Airespace wins IBM deal for Wi-Fi service
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ZDNet&#39;s survey of IT professionals in August kept Wired &amp; Wireless on top for the 18th month in a row. Airespace, a Silicon Valley start-up that sells telecommunications gear, has won a partnership with IBM
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today it recently surpassed the major milestone of its 500th deployed offering under the Built on IBM Express Advantage program, launched in April, 2005.
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TechWeb - Two small enterprise WLAN vendors release significant upgrades following last week's announcement that Cisco Systems is acquiring a third competitor, Airespace.
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ARMONK, N.Y. -- IBM Corp. said Monday it has won a $1.4 billion outsourcing contract from AstraZeneca PLC, a seven-year deal aimed at helping the British pharmaceutical company manage its internal technology operations.
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Plans by International Business  Machines Corp. , the world's largest technology services  company, to acquire MRO Software Inc.  for $740 million  have received U.S. antitrust approval, U.S. officials said on  Wednesday.
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IBM Corp. and Taiwanese chip designer MediaTek Inc. on Monday announced a three-year pact to develop wireless chipsets for a new technology to transmit large volumes of information, such as full-length high definition (HD) movies, between DVD players, HD-TVs, hand-held devices or other gadgets around the home or office.
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A startup says it can give subway riders wireless Internet access that's faster than most home broadband in the U.S.
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iPass wireless-broadband users will be able to make Internet connections on the fly, thanks to a new agreement between iPass and Boeing&#39;s Connexion in-flight Internet service.
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CHICAGO - Motorola Inc. is acquiring MeshNetworks Inc., developer of a Wi-Fi based technology that is expected to help land more contracts for its growing government contracting business.
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that the company will work with the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego on a substantial upgrade to the center's technical capabilities.
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Bluetooth specialist CSR has packed a triple-mode a/b/g Wi-Fi adapter into a single ultra-small chip, complete with multiple antennas ready for 802.
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Networking giant Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO) is poised to purchase wireless technology firm Airespace in deal valued at US&#36;450 million, the two companies announced Wednesday.
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(InfoWorld) - The sun came out for EarthLink's Philadelphia Wi-Fi network on Thursday even as prospects forÂ its San Francisco projectÂ remain shrouded in fog. Wireless Philadelphia, a nonprofit group formed by the city of Philadelphia, has approved the 15-square-mile Wi-Fi test network EarthLink built, opening the door for the operator to finish building out a 135-square-mile network covering the city. The approval comes just a month afterÂ EarthLink announced it would scale back its city Wi-Fi initiative, focusing on existing and large cities for the rest of the year. The company has seven or eight cities under contract now and is negotiating with five more, Vice President of Product Strategy and Marketing Cole Reinwand said last week. It decided to stagger its Wi-Fi expansion to conserve resources, he said. Residents can already use the 15-square-mile network in Philadelphia. The full network is expected to be complete in the third quarter. EarthLink is financing, building, and managing the network and will share revenue with Wireless Philadelphia, which will offer cut-rate access for low-income people. For six months, customers of a 1MbpsÂ service will pay an introductory rate of $6.95 per month, which bumps up to $19.95 thereafter. A faster 3Mbps service is available for $9.95 for the first six months and $21.95 after that. City parks will have free access, and low-income residents can sign up for service at $9.95 per month, before promotions. Customers can also pay for service on an hourly, daily or three-day basis. The Philadelphia Wi-Fi network is notable because when announced, it set off a storm of controversy that resulted in a Pennsylvania law requiring municipalities to receive approval from incumbent telecommunications operators before building Wi-Fi networks. The law was created after incumbents complained that by financing Wi-Fi networks, cities were building networks that would compete with their businesses. The San Francisco project, which has drawn attention partly because of Google's planned involvement as provider of a free citywide service, has run into fierce opposition from activists as well as some local elected officials. The proposed contract is scheduled for a vote by the city and county's board of supervisors in July.
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Dual-mode handsets will be able to connect to the company's worldwide Wi-Fi network on the cheap.
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InfoWorld - One of the announcements from IBM's annual Lotusphere conference this week is a new version of IBM Workplace that bundles together multiple collaborative services into a single product.
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(InfoWorld) - IBM is looking to better meet the needs of wireless service providers with its planned purchase of network performance monitoring and service management software vendor Vallent. IBM announced Tuesday its intention to purchase privately held Vallent for an undisclosed sum. The vendor hopes to close the deal, subject to regulatory approval, in the first quarter of calendar 2007. At that point, IBM will fold Vallent into its Tivoli Software systems management business unit. Vallent's 200-plus customers includes Bharti Airtel in India, Brasil Telecom, China Mobile CommunicationsÂ and Cingular Wireless as well as mobile equipment providers like Alcatel, Lucent Technologies, and Motorola. The company with headquarters in Bellevue, Washington, employs over 400 staff. IBM plans to add Vallent's software to the Netcool products it gained through the $865 millionÂ acquisition of network management software vendor Micromuse, which closed in February. Bringing the offerings together will better position IBM to provide software to help mobile service providers manage their increasingly complex networks as they converge fixed-line and mobile infrastructure. IBM said there's minimal product overlap between Vallent's products and its existing Tivoli software. The vendor is particularly interested in Vallent's abilities to manage wireless radio access networks, which it expects to mesh well with Netcool's management of wireless infrastructure and Internet Protocol-based services. Â
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CHICAGO - (BUSINESS WIRE) â-ept. 14, 2004 â -ay IBM announced a broad suite of services to speed the benefits of radio frequency identification (RFID) systems to industrial companies and mid-market businesses.