LTE’s Immaturity in the US
Don’t be expecting a constant experience across fledgling long term Evolution (LTE) networks in the U.S., judging from the findings of a latest benchmark examine via signals analysis group. The study, called “The Mother of all Network Benchmark Tests” — which tested mobile broadband networks across the U.S., including 3G, LTE and mobile WiMax — […]
Will the next iPhone have LTE?
It’s with great trepidation that we risk waking the slumbering iRumor giant, and suggest what the next iPhone could bring. One of the biggest questions is whether Apple will add LTE to its next hardware update. Will they bother? What are the pros and cons? Are they hurting by not having LTE in the 4S? […]
Mobile carriers: Five predictions for 2012
The biggest news for 2011 in this sector was AT&T’s $39 billion bid to buy T-Mobile. And when the deal was announced in March, AT&T seemed confident it could make it happen. So confident in fact, that it agreed to one of the biggest break-up fees ever. But as we all now know, regulators didn’t […]
Wi-Fi ‘protected set-up’ not so protected after all
The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team warned this week of a security flaw in a popular tool intended to make it easier to add additional devices to a secure Wi-Fi network. US-CERT, cited findings from security researcher Stefan Viehbock, who uncovered the security hole in the so-called Wi-Fi Protected Set-up, or WPS, protocol, which is […]
Carvalho Plan Could Make All Schools Wireless
Miami-Dade Superintendent Alberto Carvalho wants his schools to have wireless Internet and announced a plan Wednesday that could secure the funding needed to make his wish a reality. The plan Carvalho announced will be for the Miami-Dade community to raise $7 million. If the community can lift the cash, the federal government will fit the […]
Samsung still dominates mobile phone market, but Apple is gaining
Samsung is still the biggest maker of mobile phones, but Apple is gaining ground, according to data released today by market researcher ComScore. Samsung accounted for 25.6 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers for the three months ending November 11, a slight increase of 0.3 percent over the previous three months. While Apple came in fourth […]
Verizon fixes latest network outage
Verizon has had a busy month repairing network glitches. The carrier confirmed early this morning via Twitter that it has resolved the latest outage, which hit many of its cellular data customers yesterday. In tweeting the news, Verizon Wireless said that the 4G LTE issue was resolved overnight. 3G connectivity, as well as calling and […]
Facebook Launches ‘Timeline’ Globally
Long-discussed Timeline, a digital scrapbook feature on Facebook, is launching globally. More pictures, more information and more chronology — and your archived stuff will automatically populate the new feature. Timeline is similar to having an auto-generated personal website, replete with everything — that’s everything — you’ve ever posted to Facebook. So, if you have a […]
Florida works to kill potential VoIP tax
Internet telephony supporters won a big victory in Florida last week when legislators voted in favor of repealing part of a communications tax on businesses that run their own networks. The State House of Representatives voted unanimously on House Bill 49, which removes the tax from Florida’s tax code. Bill sponsor John Stargel, a Republican […]
How mobile affected the datacenter in 2011
While the topic of green datacenters tends to hold the attention of myself and other datacenter folks and the various changes in the datacenter facility model have captured the majority of the ink on datacenter issues in 2011, a look back really does show that other topics have actually had more impact on the everyday […]
GPS Could Send You On Long Strange Trip
These days when you get into your car, you probably take an extra step that maybe a few years ago you didn’t: typing your destination in your GPS system. Many of us in South Florida would be lost without the step-by-step directions, but sometimes our GPS’s can send us the wrong way. It happened to […]
Google to Battle Siri with Majel
Google is reportedly working on a rival to Apple’s virtual assistant Siri, codenamed Majel, and will likely launch the service next year. Majel is called after actress Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, and when you have geek cred you could additionally recognize that she was once the voice of the Federation computer (and Nurse Chapel) on “famous person […]
4G technologies: WiMAX and LTE
4G has been causing quite a stir lately and this is to be expected, given many carries have already revealed plans to embark on 4G in the coming months, not to mention some of them have a head start, having deployed the necessary infrastructure. Actually, do we know what 4G offers? Let’s take a closer […]
WiMAX vs. LTE vs. HSPA+: who cares who wins?
“We must stop the confusion about which technology is going to win; it achieves nothing positive and risks damage to the entire industry.” Anyone among the curious band of people who track articles about the status of mobile broadband (and the chances are that you are one of them) will have noticed an interesting trend […]
4G: High Technology Students
The new 4G technology in use at the best wireless Internet on the go. It has many functions in many different types of people in our rapidly changing circumstances. Internet turning into increasingly more accessible to the entire global, and this will likely facilitate people’s skill to procure knowledge and information can also be the […]
The 4G mobile technology, Connectivity, Features and new launches
We have heard that what happens at CES in Las Vegas. The new mobile phone technology 4G stole the show at the Consumer Electronics Show this year. Here is an outline of 4G technology and what it manner to you. What is 4G? 4G is the latest standard in wireless mobile telephony. It is the […]
The Future Associated with Internet – 4G WiMAX
Imagine a global where cellular Web had been actually almost everywhere. You can function – as well as perform – anyplace you wanted. You can open your own laptop and solution several immediate email messages with your vehicle”s oil transformed. You can actually navigate to the park watching an episode of the preferred TV show […]
Forget Ethernet, researchers want data centers to go wireless
You know those cabling contests that try to get systems administrators to show off their racks? If this article from the MIT Technology Review is right, those may become a distant memory as researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara, Intel and IBM have shown how they can send data between servers without those […]
4G network development background
Communication technology advances to bring a lot of enjoyment. With the demand for data communications and the development of multimedia services to meet the mobile data, mobile computing and mobile multimedia operational needs of the fourth generation mobile communications began to rise. It is reasonable to expect that this fourth-generation mobile communication technology can bring […]
4G Antenna
In telecommunications, 4G is the fourth generation of cellular wireless standards. It is a successor to the 3G and 2G families of standards. In 2009, the ITU-R organization specified the IMT-Advanced (International Mobile Telecommunications Advanced) requirements for 4G standards, setting peak speed requirements for 4G service at 100 Mbit/s for high mobility communication (such as […]