Recently added articles from RETHINK IT:
Summer sees a renewal of alliances and tie-ups.(EDITORIAL)
Aug 01, 2006 ... Summer is the traditional season of weddings, and we are certainly seeing plenty of alliances made in the technology sector, with Microsoft at the center of many of them. Faced with its first ever profits drop, and slower than hoped-for growth in some of its most treasured new businesses, ...
Nokia fires first shots in inevitable Chinese copyright war.
Aug 01, 2006 ... Someone had to fire the first shots in the war, and Nokia was the company to do it. The Finnish phonemaker, in a landmark test case, is suing two Chinese manufacturers over alleged illegal copying of European products. The fight will drag on for years, and may well end in a ...
W3C guidelines wholly inadequate to transform mobile web business.(World Wide Web Consortium)(Mobile Web Best Practises 1.0)
Aug 01, 2006 ... So many of the most disruptive business models based on wireless networks depend on heavy use of the mobile web, that it is easy to forget what an unsatisfactory experience this remains. The new approaches that could shake up the telecoms landscape--epitomized by the advertising-supported ...
Nokia changes course to chase new technologies, including mobile television.(VENDOR)(Company overview)
Aug 01, 2006; Gabriel, Caroline ... The Symbian operating system remains dominant in the nascent smartphone sector, especially in Europe, but with its largest shareholder Nokia newly entranced by Linux, and Windows Mobile finally making progress with major operators, the platform has been somewhat overshadowed of late. ...
Metrozones' emphasis shifts to quality.(MASTERCLASS)(WiMAX-oriented 3.5GHz licenses)
Aug 01, 2006 ... One of the interesting aspects of the French award of WiMAX-oriented 3.5GHz licenses in July was that six went to municipal authorities, the first example of a much discussed potential for public organizations to become licensed spectrum holders (in the UK and US, there has been lobbying ...
Intel sells XScale, shifting communications agenda.(VENDOR)
Aug 01, 2006 ... As expected, Intel has sold its communications and applications processor unit, which includes the XScale cellphone chip architecture. The buyer is Marvell, which will pay $600m plus the assumption of various liabilities. The sale will leave Intel entirely focused on its Wi-Fi and WiMAX ...
Motorola and Intel buy WiMAX a US network, with $900m to Clearwire.(USER)
Aug 01, 2006 ... Broadband wireless operator Clearwire has received $900m in financing from the two companies that have staked the most on WiMAX, Intel and Motorola, ensuring that the US will gain a national 802.16 network, and putting pressure on both Qualcomm and Samsung in the mobile broadband race. ...
Lucent wireless warning mars smooth progress to Alcatel merger.(RETHINK TOP 50)
Aug 01, 2006 ... An apparently smooth path through the merger process for Alcatel and Lucent was marred in July by a weak forecast by the latter, citing poor wireless performance. The warning, while not a major blow to prospects for the merged company, indicates how ripe the telecoms equipment sector is ...
Broadcom ships 100m 802.11g chips.
Aug 01, 2006 ... Broadcom ships 100m 802.11g chips Broadcom has shipped its 100 millionth 54gWi-Fi chip, claiming it to be the most popularWi-Fi chip ever, with consumer applications the main driver. Broadcom 54g chipsets are currently featured in 802.11g reuters sold by Belkin, Buffalo, ...
Senate looks to strengthen municipal Wi-Fi.
Aug 01, 2006 ... The US Senate is working on legislation that will allow city governments to push municipal Wi-Fi initiatives without interference from state governments. States including Florida, Texas, Virginia and Pennsylvania have enacted laws intended to curb those projects because they don't like ...
EarthLink resells access to DirecTV and AOL.
Aug 01, 2006 ... EarthLink went live with its Anaheim, California municipal Wi-Fi network last month, and demonstrated its commitment to its model of reselling access to other providers--signing up its arch-rival in the dial-up world, AOL, as well as satellite broadcaster DirecTV. EarthLink ...
Cisco makes another purchase.
Aug 01, 2006 ... Cisco will pay $43.7m in cash and stock to acquire Meetinghouse Data Communications and bolster its security portfolio. Meetinghouse makes client-side wireless security ...
Motorola steps up pressure on RIM.
Aug 01, 2006 ... Motorola has launched its Q device as a BlackBerry killer, and now Samsung is heading down the same path, launching a slim Qwerty smartphone, the SGH-i320, which supports Windows Mobile 5.0's push email extensions along with a 1.3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth connectivity and email ...
More consolidation in mobile networks.
Aug 01, 2006 ... France Telecom has paid about 159m [euro] to take a majority stake in Jordan Telecom. It acquired a 10% stake to add to the 40% share it bought in January 2000 and exercised an option to purchase an additional 1% for 14.5m [euro]. France Telecom has been actively pursuing telecom companies ...
Microsoft IIS 7 slips in quietly, failing to attract the attention it deserves.(USER)
Aug 01, 2006 ... This year has seen more than its share of high profile Microsoft beta releases, including Office 2007, Internet Explorer 7 and, of course, Vista. A beta version of another Microsoft product was recently released, but it's gone mostly unnoticed, despite the fact that the application is the ...
Challenge to Qualcomm reaches Korea.
Aug 01, 2006 ... The mobile chipmakers are stepping up their legal challenge to Quaicomm, adding Korea to existing actions in the US and Europe. Texas Instruments and Broadcom have filed a complaint against the CDMA giant in Korea, alleging it used its dominant market status to engage in unfair business ...
Paris aims for free Wi-Fi in 2007.
Aug 01, 2006 ... Paris aims for citywide wireless coverage by the end of 2007, helping to make it the most connected capital city in the world, Mayor Bertrand Delanoe said last month as he unveiled a new broadband plan. Under the plan, the city hopes to set up 400 free Wi-Fi hotspots next year and allow ...
Security still main corporate worry about WLan.
Aug 01, 2006 ... Despite recent security enhancements to Wi-Fi, including the federal class 802.11i extensions, this remains the key concern of large enterprises about going wireless. According to researchers at Gartner Group, 64% of large north American and European firms plan to increase their WLan ...
The Cloud launches Ultra Wi-Fi unlimited plan.
Aug 01, 2006 ... UK hotspot operator The Cloud has launched its Ultra Wi-Fi offering, an all-you-can-eat plan that offers Wi-Fi access in nine UK cities and about 7,000 hotspots throughout the country. Bobby Satin, The Cloud's chief operating officer, said this offers a "realistic alternative to ...
Motorola takes up Microsoft's cause in unified communications.(ANALYSIS)
Aug 01, 2006 ... Microsoft has long realized that unified communications--integrating all the various forms of messaging and mail into one interface--will be a key driver for enterprise office software, and has made some advanced moves with its Live Communications Server, to the extent of forming a ...
