Wi-Fi Blog

April 29, 2006

Vonage UK to offer use of Wi-Fi handsets while on the go (Geek.com)

Wi-Fi Watcher wrote this mid-morning:

Vonage UK teamed up with a leading Wi-Fi network operator in Europe to give customers the ability to make VoIP calls while on the go. Vonage UK and The Cloud will allow customers to use their Vonage Wi-Fi handset to make and receive calls at more than 7,000 Wi-Fi hotspots.

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County Considers Free Wi-Fi for Residents (ABC News)

Wi-Fi Watcher wrote this mid-morning:

County Considers Free Wi-Fi for Its 1.5 Million Residents

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April 28, 2006

Cisco/Motorola Wi-Fi Deal Dies (TechWeb via Yahoo! News)

Wi-Fi Watcher wrote this mid-morning:

A cellular/Wi-Fi roaming technology partnership between Cisco Systems and Motorola has gone the way of the dodo. And the culprit could be carrier reluctance to buy in to some vendor fixed/mobile convergence ideas.

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Pioneering Wi-Fi city sees startup woes (Reformatorisch Dagblad)

Wi-Fi Watcher wrote this mid-morning:

ST. CLOUD - More than a month after St. Cloud (Florida, USA) launched the country’s first free citywide Wi-Fi network, folks in this 28,000-person Orlando suburb are still paying to use their own Internet service providers as dead spots and weak signals keep some residents offline and force engineers to retool the free system.

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WildPackets Announces OmniSpectrum, a Portable Solution for Analyzing and Troubleshooting Wi-Fi RF Environments (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

Wi-Fi Watcher wrote this mid-morning:

WALNUT CREEK, Calif.—-April 28, 2006–WildPackets, Inc., innovators in advanced network analysis, today announced a new product in the OmniAnalysis Platform, WildPackets OmniSpectrum — a portable RF spectrum analyzer that runs in a standard Windows laptop PC and identifies the devices causing interference on a Wi-Fi network.

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Cisco, Motorola Abandon Wi-Fi/Cellular Venture (ChannelWeb)

Wi-Fi Watcher wrote this mid-morning:

A cellular, Wi-Fi roaming technology partnership between Cisco Systems and Motorola has been called off. And the culprit could be carrier reluctance to buy in to some vendor fixed/mobile convergence ideas.

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New Studies Show Premium Wi-Fi Chipsets Based on Airgo True MIMO(TM) Continue To Lead Industry in Performance (SYS-CON Media)

Wi-Fi Watcher wrote this mid-morning:

In a spate of tests recently conducted on new products using draft versions of the 802.11n standard, all have concluded that the Gen 3 True MIMO Wi-Fi chipsets pioneered by industry innovator, Airgo Networks outperform all other competitive offerings in real world settings. The findings show that Airgo chipsets offer superior performance and reliability when compared to all other competitive

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City’s new Wi-Fi has its problems (South Bend Tribune)

Wi-Fi Watcher wrote this mid-morning:

As free service falters, some citizens keep their paid plans. ST. CLOUD, Fla. — Joe Lusardi’s friends back in New York couldn’t believe it when he told them he’d have free Internet access through this city’s new Wi-Fi network.

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April 27, 2006

New Studies Show Premium Wi-Fi Chipsets Based on Airgo True MIMO(TM) Continue To Lead Industry in Performance (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

Wi-Fi Watcher wrote this mid-morning:

In a spate of tests recently conducted on new products using draft versions of the 802.11n standard, all have concluded that the Gen 3 True MIMO Wi-Fi chipsets pioneered by industry innovator, Airgo Networks outperform all other competitive offerings in real world settings.

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