Articles tagged with: Wi Fi and Ovi

Green Packet Wins Taiwanese WiMAX Software Contract

Malaysia's Green Packet says that it has sealed an agreement with Taiwan-based Tatung Infocomm to enhance the connectivity capabilities of Tatung's WiMAX network. The agreement will see Green Packet providing Tatung with a customised edition of its Intouch Connection Management Platform. This provision will greatly improve Tatung InfoComm's ability to offer seamless mobility across networks over secured mobile VPN, for example a user moving from Tatung WiMAX to wi-fi and back to a WiMAX coverage area. more

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Brazil Leads Lat-Am in Deployments, Connections and Demand for WiMAX and 3G Services

Signals Telecom Consulting has issued a commentary which notes that as from 2010 Brazil will account for the greatest number of WiMAX accesses in the Latin America and the Caribbean region, a position that it will keep in the medium term. Signals expects that the setting of regulations for the use of the 2.5 GHz and 3.5 GHz bands, plus the tendering of new bands, will provide a strong impulse to this technology in Brazil. Signals foresees the entry into the market of large-scale operators such as Telefónica (via TVA), which will use WiMAX to expand its area of operation outside Sao Paulo, and SKY (DirecTV), among others, which will join the current efforts being made by Embratel and Neovia. Signals expects that operators will carry out their own development to be able to add their own last mile. more

Virgin Trains to offer on-board Wi-Fi Service

T-Mobile UK and Virgin Trains today announced the launch of wi-fi internet services for passengers on Pendolino Virgin trains on the West Coast Main Line. The wi-fi HotSpot service will provide a wireless broadband connection throughout the entire journey, including all tunnel sections, at high speeds. The HotSpot service has been rolled out by T-Mobile's solution partner, Nomad Digital. more

AT&T Sees Surge in Wi-Fi Connections

AT&T has reported dramatic growth in the number of wi-fi users and connections. The US firm reported wi-fi connections totaled 10.5 million in the first quarter of 2009 - more than triple the 3.4 million connections in the first quarter of 2008, and more than half AT&T's 20 million total wi-fi connections for all of 2008. more

New digital signal processor is super-fast, ultra energy-efficient

A new, extremely energy-efficient processor chip that provides breakthrough speeds for a variety of computing tasks has been designed by a group at the University of California, Davis. The chip, dubbed AsAP, is ultra-small, fully reprogrammable and highly configurable, so it can be widely adapted to a number of applications. more

Mobile Web Analytics Platform Tracks Users Over Different Network Connections

Mobile billing and analytics firm, Bango has launched its latest version of its site tracking platform, which the firm says can now track a mobile internet user even if they switch from cellular to wi-fi whilst visiting the same website. more

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Game-Changing Moves Strengthen Consumer LBS in North America

The consumer location-based services (LBS) market has steadily evolved over the past few years, always promising significant revenue generation, but never quite delivering the critical mass of subscribers that were expected. Now, a number of factors - including the development of third-party location databases and technologies - are poised to finally drive real LBS market growth on mobile phones. more

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Alaska Airlines Sees Sucess in Wi-Fi Trials

Alaska Airlines has published the initial results of its in-flight wi-fi service trial, which was launched in February. More than 2,100 passengers logged on and used Alaska Airlines Inflight wi-fi. Of those passengers who tried the service and completed a survey during or after their flight, more than 96 percent intend to use it again. Alaska Airlines says that it will begin evaluating pricing models for the service and will continue to gather feedback from customers. more

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Mobile Phones Get Smarter at CTIA with Touch Screen Tech

This month's International CTIA Wireless 2009 event in Las Vegas showcased in the mobile handset's industry increasing focus on smart phones, as illustrated by prevalence of announcements related to touch-screen technology, according to iSuppli. more

Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue Down in 2008 - Qualcomm Bucks the Trend

Worldwide semiconductor revenue totaled $255 billion in 2008, down 5.4 percent, or a decrease of $14.5 billion from 2007 revenue, according to the final market share analysis by Gartner. The steep decline in the market in the final quarter of 2008, combined with the ongoing economic weakness, signals far worse declines in 2009. more