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AT&T to offer NEC Terrain push-to-talk Android smartphone starting Friday

AT&T and NEC have teamed up to launch the NEC Terrain, a ruggedized Android push-to-talk smartphone that goes on sale Friday online for $99.99 and a two-year contract.

By Matt Hamblen | 19 June, 2013 20:48

Tags: Mobile/Wireless, consumer electronics, at&t, Networking, wireless, smartphones, qualcomm, Corning, mobile, NEC
iPad 5 rumour rollup for the week ending June 18

As last week's Apple WWDC faded in the rear view mirror, the iOSphere hungered for more. And the hunger gave birth to hope, and hope to more rumors, including the one that predicts iPad 5 will be announced this week to foil and foul Samsung's scheduled London news.

By John Cox | 19 June, 2013 18:40

Tags: Configuration / maintenance, EE, PC, WD, Networking, wireless, hardware systems, twitter, Data Center, anti-malware, Apple
LG: Production of flexible display smartphone screens to start in Q4

LG will begin mass producing flexible display screens for smartphones in the fourth quarter of this year, according to the Korea Times.

By Colin Neagle | 19 June, 2013 18:40

Tags: consumer electronics, Networking, wireless, smartphones, anti-malware
Windows Phone 'weak', Huawei sneers

Huawei calls the Windows Phone platform weak despite using it as the foundation for some of the smartphones it makes.

By Tim Greene | 19 June, 2013 14:23

Tags: consumer electronics, IDC, Microsoft, Networking, smartphones, Nokia, wireless, financial times, anti-malware, Gartner
With faster 5G Wi-Fi coming, Wi-Fi Alliance kicks off certification program

The Wi-Fi Alliance unveiled a certification program for 802.11ac Wi-Fi (also known as 5G Wi-Fi) designed to make sure devices using the wireless technology interoperate with older hardware.

By Matt Hamblen | 19 June, 2013 10:16

Tags: network security, Mobile/Wireless, Apple, Networking, security, wireless, Wi-Fi Alliance, mobile
Canonical taps international cell carriers for mobile advice

Canonical announced Tuesday that it has formed an advisory group of international wireless carriers – including big names like Deutsche Telekom and Korea Telecom, but excluding all of the big four U.S. networks.

By Jon Gold | 18 June, 2013 18:17

Tags: at&t, Networking, Canon, wireless, canonical, software, Open Mobile Alliance, deutsche telekom, anti-malware, Korea Telecom, ubuntu
New Zealand's 2degrees to deploy 4G in early 2014

New Zealand mobile operator 2degrees has secured $165 million from the Bank of New Zealand and a partnership with Huawei to deploy a 4G network early next year, the telco announced.

By Adam Bender | 18 June, 2013 15:59

Tags: Huawei, New Zealand, 4g, Bank of New Zealand, wireless, 2degrees, mobile
Latest iPhone 6 concept design inspired by Apple iOS 7 debut

Within just a few days of Apple unveiling iOS 7 at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference last week, a creative designer came out with a concept of what iPhone 6 might look like with the new software.

By Bob Brown | 18 June, 2013 08:28

Tags: Apple, consumer electronics, Networking, wireless, smartphones, anti-malware
Google Project Loon: It's a bird! It's a plane! It's the Internet!

Google engineers are planning to test a system aimed at providing accessible Internet service to parts of the world with insufficient communications infrastructure – a collection of high-flying balloons equipped with specialized radios, dubbed Project Loon.

By Jon Gold | 17 June, 2013 19:11

Tags: management, U.S. Air Force, Google, Networking, wireless, infrastructure management, LAN & WAN
Google tests Internet connectivity via balloons in the stratosphere

Google launched high-altitude balloons in a test to create a wireless network that could provide Internet access to remote and underserved parts of the world.

By Sharon Gaudin | 17 June, 2013 18:39

Tags: wireless networking, Mobile/Wireless, Google, Emerging Technologies, Networking, wireless, hardware systems, mobile
Samsung's Galaxy S4 doubles download speeds on LTE-Advanced network

Samsung plans to begin selling a Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone capable of running on LTE-Advanced 4G networks -- which offer download speeds that are twice as fast as LTE -- in South Korea this month.

By Matt Hamblen | 17 June, 2013 18:17

Tags: Mobile/Wireless, wireless carriers, Networking, wireless, qualcomm, mobile, T-Mobile USA, Verizon Wireless, wireless networking, Reuters, at&t, None, Samsung Electronics
What's next for Wi-Fi?

Wi-Fi is blossoming in the enterprise as organizations find new ways to leverage the wireless infrastructure and workers, having benefited from mobility, demand increased range and better performance (and support for all those devices they are bringing in from home). The industry is responding in kind, introducing new products and technologies, including gigabit Wi-Fi, and it is up to IT to bring it orchestrate this new mobile symphony.

By John Dix | 17 June, 2013 14:18

Tags: Wi-Fi, Networking, wireless, WLANs / Wi-Fi, anti-malware
Google Glass could get a look at the enterprise

While the curious are looking to get their hands on a pair of Google's Glass, companies also may be looking to weave the computerized eyeglasses into their businesses.

By Sharon Gaudin | 14 June, 2013 19:14

Tags: hardware, Mobile/Wireless, Google, Emerging Technologies, Networking, wireless, hardware systems, mobile
iPhone 6 rumour rollup for the week ending June 14

Think of Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference as a giant tea cup, drained to the dregs of loose leaf tea and the entire iOSphere leaning-in to read the soggy remains and figure out what the heck is happening with iPhone 6.

By John Cox | 14 June, 2013 18:09

Tags: Apple, consumer electronics, Networking, WD, wireless, smartphones, anti-malware
iPad 5 rumour rollup for the week ending June 16

With Apple's WWDC providing actual news and, you know, facts, the iOSphere seemed like a hot air balloon that was rapidly cooling and losing not only altitude but attitude. Blogs and tech sites seemed to flounder in finding something to say that could compete with reality.

By John Cox | 14 June, 2013 16:00

Tags: Apple, consumer electronics, Networking, WD, wireless, smartphones, anti-malware