Wednesday, June 1, 20055G Tests Cellular Wi-FiMarina Del Rey-based 5G Wireless said yesterday that it has begun testing a new technique to reduce the cost of broadband wireless networks. The company said that it has rolled out a new base station design that extends its campus area wireless network hardware to municipal Wi-Fi hotspots. The new technique adds 802.11b/g capability for up to 4km in 802.11b and 1.5km in 802.11g. The company is targeting large scale wireless deployments who need to cover large WiFi areas at low cost. The company (More info...)
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Broadcom, Motive Partner on Remote ManagementIrvine-based Broadcom and Austin-based Motive announced this morning that the two companies have partnered to add remote manageability into Broadcom residential gateway products. The two companies said that they will built solutions based on the DSL Forum TR-069 management protocol to allow management of Broadcom DSL gateways. The management promises to allow broadband providers to remotely activate and management voice, data, and video services from service provider locations. The two companies (More info...)
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Networks In Motion Ships Location Based Services SoftwareIrvine-based Networks In Motion announced this morning that the company's locatio based services software is now available to users of Qualcomm's BREW wireless development environment. Networks In Motions' NavBuilder Extensions for BREW provide location based software services for wireless applications. NIM provides location, mapping, and direction capabilities that can be integrated into wireless applications. The company is targeting commercial and applications including field service, custome (More info...)
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CallWave, XO Partner on Call ScreeningSanta Barbara-based CallWave said this morning that telecommunications, Internet, and web hosting provider XO Communications has partnered with the firm to market CallWave's applications to its hosting customers. XO will advertise and market the CallWave Mobile Call Screening and Mobile Call Transfer services to their customers. The CallWave applications allow users to prescreen and listen to their voice mail. The service also supports transfer of live cell phone calls to a home or office. Term (More info...)
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Quest Acquires VintelaIrvine-based Quest Software has acquired Vintela, a Utah-based developer of heterogoenous identity management software for Microsoft Active Directory. Quest said that it expects to pay $56.5M in cash for Vintela and assumption of options. Vintela provides software for extending Microsoft's Active Directory enterprise identity management software to Unix, Linux, Mac, and Java-based systems. Vintela's softwre also supports Microsoft's Systems Management Server (SMS), Microsoft Operations Manager ( (More info...)
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