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As you already know by now, Intel has finally rolled out its latest mobile platform, the Intel Centrino 2. And, from the looks of it, what we are being offered right now is not all that the new platform is capable of - in fact, upcoming releases will bring us WiMAX and smaller chips for thinner notebooks like the Mac... |
15 July 2008
06:19 GMT |
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The WiMAX high-speed wireless technology is coming towards users this September, though on a limited basis, announced Barry West, Xohm (Sprint's WiMax unit) president. It will be offered by Sprint and the companies that saved the Xohm's WiMAX network back in May. Lots of hardware manufacturers and software ... |
15 July 2008
05:52 GMT |
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The European Commission announced its Radio Spectrum Committee decision to allow both TDD and FDD on the 2.6 GHz (2500-2690MHz) frequency band, which means that GSM and LTE cellular technologies using FDD will also be able to use the 2.3, 2.6 and 3.5 GHz frequencies, categorized by the WiMAX Forum as the key bands fo... |
8 July 2008
04:12 GMT |
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The first certification for mobile-centric products operating in the 2.5GHz range has been issued by the WiMax Forum on Tuesday. Also, some 3.5GHz products are announced for certification later this year, along with the plan to have about 1,000 products certified by 2011.The WiMax Forum announced on Tuesday that ten ... |
20 June 2008
09:46 GMT |
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Sprint Nextel has settled September for the launch of its first commercial WiMax service in Baltimore, announced Sprint CEO Dan Hesse during a speech at the NxtComm trade show on Wednesday. Chicago and Washington are also targeted for the deployment of two WiMax services before the end of this year, said Hesse. Yet, ... |
19 June 2008
10:58 GMT |
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If the topic of WiMAX happens to pop in one of your conversations these days, you will most certainly mention Taiwan, which is the country that seems to show the highest concern with the fast deployment of a WiMAX network at a national scale. And, because WiMAX is expected to become the next widespread standard in wi... |
11 June 2008
05:56 GMT |
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As we told you before, Intel is placing significant importance on the development of WiMAX on a global scale. As part of the company's commitment to offer users a worldwide spread WiMAX network, Intel has recently announced that it will partner with a number of other major companies in order to accelerate widesp... |
11 June 2008
04:45 GMT |
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Taiwan, the country where this year's Computex show is hosted, is planning on becoming the top wireless region in the world. Apparently, the Taiwanese government has listed the development of a wireless infrastructure among the 12 new construction projects aimed at stimulating the national economy. According to ... |
3 June 2008
06:24 GMT |
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Computer users attending this year's Computex will be able to see an Asus notebook that features Intel's latest Centrino 2 technology, also known as Montevina. According to a recent entry on Intel's Mobility blog, the Asus notebook will be displayed at Computex in Taipei, which will open its doors tomo... |
2 June 2008
06:26 GMT |
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Apple's Job Opportunities page has recently included a job description for RF System Engineer. According to specifications, this person will be responsible with blending in with a group of dedicated researchers of cutting-edge wireless standards such as Mobile TV, UWB and WiMAX, but also older ones such as 3G an... |
23 May 2008
06:55 GMT |
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After Asustek CEO declared in January that their new lineup of Eee PCs, the Eee PC 901, would be delivered with WiMAX capabilities, it appears that the company decided to keep WiMAX out of the Eee PC. WiMAX will be made available as an option to contract customers, making Asus consider shipping 15% of its notebooks w... |
20 May 2008
11:50 GMT |
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The American wireless communication company Sprint has announced today, through a press release, that it will join forces with Clearwire for a new US company. The new firm is going to be named Cleawire and is meant to combine Sprint and Clearwire 4G Assets in order to form a new wireless communications company.WiMAX ... |
7 May 2008
09:38 GMT |
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Motorola Inc. started to work with Advanced Info Service (AIS) to conduct trials of mobile WiMAX solutions in Thailand. Through these trials, AIS will be able to make an idea about the next generation personal wireless broadband services.AIS used Motorola's WiMAX Access Point-400 (WAP-400) platform to start tria... |
30 April 2008
09:01 GMT |
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Acer has just introduced its upcoming Aspire 5920 series of notebooks equipped with a built-in WiMax module. The Taiwanese computer manufacturer plans to sell the new notebook offering through Sprint Nextel and other retail partners. According to the company, the new Acer Aspire 5920 notebook will be sold in a manne... |
22 April 2008
05:01 GMT |
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Motorola, in collaboration with UTStarcom, will deploy a WiMAX network for Fitel (First International Telecom), one of the first five mobile operators in Taiwan. This represents the third WiMAX deployment contract signed by Motorola with a Taiwan-based carrier. Currently offering mobile services to more than 1 mill... |
10 April 2008
02:16 GMT |
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Everex's CloudBook PC has had little attention when it first arrived on the marker, but things seem to be different with the brand new CloudBook Max. Packing a larger, 8.9-inch WVGA display, the device is expected to give a lot of trouble to the upcoming Eee PC 901 from Asustek.The upcoming notebook from the gre... |
2 April 2008
09:04 GMT |
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Successor of the popular Nokia N810 and Nokia 8000 Internet Tablets, the new Nokia N810 WiMAX was officially presented by the Finnish company in the first day of CTIA Wireless 2008 (1 - 3 April, Las Vegas). Not a breaking news here, as almost everyone knew this was going to happen, but it's still an official re... |
2 April 2008
07:49 GMT |
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The upcoming Bluetooth standard based on the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth hybrid technologies has been accused by a WiMedia Alliance company to be crippling the nearby WiMax networks because of its severe interference ratio. According to it, all the WiMax and cellular networks situated in the proximity of a Bluetooth 2.0 netw... |
22 March 2008
04:47 GMT |
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Motorola announced it has completed the first successful trial of WiMAX technology in Thailand. Conducted in cooperation with United Information Highway, the trial is the first in a series of WiMAX engagements planned by Motorola in Thailand.The event follows United Information Highway's acquisition of a trial l... |
21 March 2008
10:56 GMT |
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Alcatel-Lucent has closed a deal with WiMAX Telecom to supply the first WiMAX 802.16e-2005 (Rev-e) network in Croatia. Deployment will begin in the area of Split and Osijek and will be followed by other regions. Expected to become fully operational in 2008, the network will operate in WiMAX Telecom's 3.5 GHz spe... |
18 March 2008
11:53 GMT |
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Altair Semiconductor is not a name you usually see in the news. However, the fabless chip company claims that it managed to take a huge leap in the WiMax technology: world's smallest and most power-efficient mobile WiMAX processor.According to the company, the Altair ALT2150 comes with integrated Wave-2 physical... |
14 March 2008
04:06 GMT |
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Upon attending CeBIT, we've had the chance of having a very interesting conversation with two of Intel's representatives, namely Mr. Hans-Jurgen Werner, Intel Country Marketing Manager, and Mr. Zane Ball, Director of the Microprocessor Marketing Business Client Group. And as you can see as follows, we'... |
11 March 2008
11:03 GMT |
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Intel demonstrated a new wireless technology that could be the cornerstone for dynamical network switching between a Wi-Fi and a WiMax network at no connectivity loss. The new technology has been introduced yesterday, during the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, and is the result of a research partnersh... |
12 February 2008
08:01 GMT |
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Fujitsu has announced its BroadOne WX series of mobile WiMAX base stations, one of the smallest and most energy-efficient devices of its kind on the mobile market. These stations are targeted at the fast-emerging global wireless broadband networks. Fujitsu's first device in the BroadOne series is the BroadOne W... |
7 February 2008
05:20 GMT |
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Atheros Communications has announced, during the International Solid State Circuits Conference, that it has readied a new chip to integrate wireless and Bluetooth services. The papers presented during the conference revealed a small chip to offer both functionalities that can be easily integrated inside mobile phones... |
6 February 2008
03:45 GMT |
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Intel has announced a new chip design that can handle multiple Wi-Fi signals simultaneously. The company has developed a new technology that minimizes both power consumption and the size of the chip.The new design has been presented during the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco. According ... |
5 February 2008
06:26 GMT |
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Communications company Sprint Nextel is ready to send thousands of employees home as the company's new CEO Dan Hesse is trying to convince its investors that cutting cost is the company's priority. This is not the first incident of this kind, as Sprint has cut about 5,000 jobs. The company reported last yea... |
15 January 2008
10:00 GMT |
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The Taiwanese PC manufacturer Asustek failed to impress its audience with the 10-inch Eee sub-notebook, although it has been announced since early December. The company stated that the next-generation Eee PC will become available in the second quarter of the year, and rumor has it that Asustek is waiting for Intel�... |
9 January 2008
03:25 GMT |
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Intel CEO and President Paul Otellini thinks big over the future of the consumer electronics and entertainment applications, and plans to join them all "under the same Internet". The Intel CEO motivates this vision through the fact that the Internet has changed into a more personable place. "We're now in the mi... |
8 January 2008
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Asustek's prodigy, the second-generation Eee PC missed the Consumer Electronics Show this year. Although it has been officially announced for the event, Asus delayed it until the mid-2008. Asus' decision is a big disappointment for those that took the announcement seriously: the company was supposed to "pre... |
8 January 2008
03:08 GMT |
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Networking specialist Marvell introduced a new Wi-Fi chipset to provide industry's first 450 Mbps throughput. At the moment, the maximum throughput delivered by a 802.11n WiFi chipset varies around 300 Mbps. This significant speed boost is possible due to a new approach: the chipset makes use of three transmitte... |
4 January 2008
03:05 GMT |
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Motorola announced a deal with Mobilink to deploy a WiMAX 802.16e-2005 network for the mobile operator in Pakistan. Under the agreement, Motorola will be responsible with the design, planning, deployment and optimization of the WiMAX network; and will also provide Mobilink with integration and support services, as we... |
6 December 2007
09:08 GMT |
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The regional telecommunications service provider VSE NET has launched Germany's first commercial WiMAX network at an inauguration ceremony held in Schloss (Castle) Dagstuhl in northern Saarland. For the first time, a broadband live video connection has been established from the lecture hall in the castle, via th... |
4 December 2007
10:14 GMT |
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Samsung just made a huge unveiling, bringing out to the light several WiBro enabled devices. The powerful Samsung SPH-M8200 PDA phone was one of them and will manage to bring some pretty evolved solutions.Although PDA devices have seen a major sales drop over the past period, Samsung seems to be pretty confident in t... |
14 November 2007
04:47 GMT |
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The WiMAX network will not be coming from Sprint and Clearwire anymore. The two companies have failed to resolve complexities associated with the LOI and failed to reach final agreement on the terms of the transaction.That's a pretty disappointing result for Sprint and Clearwire. The two companies failed to buil... |
12 November 2007
08:10 GMT |
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Ubiquiti just announced the launch of a new wireless computer hardware device that is aimed at providing a viable and affordable replacement for today's wireless networking solutions. Available commercially under the XtremeRange 7 name, the new Ubiquiti product is using the patented technology from the same comp... |
10 October 2007
10:59 GMT |
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The WiMAX mobile communication technology is finally ready to go from the lab to the field testing phase and this fact makes all major telecommunication companies face a few important decisions that they should undertake concerning their 4G strategies.According to the news site digitimes, the research firm ABI Resear... |
8 October 2007
11:29 GMT |
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Motorola has just closed another big agreement in order to bring its WiMAX technology this time in Taiwan. This is actually made up of two contracts closed with Taiwan's Far EasTone Telecom (FET) as part of the operator's contribution in the national M-Taiwan project.The importance of this deal comes from t... |
8 October 2007
09:22 GMT |
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Nokia will start shipping WiMAX-enabled "N-series" Internet tablets as early as next year. The devices will use Intel "Baxter Peak" WiMAX chips and will support Sprint's "Xohm" WiMAX service, according to Nokia.The combination between Linux and WiMAX is bound to make Nokia's Internet tablets as powerful and... |
5 October 2007
06:11 GMT |
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Alcatel-Lucent announced an agreement with Brasil Telecom, one of the biggest telephony operators in Brazil, to deploy the first commercial WiMAX networks using the 802.16e-2005 (Rev-e) standard in the cities of São Paulo, Curitiba and Porto Alegre."WiMAX will enable us to distribute state-of-the-art services, partic... |
4 October 2007
09:21 GMT |
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Motorola announced that it has been selected by Warid Telecom Uganda, part of Warid Telecom International, to design and deploy a 802.16e WiMAX network in Uganda. The network, which is scheduled for completion by the end of 2007, will enable voice and data connectivity services such as VoIP and virtual private networ... |
2 October 2007
09:14 GMT |
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Wireless networking technologies are very popular nowadays as the number of companies that are offering high speed Internet access over radio waves is growing steadily and more and more users, especially mobile computer ones are becoming attracted to the mobility bonus offered by those solutions.As a direct result of... |
19 September 2007
11:40 GMT |
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ACCA Networks and NTT DoCoMo, the largest mobile phone operator in Japan, recently announced a joint venture between the companies in order to provide mobile WiMAX-based broadband wireless services. The joint venture is called ACCA Wireless Co., Ldt and its birth comes after a ministry decision not to give 2.5GHz s... |
3 September 2007
09:44 GMT |
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WiMAX is one of the several wireless networking standards that are active at the present time across the world and it has been heavily supported by the computer hardware manufacturing giant Intel since 2004. Since then it looks like Intel lost some of its interest in the new wireless standard as it now has a "backsea... |
3 September 2007
06:24 GMT |
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Sprint has chosen Samsung for introducing the mobile WiMAX network infrastructure in New York City. The results of their partnership will be clear towards the end of the year 2008, when the Xohm mobile Internet service will be available. Sprint Nextel has already picked Samsung to provide the solutions and equipment... |
28 August 2007
05:07 GMT |
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The Sprint Ahead Technology Summit has just made one step further towards reaching its intentions of providing new services and meeting the telecommunication demands that users express. The company has just announced its market branding for their WiMAX services.Sprint Nextel has provided an update concerning the evol... |
17 August 2007
09:51 GMT |
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NextWave announced that its NW1000 Series WiMAX chipset is now available and is currently being sampled to manufacturers for testing. NextWave's NW1000 Series is designed to provide wireless device manufacturers with an advanced platform they can use to develop next-generation WiMAX mobile terminal products. The... |
16 August 2007
10:31 GMT |
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Vodafone has decided to join the other almost 500 companies that are part of the WiMAX Forum. This organization looks to promote and certify interoperable WiMAX products for bringing the best of them out on the market.The WiMAX Forum has just announced that Vodafone is now part of it and will engage in supporting all... |
10 August 2007
04:32 GMT |
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Sprint has big plans for the US market starting next year. They will release a WiMAX enabled Nokia N800 Internet Tablet on the market and also bring support for a 4G highly evolved network.Sprint has made considerable efforts to develop the largest 4G network in the US and they now intend on also launching a device c... |
9 August 2007
09:38 GMT |
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LG has just presented their KC1 smartphone in Korea along with a promise for a close release. The device has been announced for some time now, but the company has yet to make it available for purchase on the market.LG has taken its time with the release of the KC1, probably too long, as some of its performances have ... |
3 August 2007
02:52 GMT |
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