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Broadcom's On Board With Linux. Who's Next?
By announcing Linux support for its latest Wi-Fi chipsets, Broadcom suggests a brighter future for Linux users everywhere. Read more...
Ball State Aims to Be the Big WiMAX on Campus
While most universities are panicking over the 2011 deadline to use or lose an educational spectrum grant, Indiana's Ball State University is taking an entrepreneurial approach to its managed WiMAX service, helping other schools before time runs out. Read more...
Sprint Touts the 4G Advantage
Organizations as diverse as a Chicago food bank and the Portland, Oregon Police Bureau are helping make the case for Sprint's 4G services. Read more...
Aruba Steps Into WAN Acceleration
WAN acceleration is a hot space with its share of big competitors. Wi-Fi vendor Aruba, however, sees an opening. Read more...
Beyond the Network: Encrypting Mobile Data
With 12,000 laptops going missing in airports each week, the security of mobile device storage is almost as critical as the security of mobile device connectivity. Full-disk encryption is one way to get that extra layer of security for those times a mobile device is physically compromised. Read more...
A Buyer's Guide to Mobile Management Services
The number of challenges posed by the mobile workforce isn't decreasing, and the costs associated with supporting mobile employees is increasing. With researchers claiming a 70 percent cost difference between companies confronting the mobile management challenge, it's time to learn about your choices. Read more...
Why Centralized WLAN Management Is the Way to Go
Enterprise Networking Planet columnist Charlie Schluting argues that centralized WLAN management's benefits might seem meager on an individual basis, but that the time savings adds up on large networks with thousands of access points. Read more...
Vendor Neutral WLAN Management Requires Research
Picking a "vendor neutral" WLAN management system will require careful research and awareness of some tradeoffs. Read more...
Industry Insiders: Ted Morgan, CEO, Skyhook Wireless
Skyhook Wireless CEO and co-founder, Ted Morgan, talks about the importance of the iPhone, the growth of location-enabled apps, and the future of location-based advertising. Read more...
Wi-Fi Planet Holiday Wish List, 2009
We can't tell you whether Wi-Fi Planet's contributors have been naughty or nice this year, but we can tell you which wireless gadgets they've been wishing for. Read more...
WiMAX Goes to the Olympics
Canadian provider, Craig Wireless, is set to launch mobile WiMAX in Vancouver in time for 2010 Winter Olympics Read more...
Opinion: Even Wi-Fi Can't Save Nook
Mike Elgan argues that despite the technical superiority of some new devices on the market, such as the Wi-Fi-enabled Kindle-competitor Nook from Barnes & Noble, those first to the party will continue to dominate the smartphone and e-book markets. Read more...
Kineto Gets in the Ring with New Mobile VoIP App
Any Wi-Fi-enabled smartphone can potentially run Kineto's new mobile VoIP app, designed to lure carriers into competing with Skype and other free or cheap mobile VoIP services. Read more...
The Future of 4G: LTE vs. WiMAX
LTE, the 4G mobile broadband technology backed by major cellular network equipment providers and operators, casts a long shadow across the WiMAX landscape—even though LTE products are thin on the ground and no operator has launched commercial service using it. Read more...
Opinion: Smartphones Require Smart Handling in the Enterprise
Jeff Vance compares the arrival of smartphones in the enterprise to the arrival of the Internet. Corporations that hide their heads in the sand and hope nothing bad happens will find that unfettered mobile cloud access means problems, he says. Read more...
Mobile VoIP Breaks New Ground
Unlike existing client modules that enable PBX and UC-type functionalities on mobile handsets, which are proprietary, a new F/MC client from fg microtec is standards-based and interoperable with server technologies from other vendors. Read more...
Opinion: iPod Touch Gaming FTL
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes says the iPhone and the iPod touch stink when it comes to gaming. Read more...
Opinion: The iPhone is a Disease
More contagious than the swine flu and even harder to shake, Mike Elgan (an iPhone user) says the iPhone is a virulent bug that transcends geeky gadget preference, gadget addiction, or even gadget snobbery. Read more...
Wi-Fi Drives Mobile VoIP Growth
Dual-mode smartphones, such as the iPhone and BlackBerry, are spurring mobile VoIP growth. Some 400 million dual-mode handsets will ship in 2013, according to predictions made recently by researchers. Read more...
Industry Insiders: Eran Karoly, VeriWave
We speak with VeriWave’s vice president of marketing about the all-wireless office, the ratification of 802.11n, and how the market is likely to change in the coming year. Read more...
Global WiMAX Status Report
In this multi-part series, contributing writer, Gerry Blackwell, examines the state of the WiMAX industry in key regions around the globe. Read more...
Industry Insiders: Interviews with Wi-Fi's Leading Minds
Wi-Fi Planet's contributors have unique opportunities to speak with some of the Wi-Fi industry's leading thinkers. From time to time, we publish excerpts from our interviews with some of these Wi-Fi wizards in our Industry Insiders series. Read more...
The Return of WirelessWall
The security solution, first developed by Cranite Systems, is now approaching a variety of different markets under the guidance of its new owner TLC-Chamonix. Read more...
The Cloud is Where It's At
Over the next five years, ABI Research predicts there will be almost a billion subscribers to mobile cloud services, up from only 42.8 million last year. Read more...
Around the World in 80 Nodes, 2009
Beijing Science Park deploys WLAN; Wi-Fi drives innovation in tourism; RFID passport tags save time, risk privacy; WiMAX in North America defying global trends; WiMAX Gives Boost to Education in Pakistan; Venice uses Wi-Fi to manage pedestrian traffic, encourage tourism; Venice, Italy gets free, city-wide Wi-Fi, celebrates with Wi-Fi treasure hunt; and more. Read more...
