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Sprint Corp. on Tuesday announced plans to spend $1 billion upgrading its wireless network to support 3G technology. Promising average data speeds of 300K bps to 500K bps and bursts of up to 2.4M bps, Code Division Multiple Access Ev-DO (Evolution-Data Optimized) will allow for high-speed multimedia data transfers, said officials at Sprint in Overland […]

Intel Corp. and Proxim Inc. are lending further credence to WiMax with significant co-development plans for the emerging wireless broadband standard. The two companies are co-developing base station and subscriber unit architectures that support WiMax, which is based on the IEEE 802.16 protocol and promises speeds approaching those of Fast Ethernet. Intel is licensing Proxim […]

Cisco Systems Inc. on Monday introduced a card that adds IEEE 802.11b and 802.11g WLAN (Wi-Fi) support to its 3200 Series routers. “This solution set [targets] outdoor wireless broadband for the public sector,” said Ann Sun, senior manager for Wireless and Mobility at Cisco, in San Jose, Calif. The routers now can support wireless LAN […]

Symbol Technologies on Thursday announced its acquisition of Trio Security, a private software company based in Colorado Springs, Colo. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Trio Security Inc. specializes in handheld security software, including product called Trio Vault that boasts a “three-factor” authentication system. The product consists of a software key, a password […]

Even without an official IEEE blessing, faster multisignal WLAN technology is on tap from one Silicon Valley developer, while several large chip makers test the waters. Airgo Networks Inc.s True MIMO (multiple input/multiple output) technology will appear this week for the first time in wireless LAN access points and CardBus cards from SOHOware Inc. and […]

IBM and Intel this week will introduce a mobile workstation pilot aimed at electronic design engineers who need to go mobile. The pilot includes IBMs ThinkPad notebooks running on Intels highest-speed Pentium M processors. The pilot uses software from Cadence Design Systems that runs on Linux. Some potential customers said such a solution is more […]

CSR Plc. is readying the fourth generation of its Bluetooth silicon, which is based on the new Enhanced Data Rate specification, approved by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group last week in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Bluetooth EDR offers a maximum local wireless data transfer rate of 2.1M bps, compared with the maximum of 721K bps offered by […]

Nokia has entered into a patent licensing agreement with holding company NTP that includes the five patents currently under litigation between Research In Motion and NTP, officials said today. Nokia Corp. needed to take that step to go forward with U.S. sales of a version of its 6820 phone that can connect to Research In […]

Sprint PCS Group this week announced a cameraless version of PalmOne Inc.s popular Treo 600 smart phone. Available immediately, this noncamera version was designed to address the needs of corporate customers who want high-end devices but dont want cameras in their offices—in a phone or otherwise—for security reasons. Government offices especially have strict rules about […]

Two competing vendors are prepping products aimed at delivering high-end WLAN features in smaller, lower-cost devices. Broadcom Corp. announced a new processor that combines the functions of a wireless LAN with those of an Ethernet switch. The Broadcom BCM5350 with Sentry5 is meant to fit into wireless routers in small businesses and enterprise branch offices, […]