobile gateways and connect to the Internet while on the road. Existing routing protocols which are widely used for mobile ad hoc networks are reactive in... [11 Jul 2008]
Introducing Reliability and Load Balancing in Mobile IPv6 Based Networks
White Paper With the recent advances in portable devices and wireless networks, a new paradigm of computing has emerged which is known as mobile computing. In general mobile computing can be seen as an integration of portable device and networks that support... [10 Jul 2008]
Issues in the Usage of MANETs as Backup or Load-Balancing Transit Networks of the Internet
White Paper Internetworking the Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANETs) with the Internet has been a hot issue for many years. Although the MANETs capacity is currently low compared with other backbone technologies, this paper argues that MANETs is a suitable... [10 Jul 2008]
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