Archive for March, 2010
App market ‘fertile ground’ for cybercrime
March 31, 10 by David GoldsteinWeb, social networking and smartphone applications are the “fertile ground” for cybercrime, not helped by the fact that the app market is still emerging and largely unregulated, a new study has warned.
Released Tuesday, the Blue Coat Web Security Report for 2009 indicated th...
US Airways joins growing list of airlines with Wi-Fi
March 31, 10 by David GoldsteinUS Airways launched Gogo in-flight Wi-Fi service on five aircraft yesterday, joining eight other airlines working with wireless service provider Aircell.
US Airways plans to expand the Wi-Fi service from the initial five Airbus A321 aircraft to all 51 A321s by June 1, according to a sta...
ANALYSIS - In mobile tech war, LTE haunts WiMax again
March 31, 10 by David GoldsteinJust as WiMax mobile broadband technology starts to recover from losing the big battle for industry dominance to Long Term Evolution (LTE), a new version of LTE is attacking it in its newly secured niche.
During 2008 and 2009 one mobile operator after another chose LTE, a natural evolut...
All 9 Indian telecom companies qualify for 3G spectrum auction
March 31, 10 by David GoldsteinAll the nine telecom companies, which had applied to participate in the auction of radio frequency spectrum for third generation (3G) telephony, have qualified for the bidding process that will take place next week.
According to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), all the nine t...