In an overture to knowledge workers with wanderlust, Hewlett-Packard and Cingular have launched what they are claiming is the world's first notebook with built-in global 3G capabilities.

The HP Compaq nc6400 boasts a built-in Cingular Wireless UMTS/HSDPA module -- in plain English, hardware that lets the notebook connect to Cingular's global high-speed data network in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe, and much of Asia, with more than two dozen countries in all.

Firms reckon consumers want to get all their media from one source

Satellite television company BSkyB has said it will work with internet search giant Google in order to develop its broadband services and products.

BSkyB, which offers a free broadband internet service to customers, said it would focus on three areas: search and adverts, videos and communications.

STOCKHOLM - Swedish telecoms equipment maker Ericsson will work with computer chip giant Intel on applications for mobile computers that will increase their attractiveness in the market, Ericsson said on Friday.

Ericsson said the joint effort with Intel would aim to enhance the appeal of mobile broadband and multimedia for consumers and corporations.

During a presentation at the IEEE Globecom 2006 Expo in San Francisco on Tuesday, Alan Crouch, director and general manager at Intel's Communications Technology Lab told the audience to expect Intel to put a pre-standard version of IEEE 802.11n Wi-Fi into its Centrino chips by next year.

Apple Computer has fixed a number of flaws in the software that ships with its personal computers, including a bug in its AirPort wireless drivers that was disclosed earlier in November.

 

Deleting Online Predators Act already passed in Congress. Should it also pass through the Senate, the bill would ban US children from using popular networking Web sites in schools and libraries.

The DOPA covers federal institutions that received funding for computers and net access via the US E-Rate scheme. According to the American Library Association (ALA), two thirds of US libraries have received this funding.

Announcement of a partnership between UK chip developer, picoChip and Korea Telecom has opened up the possibility of WiMAX access points supplanting WiFi for wireless communications in the home.

Enterprise Instant Messenger targets companies that use IM for collaboration, document sharing

MessageLabs launched on Monday encrypted IM (instant-message) software, targeting companies that use consumer IM clients for collaboration and document sharing.

Networking gear maker Cisco Systems is taking the first steps of what could be a major initiative aimed at expanding its business into the growing market for products that integrate IT and physical security technologies.
 

Next-generation Wi-Fi could soon be used to deliver IPTV throughout the home. 
 
Airgo Networks, which makes Wi-Fi chips, announced Tuesday that Caton Overseas and STMicroelectronics will use its latest generation of wireless technology to distribute video over Wi-Fi links throughout the home.

Security-conscious attendees at Computerworld's Mobile & Wireless World conference yesterday heard a new twist on an old theme: the 10 things not to do when implementing a wireless LAN.

The hard-learned lessons came at the expense of an unnamed national retail chain with more than 1,000 stores whose sorry story was detailed by John Stehman, a consultant at Robert Frances Group Inc.

The shifting future of wireless voice

A blend of wireless broadband and VoIP is coming, but what form it will take remains to be seen

The technology is in its early stages, there's no proven business model, and there's strong disagreement about how the trend will play out. But most experts agree that voice over IP (VoIP) will eventually combine with new types of wireless broadband to change how businesses and consumers acquire and use mobile and fixed voice services.

NEW YORK - New York's Central Park and a number of other public spaces will become public Internet hubs starting this summer when the city's parks begin offering free wireless net access, the city government said. 
 

Foundry Networks has put voice networking at the heart of a range of new products which roll out in the UK today.

The devices include high-density stackable switches that supply the Gigabit Power-over-Ethernet connections needed by next-generation wireless access points, and WLAN controllers able to recognise voice protocols and give priority to VoIP connections.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Yahoo! BB, the Japan Yahoo! broadband service launched by Softbank BB Corp., is the first to use a native 40-Gbit/sec interface on the Cisco CRS-1 core router.

 

A comment on my Wi-Fi dropouts post requested help in configuring security on a wireless router. I'm happy to oblige. Here are my suggestions for securing your wireless network, from most important to least. I'd love to show you exactly how to make all these changes, but unfortunately every router is different, even routers made by the same company can have wildly different management schemes. Consult your user manual for detailed instructions.
 

The two companies are working together on business communication systems

Collaborative communications vendor Polycom and IP telephony specialist Skype have joined forces to deliver integrated comms systems for businesses using Skype.

Bye-bye, wires: a new generation of super-fast wireless networking gear is arriving in stores.

But don't buy anything just yet, some tech experts say.

Gear maker Linksys last week launched its first products using a new kind of wireless Internet, or Wi-Fi, technology. Called 802.11n, the new Wi-Fi is almost twice as fast as the speediest older version. And it's designed for multiple data streams, which makes it easier to download music and stream a movie from the Internet at the same time.
 

Skype Technologies SA today said it is piloting a new community conference call service that can support as many as 100 callers. It's also offering a beta version of its new Internet calling software designed for easier use.

Start-up to ship a switch-based network-access control appliance

Start-up FireEye made its debut, announcing plans to ship a switch-based network-access control appliance next month that will let customers identify network-borne malware and attacks in order to quickly contain them.

NEW SERVICE LETS UP TO 100 HOLD AUDIO DISCUSSIONS

Internet phone-calling software maker Skype has created a way to transform blogs from soapboxes into live, town-hall meetings.

Samsung will this month offer its latest slimline slider phone to European consumers, pitching the 1.6cm-thick, "easy-to-grip" device's Bluetooth 1.2-based wireless stereo playback and 80MB of on-board music storage at "the modernist and music appreciator in you".

It’s touting interoperability with existing VHF and UHF radio systems

Just a month before the official U.S. hurricane season begins on June 1, Iridium Satellite LLC today unveiled satellite telephone communications equipment that will interoperate with existing UHF and VHF radio systems already used by police, rescue agencies, firefighters and other first responders.