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  Big cable companies pooling Wi-Fi hotspot resources

  The big cable companies know that if they want to stay relevant in the wireless market, they can't do it on their own.

  By Brad Reed | 22 May, 2012 01:33

  Tags: WLANs / Wi-Fi, wireless, wi-fi, Time Warner Cable, time warner, networking, cox, comcast, Cablevision, Bright House

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  10 top reasons for integrating Wi-Fi radios in small cellular cells

  With the growing demand for mobile data, cellular service operators are increasingly turning to small cells -- picocells, microcells, metrocells and femtocells -- to deal with the capacity crunch in dense urban areas and to add coverage in areas with low or zero cellular signal levels, such as indoors and in remote rural locations.

  By Ajay Kumar Gupta, team lead at Wesley Clover Communications Solutions | 16 May, 2012 00:47

  Tags: WLANs / Wi-Fi, wireless, Wi-Fi on-load, Wi-Fi handover, Wi-Fi backhaul, wi-fi, small cells, picocells, networking, microcells, metrocells, femtocells, Ericsson, data offload, alcatel-lucent

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  Wi-Fi Alliance's Passpoint program on track for June certifications

  NEW ORLEANS -- The Wi-Fi Alliance's Wi-Fi Certified Passpoint Program, which aims to make Wi-Fi hotspots work more like cellular and LTE networks, is on track to start issuing certifications this summer.

  By Brad Reed | 09 May, 2012 07:47

  Tags: WLANs / Wi-Fi, wireless, Wi-Fi Alliance, wi-fi, Passpoint, networking, lte, CTIA Wireless 2012, CTIA Wireless, CTIA 2012, ctia

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  Intel buys $75 million worth of patents from Aware Inc.

  Aware Inc., a Massachusetts-based DSL signal processing specialist, announced this morning that it had agreed to sell $75 million in Wi-Fi, LTE and wireless home networking patents to semiconductor giant Intel.

  By Jon Gold | 28 April, 2012 01:33

  Tags: Aware patents, business issues, corporate issues, Intel, Intel patents, LTE patents, networking, qualcomm, wi-fi, Wi-Fi patents, WiMAX & LTE, wireless, WLANs / Wi-Fi

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  How to hack your own Wi-Fi network

  Attempting to "hack" into your own wireless network can help you spot potential Wi-Fi security vulnerabilities and figure out ways to protect against them.

  By Eric Geier | 23 April, 2012 21:32

  Tags: hack wifi, networking, open source, security, software, wi-fi, WiFi, wifi stumbler, wireless, Wireless Management, wireless networks, WLANs / Wi-Fi

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  Rush Limbaugh, Siri, and the wrath of the technocrati

  On his Tuesday radio broadcast, conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh described a technical problem with his iPhone and Apple's Siri voice assistant, encountered on his drive to work that morning.

  By John Cox | 20 April, 2012 09:29

  Tags: Apple, consumer electronics, iphone4s, iPhone 4S, networking, rush Limbaugh, Siri, smartphones, wi-fi, wireless, WLANs / Wi-Fi

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  Some new devices to mess around with Wi-Fi

  The scoop: iZON Remote Room Monitor, by Stem Innovation, about $130

  By Keith Shaw | 19 April, 2012 05:28

  Tags: belkin, GoFlex Satellite, iZON, networking, remote room monitor, seagate, Stem:Connect, Stem Innovation, travel router, wi-fi, wireless, wireless travel router, WLANs / Wi-Fi, youtube

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  Xirrus unveils rugged Wi-Fi 'super access point'

  WLAN vendor Xirrus announced its first outdoor Wi-Fi products, a hardened access point and two sealed enclosures that can encase its indoor product line.

  By John Cox | 19 April, 2012 05:28

  Tags: 802.11n, LAN & WAN, networking, outdoor wifi, outdoor wlan, wi-fi, WiFi, wireless, WLANs / Wi-Fi, Xirrus

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  At 100 years old, Fenway Park brims with new technology

  Fenway Park may be 100 years old this season but that doesn't mean the Boston Red Sox baseball stadium is stuck with antiquated technology.

  By Brad Reed | 13 April, 2012 05:34

  Tags: Boston Red Sox technology, case study, comcast, Fenway Park 100 years old, LAN & WAN, metro Ethernet, networking, wi-fi, wireless, Wireless Management, WLANs / Wi-Fi

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  Cisco Linksys routers bring the cloud home

  Cisco has rolled out a new line of home Wi-Fi routers that embed application intelligence for managing devices connected to the home network.

  By Jim Duffy | 06 April, 2012 07:28

  Tags: Apple, Cisco Linksys, Cisco routers, Cisco Whirlpool, cloud computing, Home Networking, internet, LAN & WAN, Linksys, networking, router, streaming HD media, wi-fi, WiFi, WiFi routers, wireless, WLANs / Wi-Fi

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  Wi-Fi complaints prompt Apple to replace some 3rd-gen iPads

  Apple is replacing third-generation iPads whose users report Wi-Fi connectivity problems, apparently as part of a full-scale investigation of this problem, according to the 9to5Mac Website.

  By John Cox | 06 April, 2012 01:28

  Tags: Apple, ipad3 wifi, iPad wifi problems, networking, new ipad wifi, wi-fi, wifi problems, wireless, WLANs / Wi-Fi

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  IETF attendees reengineer their hotel's Wi-Fi network

  What happens when a bunch of IETF super nerds show up in Paris for a major conference and discover their hotel's Wi-Fi network has imploded?

  By John Cox | 29 March, 2012 09:23

  Tags: Colubris, HP, IETF, ietf hotel, ietf wi-fi, Internet Engineering Task Force, networking, wi-fi, wi-fi makeover, wireless, WLANs / Wi-Fi

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  Linksys Powerline connections: Wired without wires

  Last week here in Gearhead I discussed my ongoing saga of trying to get decent IP DSL service from AT&T U-Verse.

  By Mark Gibbs | 24 March, 2012 05:22

  Tags: 3M, Apple, Apple TV, at&t, AT&T U-verse, Cisco, Linksys, Motorola, networking, NV, powerfline network adapters, wi-fi, wireless, WLANs / Wi-Fi

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  Apple's Bonjour protocol tamed, managed for enterprise Wi-Fi

  How can iPads and iPhones discover and use projectors, Apple TVs, printers and the like without flooding the enterprise Wi-Fi network with multicast discovery messages? Aruba Networks says it has a way.

  By John Cox | 23 March, 2012 06:46

  Tags: AirPrint, Apple, Apple Bonjour protocol, Aruba AirGroup, Aruba networks, MDNS, networking, wi-fi, wireless, WLANs / Wi-Fi

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  2 HotMobile papers that grabbed us: WalkSafe and SpinLoc

  The recent HotMobile conference in San Diego attracted dozens of top mobile technology researchers who presented papers on their latest findings. While we didn't attend the event, a couple of papers jumped out at us while browsing the agenda.

  By Bob Brown | 21 March, 2012 08:29

  Tags: android apps, consumer electronics, Dartmouth University, HotMobile, mobile apps, networking, PPS, smartphones, SpinLoc, WalkSafe, wi-fi, wireless, WLANs / Wi-Fi