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A federal judge on Wednesday set a Feb. 24 hearing date to consider an injunction that could shut down BlackBerry wireless e-mail service in the United States. This follows the Supreme Courts official refusal on Monday to hear an appeal in the ongoing battle that has loomed over BlackBerry customers for years. The Supreme Courts […]

The Supreme Courts official refusal Monday to intervene in an ongoing patent battle over the future of the BlackBerry wireless e-mail service has left millions of customers faced with the definite possibility of losing BlackBerry service in the United States. And for millions of Research in Motion customers, a frustrating waiting game continues. Loyal BlackBerry […]

The Supreme Court Monday officially refused to hear an appeal in an ongoing battle that threatens to shut down BlackBerry wireless e-mail service in the United States. The refusal marked the latest in a series of setbacks for Research in Motion since holding company NTP sued the BlackBerry maker for alleged patent infringement in 2001. […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—The WiMax Forum on Thursday announced the first products to pass official certification and interoperability testing for the fixed wireless broadband standard. Certified products include Aperto Networks PacketMAX 5000 base station, Redline Communications Inc. RedMAX AN-100U base station, Sequans Communications SQN2010 SoC base station, and Wavesat Inc.s MiniMAX customer premise equipment or modem, […]

SAN JOSE—Cisco Systems Inc. wants to be more of a systems provider and less of a parts shop. To that end, the networking vendor of late is taking a holistic approach to its products and the way it sells them, with integration of advanced services functions into its switches and routers, a new tool designed […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—When asked for his take on the nascent wireless broadband technology known as WiMax, Brett Galloway put it like this: “WiMax is at the peak of its hype cycle and also at the peak of its confusion,” said Galloway, vice president and general manager of the wireless networking business unit at Cisco Systems […]

As IT managers continue to look for ways to lower costs and increase efficiency, IBM, Symbol Technologies Inc. and Aruba Networks Inc. are introducing new wireless LAN management products that bring the efficiency of the blade architecture to the problem of managing far-flung employees. IBM and Symbol are teaming up on a blade that brings […]

Yahoo and Sheraton Hotels & Resorts last week announced plans to test Yahoo-branded Internet lounges, including free Wi-Fi, in some Sheraton hotels. Initial lounges, with workstations and printers, debuted last week at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina and at the Sheraton Boston. Two additional hotels will include free Wi-Fi for guests in their […]

The International Engineering Task Force is close to adopting a standard way for wireless switches to communicate with wireless access points, but the jury is out on whether all the manufacturers in the industry will follow suit. This week the IETF chose Cisco Systems Inc.s LWAPP (Lightweight Access Point Protocol) from a handful of proposals […]

Blackberry maker Research In Motion Ltd. announced plans Thursday to offer free software that lets Macintosh users synchronize their BlackBerry devices with the calendar and contact applications on their Macs. RIM, of Waterloo, Ontario, is teaming up with Information Appliance Associates, a San Diego, Calif., company that makes a synchronization application called PocketMac. PocketMac for […]