Mobile Computing & Wireless Networking

Techworld Mobility and Wireless is your essential resource for all the latest cellular (GSM, GPRS and UMTS) news, wireless LANs news and other mobile communications news

• New iPhone only 'weeks' away
  Must-have executive gadget?
• Dell promises green PC drive
  25 percent less energy in two years.
• Workers increasingly 'hyperconnected'
  Multiple devices and apps used to stay online.
• Two more members for mobile Linux group
  Verizon and Mozilla join LiMo.
• User locator hunts rogues too
  eTelemetry expands people-to-IP technology to spot dodgy new devices.
• BlackBerry gets updated management tools
  InterNoded and Zenprise show off upgrades.
• Microsoft seeks 40 percent of smartphone market
  The sales target from hell.
• Galileo and GPS systems to work together
  Better coverage, more apps.

More Mobile Computing & Wireless Networking news »

• Wireless power-saving - more trouble than it's worth?New
  Wi-Fi's Power Save Mode sounds like a good way to make laptop batteries last longer. It turns out the savings aren't worth the performance hit.
• What's the true meaning of unified communications?
  Unified communications is more than the simple integration of fixed and mobile communications. It means the inclusion of additional wireless communications - not just basic Wi-Fi - but also, expanding the definition of wireless to include satellite and microwave communication as well.
• Wanted: Convergence standard for 802.21
  This is good technology, and it has the support of the likes of InterDigital and even Intel. But, good technology alone is of relatively little value. Now is the time to toot the horn a little.

More Insight articles »

• Use your BlackBerry as a modem
  Using your phone as a modem can get you out of tricky situations. Here's how to do it with a BlackBerry.
• Secure your laptop from thieves
  Laptops increase the risks to your data, but there are sensible steps to take which minimise the danger.
• Getting back on the LAN
  My laptop can't see my network anymore.

More How-Tos »

• 7 Essential Steps of Vulnerability ManagementNew
  

  Every week at least 155 risks from newfound software to operating system vulnerabilities, threaten the security and availability of networks and applications. Now is the time to be prepared.

• Business-savvy CIOs: Joining the senior leadership team.
  

  CIOs are joining the ranks of top management in record numbers. Accordingto results from IBM’s 2007 CIO Leadership Survey, 80 percent of CIOs havebecome valued members of their senior leadership teams.

• The outsourcing decision for a globally integrated enterprise.
  

  Globalisation and advances in technology have changed the way business gets done. Companies entering into outsourcing agreements expect to reduce costs and drive efficiency, but such commodity benefits are just the price of admission for today’s outsourcing agreements.

More white papers »

• A guide to Wi-Fi power-save technologiesNew
  Saving power on client devices may not always work well, but the industry has come up with plenty of ways to do it.
• Testing Wi-Fi's Power Save ModeNew
  If you tell your laptop's radio to switch off when possible, are the power savings worth it? Craig Mathias investigates.
• Which laptop extras should you go for?
  When you buy a laptop, which upgrades are worth paying for, and which are a waste of money?

More Briefings »

Mobile Computing & Wireless Networking topics pages

3g | 802.11b | 802.11g | Access point | Mobile network | RFID | WEP | Wireless access | Wireless LAN security | Wireless network | Wireless networking | Wireless security | Wireless solution | Wireless technology | WLAN
All topics »

• Qualcomm to bring MediaFLO to the UK? New
  Wins Ofcom auction for 40MHz of spectrum
• Cisco claims 50,000 11n APs New
  Still number one
• TI and WiMedia: "UWB's not dead" New
  But it's not very lively yet...

More Mobile Computing & Wireless Networking blog entries »

• 4ipnet MSG100 wireless office controller New
  A handy and inexpensive device for multi-zone security, including enforcing access control on both wired and wireless network users.
• Lenovo ThinkPad X300
  We got our hands on what might just be the best laptop of the year - can it possibly be as good as we heard?
• Android SDK
  What is Google's Android like behind the publicity? We took the SDK for a test-drive to see if it's a good place to build applications.
• Kingston memory card readers
  Adapter kits make it easy to get stuff on and off a mobile phone, and having one built into the USB stick that you carry anyway makes it easier still.
• Dell XPS M1330 laptop
  The XPS M1330 is unquestionably Dell’s best ultra-portable laptop to date, and quite possibly the best machine of its type on the market.

More Mobile Computing & Wireless Networking reviews »

• Whatever happened to ZigBee?
  Low-power sensor networks aren't yet as big as he hoped, but ZigBee Alliance chief Bob Heile says the low-power standard will rock the competition and make the world greener.
• Opera boss orchestrates the handheld web
  Jon Tetzchner, the CEO of Opera Software, tells why WAP was a dead end and why the iPhone has it right - it's got to be one web, wherever it goes.
• Is a free global Wi-Fi network possible?
  WeFi thinks it can create continuous coverage by mapping open Wi-Fi hotspots. We probe the practicalities of the plan.

More Interviews »

• Microsoft: the world's largest WLAN
  It started out as optional, now it's essential. The software giant has covered all its offices in Wi-Fi
• Parallel Internet: Inside the Worldwide LHC computing Grid
  Perhaps just as complicated as answering scientists' questions of origin, is setting up a worldwide network capable of distributing the mountains of data produced by the seemingly infinite number of particle collisions.
• University gives top marks to virtual cell Wi-Fi
  When the University of Birmingham upgraded its core network a few years ago, it set in course a train of events that would lead to it becoming one of the UK's largest - and yet secure - campus wireless LANs.

More Case Studies »

• 
  RSS
• 
  Newsletters
• 
  Forums
• 
  Blogs
• 
  White papers
• 
  Events
• 
  Register
• 
  Videos
• 
  Awards
•  
   
• 
  About us
• 
  Contact us
• 
  Privacy policy