2007 InfoWorld 100 Awards (InfoWorld via Yahoo! News) Abbott Laboratories www.abbott.com Sales and Financial Data Warehouse Initiative Project Lead:...more...John Naughton: It's stunning, powerful and elegant... so set the iPhone free (Guardian Unlimited) The networker, John Naughton: Having an iPhone locked to a network which doesn't provide 3G connectivity, and is unable to make VoIP calls despite having good wireless networking built in, is like buying a Ferrari and finding that the only thing you can do with it is power your lawnmower. ...more... Local News (The St. Catherine Standard) A Niagara company has launched a landmark communications project with several partners to create wireless coverage throughout Thorold. ReliaClear Canada Inc. said when work is completed by the end of 2008, Thorold will be the country's first totally wireless city....more... New Ways to Solve Your Cell Phone Dead Spots (Washington Post) The Nokia 6086 Wi-Fi-enabled handset and a Linksys router for Hotspot@Home. Ready to abandon your landline, but stymied by poor indoor cell reception? Two new technologies--one that lets you make calls over your home Wi-Fi network through your cell phone and another that uses tiny, in-home cell... ...more... New Ways to Solve Your Cell Phone Dead Spots (PC World via Yahoo! News) If using your cell phone in your house is an exercise in frustration, one of these three growing technologies could fix the problem....more... What Cisco plans to do in India (rediff.com) "Our strategy is pretty straight forward. Start with basic home networking products, offer VOIP to support triple play services, then build networked entertainment devices and services and perhaps add home monitoring and control over time. India is a key market for our consumer strategy," says Cisco chairman John Chambers....more... Wave2Wave buys phone service firm (The Record) Wave2Wave's ranks are swelling. The Hackensack wireless data provider said Monday it purchased RNK Communications, a phone service provider based in Massachusetts....more... `India is key to our consumer strategy` (Business Standard India) India is a major growth market for the $35 billion networking solutions giant, Cisco. In 2005, the company committed a billion dollars to the country....more... Peter Griffin: Mobile internet surfing is, frankly, just much better on the iPhone (The New Zealand Herald) I've been doing a lot of mobile internet surfing lately on two devices - the HTC Titan, Telecom's flagship new smart phone, which is based on Windows Mobile, and the Apple iPhone I picked up in San Francisco and had hacked to work on the Vodafone network here....more... |