If you are a senior executive a company that accepts consumer payments, you understand that the easier you make the transaction process, the higher volume of sales you can incur.
Baltimore usually isn’t considered a technology mecca. But many people in Silicon Valley, and other high-tech centers, will be watching closely to see what happens after Sprint Nextel Corp. flips the switch on a new wireless network Monday.
Jason’s fuel gauge was stuck, and he unexpectedly ran out of gas in the middle of Wyoming, 23 miles from the nearest town. When he tried calling for help, the operator asked, “Would you like to be connected to Verizon Wireless Roadside Assistance?” Sadly, Jason said yes.
Apple’s exclusive iPhone wireless carrier AT&T said this week it’s in no hurry to begin deploying a fourth-generation wireless network, as it believes there’s two to three years of “runway” left in its current and future 3G technologies.
The underground railway in Washington DC will shortly allow mobile phones from multiple networks to be used on its services. Currently, only Verizon Wireless handsets work on the railway (since 1997), but a condition in a funding package requires that the infrastructure is opened up to any operator.
Credit card processors have finally realized what security experts have known since 2001: WEP is next to worthless as a wireless security protocol, and they’re finally going its use in credit card processing systems
—but not until mid-2010. The use of WEP was a major factor in the largest consumer data theft ever.
A professor in Brazil is helping to bring solar powered wireless internet to communities in need. The low-cost “access point in a box” needs no internet connection, electricity, or assembly to function. It is being tested on lamp posts in a number of locations.
Here is a great site that you ought to read over before renewing your next cell phone contract. Had i read this before renewing mine with Cingular Wireless (now AT&T). I would have saved myself a big headache. When the buyout happened, i lost some services that i was used to getting, now i’ve got to wait till my contract expires.
Sprint Nextel has made headlines all week as it’s started lighting up its first 4G wireless network using a technology called WiMax. But what exactly is WiMax? And how does it fit into the future of wireless? Here’s a primer to help you sort it out.
Wireles and Mobile News reports that Bible scriptures in SMS are available for free from Bible SMS. Peace be with you and your cell phone as you read inspirational phrases. You can singn up for free.
Wireless and Mobile News reports that there’s a new kind of prison guard in Florida — Razor is a Belgian Shepard trainned to sniff out cell phones. She’s ready to sniff out “cells” in prisons. Cell phones cause a lot problems in prisons and there’s a new law outlawing cell phones in Florida with a third degree felony.
The scientists, based in Pisa, claim that during an uninterrupted 12-hour experiment, they achieved throughput speeds above 1.2 Terabits per second
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