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Xohm WiMAX Launches in Baltimore

After numerous misfires, the Sprint Nextel Xohm mobile WiMAX service went live in Baltimore on Monday. While success is still a ways off, with the service now available, many of the long festering questions about the technology

Redefining Asynschronous Messaging under UC/UM

The debate is on about the value of UC and UM in reducing human contact latency to speed up buisness process performance. Where does that really pay off? 

Centrino 2 Debuts- Without WiMAX

On Monday, Intel introduced the successor to the Centrino chipset, dubbed Centrino 2. While it did add a number of speed, graphics, and power conservation features, in the wireless area it went 1 for 2. Included was

Optimistic Sprint CEO Identifies More WiMAX Delays

In a keynote address at theNXTComm show in Las Vegas this week, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse outlined the rollout schedule for theXohm mobile WiMAX service. Like everything else surrounding WiMAX, the key word is “delayed”. Xohm has been in

Free Wi-Fi at Starbucks Begins

One of the biggest wireless stories for the first part of this year was AT&T’s winning the Starbucks Wi-Fi Hot Spot business from T-Mobile. Starbucks is the one venue that people immediately associate with Wi-Fi Internet access, so grabbing it from T-Mobile (regardless of whether it’s profitable or not) was a big coup for AT&T. Of course, the big story was not that AT&T was taking over the Starbucks account, but rather that the service was now going to be free. Well free for 2 hours per day to anyone with a Starbucks card.