Wayne Rash

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group, an industry group that sets standards for the Bluetooth short-range wireless communications system, has come up with a new, easier, means of moving Web-based content from a PC to a Bluetooth-equipped device. The new application, called TransSend, is available for free from the groups Web site and is designed to […]

Printronix is shipping a new industrial printer that can generate up to 100 bar-code labels with embedded and encoded RFID chips per minute, and apply those labels to packages at the same speed. The printer, named the SLPA8000r, uses labels that include the RFID circuitry and the necessary antenna integrated into the actual label material. […]

WASHINGTON—The United States Department of Justice announced Oct. 18 that a federal grand jury in San Francisco has indicted two Samsung executives and one executive from Hynix Semiconductor in a scheme that held the prices of dynamic random access memory artificially high. The three executives are Ung Kim, Young Bae Rha and Gary Swanson. Kim […]

Sprints announcement Oct. 16 that it had started work on using its EV-DO Rev. A network as the basis for a new, enhanced, push-to-talk network is just the latest move in what has become an industrywide effort to make person-to-person communications more immediate. Currently, Sprint offers two kinds of push-to-talk communications, one through its Nextel […]

The post-CTIA doldrums have finally dissipated, so once again we have wireless news to pass along. No doubt youre not surprised to know that manufacturers and service providers save up their Good Stuff to wow us with all at once. If they didnt, we wouldnt go to those shows and their controlled-message environments, and then […]

Intel has developed a WiMax baseband card designed for the carrier market thats intended to give equipment manufacturers a platform for the creation of WiMax base stations. The new baseband card allows companies to make base station equipment for both the industrial and residential markets. It meets standards including the AdvancedMC hardware specification and the […]

WASHINGTON—You know youre visiting a different kind of trade show when the signs for the new GUI on a product refer to an automatic weapon. You get a better idea when you find yourself standing beneath the main gun of the new Stryker mobile weapons system. But it really hits home when you visit the […]

Enterprises that need a clearer view of their wireless environments are getting help from Cisco Systems and Cognio. The two companies are teaming to bring new RF (radio frequency) monitoring capabilities to Ciscos WCS (Wireless Control System) by integrating Cognios Spectrum Expert. The move will give administrators a way to view their RF environment as […]

Ruckus Wireless, of Sunnyvale, Calif., has begun shipping a new endpoint aimed at carriers that provide IPTV and broadband wireless services to their customers. The new endpoint, the MediaFlex NG, can be individually configured for each carriers specifications. Its remotely manageable and supports an integrated router and multiple virtual access points. The device will also […]

T-Mobile USA CEO Robert Dotson announced T-Mobiles move into 3G service at a press conference in New York on Oct. 6. Dotson reported on the results of the companys recent spectrum auction win, including substantial space on the 1.7 and 2.1 GHz bands, and the expansion of available spectrum in the companys 1.9GHz voice bands. […]

VeriSign is launching a new service that will allow carriers to offer customers with prepaid accounts access to the same value-added services as postpaid customers. In many cases, prepaid wireless customers are limited to basic services such as voice calls and SMS messages. Services such as special ring tones, Internet access or multimedia messages are […]

A new series of wireless thin clients is being shipped by Wyse bound for customers ranging from airports to health care facilities. The new V-Class clients integrate high-end thin clients that Wyse is already selling for wired networks with a built-in 802.11b and 802.11g wireless device. The new thin client can be integrated into a […]