Mobile Computing & Wireless Networking

Techworld Mobility and Wireless is your essential resource for all the latest cellular (GSM, GPRS and UMTS) news, wireless LANs news and other mobile communications news

• Netgear offers customisable open source router
  Plug and program.
• Nvidia admits laptop chips overheating
  But, helpfully, won't say which one.
• T-Mobile upgrades UK mobile network
  Only for London right now.
• Wi-Fi Alliance looks to give voice to wireless
  Certification process in place.
• Breeze makes mobile apps easy
  J2ME apps at the touch of a button
• Laptops aid 802.11n Wi-Fi boom
  Rapid migration now predicted.
• Microsoft to buy mobile software maker
  Redmond keen to develop mobile services.
• Mobile Linux groups band together
  LiPS Forum finally runs out of steam.

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• The lowdown on the Techworld product awardsNew
  We're often asked why certain products won an award - or why others didn't. We don't want the judges' decision to be shrouded in secrecy so this year we're setting out why the winners triumphed.
• Symbian deal will open up mobile platform marketNew
  The most popular smartphone OS is going to go open source. Where does that leave Linux and proprietary phone systems?
• Can open source fly on mobiles?New
  When Nokia hands the Symbian OS over, the majority of the world's smartphones will be on an open source OS. Will it change the game, or suffer fragmentation and undue vendor influence?

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• Bring the new iPhone into your business
  Last year's iPhone was dismissed by IT as unsuitable for the enterprise. This time round, Apple has fixed the holes and created a device with the features we need
• Use your BlackBerry as a modem
  Using your phone as a modem can get you out of tricky situations. Here's how to do it with a BlackBerry.
• Secure your laptop from thieves
  Laptops increase the risks to your data, but there are sensible steps to take which minimise the danger.

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• Demand and Supply in ITNew
  

  How to break down the communications barrier between business and IT, so that they can work smoothly together to choose the right applications as well as implementing them in the right way.

• The Forrester Wave: Data Center Automation
  

  Discover why HP leads the pack in a very competitive DCA market. Essential reading from Forrester, for IT Infrastructure & Operations Professionals.

• Oracle Database 11g Application Development
  

  Explore Oracle Database 11g , a single integrated platform offering high performance and scalability for the most popular technologies used by application developers today.

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• Open source and OLPC could boost wireless mesh
  The finished IEEE standard for wireless mesh networks is still a way off - but open source and the OLPC look like getting it into use quickly
• A guide to Wi-Fi power-save technologies
  Saving power on client devices may not always work well, but the industry has come up with plenty of ways to do it.
• Testing Wi-Fi's Power Save Mode
  If you tell your laptop's radio to switch off when possible, are the power savings worth it? Craig Mathias investigates.

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• Windows Mobile gets companion 
  Palm's Foleo reborn?
• Open source Symbian - details emerge 
  ... and timescales
• Femtos - really attractive... 
  ... but divisive?

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• Truphone v4.0 VoIP-over-mobile New
  Here's an interesting idea. Millions of people make VoIP phone calls over the Internet from their PCs, or using special handsets, so why not do the same thing with a humble mobile phone? Truphone is one such application.
• DrayTek Vigor 2820Vn router New
  A remote office or small office router with ADSL, WAN and 3G failover that doesn't cost the earth? Not possible they said. DrayTek's latest Vigor can do all this and more.
• iPhone 3G - a first look
  The 3G iPhone is a big improvement. Is it ready for business now?
• Quickoffice Premier 5.0
  The eponymous Quickoffice publishes a number of applications for PDAs and smartphones, focusing in particular - but not exclusively - on Nokia Series 60 v3 phones such as the E-series and newer N-series models. We look at two of the most useful ones - Quickcalendar, and Quickoffice itself.
• 4ipnet MSG100 wireless office controller
  A handy and inexpensive device for multi-zone security, including enforcing access control on both wired and wireless network users.

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• Can Funambol's open source service overturn RIM?
  Funambol plans to offer ad-funded email to consumers, and free Blackberry-style email to the enterprise. We asked the CEO to explain himself.
• Nortel - what's your WiMax story?
  Nortel has decided to stop making WiMax equipment, but the company says it's still committed to WiMax. How can this be, we asked the company's new head of WiMax.
• Cutting through the confusion that is wireless roaming
  With so many different kinds of companies involved, making sense of who does what in the wireless business can be tough work. We may be free of cable spaghetti, but it's swapped for relationship and roaming spaghetti, says Devicescape CEO Dave Fraser.

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• How Wi-Fi eased the classroom crunch
  Schools are less likely than universities to adopt Wi-Fi - but at Heathland School in West London, teachers saw the need and went for it.
• Barts Hospital adopts co-operative Wi-Fi
  Healthcare has led the charge for centralised Wi-Fi. A leading london takes a contrary position and plumps for Aerohive's controller-free system
• Microsoft: the world's largest WLAN
  It started out as optional, now it's essential. The software giant has covered all its offices in Wi-Fi

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