What Google phone does and doesn't mean for wireless industry When Google released its own Nexus One phone to its employees to play with this weekend, it served notice that it plans to push the Android brand aggressively throughout the winter. 4G Mobile Service Debuts: What You Need to Know A Swedish telecom firm has become the first carrier to offer 4G wireless service, albeit on a very limited basis. TeliaSonera announced Monday that its 4G/LTE network for data services would be available initially in Stockholm, Sweden and Oslo, Norway, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The carrier plans to expand 4G coverage to 25 cities in Sweden and four in Norway by the end of 2010. Sweden's TeliaSonera Blazes 4G Trail Sweden's TeliaSonera has implemented 4G mobile networking in Stockholm, Sweden and Oslo, Norway. The LTE deployment is ahead of the projected schedule and makes TeliaSonera the first in the world to implement commercially-available 4G wireless. Slideshow: 10 wacky USB devices Got a spare USB port on your PC? Check out these crazy-but-inspired USB add-ons Report: AT&T Reputation Tarnished by iPhone Flaws A report from the New York Times this weekend suggests that the perception that AT&T has an inferior wireless network may be more than greatly exaggerated--they might be flat wrong. Not only that, but it may be the Apple iPhone that is the root of the problems that are sullying AT&T's reputation. IT pros go mobile for holiday work Roughly 42% of IT pros plan to work through the holidays, a significant drop from 84% in 2006. But more than three-quarters will be reachable via mobile and other technologies, Intermedia reports. House panel looks for more mobile spectrum The U.S. Congress needs to find new wireless spectrum -- and new ways to share spectrum -- to avoid a pending spectrum shortage brought on by growing numbers of mobile subscribers and increased mobile data use, witnesses told a House of Representatives subcommittee. Zenprise adds Android support to mobile management tool Zenprise Inc. is adding the ability to manage smartphones that run the Android operating system to the list of devices it can monitor with its MobileManager software tool. Google's Nexus One smartphone: Will mobile ads offset cost? Google isn't talking publicly about reported plans to sell a powerful Android-based smartphone called the Nexus One directly to consumers next year, but the idea is already raising eyebrows with analysts. BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 Supports MS Exchange 2010 BlackBerry-smartphone-maker Research In Motion (RIM) late last week announced that its BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) 5.0 software for corporate e-mail deployments now supports Microsoft's new Exchange Server 2010, as part of the BES service pack 1 (SP1) maintenance release 1 (MR1). AT&T iPhone Users Irate at Idea of Usage-Based Pricing In less than two years, the iPhone has changed the way people think about and use their phones. As with any paradigm shift, reverberations can be felt in many ways. Wireless data usage has spiked, clogging AT&T's network. Battle over voice on LTE heats up Backers of two competing specifications for delivering voice over LTE mobile data networks have heralded demonstrations in the past two days, while mobile giant Ericsson apparently dropped its support for one of the systems. Study: More than 50 Android phones to ship in 2010 The trickle of Android-based smartphones seen this year is expected to turn into an avalanche in 2010, according to market research company CCS Insight, which forecasts that more than 50 devices will ship next year. Palm's advanced webOS devkit now in alpha release Palm has put its webOS development kit, Ares, into a alpha release, according to an Infoworld report. Ares is a graphical toolset for developers to create Javascript-based applications, which can run natively on the Palm Pre and Palm Pixi smartphones. It goes beyond the more rudimentary webOS SDK Palm released earlier this year. Today from the Subnet communities On Cisco Subnet: Annual revenue for Cisco TelePresence and Cisco's EMC/VMware collaboration viewed favorably; On Microsoft Subnet: Power outages cause Windows Server 2008 problems; On Google Subnet: Google claims its new URL shortening service is more secure Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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