| Wireless Internet drives student fee increases | | Posted Friday, February 02, 2007 1:00:31 PM by Blog57 Team | | Despite Gov. Martin O'Malley's promise to freeze tuition, student fee increases proposed to the RHA last night by department leaders could send students digging deeper into their pocketbooks when they go to pay their bills next fall. Representatives from the departments of Resident Life, Resident Facilities and Dining Services approached the group with a proposal to raise room and board by $292 next year to a total cost of $8,714. The 3.47 percent increase largely reflects standard cost increases these departments face every year: higher energy costs, higher cost of health insurance benefits for employees, even the increased cost of the furniture that stocks dorm rooms. But a $36,720 plan to upgrade all dorm data jacks to provide wireless Internet in all campus housing was one major factor driving the fee increase beyond year-to-year expectations, Director of Resident Life Deb Grandner said.... | |
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| | | AT&T ties wireless, landline calls | | Posted Saturday, January 20, 2007 3:02:24 PM by Blog57 Team | | AT&T Inc. will let customers who pay $100 a month make unlimited calls to its landline, Internet and wireless phone numbers, the Texas company said Friday. The AT&T Unity plan, beginning Sunday, lets wireless customers who buy the package dial other AT&T domestic numbers without using minutes. AT&T hopes the plan will appeal to small-business customers and give landline phone customers reason to hold on to their traditional phone lines, AT&T regional wireline President Ralph de la Vega said. The popularity of wireless and Internet phones has prompted many landline subscribers to drop their landline service, the core phone company business. The basic plan costs $59.99 a month, but customers must also subscribe to AT&T's unlimited local and long-distance plan, which starts at about $40 a month and is available only in AT&T's 22-state local-service region.... | |
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| | | Clearwire Wireless Internet Service Offered In Seattle Area | | Posted Sunday, November 19, 2006 12:59:42 PM by Blog57 Team | | KIRKLAND, Wash. -- Kirkland-based Clearwire Corporation says its wireless Internet service is now available in the Seattle-Tacoma-Everett area, covering 2 million people. C.E.O. Craig McCaw said he's seeing the same thing he saw with cell phones 20 years ago. Clearwire said its service is now available to 8 million people in 360 cities across the United States. Clearwire will celebrate the launch of its Seattle service with a light show Wednesday at 7:15 p.m at the Space Needle. The company has more details on its Web site, www.clearwire.com. .... | |
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| | | Cell data sales offset slowing call revenue | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 11:26:43 AM by Blog57 Team | | Despite the billions they've spent to upgrade their wireless networks, cellphone companies are now trumpeting quarter after quarter of strong gains in revenue from services other than phone calls -- messaging, games, music and video clips, and wireless Internet access for laptops. But a closer look at the numbers raises questions about whether these flashy new features will bring long-term growth in the wireless business, or merely serve as a way to stay even, making up for revenue lost to fierce price competition on the voice side. Verizon Wireless, a standout performer in the U.S. cellular market, recently set another industry high-bar by nearly doubling its third-quarter revenue from non-voice services to $1.2 billion, led by text and picture messaging, ringtone sales and laptop subscriptions.... | |
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| | | Company promises Internet for your car | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 3:17:55 PM by Blog57 Team | | TracNet brings the Internet to the installed screens in a car, truck, RV or boat. It also turns the entire vehicle into a wireless hot spot, so passengers can use their laptops to go online.Devine - who also purchased KVH's satellite TV system, called TracVision, when he bought his camper a month ago - said the value of in-vehicle Internet became obvious at that moment in New York."For me, that just paid for itself, because I was five minutes away from going home," said Devine, of Hanover, Mass.KVH also makes TracVision, which provides satellite TV service in vehicles and boats; TracPhone, a satellite communications service for boats; and precision navigation and guidance systems for the military. The company had 2005 revenue of $71.3 million, including $49 million in mobile satellite sales.While TracNet is still very new, KVH spokesman Chris Watson said there has been interest from owners of recreational vehicles and boats.... | |
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| | | Make sure your wireless network isn't open to everyone | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 11:06:48 AM by Blog57 Team | | Vasco Bilbao never thought about securing his home wireless network. He accessed the Internet via a cable from his laptop to a wireless router, and he thought his connection was secure since he wasn't using the network's wireless capability. Then his connection speed slowed to a crawl, and his laptop settings started changing -- on their own. "I'd go onto my laptop, and it would be like a different laptop," said Bilbao, who lives in Miami. "Even my icons were changed." Bilbao got nervous because he did his banking online. So he called in the Geek Squad, a 24-hour computer support service launched in 1994 that became a subsidiary of Minneapolis-based Best Buy Co. Inc. in 2000. Bilbao learned that his wireless router created an open network -- a network that, without proper security, was being accessed by others.... | |
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| | | Caltrain Gets $1M For Wireless Internet Project | | Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 3:01:12 PM by Blog57 Team | | Caltrain commuters might be able to tap into the Internet on their laptops on the way to and from work within a year with the help of a new wireless network infrastructure, an agency spokesman said Friday.The Caltrain board of directors on Thursday approved a $1 million allocation toward designing and engineering the system, spokesman Jonah Weinberg said. An additional estimated $2 million to $3 million will be needed to fully implement the service."We've had nothing but very enthusiastic response from people who want this service now," he said.Caltrain expects the wireless access could allow commuters to convert commute time to work time and might allow some passengers to spend less time in the office.The agency tested wireless service on a short stretch of track between Millbrae and Palo Alto in July and hopes it can roll out wireless along all 52 miles of Caltrain track by this time next year, Weinberg said."Now they have to take this 14-mile proven concept and engineer it for a 52-mile railway corridor" before moving on to whatever construction along the line is necessary, Weinberg said.Engineers working on the system can't just replicate what worked on the Palo Alto-Millbrae stretch.... | |
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| | | Treasure Island to go wireless | | Posted Thursday, November 02, 2006 11:15:18 PM by Blog57 Team | | The city of Treasure Island has signed a contract with Citi WiFi Networks for installation of a wireless Broadband network. It will enable citizens with WiFi devices, like laptops and PDAs, to access the Internet. The city's landing page will display, with links to the city's home page, the chamber's Web page, the hotel and motel association, maps and local business listings. The network is being installed at no cost to the city. .... | |
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| | | City centre tunes in to free wireless Internet service | | Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 1:10:01 PM by Blog57 Team | | Briteyellow, a wireless communication specialist in partnership with Invest Milton Keynes, has announced the launch of its first 'Britezone' delivering free wireless broadband to Milton Keynes city centre. The pilot service has launched this month and covers Midsummer Boulevard, between Grafton Gate and Saxon Gate, in the retail and business heart of Central Milton Keynes. .... | |
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| | | Verizon 3Q Profit Rises, Led by Wireless | | Posted Monday, October 30, 2006 7:08:12 PM by Blog57 Team | | Verizon Communications Inc.'s profit edged up in the third quarter, beating Wall Street forecasts as a powerful showing by Verizon Wireless and the addition of the MCI long-distance business helped boost the phone company's revenues nearly 26 percent. But a disappointing performance in the traditional phone and broadband Internet businesses, as well as higher-than-expected costs in Verizon's risky fiber-optic network upgrade, hurt the company's stock which fell 3 percent. The company said Monday it earned $1.92 billion, or 66 cents per share, in the July-September quarter, up from $1.87 billion, or 68 cents per share in the same period last year. Per-share results fell because Verizon has more shares outstanding than a year ago. The latest results include expenses for special items including pension settlement charges, headquarters relocation expenses and merger integration costs.... | |
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