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Evaluating Interference in Wireless LANs: Recommend Practice

whitepaper After all, the potential for interference is a fact of life in the unlicensed bands where WLANs operate, and, even worse, it is often very difficult to evaluate the effects of interference on a particular Wireless-LAN (WLAN) installation at any...

Tags: interference, lan, wireless lan, evaluating

[11 Apr 2008]

Google pledges 'wi-fi on steroids'

News The company, joined by other heavyweights like Microsoft and Dell, has long been lobbying for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to free up unused broadcast TV channels known as "white spaces" for unlicensed use by personal devices.

Tags: google, fcc, mobile, wi-fi

[25 Mar 2008]

Publisher purges thousands of unlicensed fonts

Case Study Publishing giant Faber & Faber is wiping away the chance of costly law suits by using software to purge unlicensed fonts.silicon.com Retail & Leisure The London publishing house, which has printed classic authors from TS Eliot to WH Auden, found...

Tags: bsa, unlicensed, font, publishing

[22 Feb 2008]

Glasgow: Crackdown on software piracy hotspot

News The BSA warned that using unlicensed software also risks loss or corruption of vital data and IT systems, citing research by the IDC that revealed one in three counterfeit products contain spyware, malware or viruses.

Tags: bsa, glasgow, software, spyware

[07 Feb 2008]

Music piracy fight - ISPs must do more

News According to the IFPI's latest report into digital music, the ratio of unlicensed downloads to legal ones stands at 20 to one, with tens of billions of illegal file transfers taking place in 2007. The International Federation of the Phonographic...

Tags: music, government, piracy, isps

[25 Jan 2008]

UMTS Femtocell as Wireless Residential Gateway

whitepaper The discussion about UMTS based Femtocell (also called 3G Access Point') that is doing rounds for quite sometime to counter the challenge posed by unlicensed access technologies like WiFi and WiMAX. Mobile operators today are trying hard to...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications

[07 Jan 2008]

A Multilateral Secure Payment System for Wireless LAN Hotspots

whitepaper The paper identifies a conflict between subscribers' wish for privacy and hotspot providers' interest in prohibiting unlicensed (and thus unpaid) usage of the hotspot as the most challenging security objectives a future payment system has to fulfill.

Tags: local area networks (lan)

[05 Dec 2007]

Free muni wi-fi projects a pipe dream?

News Over the past few years, blanketing cities with unlicensed wi-fi signals has been viewed as a cheap solution to bringing affordable or even free broadband access to cities. EarthLink's scaled-back municipal wi-fi business has jeopardised many US...

Tags: philadelphia, wireless, wi-fi, citywide wi-fi

[03 Sep 2007]

Skipton Building Society Secures Against Authorised Device Access and Malware With Reflex Disknet Pro

whitepaper The company wanted a solution that was capable of maintaining data integrity as well as guarding against the introduction of malicious code and unlicensed software programmes. The Skipton is the 7th largest Building Society in the UK.

Tags: security applications, society, malicious, mainframe

[23 Jun 2007]

BSA nets record payout for unlicensed software

News The Business Software Alliance (BSA) is to receive a record out-of-court settlement from a British company which used unlicensed software. The company was found to be using unlicensed copies of Adobe, Autodesk and Microsoft software on hundreds of...

Tags: bsa

[22 Jun 2007]

SurfControl Enterprise Protection Suite Protects Thousands at Glenbrook Schools Against Internet Dangers

whitepaper However, inappropriate downloads resulted in a rash of spyware, malicious hacking tools, unlicensed music and games on the network, exposing it to vulnerabilities and using critically limited storage space and bandwidth.

Tags: security applications, district, schools, federal

[22 Jun 2007]

Build vs. Buy: The Hidden Costs of License Management

whitepaper Whilst your developers may believe they can handle the unlicensed usage your organisation currently experiences, this whitepaper explores today's business world where change is a constant, and piracy threats are ever-evolving.

Tags: security applications, handle, solution built, structure

[05 Jun 2007]

Build Vs Buy: The Hidden Costs of License Management

whitepaper Whilst your developers may believe they can handle the unlicensed usage your organisation currently experiences, this whitepaper explores today's business world where change is a constant, and piracy threats are ever-evolving.

Tags: business strategies, handle, solution built, opportunities

[05 Jun 2007]

Windows users 'paying $20 patent tax'

News And many Windows installations are unlicensed, meaning that those users' share of the patent tax gets passed on to paying customers. Every time businesses and consumers shell out for a copy of Windows, they could be paying $20 to keep Microsoft's...

Tags: windows, patent, microsoft

[20 Apr 2007]

Software piracy risks lost on SMEs

News Nearly half - 41 per cent - of UK-based small and medium-sized enterprises believe there is no risk from using unlicensed software, according to a survey from the Business Software Alliance (BSA). The anti-piracy organisation warns that businesses...

Tags: sme, business software alliance, illegal software, software piracy

[19 Apr 2007]

Capacity of OFDM on Typical Indoor Wireless Channels at 60 GHz

whitepaper The 60 GHz frequency band with 5 GHz unlicensed bandwidth has been identified as one of the most potential candidates in these future broadband communication systems. The future telecommunication systems are expected to provide the same type of...

Tags: wireless lan, channel, frequency, band

[15 Apr 2007]

The Invisible Threat: Interference and Wireless LANs

whitepaper Interference is a fact of life in the unlicensed bands used by Wireless LANs (WLANs), and is an increasing challenge in all WLAN environments - the enterprise, outdoors (including metro-scale Wi-Fi meshes), and in the residence.

Tags: wireless lan, wi fi, wireless lans, unlicensed

[14 Apr 2007]

Diversity Techniques for OFDM Based WLAN Systems

whitepaper This standard will operate in the unlicensed 5 GHz band and will provide data rates up to 54 Mbps in the physical layer in order to support broadband multimedia communications between portable devices and different core networks.

Tags: wireless lan, employed, lan, ofdm

[14 Apr 2007]

Spectrum Shaping for Interference Management in Cognitive Radio Networks

whitepaper This, however, assumes unlicensed transmissions have a square power spectrum By shaping the unlicensed power spectra, it can do much more. Most dynamic spectrum access research centers on determining the set of frequencies being used by spectrum...

Tags: wireless lan, spectrum, shaping, unlicensed

[13 Apr 2007]

Sony BMG does mobile downloads deal in China

News China for allegedly infringing copyrights by providing links to unlicensed music. Sony BMG Music Entertainment has struck a deal with content aggregator Global Music International to distribute the company's music videos, full track songs and...

Tags: mobile music, china, sony bmg

[05 Apr 2007]

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