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Reversing course, Verizon Wireless on Thursday said it will allow an abortion rights group to use its mobile network for a sign-up text messaging program.
An ambitious plan to blanket the city with wireless broadband Internet will be shelved because it is too costly and too few residents would use it, Chicago officials said Tuesday.
A point-and-click computer program that can automatically hack into vulnerable wireless networks - or probe them for weak spots - has been released by US researchers. Experts say it highlights the importance of ensuring that wireless networks are configured securely.
Toshiba Corp. on Wednesday announced that it has started selling the first laptops with a new high-speed technology that allow them to connect wirelessly to a docking station that can support an external monitor.
The European Union is making more radio spectrum available for accessing Internet services over mobile phones, saying the use of lower frequencies would cut operators' costs and let them reach customers over a wider area.
Google Inc. on Friday said it will bid at least $4.6 billion for wireless airwaves being auctioned off by the federal government — if certain conditions are met.
When maintenance workers finish a job at an Indianapolis university, they don't return to the office to fill out paperwork and pick up their next assignment. They grab their cell phones.
In a perfect world, there'd be no wires. They clutter the view, get tangled behind desks and limit how far networks can reach. That's why the telegraph gave way to the radio. Cell phones unstrung telecommunications. Wi-Fi liberated computer data.
In a May 21 story about municipal wireless projects, The Associated Press erroneously reported that EarthLink Inc. suspended new bids. The company said it won't seek as many bids, but isn't completely ruling out new ones.
Utility workers armed with the latest wireless gadgets will be able to read electric meters remotely using Wi-Fi networks many cities are contemplating. Police and building inspectors can file and retrieve reports on the go. City employees carrying Wi-Fi phones can also reduce cellular phone bills.
A $3 million plan to blanket Lompoc, Calif., with a wireless Internet system promised a quantum leap for economic development: The remote community hit hard by cutbacks at nearby Vandenberg Air Force Base would join the 21st century with cheap and plentiful high-speed access. Instead, nearly a year after its launch, Lompoc Net is limping along. The central California city of 42,000, surrounded by rolling hills, wineries and flower fields more than 17 miles from the nearest major highway, has only a few hundred subscribers.
Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel Corp. are introducing a BlackBerry e-mail phone that's compatible with the cellular technology more common in other countries in addition to the standard used on their own U.S. networks.
AT&T; Inc.'s Cingular Wireless plans to introduce mobile banking capabilities with four prominent banks, the biggest such initiative in the U.S. but still shy of the industry's long-discussed goal of turning cell phones into credit cards.
About one-third of Internet users in the U.S. have used a wireless connection to surf the Web or check e-mail, according to a survey released Sunday.
The jockeying to bring the most popular names from TV and the Web to cell phones produced another exclusive deal Thursday with Verizon Wireless nabbing a multiyear agreement to offer ESPN's flashy feed of sports scores, newscasts and video highlights on the tiny screen.
There may be hope — however distant — for recharging nearly drained cell phone, laptop and other batteries without plugging them into the wall, a scientist said.
T-Mobile USA is set to launch by year's end a new breed of mobile phones that can pass live phone calls between cellular and Wi-Fi networks, a top executive told The Associated Press on Friday.
Bob Jones has a lofty idea for improving communications around the world: Strategically float robotic airships above the Earth as an alternative to unsightly telecom towers on the ground and expensive satellites in space.
Google Inc. on Wednesday plans to offer free, high-speed Internet access to everyone in its Silicon Valley home town — a hospitable gesture that the online search leader hopes to see spread to other parts of the country.
Some computers with wireless Internet capabilities are vulnerable to attacks that could expose passwords, bank account details and other sensitive information even if the machines aren't actually online, researchers said here Wednesday.
The city is considering an unusual approach to creating a citywide, low-cost wireless Internet network: putting a nonprofit organization, rather than a private service provider, in charge of building and running the system.
Verizon Wireless is eliminating the monthly $15 fee for its music download service in conjunction with the launch of a cell phone featuring an iPod-like click wheel and a memory card that can hold up to 1,000 songs.
Verizon Wireless has obtained a permanent injunction blocking a Miami telemarketer from making automated calls to its customers, the cellular phone company said Thursday.
The City Council on Thursday unanimously approved a plan to blanket the city's 135 square miles with a high-speed wireless Internet connection, a measure the mayor is expected to sign soon.
Yellowstone National Park officials, criticized for marring the landscape near Old Faithful geyser with a cellular phone tower, are quietly preparing a plan to cover any expansion of wireless towers, antennas and TV and radio services in the popular park.
Despite pressure from mobile carrier Verizon Wireless, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will not change its rules for January's upcoming wireless spectrum auction, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said yesterday, according to published reports.
"We will tell it to go out to McDonald's and it will go through the drive-through and we sit in the back and it will get our food,"
The net-enabled mobile phones hit the 38 million mark in India. On the other hand, broadband Internet connections declined to 9.22 million in this quarter from 9.27 million in the previous quarter.
Six of the nation's 17 declared U.S. 2008 presidential candidates have so far announced a broadband policy, according to a survey announced by the Wireless Communications Association International (WCA), a trade group for wireless broadband providers.
For more than two years, a large group of engineers at Google has been working in secret on a mobile phone project.
Just in time for Thanksgiving, Fido today announced that it has joined Rogers Wireless in the Phones-For-Food program as national wireless sponsor, in partnership with the Canadian Association of Food Banks (CAFB).
The UK's wireless net credentials have been boosted with the launch of a wi-fi sharing community by BT. BT has backed a global wireless sharing service called Fon, billing it as the "world's largest wi-fi community".
When the FCC in late July voted to adopt its spectrum band plan and license conditions for the upcoming 700 MHz auction, it was natural to assume that was the end of the regulatory story.
....Imagine your cell phone as a mini marketing machine. As you head into your car after dinner, a text alert pops onto the screen of your handset announcing the 9 p.m. lineup at a nearby cineplex.
Recharge your cellphone using the solar powered recharger on your Zegna sports jacket collar. It is set to be released in northern summer of 2008.
Saying it had the right to block "controversial or unsavory" text messages, Verizon Wireless has rejected a request from Naral Pro-Choice America, the abortion rights group, to make Verizon's mobile network available for a text-message program.
Ireland's Cubic Telecom introduced the concept of a virtual PBX, which allows you to give your mobile phone a local number anywhere in the world. Which will use the company's MAXroam SIM card.
Great now we have to worry about losing our hearing due to cell phones.
Samsung says it will design high-end electronics gear with luxury provider Giorgio Armani.
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Virgin America has announced a partnership with AirCell to offer on-board Wi-Fi access on every flight, sometime in 2008. They believe that broadband connectivity will help enhance the inflight experienceof their guests.
Casting aside all pretense of public interest (and concern for corporate image), Verizon Wireless filed a petition in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit decrying the open access rules pertaining to the FCC's forthcoming 700 MHz auction.
Nimble rivals have the Treo maker struggling . In the fiercely competitive business of smartphones, you're only as good as your last innovation. For Palm (PALM ), which practically invented the category, that's bad news.
Although the rumored mobile platform is yet to be announced, software developers already sense a big business opportunity. Mention the name Google (GOOG) in cell-phone software circles these days and you're likely to get a lot of blank stares and awkward silence.
Mobile phones have not been found to be associated with any biological or adverse health effects, according to the UK's largest investigation into the possible health risks from mobile telephone technology.
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