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Archive for May, 2008

Wireless Phone Companies Spent $4 Billion On Ads In 2007 (MultiChannel News)

Wireless phone companies last year spent .1 billion on advertising—an increase of 1 million, or 12%, over 2006, Nielsen Monitor-Plus reported Wednesday.
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Freedom Wireless, VeriSign settle patent suit (AP via Yahoo! Finance)

Privately held Freedom Wireless Inc. said Wednesday it has settled a patent infringement suit against VeriSign Inc., the company that runs some of the Internet’s core systems.
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Qualcomm buys into UK wireless group (Financial Times)

Qualcomm , the US chipmaker, has joined fellow telecoms technology groups Cisco Systems, Intel and Motorola by taking a stake in Ip.access, a UK-based pioneer in a new in-building wireless technology known as femtocells.
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New Low Cost, High Performance 802.11 B/G (WiFi) Wireless Network Bridge – Connect Two Locations up to 5 Miles Apart … (Broadcast Newsroom)

RONKONKOMA, N.Y., BUSINESS WIRE — HD Communications Corp., a company with wireless experience dating back to 1976, has introduced the HD26200, a complete outdoor wireless network bridge in the 802.11 B/G unlicensed 2.4GHz band that sells for only 8.
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Verizon Wireless, seven others join Linux phone org (Linux Devices)

— May 14, 2008 — [Updated May 15] — Verizon Wireless has chosen Linux as its “platform of choice,” it said.
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Belfast Trust goes wireless (VNU Net via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)

Belfast Health & Social Care Trust has completed the roll out of a £1.4m wireless network.
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Consumer advocates say proposal on cell phone cancellation fees benefits wireless companies (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)

WASHINGTON – A proposal for the government to help cell phone customers avoid expensive fees when they cancel contracts with wireless companies may go down in flames after consumer advocates protested Wednesday it isn’t generous enough.
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CELCOM SEES GOOD RESPONSE FOR NEW WIRELESS BROADBAND DEVICES (Bernama via Yahoo! Malaysia News)

KUALA LUMPUR, May 21 (Bernama) – Celcom (M) Bhd is confident of increasing the number of its mobile broadband users, with the launch of its latest mobile products, the Vodafone Mobile Connect USB Stick and the Celcom Broadband Wireless Gateway.
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T-Mobile exec: wireless rivals feasting on Sprint missteps (The Kansas City Star)

Other wireless companies all have taken a close look at Sprint Nextel lately, at least to see what is going so wrong if not intending to make a takeover bid, T-Mobile Chief Executive Hamid Akhavan said today during the Reuters Technology, Media and Telecoms Summit in Paris. Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile’s parent company, reportedly has been considering a play for Sprint. Akhavan wouldn’t comment …
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WildPackets First to Simultaneously Capture and Analyze Wireless Data From Multiple Channels (Business Wire via Yahoo!7 Finance)

WildPackets, Inc., a leading provider of network and application analysis solutions, today announced a major enhancement to their OmniPeek network analysis product – now the first in the industry to simultaneously capture and analyze wireless data from multiple channels in real time.
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