Silicon Valley Wireless Nears Crunch Time
Another massive wireless network has fallen behind schedule, this time the location is California’s Silicon Valley. About 40 municipalities over a 1500 square mile area are still in negotiations but...
View ArticleWiMAX Backers Positioning 802.16e As An Alternative To Municipal WiFi
Chicago’s WiMAX World show displayed a large rift between Mobile WiMAX supporters and municipal WiFi. With continued problems halting all progress in the municipal WiFi world, WiMAX supports say they...
View ArticleWi-Fi Health Study Gets Go Ahead
The BBC has announced that the Health Protection Agency is going to begin a systematic research program on how WiFi is used. The goal of this study is to determine how WiFi is being used and the...
View ArticleWiMAX Is 3G
WiMAX has a reason to celebrate. The International Telecommunications Union has just approved the non-cellular technology as part of a 3G standard. This means that operators with 3G spectrum in their...
View ArticleHigh-speed Wireless Video Transfers 100X Faster Than WiFi On Tap
IBM has joined forces with MediaTek to develop microprocessor chipsets that will wirelessly transmit videos almost instantly. These chipsets will let you connect HDTVs with set top boxes without the...
View ArticleClearwire, Sprint Call Their Deal Off
The recent departure of Sprint CEO, Gary Forsee, is having some far reaching impact. The WiMAX build out between Sprint Nextel and Clearwire is the latest victim as the proposed joint, nationwide WiMAX...
View ArticleCan WiMax Make It In The U.S.?
The deal struck between Sprint Nextel and Clearwire back in July has been scrubbed and the national WiMAX network took a hit. Both companies say they will continue to work on the technology...
View ArticleCBS Offers Midtown Manhattan Free Wireless Internet Access
CBS has just made an announcement that is sure to delight New Yorkers. From Times Square to Central Park and from 6th to 8th Avenue will become the new CBS Mobile Zone. This zone will carry free Wi-Fi...
View ArticleGoogle May Get Its Open-access Wishes After All; Will Bid In 700MHz Auction
The much anticipated 700MHz spectrum auction in January officially has another bidder. Google has announced that it will toss its hat in the ring. A Google representative says that the company’s goal...
View ArticleVerizon Opens Up, Will Support Any Device, Any App On Its Network
Verizon has joined the bandwagon and announced a new open access plan for its network. This plan will go into effect next year and means any application can run on any device from any manufacturer and...
View ArticleNovatel’s MiFi 2352 HSPA Review
SlashGear has gotten their hands on the new Novatel MiFi 2352. What makes this different from the previous version offered by Verizon and Sprint? Well, this one is GSM based and could see 3G download...
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Offensive Mobile Forensics
Christmas is around the corner. Some of the top gifts are going to be shiny new mobile devices – smartphones, tablets, hacked Kindle Fires, Playbooks, and others. Is Exchange ActiveSync turned on in...
View ArticleSo you want to be a Security Consultant?
This is my first guest blogging opportunity on Netstumbler.com and I wanted to discuss what I believe is missing in most of the student/consultants I encounter. I would recommend these things for...
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How Easy Is it to Write Malware for Android?
The Android platform is currently the top selling mobile platform in the U.S., and in quarter four of 2010 smartphones began to outsell PC platforms worldwide. Android was even recently picked up as...
View ArticleIs Marius Milner the unnamed google engineer?
Although sited in a number of articles about Marius Milner being the alleged Google engineer who was behind the WiFi mapping. http://www.crn.com.au http://blog.seattlepi.com http://www.bloomberg.com...
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Wi-Fi Security – The Rise and Fall of WPS
Wireless local-area networks which are also referred to as WLANs or Wi-Fi are prevalent these days. They are so popular that they can be found installed in offices, colleges, hotels, cafes, and even...
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The Physics Of Where To Put a Wi-Fi Router
Deciding where to place a Wi-Fi router at home to minimise signal blackspots is a fine art. But a physicist has attempted to tackle the problem by mathematically working out the optimum position for a...
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