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Sprint upgrades five cities to EVDO Rev A

Sprint made a flurry of announcements today saying it has upgraded its Power Vision Network to EV-DO Revision A technology in Boston, Hartford, Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh.

The company said that Power Vision users in upgraded markets should experience "significantly faster average upload speeds of 300-400 kbps (compared with 50-70 kbps of current EV-DO networks)". Sprint also said average download speeds should also increase to "450–800 kbps from 400-700 kbps".

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PCTEL Receives Critical Roaming Patent

PCTEL announced today that its fundamental patent covering roaming across different types of wireless networks has been granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

PCTEL had previously announced that the USPTO had communicated its intention to grant the patent. Official notification was provided on November 7, 2006.

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Hawking to produce Z-Wave based products

Hawking Technologies announced today that it has joined the Z-Wave ...

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Singapore wireless freeloader faces three years imprisonment

You better think twice before accessing another person's wireless network in Singapore. 17-year-old Garyl Tan Jia Luo is the first person accused of violating the country's Computer Misuse Act and now faces up to three years imprisonment. Authorities say he used his laptop to access his neighbors wireless access point.

Full Story on TG Daily

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Broadcom adds single-chip 11g router

Broadcom today announced a new single-chip Wi-Fi router combining an 802.11g wireless LAN baseband / MAC, 2.4 GHz radio, 10/100 Ethernet switch and MIPS processor.

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Newbury Networks unveils infrastructure-agnostic WLAN location appliance

Newbury Networks today introduced what it says is the industry’s first "infrastructure-agnostic" wireless location appliance. The Newbury Location Appliance provides accurate and precise location tracking for thousands of devices over a wireless LAN and enables a host of mobile enterprise applications such as asset tracking, network provisioning, voice and security.

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Siemens, Tzero team for UWB multimedia home solution

Siemens Home and Office Communication Devices today announced an ultra wideband based home multimedia distribution solution developed in conjunction with Tzero Technologies.

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Lenovo releasing new ThinkPads with built-in dual-band draft 11n

Atheros Communications Monday announced that Lenovo has introduced several new "enterprise- class" notebooks featuring Atheros' XSPAN draft 1.0 802.11n wireless LAN (WLAN) technology.

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Accton and Alvarion join for WiMAX?

DigiTimes today reported that Taiwan-based network-equipment maker Accton Technology reportedly ...

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Aruba plans to unify Wi-Fi and cellular voice

Aruba Networks Monday revealed plans to bridge two wireless technologies by letting users on enterprise networks make VoIP calls over both Wi-Fi and cellular networks.
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Atheros gets into Windows CE

Atheros Communications today announced that its wireless LAN software has ...

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Triple Wired Threat for Wi-Fi for In-Home Triple Play

The triple play is the convergence of data, voice, and television (IPTV) across a single pipe: Wi-Fi's in-home dominance of data and increasingly voice and IPTV (with proprietary extensions) will be challenged, ABI Research says, by the latest versions of three standards that work over coax, electrical wiring, and phone wiring. ABI Research says that by 2011, over 45 million gateways will offer wired-based distribution of data, voice, and video. (The quadruple play, by the way, adds mobile voice.)

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