Matt Hamblen

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Cisco shipping special Wi-Fi gear for arenas

The new high-gain, ruggedized stadium antennna can be "very surgical" in pointing the right direction for the best connections, the company said.

RIM drastically cuts PlayBook sales target, report says

The Q2 sales expected to be one-third of the original estimate, suppliers say. he report differs from comments made last week by RIM officials who said they were pleased with the 500,000 PlayBook sales during the final six weeks of RIM's first quarter

Verizon adds 19 more U.S. cities to its LTE network

The announcement comes as competitor AT&T is set to launch LTE 4G service in five cities in the U.S. this summer: Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio

HP’s TouchPad tablet coming next month

Like most other manufacturers, the tablet will first be available only with WiFi connectivity. There's no word yet on Canadian carriers who will have a celluar version

RIM announces two new BlackBerry Bold smart phones

The 9900 and the 9930 have the new Blackberry 7 OS and come with an improved browser. Pricing was not announced, but both smart phones are due from carriers globally this summer

AT&T chair urges open networks

Wireless smartphones and tablets need to operate across countries and geographies in what is known as "spectrum harmony," mobile conference told

CompTIA council to address decline of women in IT

The National Center for Women & IT says 25 per cent of U.S. IT pros in 2009 were women, down from 36 per cent eight years earlier rn

Cisco: 26-fold hike in mobile data traffic by 2015

Network equipment maker believes mobile data will grow grow about 92 per cent a year for the next few years, fueled by more than 5.6 billion personal devices and 1.5 billion machine-to-machine devices. rnrn

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