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Intel Launches WiMax, PC Projects in Saudi Arabia
The Intel Corporation has pledged technological support for building a high-speed wireless network in Saudi Arabia using the long-range wireless technology WiMax. Citing Saudi government-industry partnership (or private public partnership) as successful model in "advancing education, technology innovation and economic development in the Arab World", Craig Barrett, Chairman of Intel, also dedicated work for an e-learning pilot project at a Saudi Arabian public school. Joined by Saudi Minister of Education, Dr. Abdullah Bin Salah Bin Obaid, Barrett saw the e-learning pilot project demonstrated at Riyadh's Bishr Ibn Elbaraa School, a public school for boys in grades seven through nine. The pilot will run in two classrooms outfitted with notebook computers and the specially designed Intel-powered Classmate PCs. The smaller, student-sized notebooks are designed to be low-cost, wireless-capable, and water and shock-resistant. The computers are fully functional and pre-loaded with standard software and locally relevant educational programs. Read more
E-Passport Hacker Designs RFID Security Tool
The team that produced the research/hacker tool for cloning and altering data stored on radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags has now come out with a product to thwart RFID hackers. German security researcher Lukas Grunwald, who made headlines two years ago for uncovering security vulnerabilities in new electronic passports being adopted by the U.S. and other countries, has created RF-Wall with his colleague, Boris Wolf. RF-Wall is intended to help thwart RFID fraud and attacks against e-passports, electronic access cards and payment cards. The device is a hybrid firewall and intrusion-detection system that sits between an RFID reader and its back-end system. The system is designed to detect counterfeit and cloned RFID chips and prevent an attacker from injecting malware into a back-end system with a rogue RFID chip. Read more
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Denmark Ranked World’s Best IT Nation
For the second consecutive year, Denmark leads the rankings in the World Economic Forum’s assessment of the IT competencies in 127 countries. The assessment looks at a country’s ability to integrate computers, the Internet and mobile telephony into the daily lives of its citizens and corporations to create increased competitiveness and development. According to the World Economic Forum, the use of wireless networks was very important this year as they continue to spread in popularity. Sweden, Switzerland, the USA and Singapore were Denmark’s closest competitors. Read more
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Wireless Companies Agree to Keep License Fees Low
A group of mobile phone industry giants – Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, NEC, NextWave Wireless, Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks and Sony Ericsson – have agreed to keep patent royalties on the next-generation of wireless technology down, paving the way for the introduction of advanced wireless networks and devices. Their agreement applies to Long-Term Evolution (LTE) technology, which is seen as the successor to the Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) standard that is used by more than 80 percent of the cell phone carriers in the world. The pact means that licensing costs on LTE, whether the technology is installed in laptop computers or in cell phones, will remain at less than 10 percent of the total product cost. Read more
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European Wireless Conference
The 2008 European Wireless Conference (EW2008) will take place 22-25 June 2008 at the Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic. EW2008 is an excellent opportunity for researchers, academics and industry professionals to present and discuss recent advances in wireless communications. The event will include tutorials, panels, technical sessions and plenary talks on topics relating to transmission techniques and signal processing; radio channels and RF subsystems; radio network aspects; and radio communication systems and technology. Reduced rates are available for IEEE members. Advanced registration ends 4 May 2008. Learn more
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Approach Aims to Create Smoother Path to Mobile Internet Services
A different approach to providing more Internet processing services to mobile handset users has been established through several key developments in wireless technology. Stoke Inc., a California-based (USA) company, allows operators to bring Internet service within and across fixed, cellular, WiFi and WiMax access networks. The company combines the security gateway, session manager, deep-packet inspector and quality-of-service functions into one attachable device that brings Internet processing services to 100,000 subscribers. The company’s Session Exchange system, a hybrid hardware/software device, creates a path for mobile users to go to 4G devices and quicker WiFi and WiMax connections. Read more
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Wireless Market for Process Manufacturing to Reach US$1.1 Billion in 2012
According to a new ARC Advisory Group study, the market for wireless devices and equipment in process manufacturing will grow to over US$1.1 billion in 2012, a growth rate of 32 percent each year. The study also predicts that the market will experience changes in its character during that period, integrating more standardized wireless sensing products and hardened wireless local area networks (LAN). Wireless process sensing is expected to be the fastest growing market segment because of its low installation cost, which ARC believes will cause the normal change-averse process industries to use it wherever they can, leading to more rapid adoption. Wireless LAN use will also grow rapidly, spurred by the introduction of new access point products that can safely be installed in hazardous environments, as well as the improved range and clearer signals of future IEEE 802.11n wireless standards. Read more
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Portable Device Provides Patients with Wireless Diabetes Management
The production of a portable device that predicts blood glucose levels will receive €7.1 million (US$11.3 million) in funding from a European Commission grant. The device is geared towards helping diabetes patients gain greater control over managing their disease. Created under the Seventh Framework Program of the European Community, the award will foster a four-year research and development project for the glucose prediction device that will use Toumaz’s Sensium Wireless body monitoring technology. The device will balance comprehensive analysis of physiological inputs from wireless monitors worn on the patient’s body. Read more
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Survey Shows Tech Industry’s Partial Satisfaction with RFID Performance
Despite the widespread use of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology over the past few decades, a German study reveals that many businesses are only partially satisfied with the performance of RFID. The survey shares results from 100 companies in various fields, including logistics, mechanical engineering, and electrical engineering. Chief among their concerns is the belief that the technology was still too new to demonstrate its full potential and not developed enough to meet their company’s goals. Read more
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Adoption of Wireless 802.11n Standard Meets Power over Ethernet Obstacle
Organizations who choose a vendor to support their 802.11n standard WiFi technology may find themselves in a difficult situation if the vendor has not produced access points that can operate on electricity supplied by Power over Ethernet (PoE), according to experts. Many people in the field say the standard should be tested before being deployed on a large scale. At the moment, vendors are taking several steps to ensure that 802.11n access points operate on the current PoE standard, including having companies revise their PoE infrastructure, which many say can be costly. Read more
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STMicro Joins NXP for Wireless Chip Merger
In an effort to fight falling prices and scatter high industry research and development costs, STMicroelectronics agreed to pay NXP US$1.55 billion to own 80 percent of a US$3 billion merger between the two companies. The move brings together the world’s third and fourth-largest wireless chipmakers and allows for both companies to have 14 percent of the market. Analysts in the industry say the consolidation is a positive step that will allow the companies to expand its share of the wireless chip business in a highly competitive market. Read more
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