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| The First 2.5GHz Products Certified by WiMax Forum |  | 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.
[admark=1]The WiMax Forum announced on Tuesday that ten mobile WiMax products have been given the "WiMax Forum Certified Seal of Approval". The certification ... [read more >>] | | 20 June 2008, 09:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Sprint WiMax Service to Arrive in September |  | 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, no specific date for these deployments has been revealed.
Sprint has already delayed a few times the deployment of the muc ... [read more >>] | | 19 June 2008, 10:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| NEC Takes an Important Step in the Deployment of WiMAX in Taiwan |  | 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 wireless connectivity, we should all turn our attention towards Taiwan and see what how things are shaping up.
One of the mo ... [read more >>] | | 11 June 2008, 05:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Open Patent Alliance Is Formed |  | 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 widespread adoption and deployment of WiMAX technology and products. The partnership between these major companies will go by the n ... [read more >>] | | 11 June 2008, 04:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Taiwan Plans to Become Top Wireless Region in the World |  | 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 the newly inaugurated Taiwanese premier, Liu Chao-shiuan, who spoke at a session held at the Legislative Yuan last week, Taiw ... [read more >>] | | 03 June 2008, 06:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| An Asus Notebook Gets WiMAX with Centrino 2 |  | 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 tomorrow, on June 3.
The notebook is the very first portable computer to feature the Montevina with WiMAX platform and co ... [read more >>] | | 02 June 2008, 06:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Apple Wants WiMAX Expert |  | Apple's Job Opportunities page has recently included a job description for RF System Engineer. According to spec ... [read more >>] | | 23 May 2008, 06:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Asustek Drops WiMAX for Eee PC |  | 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 with WiMAX capabilities, in 2008.
It appears that officials at Asus don't believe that the WiMAX wireless st ... [read more >>] | | 20 May 2008, 11:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google to Invest in a New Company Named Clearwire |  | 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 is an overgrowing standard, which the two companies are intending to extend to a larger US coverage. As part of ... [read more >>] | | 07 May 2008, 09:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Motorola Collaborates with Advanced Info Service to Launch WiMAX Trials in Thailand |  | 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 trials in Bangkok and Lamlukka at the beginning of the year 2008. The operator is interested in the performance of ... [read more >>] | | 30 April 2008, 09:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Acer Working on WiMax-Ready Aspire 5920 for Sprint |  | 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 manner that is strikingly similar to the way mobile phones are. The units will be sold as mere terminal upon subscri ... [read more >>] | | 22 April 2008, 05:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Motorola Deploys WiMAX Network For Fitel Taiwan |  | 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 offe ... [read more >>] | | 10 April 2008, 02:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Everex's CloudBook Max UMPC Comes With WiMax Connectivity |  | 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 green Everex will be powered by a VIA 7-M ULV processor running at 1.6 GHz, coupled with the recently-introduced V ... [read more >>] | | 02 April 2008, 09:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| CTIA Wireless 2008: Nokia N810 WiMAX Officially Presented |  | 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 release that needs to be ... [read more >>] | | 02 April 2008, 07:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Bluetooth-over-Wi-Fi Kills Nearby WiMax Networks |  | 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 cel ... [read more >>] | | 22 March 2008, 04:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Motorola Trials Mobile WiMAX in Thailand |  | 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 license from the National Telecommunications Commission last year. Using Motorola's WiMAX solution, United ... [read more >>] | | 21 March 2008, 10:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Altair Delivers Half-Energy WiMax Chips |  | 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 and Media Access Control (MAC) functionality, as well as other important boosts in performance. The most important ... [read more >>] | | 14 March 2008, 04:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| CeBIT 2008: Exclusive Interview with Intel |  | 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've managed to gather quite a lot of very interesting information regarding the chip manufacturer's current products and ... [read more >>] | | 11 March 2008, 11:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel Demonstrates Real-Time Switching Technology Between Wi-Fi and WiMax |  | 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 partnership between Intel, mobile manufacturer Nokia, and Nokia Siemens Networks.
The research aims at developing a mobil ... [read more >>] | | 12 February 2008, 08:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Fujitsu Teams Up With Airspan for Mobile WiMAX |  | 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 WX300 outdoor macro-cell device.
According to Fujitsu, these new base stations for outdoor use draw less power an ... [read more >>] | | 07 February 2008, 05:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Atheros Introduces High-Speed Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Miniature Chips |  | 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 and handheld devices.
"We are very proud of the die size of this chip," said Masoud Zagari, director ... [read more >>] | | 06 February 2008, 03:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel to Deliver WiMax On a Single Chip |  | 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 to the presented papers, Intel has successfully managed to combine the WiMax standard with the Wi-Fi a/g/n spec ... [read more >>] | | 05 February 2008, 06:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Sprint Nextel CEO to Shed Thousands of Jobs |  | 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 year that it had an estimative number of 60,000 employees. The exact number of employees that will be sent home this t ... [read more >>] | | 15 January 2008, 10:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| CES 2008: Intel Plans to Bring Internet to All Consumer Applications |  | 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 midst of the largest opportunity to redefine consumer electronics and entertainment since the intr ... [read more >>] | | 08 January 2008, 07:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| CES 2008: Asustek's Next-Gen Eee PC Failed to Show Up |  | 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 "present wireless devices that are compatible with WiMax, including next-generation mobile solutions (such as ... [read more >>] | | 08 January 2008, 03:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Marvell's TopDog Wi-Fi Chip 450 Mbps – Show Me Some Network! |  | 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 transmitters and three receivers.
According to the company, the chip supports multiple Wi-Fi standards, namely 802.11 a/b ... [read more >>] | | 04 January 2008, 03:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Motorola to Deploy WiMAX Network for Mobilink |  | 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 wi ... [read more >>] | | 06 December 2007, 09:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| First Commercial Mobile WiMAX Network in Germany |  | 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 estab ... [read more >>] | | 04 December 2007, 10:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Beauty and Brains, with Samsung SPH-M8200 PDA Phone |  | Samsung just made a huge unveiling, bringing out to the light several WiMAX 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, ... [read more >>] | | 14 November 2007, 04:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Sprint and Clearwire Shred WiMAX Agreement |  | 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 ... [read more >>] | | 12 November 2007, 08:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The First WiFi 700Mhz Card |  | 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 company called Frequency Freedom that allows a device greater range and transmission accuracy.
The Ubiquiti XtremeRa ... [read more >>] | | 10 October 2007, 10:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| WiMAX Gains Some Speed |  | 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 Resea ... [read more >>] | | 08 October 2007, 11:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Largest WiMAX Network Contract for Motorola |  | 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 the experience that the two companies have in telecom services. Motorola is the third leading handset manufactur ... [read more >>] | | 08 October 2007, 09:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Nokia Has WiMAX Plans for Linux Tablets |  | 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 ... [read more >>] | | 05 October 2007, 06:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Motorola to Deploy WiMAX Network in Uganda |  | 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 Vo ... [read more >>] | | 02 October 2007, 09:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel Develops a Mixed Breed Wireless Chipset |  | 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 this situation, a number of hardware manufacturing companies are now developing faster and more reliable wireless networ ... [read more >>] | | 19 September 2007, 11:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel Losing the WiMAX Market? |  | 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 "backseat" position on the WiMAX market while smaller companies like Beceem, Sequans and Runcom are taking the lead in deve ... [read more >>] | | 03 September 2007, 06:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Samsung and Sprint Bring WiMAX in New York City |  | 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 pick ... [read more >>] | | 28 August 2007, 05:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Key Technologies for Mobility Strategies from Sprint |  | 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 evolution that occurred while delivering the high-performance push-to-talk service, Nextel Direct Connect, on its C ... [read more >>] | | 17 August 2007, 09:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| NextWave Releases NW1000 Series WiMAX Chipset |  | 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 deve ... [read more >>] | | 16 August 2007, 10:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Vodafone Joins WiMAX Forum |  | 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 this organization's efforts to provide this technology at high standards. WiMAX technology is capable of allowing [ ... [read more >>] | | 10 August 2007, 04:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Sprint Brings WiMAX-Enabled Nokia N800 Tablet |  | 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 ... [read more >>] | | 09 August 2007, 09:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| LG-KC1 Sees Release, Hopes for Another |  | 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 K ... [read more >>] | | 03 August 2007, 02:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel Pushes WiMax Ahead |  | Intel and its partners in this venture, the carriers Sprint Nextel and Clearwire, plan to push ahead the WiMax technology as an alternative broadband solution to traditional 3G cell phone networks, hoping that one day, it will be as popular as Wi-Fi is today. 2008 is the year chosen for the adoption of WiMax as the new Intel processors supporting the technology at a hardware level will be available only then, along side with "notebook ... [read more >>] | | 02 August 2007, 06:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Sprint and Clearwire to Build Nationwide WiMAX Network |  | Sprint Nextel and Clearwire have partnered in order to bring the first nationwide mobile broadband network using WiMAX technology. They expect to reach considerably better results than those made possible through the efforts of the companies alone.
... [read more >>] | | 19 July 2007, 08:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Next-generation WiMAX Network Installed in France |  | Alcatel-Lucent and Société du Haut Débit (SHD) officially announced the signing of a contract for two years, one that implies supplying and installing France's first next-generation WiMAX network using standard 802.16e-2005.
SHD operates a WiMAX network in the Ile-de-France and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur regions. The planned sites of the network will be equipped by ... [read more >>] | | 13 July 2007, 08:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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