Matthew Broersma

Chipmaker Broadcom Corp. on Monday announced a software tool designed to attack the problem of security on home wireless LANs by eliminating the need to manually enter network settings. At the same time, the Irvine, Calif.-based company said it would update its 54g chipset to increase the range of 802.11g products by as much as […]

The Symbian Ltd. operating system, controlled by a group of cell-phone handset makers, is likely to dominate the market for high-end “smart phones” for the rest of the decade, according to new research. Symbian has climbed to the top of the quickly growing smart-phone industry because of a combination of powerful backing and the fear […]

The European Commission has more than doubled the fine it had originally planned in its antitrust case against Microsoft Corp. because of Microsofts considerable financial resources, according to the full text of the decision, due for publication this week. The decision, which leaked widely on Thursday and was published by the online edition of the […]

T-Mobile has switched on Wi-Fi hot spots at more than 100 Texaco service stations along major roads in the United Kingdom, the company said on Wednesday. The Texaco stations are the latest additions to T-Mobile HotSpots international network of several thousand hot spots. The mobile phone carrier bundles Wi-Fi access with GPRS (General Packet Radio […]

In one of the first major projects of its kind, a European Commission-funded consortium is preparing to trial a system designed to allow mobile phone use inside a passenger aircraft. Unlike Boeings data-based Connexion system, which airlines in Germany, Scandinavia and Asia are in the process of rolling out, the technology developed by WirelessCabin allows […]

LONDON—The U.K. government is planning to upgrade its roadside telematics system with a wireless network designed to blanket the country with low-cost wireless Internet access. At this weeks Wireless LAN Event here, a small Exeter-based company called Last Mile Communications (a trading name of five-year-old TIVIS Ltd.) launched the patented technology the government is eyeing […]