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Competition hots up between 3G and Wi-Fi
News The battle between 3G and Wi-Fi for dominance of the wireless internet world will all come down to which offers the broadest benefits to individual users, analysts have predicted. The two technologies offer a variety of different benefits and...
[June 19, 2007, 13:57]
Bringing Wireless Access to the Automobile: A Comparison of Wi-Fi, WiMAX, MBWA, and 3G
White Papers This paper presents a comparison of four next-generation wireless technologies: Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11), WiMAX (IEEE 802.16), MBWA (IEEE 802.20), and 3G (ITU), in respect to which technology or combination of technologies provides a solution for the...
[March 21, 2006, 0:01]
High and confusing prices 'hampering' Wi-Fi take-up
News Wi-Fi take-up in Europe is being hampered because the prices being charged are generally too high, and also vary widely between operators, a senior analyst claimed on Wednesday. Such a range of offerings, and prices, are understandable given the...
[May 22, 2003, 15:44]
Souped-up Wi-Fi handset includes Web browsing and email
News The Wi-Fi phone market is set to heat up, with a maker announcing a handset that can do Web browsing and email, in addition to voice. Wi-Fi handsets can be used in zones covered by a wireless LAN access point, such as construction sites, hospitals...
[July 2, 2003, 9:19]
BA and BAA should make Wi-Fi pay
News In the week in which British Airways finally announced it is retiring its loss-making fleet of Concorde aircraft, airports and beleaguered airlines are looking at additional ways to make money -- and Wi-Fi access provision for travellers is a...
[April 11, 2003, 11:51]
HTC Touch gets 3G, loses Wi-Fi
Blog The company's just announced the sequel to the Touch (a.k.a.the iPh*ne-killer) and, interestingly, the new handset will have HSDPA (a new addition to the range) but - unlike the Touch - no Wi-Fi. As I've suggested before, 3G and its variants seem...
[August 30, 2007, 11:54]
Philips and Sony produce Wi-Fi and Bluetooth rival
News Discover the latest developments in Wi-Fi, 3G, GPRS and other cutting-edge wireless technologies at ZDNet UK's Wireelss News Section. Philips and Sony announced on Thursday that they plan to work together on new wireless technology that will allow...
[September 6, 2002, 14:12]
A SDR Platform for Mobile Wi-Fi/3G UMTS System on a Dynamic Reconfigurable Architecture
White Papers As wireless communication standards evolve, Wi-Fi and WCDMA based 3G UMTS are still the major technologies widely deployed to provide high speed wireless internet access and mobile communication services.
[November 26, 2009, 23:00]
Wi-Fi networks kiss and make up
News Mobility technologies like Wi-Fi and 3G offer big advantages to companies who want to boost productivity by letting employees surf on the move and have remote access to corporate IT systems. Over the past two years a swath of Wi-Fi operators have...
[October 21, 2004, 16:15]
Smartphone dials up GSM and Wi-Fi
News T-Mobile is to offer a smart phone from HP that combines cellular and Wi-Fi connectivity. The device, to have the model number 6315, is a version of the iPaq that aims to roam smoothly between wide area GSM networks and localised -- though much...
[July 26, 2004, 15:20]
Wi-Fi threat to 3G 'is overstated'
News BT is confident that public access WLANs will soon be commercially viable, and has just begun a trial of a number of Wi-Fi hot spots. Claims that Wi-Fi hot spots will kill the market for 3G services are over the top, according to analysts.
[July 3, 2002, 14:59]
Freedom4 launches combined 3G, Wi-Fi dongle
News Freedom4, the wireless network operator formerly known as Pipex Wireless, has launched a dongle that can use both 3G and Wi-Fi, choosing the best connection at the time. The Mobile Broadband 1000 service, announced on Wednesday, uses a Wi-Fi...
[October 3, 2008, 13:19]
O2 Data Card 3G/GPRS review
Reviews Enabling the 3G/GPRS card and Wi-Fi access means installing O2's Connection Manager software, which acts as the user interface and management platform for the various available functions. This process is somewhat involved, as O2 describes...
[November 3, 2004, 14:13]
T-Mobile to serve 'all you can eat' wireless data
News Mobile-phone operator T-Mobile will be launching a wireless communication package for businesses in May that combines unlimited data access over 2.5G, 3G and Wi-Fi for a single monthly fee, in the first package of its kind in the UK.
[March 18, 2004, 15:50]
BT launches 3G combo package
News More than five years after it won one of the UK's 3G licences BT has finally launched a third-generation mobile product, a combined 3G, Wi-Fi and GPRS service called BT Datazone. It will allow business users to access the Internet, use email and...
[October 3, 2005, 16:50]
Intel drops 3G from Santa Rosa
News The next version of Centrino, code-named Santa Rosa, was to offer both Wi-Fi and a 3G enhancement called HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access), Intel announced back in September. Intel confirmed to ZDNet UK that it would still release Santa...
[February 16, 2007, 14:30]
E-commerce minister upbeat on 3G's chances
News Speaking at the Wi-Fi and 3G summit in London, Timms predicted that the surge in demand for 3G would equal that of GSM, which has seen phenomenal take-up since the late 1980s, when mobile phones were an expensive business tool.
[December 4, 2003, 14:00]
London still Wi-Fi capital of the world
News London has shored up its status as Wi-Fi capital of the world with usage soaring 156 percent and the average session time lasting 72 minutes. Singapore and Tokyo were the second and third Wi-Fi cities respectively, with Tokyo racking up an...
[March 17, 2008, 7:30]
Analyst sees big future for VoIP-over-3G
News Reducing operating expenses by combining fixed and mobile networks is another key driver for operators and users alike, Bubley said, but the strongest push in this direction is currently coming through so-called fixed/mobile convergence (FMC...
[November 16, 2007, 15:12]
Photos: new BlackBerry Curves review
Reviews Perhaps we'll eventually get a Curve with Wi-Fi, GPS and 3G too. This leaves them some way behind their leading-edge smartphone competition — particularly the 8310 model, which includes GPS but omits Wi-Fi (the 8320 includes Wi-Fi but lacks GPS).
[February 20, 2008, 7:50]
