Sprint launches EV-DO wireless data service 

Sprint today announced it will provide mobile Internet access in at least 60 U.S. metropolitan areas by early 2006 via CDMA EV-DO (evolution data optimized) networks....

Texas Instruments makes RFID announcements 

By: By Donny Jackson

Texas Instruments this week announced that it has begun shipping radio-frequency-identification (RFID) chips--inlays and straps--based on Generation 2 (Gen 2) protocol, marking the company’s entrance into the retailer-centric RFID market...

Reporter’s notebook: NENA 

LONG BEACH, Calif.--Stancil Recorders plans to introduce a VoIP-enabled card for its logging recorders sometime around the end of the year, said CEO Michael Custer...

Atmel, u-blox debut GPS signal tracking technology 

Atmel and u-blox AG recently introduced Supersense, a new GPS weak-signal-tracking technology, supporting Atmel’s ANTARIS GPS chipsets and GPS modules from u-blox...

Intelligent Systems announces RFID solution for retailers 

Intelligent Systems has unveiled a set of intelligent radio frequency identification networking hardware and software offerings, allowing retailers to deploy item-level tracking solutions...

Paratek awarded $1.987 million DMEA contract  

Paratek Microwave Inc. received a $1.987 million contract award from the Defense of MicroElectronics Activity (DMEA) to further research and development on state-of-the-art concepts for military radio frequency identification (RFID) antennas...

Cognio debuts laptop-based Wi-Fi spectrum analyzer  

Cognio, a spectrum analyzer company, introduced the first laptop-based radio frequency spectrum analysis solution for Wi-Fi networks, called Intelligent Spectrum Management System (ISMS) Mobile...

Symbol, IBM, Philips demonstrate Gen 2 RFID interoperability  

By: By Donny Jackson

Symbol Technologies, in cooperation with IBM and Royal Philips Electronics, this week demonstrated interoperability between radio frequency identification (RFID) tags based on the new EPC Generation 2 standard and older Gen 1 tags....

Intel to announce three-flavored Wi-Fi chip 

Intel officials today will announce that the company’s researchers have unlocked a way to support three 802.11 wireless broadband standards on a single chip, according to multiple media reports...

Sensoria announces wireless VoIP on mobile mesh devices 

Sensoria, a San Diego-based vendor of mobile mesh software and equipment, this week announced that it has worked with TeleSym to develop a voice-over-Wi-Fi (VoWi-Fi) solution for peer-to-peer wireless communications on all future Sensoria mesh-enabled devices...