I’ve just been reading this post from SMS Text News about remote-wipe capabilities for handsets. This has been something that’s been discussed for years, especially in the context of enterprise-issued devices like BlackBerries or other smartphones.But …

Verizon didn’t have the iPhone but that didn’t stop them for posting some terrific numbers - $2.6B in data revenues, 24.4% of the revenues coming from data, 1.5M net adds, 60%+ 3G subs - all pretty impressive.

When most people refer to latency in mobile networks, they are talking about the inherent lag in traffic going through the network, which includes aspects like buffering of traffic in the various nodes like base stations and controllers, as well as any…

On the Adobe Connection Center there are a Flex 3 video training to learn Flex essentials in 5 days:

Learn Flex in one week by going through this video training course. To maximize your learning, we recommend that you view the videos and complete the exercises in the order that they are listed. If you run into problems and have questions, you can ask a question on the Flex in a Week forum.

Topics divided into 5 days cover the following aspects of the framework:

Day 1: Flex basics
Day 2: Component development
Day 3: Putting it all together
Day 4: Adding visual appeal (coming soon)
Day 5: Architecture and advanced topics (coming soon)

AlcaLu Teams for 3G CDMA Femtocells : Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU - message board) made its first official move in the 3G CDMA femtocell market today with the announcement that it will work with Airvana Inc. to develop a CDMA EV-DO femtocell solution that is based on IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS).

Meru Networks today introduced RF Barrier, an 802.11-based solution for protecting wireless networks from access by so-called “parking lot attackers” who try to get onto a corporate network from outside the perimeter of the building.

“Meru's RF Barrier product is quite sophisticated, employing directional antennas mounted outside the walls and a special wireless access point (WAP) along the inside perimeter of a building,” explains The Inquirer's Tony Dennis. “The WAP inspects the traffic in real time to determine which data appertains to the WLAN being protected and is therefore designated as sensitive. It then tells the directional antenna to block that bit of the RF spectrum. RF Barrier technology then uses the external antenna to block outbound traffic at the RF layer. Would-be attackers are limited in their ability to see useful packet information about the internal network.”

“Start-up Xirrus offers a similar capability with the Sharp Cell technology in its Wi-Fi radio arrays that helps enterprises sharply define the edge of a coverage area and limit RF bleed,” notes Network World's Joanie Wexler.

Samsung Electronics America announced today the availability of two new ultra mobile personal computers (UMPC). The Q1U-CMXP, a Q1 ultra mobile model with integrated HSDPA 3G cellular modem and the Q1UP-V, a Q1 Ultra Premium featuring Vista Business, join Samsung’s current line of UMPC’s. The new models are available nationwide at a suggested list price […]

Keynote Week 3 at Bellagio, Part I, Part II and III are also available on the site.

Week 3 kicked off today in Bellagio, Italy as part of The Rockefeller Foundation’s month long conference on eHealth.
Some more info below:
mHealth and Mobile Telemedicine - an Overview
Background Papers: 
Sizing the Business Potential.pdf
Relationship among Economic Development.pdf
mHealth: A potential tool in India.pdf
mHealth: A Developing Country Perspective
Current Status of eHealth Initiatives in […]

so much for being cool. And they want to take on Google.

I was poking around the web trying to find a comprehensive list of what script events different browsers supported, so that we could design web sites with Javascript without just targeting a single browser. What I wanted to know is how user interaction could trigger scripts.

This was hard enough to find that we created […]

With open source firmware an ordinary Wi-Fi router can get a new brain. You can create a wireless distribution system (WDS) or a mesh network, run a VPN or VoIP server, manage a hotspot RADIUS server, manage bandwidth use per protocol, control traffic shaping and other features.
DD-WRT (wiki and Wikipedia) is among the most popular, […]

D-Link announced today a “green” line of Wi-Fi routers to their Xtreme NT line of wireless routers. According to D-Link, they reduce power consumption by 40 percent without sacrificing performance.
The new routers automatically detect link status and network cable length, then adjusts power accordingly.
They also feature Wi-Fi scheduling that allows customers to easily program […]

It's no secret that Sprint PCS (with Nextel) has been struggling for market share in the United States. In what can only be described as a surprise move to generate revenue, Sprint Nextel has announced word that it has sold nearly all its cell phone towers (some 3,300 of them) to a private-equity-backed firm called TowerCo in a deal that will generate roughly $670 million in equity.

Surprisingly enough Sprint Nextel (the third largest of the domestic wireless providers) says that it will be more economical for them to lease the towers from TowerCo for cell phone and broadband use than it was to own them.

This news coincides with the trends of recent years whereby wireless carriers have moved away from owning their towers instead choosing to lease them from private companies. Sprint Nextel is hoping the revenue earned from this transaction will give them a well-needed boost in the market. The transition should in no way affect current Sprint Nextel users.

I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad.
– Howard Beale

People are increasingly using their phones to surf the Web, says the NY Times. Of the 95 million mobile Internet subscribers in the United States, 40 million actively use their phones to go online, twice the number of two years […]