Devicescape has introduced an application for the iPhone, called AppTapp which allows you to connect your iPhone with Wi-Fi hot-spots without any interruption in username and password. The Devicescape Connect requires the Nullriver AppTapp application installer, so that you can simply connect to any network for which you have entered the credentials at their account management site.

All you need to do is just set up an account at MyDevicescape and enter at any Wi-Fi hotspot and information, which you want to give. Then Devicescape automatically logs in the process for dozens of Wi-Fi hotspot networks and service providers of hot-spots, including T-Mobile HotSpot, AT&T WiFi, Fon, Boingo and iPass. The Devicescape also offer you dozens fee-free networks, which only requires some confirmation step or login account to use the hot-spot.

With the use of Devicescape Connect, you can simply use the Connect application and click login to enter into the hot-spot. Devicescape uses only three steps to enter you any WI-Fi hot-spot:

1) In first step, it logins your request through the hot-spot’s DNS service
2) While in second, it receives an encrypted set of login details
3) At last, it passes those credentials to the hot-spots

Devicescape is planning to offer some sort of purchase service from some networks to generate the revenue. Devicescape’s Connect software allows you to be online at anywhere and anytime.

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Now, the Raleigh Police Department will use the third generation wireless broadband solution, named BroadbandConnect from AT&T to deliver mission critical information to officers across the network, which includes more than 500 patrol cars.

Raleigh Police Department officers can access AT&T’s BroadbandConnect network throughout the city. The solution also supports hand-held devices for officers who uses bicycles and horseback. The BroadbandConnect network allows officers to access photography and databases, which are not available on their two-way radio systems.

AT&T’s BroadbandConnect network includes Sierra Wireless AC875 LaptopConnect cards for each vehicle and NetMotion Wireless’ Mobility XE, a mobile Virtual Private Network (VPN), which provides secure and encrypted access to law enforcement databases. The solution also maintains continuous connections to the Raleigh systems. The LaptopConnect cards dircetly fits into the officer’s onboard laptops, which uses AT&T BroadbandConnect network to connect with mission-critical information. The BroadbandConnect network is based on the global GSM standard, which uses High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) for providing mobile data connectivity at average download speeds of 400 to 700 Kbps.

The AT&T solution also tracks orders online with real time shipping status. The BroadbandConnect network allows officers to perform variety of office functions in the vehicle. Even officers can type accident reports and send memos from their onboard computers instead of writing notes on notepads.

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Malaysia based telecommunications solution provider, Comintel Corporation Bhd has signed a deal with Gupp Technologies Incorporated to manufacture the world’s first Linux based dual mode Wi-Fi centric mobile phone.

The smart phone will use Voice Over Wi-Fi (VoWi-Fi) and GSM networks and allows its users to transfer calls between cellular and Wi-Fi networks. These smartphones would be able to seamlessly switch between Wi-Fi and Standard GS networks facilitated by its Linux system.

Under this agreement, Comintel has acquired a minority stake in Gupp Technologies Incorporated and an exclusive manufacturing contract to develop smart phones.

Lim Keng Hock, managing director of Gupp Technologies, said,

The distribution and marketing rights to the smartphones will help the company with the impetus to expand its current product offering into the Asia Pacific market.

Comintel and Gupp Techologies are hoping, with this new smartphones, both companies to tap into IP smart mobile communication entertainment devices, which would be next big thing for mobile phone technology.

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The Seabird Island is the first nation in British Columbia is going to set up a good example for the first nation communities across Canada with its innovative use of technology from Siemens. Seabird is the first community in Canada to launch a high performance wireless mesh network solutions from Siemens, which provides the high-speed broadband wireless access to support residential, educational and business communication.

Siemens and BelAir Networks have partnered with Chief Clem Seymour and local residents of the community to deploy 49 BelAir Networks wireless access nodes across the community. These nodes can easily be mounted on light poles to provide a wireless carrier backbone to support various services including Point of Sale (POS) terminals at the local gas bar and events.

Siemen’s new network will help the community to reduce the monitoring cost of flood meter by replacing wired lines with a wireless connection. Even the community may also use the network to extend its Closed Circuit TV (CCTV) network and also provide the cost-effective residential telephone service on Seabird Island. Both companies have also developed a training program to train Seabird Island Band personal to pre-stage, program, install, and administrator and repair the wireless network. This training program will help community to manage and maintain the network independently. Even communities can create jobs and ensure self sufficiency.

Chief Clem Seymour, said,

Our new wireless network offers a broad range of communications and revenue opportunities for us. We will be able to create new services for the community and offer our local schools increased educational opportunities through new high speed connectivity.

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Chip designer, Alereon Inc has unveiled its first chip named AL5100 which uses frequency band that is legal all over the world for wireless Universal Serial Bus (USB), a technology with the potential that cuts the tangle of cables surrounding computers.

USB cables connect computers with mice, keyboards, printers, cameras and external hard-drives. The new chip, AL5100 will connect to computers with optional wireless add-in cards, or dongles that go onto USB port.

The underlying radio technology is called Ultra-Wideband (UWB), and uses frequencies, which is usually employed for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, mobile phones and other wireless technologies. It is relatively virgin territory in the airwaves, and exploits high data transfer rates with low power consumption at the price of range, the signal hardly goes further than 10m.

Alereon spokesman Mike Krell said,

The Austin, Texas-based company’s first UWB chipset, the AL4000, to reach the consumer market in a month or two in wireless USB hubs, to which peripherals can be connected with standard USB cables. The hub itself communicates wirelessly to a dongle on the computer.

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SK Telecom has signed an agreement with the LG Telecom to share its T-PAK, a mobile phone based on SK Telecom’s UI platform. Under this agreement, LG Telecom can use variety of services developed by SK Telecoms without paying any additional costs. Both companies are planning to introduce a mobile phone based on T-PAK platform by the end of the next year. While the SK Telecom will share its fundamental wireless services with LG Telecom to expand its services in overseas market.

According to vice president of LG Telecom, Gang Moon-Seok, the company is committed for the development of the domestic wireless Internet industry through the expansion of next generation wireless platforms.

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The X-OOM Media Center is aimed at the usage of wi-fi capabilities integrated into the console.

Media streaming from PC on to television is possible through the Wii. By this Wiimote an individual can watch movies, listen to music and browse photos by the push of single button.

Not yet over, the exiting features include accessing of web radio and television channels from all over the globe. The Wii comes with its own photo browsing capabilities, when memory devices are used.

Eager to get it! Import it, it is tagged with price of 29.99 Great British Pounds.

Now, anyone can easily design and create a .mobi-compliant website. A leading provider of web hosting services, SherpaHost.com has launched its WebSite Tonight tool, which allows users to create and design .mobi website on their mobile phones and PDAs. WebSite Tonight designed pages are easy to load and navigate from the small and limited screens of wireless phones and PDAs.

The Website Tonight tool allows users to easily create website, which are specially formatted to provide mobile content and services. Each page can be created with this tool with ICANN’s .mobi guidelines to ensure quick download times. Other features of WebSite Tonight are given below:

1. Calendar control
2. Photo album enhancements
3. Animated splash pages with sound
4. Music and video support

ICANN has approved .mobie, which is backed by leading mobile operators, network device manufacturers and Internet content providers, including Ericsson, Google, GSM Association, Hutchison, Microsoft, Nokia, Orascom Telecom, Samsung Electronics, Syniverse, T-Mobile, Telefonica Moviles, TIM and Vodafone.

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McDonald restaurants in the US have been WiFied some years back, now even the restaurants in UK will offer free WiFi to their British customers.

By the end of this year most of the 1,200 McDonald restaurants in the UK will have this free high speed internet available for its customers. Cool, so now you can munch on your favorite burger and fries and go online for free via your laptops, compatible mobile phones and games consoles for hours on end!

According to McDonalds, a user who pays to log on for just an hour a week in a coffee shop can save an amazing £260 a year on premium WiFi charges by simply using McDonald’s free service!

But, aren’t there chances of this free service being misused? After all, someone can just buy a cup of coffee and sit and access the free service for hours on end! According to a company spokesman,

we would be comfortable with that. There will be no restrictions.

Smart move! After all, the longer a person spends in a restaurant the more the chances are that the consumer will end up spending more! I would say, an absolute win-win situation, both for McDonalds and for the customers.

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Now, digital camera owners can send pictures to their home PCs or upload them to photo sharing websites through Wi-Fi. US based company, Eye-Fi is planning to launch Secure Digital memory cards with integrated Wi-Fi chips, which will allow digital camera owners to send pictures remotely through Wi-Fi to a home home PCs or to upload them to photo sharing websites.

The standard SD card size and onboard wireless functionality should allow the wireless connectivity to work with a camera and not interfere with its normal function. Users can set the photos to go directly to a PC or other location immediately, or after a photo session is complete. The card comes with 2GB storage capacity.

Eye-Fi founder and CEO Yuval Koren, said,

The focus will initially be on the home network. At $100 the price point may be a bit much, especially for the ‘home network’ market. You can get a 2GB or more actually memory card for much cheaper than $100.

The card is set to cost about $100 and its is expected to go on sale later this year. Currently, the company is negotiating with websites to allow direct uploads from cameras containing the cards.

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According to AT&T, the customers of higher-end broadband connections can now access its more than 10,000 hotspots nationwide.

These hotspots are located in airports, coffee shops, McDonald’s restaurants and Barnes & Nobel bookstores.

However, customers who subscribe lower tire services need to pay $1.99 per month for the unlimited WiFi access, while non-subscribers are required to pay $7.99 per day.

With nearly 12.9 million customers in the list for the AT&T broadband services, the announcement like this boosts the concept of Wi-Fi as an alternate way for subscribers to connect to the mobile Internet and VoIP.

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Motorola will deliver WiMAX enabled handsets to carriers as it prepares for Sprint and Clearwire’s XOHM WiMAX service. Motorola’s WiMAX chipset is specifically designed for WiMAX wireless wide-area networks. Motorola has presented a mobile WiMAX experience at the Chicago River for media for media and industry analysts, who experienced uninterrupted internet access for web browsing, VoIP calls, and video streaming in order to prove that mobile WiMAX technology is real and ready for commercial deployment.

Motorola see WiMAX as an alternative of Wi-Fi to deliver data and voice services to mobile devices, like smart phones and handheld computers. The company has tested the hardware of WiMAX chipset in Motorola’s own infrastructure products, as well as equipment from other mobile manufacturers.

Motorola stated that the company is already providing WiMAX infrastructure to 12 commercial systems and has been involved in more than 40 trails worldwide.

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Soon, citizens of Riverside will access free wireless Internet service across the city. Riverside has launched a free wireless Internet network to help residents of the city to become more Internet savvy. The city government has launched the free wireless Internet service in collaboration with AT&T and municipal Internet network builder MetroFi. Now, the city has joined 300 cities across the nation, which are already providing citywide wireless network for residents and businesses.

Initially the network will cover a 3-square-mile area, encompassing downtown Riverside, Hunter Technology Park and the Adams Auto Centre. In the next phase of the development, the network will cover the entire city, except for a few outlaying areas. The network uses two spectrum’s, which are given below:

1) 2.4 Gigahertz frequency for the general public
2) 4.9 Gigahertz frequency for police and fire

The network will allow city workers to use their network for the remote operation of ball field lights as well as water pumps and valves, so that they can save staff time as well as electricity. The public safety spectrum would not be fully operational until the network is active throughout the city. As it goes live, police officers would be able to transmit real-time video feeds from their dashboard cameras to police headquarters, while dispatchers would be able to send video to patrol units.

There are other municipal applications, including streaming video from street cameras for traffic management, broadcasting radio signals to control baseball field lighting systems and monitoring surveillance cameras set up in locations where graffiti vandalism and illegal dumping are a problem.

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M2Z Networks has applied for a license petition to use the unused spectrum, 2155MHz-to-2175MHz band to provide WiFi services to customers including free 384Kbps broadband with the option of paying for higher speeds. The company has also agreed to pay the US Treasury 5 percent of its gross revenues annually for using the spectrum band. Much earlier, NetFreeUS has made a similar bid, but FCC rejected that.

FCC has also cited that the 384Kbps downstream speed is very low. Thus it can not be taken as broadband if a fresh regulation that proposes to increase the current benchmark from 200kbps to 2Mbps is approved.

The FCC decision has made the two leading mobile operators, AT&T and Verizon Wireless happy as they have always demanded regular auction process for the airwaves.

Sprint has been working on deploying a WiMAX network across the nation. Sprint Nextel has partnered with the Clearwire to develop the single largest WiMAX network in the US. The high-speed WimAX service will allow customers to move between their networks and reduce the costs of wireless service.

The WiMAX is designed to deliver mobile broadband services in urban and rural markets. It is expected that the wireless service will enable each company to increase its capital efficiency and reduce overall network development and operating costs. Sprint will primarily focus on geographic areas under its network plan, which covers approximately 185 million people, including 75 percent of the people who are located in the 50 largest markets. While Clearwire will cover approximately 115 million people.

Sprint Nextel and Clearwire are planning to provide open access of Internet over a robust wireless broadband network, which is designed to deliver comparable speeds than the existing wireline broadband services. The service will also facilitate the Federal Government and public safety agencies, who are heavily rely on wireless networks during times of crisis.

According to Stanford Group analyst, Michael Nelson, WiMAX is an emerging wireless technology, in which Sprint and Clearwire have endorsed. They are planning to use WiMax to compete with rival wireless and wired broadband networks.

Sprint Nextel and Clearwire will market mobile WiMAX services under their common service brand name. While Clearwire will provide mobile WiMAX services through Sprint Nextel’s retail stores and through its own distribution channels.

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