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Optus releases femtocell mobile 3G 'base station'

Optus has released a portable 3G “hot spot” based on femtocell technology that can be used by its mobile service customers to get full coverage in areas without a regular base station nearby.

By Rodney Gedda | 28 July, 2011 15:59

Tags: femtocells, mobile services, optus

Vodafone offers free SMS for Easter outage

Vodafone will offer customers free SMS messaging over 12 hours on 1 May this year as compensation for a network outage over the weekend.

By Chloe Herrick | 27 April, 2011 12:31

Tags: Vodafail, Vodafone, Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA)

Mobile mesh network finds interest in NGOs

A research project aimed at allowing mobile phones to communicate without traditional infrastructure has attracted phone manufactures and not-for-profits looking to leverage the technology.

By James Hutchinson | 27 January, 2011 15:48

Tags: Flinders University, linux.conf.au, mesh networking, Paul Gardner-Stephen

Wi-Fi network designed to tackle Sundance crowds

When the annual Sundance Film Festival lands in Park City, Utah, the movers and shakers of Hollywood demand a lot more wireless capacity than the mountain town of 8,000 residents normally needs.

By Stephen Lawson | 17 January, 2011 06:35

Tags: networking, Ruckus Wireless, Sundance Institute, wi-fi, wireless, WLANs

Mobile phone coverage expanded via 'mesh' networks

Researchers at Flinders University in Adelaide have developed a way to expand the reach of mobile phone networks by turning each mobile into a mesh network node using standard wireless technology.

By Rodney Gedda | 13 July, 2010 09:30

Tags: Flinders University, mesh networking, mesh potato network, mobile services, VoIP, wi-fi

Advanced Wi-Fi sinks old ship's network barriers

If your hotel is an antiquated, out-of-service ocean liner that's crossed the Atlantic 1,001 times, it's nice to know that the place has steel walls as much as 3 inches thick. On the other hand, if you get there and want to fire up your Wi-Fi-equipped laptop to shop for Titanic memorabilia on eBay, those walls had better not get between you and the nearest access point.

By Stephen Lawson | 27 August, 2009 05:20

Tags: access points, wi-fi

Cisco wireless LAN vulnerability could open 'back door'

Some wireless access points from Cisco Systems have a vulnerability that could allow a hacker to redirect traffic outside the enterprise or potentially gain access to an entire corporate network, a security company said.

By Nancy Gohring | 26 August, 2009 04:16

Tags: access points, Cisco, exploits and vulnerabilities, security, wireless security, wlan, airmagnet

WLAN market slammed, but 802.11n gains

The first quarter of this year may have been the gloomiest ever for the wireless LAN market, with overall revenue falling about 11 percent from a year earlier, the first year-over-year drop recorded by industry analyst firm Dell'Oro.

By Stephen Lawson | 18 June, 2009 14:41

Tags: 802.11n, Dell'Oro, market research, wi-fi, wireless, wireless lans, wlan

200 solar-powered network sensors to monitor rainforest

The CSIRO will install some 200 solar-powered, sensor network nodes over the next two years to helping rehabilitate rainforest in the Springbrook World Heritage precinct in south-east Queensland, the research group announced today.

By Rodney Gedda | 12 June, 2009 09:07

Tags: csiro, CSIRO ICT Centre, environment, sensor networks, solar power, wireless networks

Aerohive upgrade streamlines WLAN security

Aerohive Networks has introduced for its wireless LAN products a pre-shared encryption key that it says is more secure and easier to administer than the option in enterprise Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2), the widely used industry specification for WLAN security.

By John Cox | 01 June, 2009 09:04

Tags: aerohive, wi-fi

Alaska Airlines flies ahead with in-flight Wi-Fi

U.S. airlines are now piling on to the in-flight Wi-Fi bandwagon, with Alaska Airlines joining other airlines in expanding the service to more aircraft.

By Stephen Lawson | 16 April, 2009 09:38

Tags: alaska airlines, american airlines, US airlines, wi-fi

All five smartphones survive PWN2OWN hacker contest

None of the five smartphones slated for attack at last week's PWN2OWN hacking contest were compromised, a sign that security researchers have yet to adapt to the limitations of mobile, said the company that put up the prize money.

By Gregg Keizer | 25 March, 2009 08:23

Tags: Blackberry, iPhone, pwn2own, rim

500M bps soon in a copper line near you, Ericsson says

Next-generation DSL systems will enable bandwidths of more than 500M bits per second by bonding many copper lines and using advanced noise cancellation, Ericsson said on Monday.

By Mikael Ricknäs | 17 March, 2009 07:51

Tags: copper line, Ericsson

Alaska becomes latest airline with Wi-Fi

Alaska Airlines is the latest carrier to launch in-flight Wi-Fi, offering passengers on a specially equipped Boeing 737 a service that uses satellites instead of cellular towers to connect the plane to the Internet.

By Stephen Lawson | 02 March, 2009 09:09

Tags: wi-fi

Cisco ships new 802.11n AP to resolve power issue

The growth of 802.11n wireless LAN access points has been somewhat limited by a well-known problem with insufficient power to APs when using Power-over-Ethernet connections.

By Matt Hamblen | 14 January, 2009 08:57

Tags: Cisco, wi-fi

Proxim ships 802.11n access points, claims fastest speed

Proxim Wireless announced Monday it is shipping two new 802.11n access points, one with two radios that Proxim called the fastest on the market.

By Matt Hamblen | 18 November, 2008 08:42

Tags: 802.11n, wi-fi

Ericsson attaches blades for wind power to base station

Ericsson has equipped its environmentally friendly radio base station site concept Tower Tube with built-in support for wind power, in a bid to help operators go green and expand mobile networks to where electricity isn't available, it announced on Thursday.

By Mikael Ricknäs | 10 October, 2008 08:19

Tags: Ericsson, green IT

Google seeks patent to break mobile subscriber shackles

Imagine asking mobile operators to compete in an auction for the chance to offer you service and then switching from one operator to the next multiple times a day to get the best rate or more bandwidth.

Solar-powered Wi-Fi trailer connects remote sites

Bringing wireless network access to remote work sites like mines and railways is always a challenge so a team of Aussie engineers have thrown a Wi-Fi mesh access point on the back of a custom-built tailor which is powered by the sun.

By Darren Pauli | 24 September, 2008 10:53

Tags: Cisco, solar, wi-fi, wireless

Internode offers free iPhone services at hotspots

Australian ISP Internode has added free access to iPhone services from its wireless hotspots.

By Andrew Hendry | 15 September, 2008 13:35

Tags: internode, iphone apps