Wednesday, September 08, 2010

Who pays for smartphones and services?; iPhone 4 Wi-Fi proves challenge for university

  iPhone 4 Wi-Fi proves a challenge for university | IDC boosts 2010 smartphone shipment projections by 10%
 
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Who pays for smartphones and services?
A recent Wireless Alert pointed out a growing trend for organizations to have employees buy their own mobile devices and use them both for personal and work activity. This approach begs a few questions with respect to the enterprise's overall mobile strategy. Read More


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iPhone 4 Wi-Fi proves a challenge for university
The iPhone 4 is the first to use 802.11n for Wi-Fi connectivity. But it runs only in the crowded 2.4GHz band. And that poses some complex challenges if you have 500 students trying to connect their iPhone 4 in a lecture hall. Read More

IDC boosts 2010 smartphone shipment projections by 10%
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Samsung Fascinate Crashes Verizon's Droid Party
The Samsung Fascinate, which Verizon Wireless will start selling for $199 this week, is the underdog in an Android lineup dominated by HTC and Motorola. Read More

How to: Set up a Wi-Fi router and home network
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LG announces smartphones with dual-core processor
LG Electronics on Tuesday announced a new series of smartphones with next-generation dual-core processors, which should provide a big leap in performance while maintaining device battery life. Read More


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Windows Phone 7 RTMs
In time to be on smart phones by the Christmas season, Windows Phone 7 was released to manufacturing (RTM) today. The product and technology behind it replaces that used by Windows Mobile since version 5.0 in 2005.Today, mobile devices are the new PCs - with companies like Apple and Google dominating an industry that once pretty much was handed to Microsoft on a silver platter. Today, only dominating... Read More

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Set up a 3G failover
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Macworld Mobile comes to Mobile World Congress 2011
Macworld Expo, the event hosted by IDG World Expo, will host the first ever Macworld Mobile between 14-17 February 2011 in Barcelona, in conjunction with the GSMA's Mobile World Congress. Read More

 
 
 

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