Cable firms promise free Wifi roaming
TG Daily
Wifi should be the competitor to wireless, but it won't be," says legal director Harold Feld. "Wifi offers the opportunity for these companies to compete with wireless providers such as Verizon wireless, using Wifi roaming to build a rival footprint ...
Comcast, Time Warner, Cablevision Offering Shared 'CableWiFi' Network eWeek
Thanks To CableWiFi, Over 50000 Free Wireless Hotspots Will Be Available ... Android Police
Five US cable providers join forces to offer 50000+ wireless hotspots TechSpot
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Energy Micro and Spectrum Design Solutions to Offer Energy-Efficient Wireless ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The two companies will work closely together to solve customers' wireless design challenges using the Energy Micro EFM32 Gecko range of microcontrollers. Spectrum Design Solutions employs more than 40 of the world's foremost wireless design ...
Digi Int'l. Unit, Energy Micro To Offer Energy-Efficient Wireless Designs NASDAQ

Verizon Wireless Picks Loop Capital to Advise Spectrum Sale
BusinessWeek
By Scott Moritz on May 21, 2012 Verizon Wireless, the largest US mobile-phone carrier, picked Loop Capital Markets LLC as an adviser for the sale of 700-megahertz spectrum licenses. Loop Capital, based in Chicago, will work with Stephens Inc. to find ...
Loop Capital Named Co-Advisor For Verizon Wireless Spectrum Sale Process Sacramento Bee
Verizon hires Loop Capital for spectrum sale Reuters
Verizon Wireless Announces Technology Innovation Awards For Local Minority ... Citybizlist (press release)
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The Circuit: Google antitrust, cable WiFi, Yahoo sells much of Alibaba
Washington Post (blog)
Cable companies team up on WiFi: Five of the country's largest cable providers announced Monday that they will share access to over 50000 hot spots across the country. The new network, called CableWiFi, is a joint project of Bright House Networks, ...

Wireless Carriers Look to Chip Away at Costly Phone Subsidies
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, NY, May 21, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Wireless carriers have begun to chip away at phone subsidies that mostly benefit phone makers like Apple. Carriers commonly pay full price for mobile phones and then sell them to customers who sign ...
Wireless Carriers To Roll Out Data-Share Plans Sci-Tech Today
Verizon in $63 billion faceoff with AT&T over family plans The News Journal
Verizon, AT&T prepare to sell shared data plans The Detroit News
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WiFi With Your Pint: Greene King Rolls Out Free WiFi to Its Pubs, Restaurants ...
MarketWatch (press release)
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, May 21, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Greene King, one of the biggest pub retailers in the UK, has signed a deal with WiFi provider The Cloud to bring free WiFi access to all of its pubs, restaurants and hotels, including the ...

Eugene Polley, Inventor of the First Wireless TV Remote Control, Has Died
Gizmodo
Eugene J. Polley, a man best known for inventing the first wireless television remote control, died of natural causes on Sunday at Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove, Illinois. He was 96. Polley bagan his career in 1935 working for ...
Chicagoan who invented wireless TV remote dies in Downers Grove Examiner.com
TV Remote Control Inventor Eugene Polley, 1915-2012 MarketWatch (press release)
Eugene J. Polley Dies At 96 In Illinois. Leaves Behind Legacy Of Wireless TV ... CrazyEngineers VoiCE

Silicon Labs Acquires Ember, Gains Low-Power 2.4 GHz Wireless Mesh Networking ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Ember is a late-stage private company offering market-leading silicon, software and development tools for 2.4 GHz wireless mesh networking solutions being deployed in smart energy, connected home, security, lighting, and many other monitoring and ...
Silicon Labs to buy wireless mesh networking firm EE Times
Silicon Laboratories to Acquire Ember for $72m Private Equity Hub (press release)
Silicon Labs acquires wireless mesh networking firm EE Times India
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O2 Secure Wireless, Inc. Reveals O2USA Card Television Commercial Goes Live on ...
MarketWatch (press release)
AUGUSTINE, FL, May 21, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- O2 Secure Wireless, Inc. (pinksheets:OTOW) is pleased to announce that the O2USA Card television commercial has been aired on a block of national cable networks. The television commercial, in its ...
SOURCE: O2 Secure Wireless, Inc. Marketwire (press release)

Verizon Wireless and AT&T racing to introduce shared-date plans
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
By Bloomberg News Getty ImagesWhen Verizon Wireless and AT&T roll out their shared-data pricing plans, it is expected to change how the industry charges for wireless. Verizon Wireless and AT&T are both preparing to roll out shared-data pricing plans ...
Wireless carriers readying 'data share' plans Cherry Hill Courier Post
Wireless carriers to roll out data share plans USA TODAY
Verizon Wireless Sees End To Unlimited-Data Plans On New Network Wall Street Journal
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