Wayne Rash

Heavy cell phone use may have a significant impact on the fertility of men, according to a study released in late October by the prestigious Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. The study, conducted by Dr. Ashok Agarwal and in PDF abstract here, reported on the results of 364 men who used cell phones for varying […]

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Election Assistance Commission, the little-known agency that controls how national elections are held in the United States, is enlisting the help of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in making sure electronic voting machines meet federal standards. According to EAC Voting Systems Certification Director Brian Hancock, all voting machines to be used […]

NEC Unified Solutions, a division of NEC, is announcing a converged communications system that the company said will give businesses a seamless wireless communications and mobility solution for their enterprise needs. The Irving, Texas, company said that Univerge Assured Mobility is aimed at businesses of all sizes, from small and midsize enterprises to large organizations. […]

London-based Barablu has developed a free calling system that works with some Nokia phones that use the Symbian operating system. The product works with Nokia Series 60 phones on either Wi-Fi or GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) networks, and supports voice calling in addition to instant messaging and video. The company says the new […]

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group, an industry group that sets standards for the Bluetooth short-range wireless communications system, has come up with a new, easier, means of moving Web-based content from a PC to a Bluetooth-equipped device. The new application, called TransSend, is available for free from the groups Web site and is designed to […]

Printronix is shipping a new industrial printer that can generate up to 100 bar-code labels with embedded and encoded RFID chips per minute, and apply those labels to packages at the same speed. The printer, named the SLPA8000r, uses labels that include the RFID circuitry and the necessary antenna integrated into the actual label material. […]

WASHINGTON—The United States Department of Justice announced Oct. 18 that a federal grand jury in San Francisco has indicted two Samsung executives and one executive from Hynix Semiconductor in a scheme that held the prices of dynamic random access memory artificially high. The three executives are Ung Kim, Young Bae Rha and Gary Swanson. Kim […]

Sprints announcement Oct. 16 that it had started work on using its EV-DO Rev. A network as the basis for a new, enhanced, push-to-talk network is just the latest move in what has become an industrywide effort to make person-to-person communications more immediate. Currently, Sprint offers two kinds of push-to-talk communications, one through its Nextel […]

The post-CTIA doldrums have finally dissipated, so once again we have wireless news to pass along. No doubt youre not surprised to know that manufacturers and service providers save up their Good Stuff to wow us with all at once. If they didnt, we wouldnt go to those shows and their controlled-message environments, and then […]

Intel has developed a WiMax baseband card designed for the carrier market thats intended to give equipment manufacturers a platform for the creation of WiMax base stations. The new baseband card allows companies to make base station equipment for both the industrial and residential markets. It meets standards including the AdvancedMC hardware specification and the […]