Although Research in Motion made its name by delivering secure corporate email, it has had to move quickly to adapt to the ever-shifting world of social networking.Now that users expect a wide array
Network World (US)With all the hype surrounding 4G technologies such as LTE and WiMAX, it's easy to forget just how useful Wi-Fi is in our daily lives.And as many at this week's ITEXPO
Published on: February 7th, 2011 Brad Reed @itbusinessca
Mobile WiMAX equipment has been on the market for a year, but it's still not clear whether the predominant application for the wireless technology will be high-speed Internet access, a backhaul for connecting
Published on: January 18th, 2007 Greg Meckbach @itbusinessca
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Cisco Systems Inc. is taking a wait and see approach to WiMAX technology while continuing to market to what it sees as a largely untapped small to mid-sized business
Published on: December 14th, 2006 Greg Meckbach @itbusinessca
Although the IEEE's 802.16e WiMAX standard has been approved, standardized mobile WiMAX will not be in place for at least another year, according to a market research firm.The Boston-based Yankee Group recently published
Published on: December 13th, 2006 Greg Meckbach @itbusinessca
As equipment and component manufacturers announced products at the WiMAX World conference in Boston last month, some vendors predict mobile carriers will add WiMAX base stations to their GSM or CDMA infrastructure.“We certainly
WiMAX is not a particularly revolutionary technology. Fixed wireless has been around for a while, and ironically, the lion's share of the market is outside of North America.With WiMAX, it's not the technology
Published on: December 5th, 2006 Greg Meckbach @itbusinessca
CDMA has some technical advantages, but it has lost the war in the global marketplace for second generation (2G and 2G+) cellular systems. As a technology it is surviving, at least into the
Published on: December 5th, 2006 Ron Scott @itbusinessca
The mobile version of Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) might eventually change the landscape of both fixed and mobile broadband networking.In the meantime, however, it poses a dilemma for network operators and
“It's starting to become a necessity for conducting business,” says Darcy Ferguson, director of finance and administration for the board. But apart from a couple of towns of more than 1,000 people, where
Wireless broadband is primed for takeoff, particularly in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa. Even here in Canada, the Alberta Special Areas Board (SAB) is rolling out a broadband wireless
Published on: March 24th, 2006 Vawn Himmelsbach @itbusinessca
