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Articles tagged with: Wi Fi
Smartphone sales to overtake standard mobile phones by 2012
Despite an estimated 10% increase in the number of worldwide mobile and wi-fi phones sold the second half of 2009, a 9% revenue decline is expected due to downward price pressure, reports Infonetics Research. In total, 1.1 billion mobile phones are forecast to be sold in 2009 worldwide. more
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Nokia Losing Share in Wi-Fi Handset Market
Nokia, the leading market share vendor for dual-mode wi-fi handsets, has seen its market lead slip significantly over the past year, reports In-Stat. more
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Novatel Wireless posts 3Q profit on higher revenue
Novatel Wireless posted a third-quarter profit, reversing last year's loss, as strong sales of its MiFi personal Wi-Fi hotspot device took off. But a weak outlook for fourth-quarter sales sent shares tumbling nearly 18 percent in after-hours trading. more
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iPhone comes to China without key feature
Apple's iPhone is making its long-awaited formal debut in the world's most populous mobile phone market, without a key feature and at higher prices than widely available black market models. more
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Mobile Computing Devices, Handsets Drive 409 Million Unit Wi-Fi Device Market
The number of wi-fi systems shipped per year grew from 59 million units in 2005 to 409 million forecast to be shipped in 2009, a seven-fold increase, driven by notebook PCs, Smart Phones and wi-fi gaming consoles. more
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Dubai Light-Railway Opens with Wi-Fi Coverage
The new Dubai metro railway has been fitted out with wi-fi coverage by local telecoms operator, Du, in partnership with UK-based Nomad Digital. Nomad has deployed part of the metro's wi-fi network, which provides broadband connectivity to all trains and stations on the automated light-rail network. more
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Wi-Fi Network Deployed in Rwanda's Capital City
A wide-scale wi-fi network is being deployed in Kigali, Rwanda - based on network equipment supplied by Wavion. more
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Wi-Fi Alliance to support Peer to Peer Wi-Fi connectivity
wi-fi devices will soon be able to connect in a new way that makes it more simple and convenient than ever to do things like print, share and display. The wi-fi Alliance is nearing completion of a new specification to enable wi-fi devices to connect to one another without joining a traditional home, office, or hotspot network. The wi-fi Alliance expects to begin certification for this new specification in mid-2010, and products which achieve the certification will be designated wi-fi CERTIFIED wi-fi Direct. more
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Wi-Fi Still Rules as Consumer Electronics Network Connections Grow
As the number of connected consumer electronics devices continues to grow, getting the network to the device has become a challenge. Home network technologies such as coax and powerline are making inroads, but a report from ABI Research indicates that wireless connections will remain the dominant technology. more
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Wi-Fi Alliance Launches Updated Wi-Fi Certified Program
The wi-fi Alliance says that it has begun product testing for its wi-fi Certified n program, updating its two-year-old wi-fi Certified 802.11n draft 2.0 program. The updated program adds testing for some popular optional features now more widely available in wi-fi equipment. more
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