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Temperatures often exceed 100 degrees at the aptly named Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Ariz.; there simply isnt any air conditioning. For 18 seasons, the Arizona Cardinals have played their National Football League home games there, under open air, to feeble crowds of sweaty fans. Thats about to change. Starting this coming season, the Cardinals […]

Despite initiatives by the likes of Wal-Mart and Target, and a good bit of hype, tracking goods with RFID tags isnt going to become commonplace until the technology can prove itself useful in new applications, according to Sal Iannuzzi, president and CEO of Symbol Technologies. Iannuzzi maintains that radio-frequency identification has years to go before […]

Microsoft on Feb. 13 announced partnerships with several wireless carriers to deliver push e-mail capability for mobile devices, a move which is designed to compete with Research in Motions BlackBerry platform. Microsofts announcement could not be timed better, coming in the midst of a lawsuit that threatens to shut down BlackBerry service in the United […]

Atheros Communications and Qualcomm on Feb. 10 announced plans to collaborate on mobile phone chip sets that support both cellular and Wi-Fi data transfers. The companies have established interoperability between Atheros ROCm (Radio-on-Chip for Mobile) Wi-Fi chip platform and several of Qualcomms CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) cellular chip sets, and put the two together […]

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion released further details Feb. 9 of a long-awaited “workaround” that customers can implement if a federal judge rules against the company in a patent dispute and issues an injunction to shut down RIMs mobile e-mail service as it stands. “RIMs workaround provides a contingency for our customers and partners and […]

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion maintains the legality of a long-awaited “workaround” that customers can implement if a federal judge rules against the company in a patent dispute and issues an injunction to shut down RIMs mobile e-mail service as it stands. But the details that RIM released on Feb. 9 are still vague enough […]

Motorola on Feb. 8 announced plans for a system that will let consumers use their cell phones as credit cards, buying goods simply by holding their phones up to a scanner in a store. M-Wallet consists of two components: One, a software application that consumers can download to their phones; and two, the Wallet Service […]

Despite big initiatives by the likes of Wal-Mart, Target and the Department of Defense, and a good bit of hype, tracking goods with RFID tags isnt going to become commonplace anytime soon, said Sal Iannuzzi, president and CEO of Symbol Technologies. In a Feb. 6 interview with eWEEK, Iannuzzi said radio-frequency identification has years to […]

Wireless LAN management software maker AirMagnet is readying a new product that integrates an RF spectrum analyzer with a site survey tool. The idea is to give IT managers a predictive view of all possible problems in a wireless LAN, based both on the location of the access points and how they perform relative to […]

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications on Feb. 6 announced a slew of options for customers who want their corporate e-mail pushed to their P990 smart phones. “The P990 … is a sophisticated device that gets us to the point where mobile executives can really start to minimize on the number of devices and paperwork they carry […]