Source: Un strung
SUGAR LAND, Texas -- In order to serve the needs of the burgeoning market for wideband fiber optic repeaters for the wireless communications industry, Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. (AOI) today announced a new line of 1550-nm analog lasers.
Source: Bloomberg
Atlanta, Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Cingular Wireless, facing slower customer growth, wants to acquire or merge with a rival to reduce costs of operating in markets where the second-biggest U.S. mobile-phone company doesn't have its own network.
Source: USA TODAY
Satellite system Teledesic, one of the most ambitious technology projects ever, is all but dead.
Teledesic announced Wednesday it is suspending work with Italian manufacturer Alenia Spazio, which was to build the system's satellites.
Teledesic co-CEO Craig McCaw blames the "unprecedented" crash of the telecommunications industry and financial markets. He says current conditions make it impossible to build a financially viable system.
Source: Security Focus
Is wireless Java at risk from malicious code attack? The answer appears to be no - for vanilla Java 2 Micro Edition (Java 2 ME). But vendors' proprietary extensions are more problematic, according to Markus Schmall, of T-Mobile. He recently conducted a study of the security of Java 2 ME, using tests on a Siemens SL45 phone.
Source: ZDNet.com
Communications equipment maker Proxim became the latest company to sell high-powered Wi-Fi networks that travel long distances, essentially providing buyers with an "ISP in a box," the company's Chief Executive, Jonathan Zakin, said this week.
These versions of wireless networks using the Wi-Fi, or 802.11b, standard create a wireless zone of up to 12 miles long, far beyond the usual 300-foot-radius range that Wi-Fi typically achieves, Zakin said.
Source: Network World Fusion
The Office of the Secretary of Defense has issued a memorandum that prohibits the use of many types of wireless technologies in the Pentagon and much of the Army, Navy and Air Force until the military has developed a wireless security strategy, which it expects to do with assistance from the National Security Agency.
Source: The Register UK
Silence the band and dim the lights, please: the ITU (International Telecommication Union) has published its annual global survey into which country is the most wired for mobile data.
Hong Kong and Denmark come out as winners, but Dan Gillmor, who travels a lot, in his SJ Mercury log asks how they arrived at this conclusion.
Source: 3G
Nokia and Contra Publishing today announced the launch of see what
I'm talking about?, a book exploring how multimedia messaging (MMS)
is changing the way in which we communicate. Four design students at
the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London were given a sneak preview of the MMS future, by trying out the Nokia 7650 imaging phone several weeks before its commercial launch. They
created an MMS community in Europe and documented their experience in
a new book.
Source: STUFF
Businesses in Wellington central are racing to install wireless local area networks - but many are being left open to hackers.
The networks, or Wlans, are taking off as businesses avoid the high cost of cabling up buildings for high-bandwidth data traffic, by instead using quickly deployed short-range wireless networks within the buildings.
