Blueprint for multimedia-grade Wi-Fi arrives; Telcos aim to replace credit cards with smartphones

	Big telcos aim to replace credit cards with smartphones | Juniper buys WLAN pioneer Trapeze for $152 million
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	Blueprint for multimedia-grade Wi-Fi arrives If you're a regular reader of this alert, you'll know that I frequently bemoan the Wi-Fi industry's lack of an objective third-party performance benchmarking lab. Well, we might finally be getting somewhere. Read More VIDEO: Fluke Networks Simplify Wi-Fi Troubleshooting Tired of inadequate laptop and pieced-together freeware solutions for troubleshooting wireless? Fluke Networks' new AirCheck™ Wi-Fi Tester is designed to quickly and easily troubleshoot 802.11 a/b/g/n Wi-Fi networks – all in a dedicated handheld tester. See how AirCheck can simplify your wireless troubleshooting. Watch the video. In this Issue Big telcos aim to replace credit cards with smartphones Juniper buys WLAN pioneer Trapeze for $152 million Smartphones, data hogs causing wireless network capacity crunch Apple moves to yank counterfeit white iPhones from eBay The Multimedia Wireless LAN Are you Ready for the Completely Wireless Enterprise? Is There a Problem with iPad Wi-Fi? Verizon Business service adds mobile device toolkit Verizon may revive Kin phones AT&T to sell Galaxy Tab for $50 more than competitors Verizon's first WP7 phone may be the HTC Trophy SkyTerra-1 satellite succefully launched 500 million people will be using mobile health apps by 2015 WHITE PAPER: ArcSight Building a Successful Security Operations Center This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Building a Successful Security Operations Center Big telcos aim to replace credit cards with smartphones Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile have joined forces to build out a mobile commercial payment network that will let customers use their smartphones as credit cards. Read More Juniper buys WLAN pioneer Trapeze for $152 million Juniper Networks, as expected, has agreed to acquire and Belden's Trapeze Networks wireless LAN unit for $152 million in cash. Read More Smartphones, data hogs causing wireless network capacity crunch Two-thirds of wireless operators say their networks are suffering due to surging data traffic. The problems are inter-related, and operators are applying a range of technical and tariff changes to cope. Read More Apple moves to yank counterfeit white iPhones from eBay How much would you pay for white? Apple's complaints are causing eBay to delist so-called white iPhones being offered on its auction Website. The move was reported by the Mac techsite, 9to5Mac.com, which reproduced the delisting notice from eBay to an unidentified eBay seller. The story also included a screen shot of the original listing, which identified the item as an "Apple iPhone WHITE 16GB (Converted)... Read More WEBCAST: Meraki Google Invests in Cloud-Controlled WiFi Effective management is key to wireless success. View this Webcast to hear how cloud-controlled wireless management provides the security, remote administration and reliability resource-constrained IT departments require. Learn more now! The Multimedia Wireless LAN Aruba Networks is making a big marketing push stressing the value of multimedia capabilities on enterprise WLANs. But this isn't just marketing - supporting large volumes of time-bounded traffic is about to become a key requirement in many venues.The term multimedia first appeared with the advent of sound cards and CD-ROM drives on PCs back in the early 1990s, but it's broadly applied today to define the inclusion of all media, including time-bounded traffic like voice and video, within IT, and thus on networks, and thus on wireless LANs. Read More Are you Ready for the Completely Wireless Enterprise? UCAs we get ready for our next round of benchmark research a big topic of discussion is mobility. With the recent rise of the tablet, growing availability of 4G wireless services, increasingly intelligent smartphones, and a workforce that is more mobile than ever, much of the focus of enterprise IT managers and the vendor community is on delivering products and services that integrate mobile users and... Read More Is There a Problem with iPad Wi-Fi? A quick perusal of the Web indicates that there may be issues with the range, throughput, and connection reliability of the iPad's Wi-Fi link. My own experience, however, removes all doubt.I'm somewhat hesitant to write about the iPad again, after the shellacking (to use President Obama's term somewhat inappropriately and gratuitously, but such sounds about right regardless) I took as a consequence of my last posting on said device. Read More Verizon Business service adds mobile device toolkit Verizon Business today announced a hosted service to help customers develop and deploy applications such as CRM software across multiple devices such as the iPhone, Symbian, Windows Phone 7 and, soon, Android. Read More WHITE PAPER: Emerson Network Power Data Center Infrastructure Design and Management Does efficiency have to come at the expense of availability? Not according to this paper, which outlines the four data center infrastructure trends that are reducing design, operating and management costs while improving data center performance. Those trends are Infrastructure Management, Eco Availability, Flex Capacity and High Density. Learn more Verizon may revive Kin phones Verizon Wireless plans to resurrect thousands of retired Microsoft Kin phones as feature phones -- without wireless data capability -- later this year, according to a leaked document on a tech Web site. Read More AT&T to sell Galaxy Tab for $50 more than competitors AT&T officially said it will sell the 7-in. Samsung Galaxy Tab for $649.99 on Nov. 21, making it the fourth of the major carriers to offer the device. Read More Verizon's first WP7 phone may be the HTC Trophy Various tech Web sites today reported that the HTC Trophy will be Verizon Wireless' first WP7-based smartphone. Read More SkyTerra-1 satellite succefully launched A satellite that promises to bring cellular voice and data coverage to remote parts of North America was successfully launched on Sunday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Read More 500 million people will be using mobile health apps by 2015 More than 500 million people will be using mobile health applications through smartphones within five years; for vendors, much of the revenue will come from remote sensing devices, according to a new report. Read More
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