Wireless News

Google Inc. is working to build and help run wireless networks in emerging markets such as sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, connecting a billion or more new people to the Internet.

Wireless-network equipment maker Aruba Networks, Inc. has taken it on the chin recently.

Both PC World and their TechHive news site conducted a study , and on May 22, 2013 both said AT&T Mobility 4G LTE was named the fastest Internet service among the top four wireless carriers, AT&T Mobility, Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile. This study was quite revealing and quite impressive.

Sseven girls from Heartland Elementary School in the Blue Valley School District, now mostly middle-schoolers at Harmony or Aubry Bend, for a few years had been competing in an international problem-solving educational program, Odyssey of the Mind.

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Dish Network Corp., exploring ways to expand beyond its satellite-TV service, will work with rural mobile-phone provider NTelos Holdings Corp.

A Danish science experiment by a group of 9th-graders has gained worldwide interest and may have us rethinking the proliferation of wireless devices in our homes.

The Silicon Valley company is deep in the throes of a multipronged effort to fund, build and help run wireless networks in emerging markets such as sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, said people familiar with the strategy.

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Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. has agreed to sell its Allstream business telecommunications arm and use about half of the proceeds to reduce its pension and debt obligations.

The path to clearing up enough airwaves to satisfy the insatiable demand for mobile downloads is a confusing, complicated mess.

The companies at CTIA unveiled separate traffic steering solutions designed to improve the user experience when they're migrated onto WiFi networks.

Georgia Tech students Sarah Malis, 20, left, and Marcela Moreno, 20, use public WiFi at an Atlanta Starbucks in 2011.

By Anna Marie Kukec Daily Herald Business Ledger Writer SCHAUMBURG -- Comcast has launched Xfinity Wi-Fi in the Chicago and suburban area.

Wi-Fi is a beautiful thing. You can hook your computer up to the internet without any of those pesky cords getting all tangled up.

Many organizations provide desktop or mobile thin clients to their employees who work in remote offices, at multiple work sites or frequently travel on business.

Ericsson may have a contender for oddest networking product if it commercializes the wireless bus windows it demonstrated at this week's CTIA Wireless trade show.

Jennifer Lopez has found a new gig: majority shareholder and chief creative mind behind a new line of Verizon Wireless retail stores.

Today Amazon announced that Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Fire HD 8.9" are now available to customers in over 170 countries and territories around the world for pre-order through , giving customers access to millions of apps, games, books, audiobooks and magazines, including more than 300,000 books that are exclusive to the Kindle Store.

Syncing audio to a Bluetooth speaker is a common practice these days, but sending it wirelessly to two old-school speakers at the same time is a thing of the future.