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Photos: Sony unleashes latest Vaios - from mini laptops to touchscreens
Photo Users can also explore the earth on the L Series using Microsoft's Surface Globe software, which allows users to zoom in on cities around the world and even find individual streets. It comes with a 24-inch LCD... [14 Oct 2009]
Microsoft after Gates, Google Chrome, ID cards, printer woes and more
News BT was also making the headlines last month on two fronts: revealing the next lot of towns and cities to get fibre broadband and announcing it's cutting its call centre workforce in India by 4,000 and bringing some of... [03 Aug 2009]
HP ProCurve Networking Enables Voice Over Internet Protocol Deployment at Four Seasons Hotel
White Paper Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts manage 79 hotels within cities and resorts in 33 countries worldwide. They wanted an advanced Local Area Network (LAN) to support their Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) solution, which... [12 Jun 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: We have plenty of radio spectrum
Comment In dense cities I found an occupancy rate maxing out in the region of only 30 per cent, while urban areas came in at about 25 per cent and rural around 20 per cent or much less. The wireless energy in... [09 Jun 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Why are we so wasteful?
Comment In most cities and densely populated locations it is far less than 10 per cent. So here we are with people worrying about the crowded radio spectrum and the need for more wireless devices and... [28 May 2009]
Trio of research hubs to poke digital benefits
News Specific research projects include the University of Aberdeen investigating whether wireless body-systems monitoring kit could help people with chronic health problems live more independent lives; and the University of... [29 Apr 2009]
WiMAX Backhaul: No Longer Takes a Back Seat
White Paper It fits the strategy of incumbent Telcos, cable companies, satellite operators and broadband ISPs without a wireless play to extend their services in cities and rural areas. WiMAX is a versatile... [22 Apr 2009]
A WLAN Design for Video Transmission in Rural Environments for Agriculture and Environmental Researches and Educational Purposes
White Paper WLAN outdoor deployments are usually set up in cities to provide Internet access for citizens. These types of Wireless networks are usually covered by other wireless frequencies, not by... [02 Apr 2009]
Retailers still failing on wireless security
News Retailers in London ranked worst out of all the cities surveyed, with only a fraction more than half (51 per cent) of APs in the capital having some form of encryption. The survey was conducted by Motorola during the... [30 Jan 2009]
First large-scale ID card trials coming to Manchester?
News Thousands of people living in the pilot areas, likely to be major UK cities, will be able to get ID cards from November this year. Wireless from A-Z… Manchester is one of several areas being considered... [29 Jan 2009]
BT's wi-fi parts ways with The Cloud
News BT's Wireless Cities programme, which covers 12 UK city centres, could also make up for some of the coverage lost through the deal's breakdown. Wireless from A to Z BT and The Cloud have... [30 Sep 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 26.09.08
Round-Up In fact, a report this week claims London sees the most wi-fi use by business of all the world's cities, with more than 31,000 user sessions in the first half of this year and an average wi-fi session length of 57 minutes. [26 Sep 2008]
Boris Johnson: 'London must be wi-fi city'
News London meanwhile has topped a recent survey of the world's wi-fi cities. According to a study by iPass, London sees the most wi-fi use by business of all the world's cities, with more than 31,000 user... [24 Sep 2008]
Google Android to land next month?
News That said, T-Mobile is working to get the service up and running in at least 20 to 25 US cities by the end of the year. The wireless operator is also supposedly planning to launch an open development... [13 Aug 2008]
Finding an Effective Sustainable Model for a Wireless Metropolitan-Area Network: Analyzing the Case of Pittsburgh
White Paper Many cities are seeking ways to facilitate the deployment of a Wireless Metropolitan-Area Network (WiMAN) based on wifitechnology. City leaders must often balance competing goals, including the desire to... [18 Jul 2008]
