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Sprint re-invests in Clearwire, will offer LTE Advanced in 2013
- Sprint Nextel has extended their partnership with Clearwire in a deal valued at $1.6 billion over the next four years. Sprint will gain better wholesale pricing on WiMax and access to LTE Advanced in the next couple of years. Meanwhile,…
US malls to track shoppers with their cell phone signals
- You might want to leave your cell phone at home this holiday shopping season if you'll be visiting one of two US malls that are implementing tracking technology. The Promenade Temecula in California and Short Pump Town Center in Virginia…
Steve Jobs tried to replace wireless carriers
- Seasoned wireless entrepreneur and venture capitalist John Stanton revealed that Steve Jobs had some big ideas about wireless handsets and how the world should connect through them. Stanton spoke Monday at the Law Seminars International event in Seattle.
iPhone 4S earns recommendation from Consumer Reports
- Apple’s new iPhone 4S has earned a recommended status from Consumer Reports in their updated ratings of smartphones. The company complemented the aesthetics of the 4S which are identical to the iPhone 4 but more importantly, the phone doesn’t suffer…
Amped Wireless increases Wi-Fi network range up to 1.5 miles
- Amped Wireless has unveiled two new high power, long-range wireless products that are designed to increase your Wi-Fi range by up to 1.5 miles. These devices are primarily aimed at providing wireless solutions for large buildings, but work equally well in open…
Toshiba rivals Eye-Fi with two-way Wi-Fi SDHC card
- It's been four years since Eye-Fi launched the first SD memory cards capable of beaming photos and videos from any camera directly to a PC, or a range of online services, over a wireless connection. Transfers only occurred in one…
Scientists build 800Mbps wireless network with just LEDs
- Scientists working at the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications (Heinrich Hertz Institute) in Berlin, Germany have successfully developed a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) capable of speeds up to 800Mbps. They used it to send full HD movies to notebooks, smartphones,…
NTT demonstrates next-gen 802.11ac wireless system
- The Wi-Fi Alliance has been working to push wireless speeds into gigabit territory for a couple of years now, and it appears that Japanese mobile operator NTT DoCoMo is on board to make this a reality. During the Wireless Technology…
Wi-Fi napping could help double battery life on smartphones
- Justin Manweiler, a computer science graduate student at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, claims to have found a way to dramatically improve battery life of mobile devices with a small alteration to Wi-Fi technology. The proposed solution is called…
WiGig 1.1 specification published, testing to begin in Q4 2011
- The Wireless Gigabit Alliance (WiGig), the organization pushing for the worldwide adoption of 60GHz wireless technology, has announced the publication of its certification-ready multi-gigabit wireless specification. The newly completed version 1.1 of the specification addresses enhancements identified by member companies…
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