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

• Toshiba plans fuel cell for mobiles
  World looks to steamy future.
• Nokia takes on Apple with touch-screen phone
  But will Steve Jobs lose any sleep?
• iPhone security flaws disclosed
  Researcher tired of waiting for Apple response.
• Big names flock to mobile broadband
  No more hotspot 'tyranny'.
• Nokia waves wand and buys Oz
  Wonderful messaging wizards.
• Nokia abandons enterprise mail platform
  Gives up on Intellisync
• Fast-charging laptop battery demoed
  Toshiba shows off laptop that offers a 90 percent recharge in 10 minutes
• Visa developing mobile payments apps
  Working with Nokia and Android

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• Cheaper or better? Vendors fight for 802.11n
  Did you think 802.11n was done and dusted? Aruba claims it can get massive speed boosts without breaking the standard, while Ruckus says its architecture allows it to slash prices
• The rise and fall of the ultraportable
  Devices like the Asus Eee have changed our expectations of mobile computing. Or have they? We take stock of the real impact.
• WiMax on the ocean waves
  Some places are still wondering how to deliver WiMax, but Singapore has gone right ahead with a network that covers its port and inshore waters.

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• Predict Wi-Fi performance and plan your wireless LAN
  Radio is fundamentally uncertain, and even the best site survey only goes so far in setting up a good network.
• 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.

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• The Instantly Responsive EnterpriseNew
  In this free white paper, learn how BPM and CEP together achieve a faster response to changing business conditions. Improve visibility and actionability, facilitate decisions, prevent policy violations, and more.
• Oracle Coherence: Providing Extreme Performance, Predictable Scalability, and Continuous Availability for Mission-Critical Java ApplicationsNew
  

  This free white paper details key steps for achieving a superior data management strategy—a ‘must have’ capability for applications to operate with extreme and predictable performance and scalability.

• Unlocking the Mainframe: Modernizing Legacy Systems to a Service-Oriented Architecture New
  

  This free white paper reveals how to eliminate the risks of mainframe dependence by unlocking data and business logic trapped in legacy systems and making these services ‘first-class’ SOA citizens.

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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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3g | 802.11b | 802.11g | Access point | Mobile network | RFID | WEP | Wireless access | Wireless LAN security | Wireless network | Wireless networking | Wireless security | Wireless solution | Wireless technology | WLAN
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• Femtocells land first in Japan 
  
• Nortel: no WiMax, and now no LTE? 
  
• Can wireless beat the finance crisis? 
  

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• BlackBerry Bold 9000
  So here it is; the most anticipated BlackBerry handset to date. The BlackBerry Bold 9000 is a quad-band handset with both HSDPA (high speed downlink packet access) 3G and GPS navigation that its maker, Research In Motion, hopes will cause as much of a furore as the iPhone 3G.
• Truphone v4.0 VoIP-over-mobile
  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
  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.

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• What's really happening at Bluesocket?
  The wireless LAN vendor that refused to die is still confident - we spoke to the CEO about 802.11n and staff cuts
• Proxim plans to buck the standards
  There's no hurry for 802.11n Wi-Fi, and no need to stick to the WiMax standards, says Proxim's chief executive, Pankaj Manglik
• The challenges of in-building wireless coverage
  Attempts to make buildings more energy-efficient in terms of heating and cooling could backfire badly on the networking front, if radio expert Daniel Lewing is to be believed.

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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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