More than a flash in the PAN 

By Donny Jackson

With Bluetooth, ZigBee, ultrawideband and near-field communications already existing in the short-range sector, Nokia's decision in October to introduce...

Upheaval 

An MRT Staff Report

The dawn of a new day A rash of man-made and natural disasters in the U.S. over the past few years has spotlighted weaknesses when it comes to...

FCC denies Sprint Nextel request for rebanding delay 

By Donny Jackson

The FCC yesterday released a letter denying Sprint Nextel’s request for an eight-month delay in the three-year schedule to complete reconfiguration of the 800 MHz band...

Motorola releases HSDPA trial results 

Motorola recently released the results of a trial of high-speed downlink packet access equipment conducted in Europe...

Sprint Nextel, cable operators in joint venture 

By Donny Jackson

Sprint Nextel and a consortium of cable companies announced a joint venture that will let them offer a quad play...

EarthLink, Google propose citywide Wi-Fi deployments 

Internet search engine company Google said it has made a proposal to provide free wireless Internet access via a wireless mesh network throughout the city of San Francisco...

Enterprise road warriors get a better weapon 

By Glenn Bischoff

Research in Motion has taken the next step in its location-based services strategy...

Nextel, Sprint shareholders OK merger 

Shareholders for both Sprint and Nextel Communications have approved the proposed merger that will create the third-largest wireless carrier in the U.S....

P2T-over-cellular standard confirmed 

The Open Mobile Alliance has made available the OMA push-to-talk over cellular (POC) 1.0 Candidate Enabler...

California city chooses Motorola's mesh solution 

By Donny Jackson

The city of Ripon, Calif., announced that it has chosen Motorola's mesh-networking product to provide broadband data access to Ripon employees...