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1 hr ago | BroadcastNewsroom

Tech Analyst Jeff Kagan on AT&T Having Fastest 4G LTE Wireless Internet

Both PC World and their TechHive news site conducted a study , and on May 22, 2013 both said AT&T Mobility 4G LTE was named the fastest Internet service among the top four wireless carriers, AT&T Mobility, Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile. This study was quite revealing and quite impressive.

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Related Topix: AT&T, Emerging Technology, T-Mobile, Sprint Nextel, IT Services, Telecom

3 hrs ago | The Kansas City Star

Sprint's wireless network fares poorly in test

Sseven girls from Heartland Elementary School in the Blue Valley School District, now mostly middle-schoolers at Harmony or Aubry Bend, for a few years had been competing in an international problem-solving educational program, Odyssey of the Mind.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Education Etc., AT&T, Startups, Cable & Satellite, Telecom, Versant, ATT, Verizon

7 hrs ago | Home Theater

Onkyo Announces Upscale A/V Receivers with Onboard Wi-Fi and Bluetooth

As a service to our readers, HomeTheater.com publishes selected manufacturer-supplied announcements and press releases for products that we think might interest you.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Science / Technology, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Audio and Video, Electronics

Fri May 24, 2013

Bloomberg

Dish Signs Internet Pact as Ergen Seeks Wireless Broadband Model

Dish Network Corp., exploring ways to expand beyond its satellite-TV service, will work with rural mobile-phone provider NTelos Holdings Corp.

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Related Topix: Kentucky Broadband, Emerging Technology, Cell Phones, Cellphones, Electronics

ABC News

Can WiFi Signals Stunt Plant Growth?

A Danish science experiment by a group of 9th-graders has gained worldwide interest and may have us rethinking the proliferation of wireless devices in our homes.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Cellphones, Home Gardening, Home

Fox News

Google Eyes Wireless Networks in Emerging Markets

The Silicon Valley company is deep in the throes of a multipronged effort to fund, build and help run wireless networks in emerging markets such as sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, said people familiar with the strategy.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, CPU, Science / Technology, Internet, Business News

RF Globalnet

Industry's First 802.11ac 4x4 Reference Design Specifies ANADIGICS' WiFi FEICs

ANADIGICS Leverages its Unique InGaP-Plus Technology in a Single-Die WiFi FEIC to Reduce Time-to-Market, Achieve Greater Throughput, and Deliver Exceptional Thermal Performance ANADIGICS, Inc., a world leader in radio frequency solutions, recently announced that its AWL9281 and AWL9581 WiFi front-end integrated circuits have been selected for use ... (more)

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Related Topix: Electronics, Semiconductors, ANADIGICS, Emerging Technology

The Winnipeg Free Press

Manitoba Tel to sell Allstream to Accelero, put $130 million into pension

Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. has agreed to sell its Allstream business telecommunications arm and use about half of the proceeds to reduce its pension and debt obligations.

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Related Topix: Manitoba Telecom Services, IT Services, Telecom, Mobile TeleSystems OJSC

Local NEWS 8

FCC hopes to avoid 'end of world' for cellphones

The path to clearing up enough airwaves to satisfy the insatiable demand for mobile downloads is a confusing, complicated mess.

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Related Topix: Business News, Federal Communications Commission, Cellphones, T-Mobile, Emerging Technology

CNet News

Nokia Siemens, Ericsson Look to Ease WiFi Offloading of Mobile Traffic

The companies at CTIA unveiled separate traffic steering solutions designed to improve the user experience when they're migrated onto WiFi networks.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Science / Technology, Wi-Fi, Nokia

Thu May 23, 2013

USA Today

Tips for reducing risks while using mobile devices

Georgia Tech students Sarah Malis, 20, left, and Marcela Moreno, 20, use public WiFi at an Atlanta Starbucks in 2011.

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Related Topix: Georgia Tech, Science / Technology, Wi-Fi, Emerging Technology, Starbucks, iPod touch App, iPad App, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone App, Android, Facebook

The Business Ledger

Comcast debuts WiFi service in Chicago area

By Anna Marie Kukec Daily Herald Business Ledger Writer SCHAUMBURG -- Comcast has launched Xfinity Wi-Fi in the Chicago and suburban area.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Emerging Technology, Wi-Fi, Cable & Satellite, Comcast

WWBN-FM Burton

10 Wireless Network Names to Freak Out Your Cheap Neighbors

Wi-Fi is a beautiful thing. You can hook your computer up to the internet without any of those pesky cords getting all tangled up.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Science / Technology, Wi-Fi

BroadcastNewsroom

HP Expands Thin Client Solutions for Mobility and Unified Communications

Many organizations provide desktop or mobile thin clients to their employees who work in remote offices, at multiple work sites or frequently travel on business.

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Related Topix: HP, Computers, Unified Communications, VoIP, Science / Technology, CPU, Wi-Fi, Emerging Technology

Network World

Ericsson makes bus windows part of a Wi-Fi network

Ericsson may have a contender for oddest networking product if it commercializes the wireless bus windows it demonstrated at this week's CTIA Wireless trade show.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Wi-Fi, Emerging Technology

KMIZ

J. Lo's new gig: Verizon retailer

Jennifer Lopez has found a new gig: majority shareholder and chief creative mind behind a new line of Verizon Wireless retail stores.

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Related Topix: Dance, Verizon Communications, Black Entertainment, Pop/Rock, Telecom, Jennifer Lopez, Verizon, IT Services, J Lo, Cellphones, Emerging Technology

Information Technology

Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Fire HD 8.9' Now Available for Pre-Order...

Today Amazon announced that Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Fire HD 8.9" are now available to customers in over 170 countries and territories around the world for pre-order through , giving customers access to millions of apps, games, books, audiobooks and magazines, including more than 300,000 books that are exclusive to the Kindle Store.

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Related Topix: Amazon, Emerging Technology, Bluetooth

Mashable

Vertus Makes Any Speaker Bluetooth Friendly

Syncing audio to a Bluetooth speaker is a common practice these days, but sending it wirelessly to two old-school speakers at the same time is a thing of the future.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Bluetooth

Wed May 22, 2013

Mike Philbin's Blog

WIFI stops cress growing

Or rather five girls from form 9b in Hjallerup School in North Jutland DK have found that, "If you're trying to grow cress don't put it near the WIFI router." [forwarding source TAP ] Okay, got that? "It is truly frightening that there is so much affect, so we were very shocked by the result", says Lea Nielsen, one of the girls.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

DarkVision Hardware

TRENDnet shows off a new AC1200 Dual Band Wireless Router

TRENDnet shows off its TEW-811DRU dual-band wireless router. This device is shipping in the US for $179.99. TRENDnet, a best-in-class wired and wireless networking hardware brand, today announces the availability of the AC1200 Dual Band Wireless Router, model TEW-811DRU which is designed to easily handle multiple HD streams in a busy connected ... (more)

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Related Topix: Computers, Science / Technology, Wi-Fi, Emerging Technology

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