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Free wireless service surrounds the San Francisco Marina district along four blocks of Chestnut Street, between Filmore and Scott Streets. The service is courtesy of AnchorFree Wireless, the folks behind the hotzone running in nearby downtown Palo Alto.—February 28, 2005 Motorola’s recently-acquired Mesh Networks division is behind the municipal-use wireless network recently installed in Buffalo, […]

Week of February 21-25, 2005 Fujitsu Microelectronics America says it will make a WiMax-compliant system-on-a-chip (SoC) to let vendors quickly make new WiMax-certified products when certification testing commences this summer. In case you’re keeping track, Propagate Networks is no more—they’ve changed their name to AutoCell Laboratories. Our thanks to the maker of the now-eponymous AutoCell […]

Size matters to Yahoo and so the Internet media company has bulked up its image muscle by adding to its image index. In addition to increasing its store of images to 1.5 billion, Yahoo said it added features to Yahoo Image Search. Most notable was what it calls “transformed queries,” automatically determining terms that might […]

From choosing an access point to securing your WLAN, there are a lot things to consider when you deploy wireless networks. ENP puts it all in focus with our recent coverage on the latest in wireless networking: OpenVPN Locks Down the WLAN Why worry about WEP, WPA, or PPTP when OpenVPN provides free, open, SSL-powered […]

Network operator Sprint has signed a multi-million-dollar contract with human resources outsourcer Convergys , the companies announced today. The three-year agreement includes Sprint’s Multi-Protocol Label Switching Virtual Private Network services to bring voice and data onto a single platform for Convergys’ call centers and data centers. On the wireless side, Sprint will provide a number […]

About.com, the eight-year-old guide to the Web, is up for sale, according to the New York Times, with bids due on Tuesday. The Times said Google , Yahoo , AOL and Ask Jeeves all will bid in a price range of $350 million to $500 million. About.com was founded in 1997 as The Mining Company […]

Intel has cleared the deck for dual-core desktop silicon production with plans to deliver two separate dual-core products for its Extreme Edition and Pentium processor-class families during the second quarter of 2005. Initial production runs of the dual-core processors is under way, while Intel’s multi-core plans for customers are on the table. The multi-core plans […]

Former Republican congressman and NFL Hall of Fame receiver Steve Largent took over as president and CEO of the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA), the primary trade association of the cellular industry, in November 2003. Since then, he has maintained a high profile preaching the CTIA gospel of wireless convergence. While in Congress, Largent […]

Computer Associates has named former Dell executive Robert W. Davis as executive vice president and CFO for the enterprise software company, adding another fresh face to its executive ranks as it puts an accounting scandal from 2004 behind it. Davis, who previously held the title of vice president of corporate finance and chief accounting officer […]

Boingo Wireless has teamed up with Monzoon Networks AG to allow roaming in Switzerland. Key locations in the deal include the Zurich airport, the Swiss International Air Lines lounge in Geneva, various convention centers and restaurants, and every single McDonald’s in the country—a total of 300 locations on Monzoon’s network should be live by the […]

The board of directors of SBC Communications agreed to purchase AT&T in a $16 billion transaction that creates a global communications powerhouse providing residential voice, data and video along with advanced networking services to businesses. The mostly stock transaction, which was announced early Monday, marks the end of AT&T’s storied history as an independent company […]

The man convicted of authoring the Blaster worm has been sentenced to 18 months in jail and 10 months of community service. Jeffrey Lee Parson admitted to writing the Blaster-B worm, which the prosecution claimed infected 48,000 computers and caused $1.2 million in damage back in the late summer of 2003. Before reaching a plea […]