Xohm president Barry West announced that Sprint and the companies that saved the company's WiMax network in May will be offering the high-speed wireless technology in September of this year on a very limited basis. 

T-Mobile took a stab at an already dying industry and is offering a VoIP replacement for your landline telephone service for a flat fee of $10 per month. The T-Mobile offer has serious implications as it is not only darn close to being free, but it is also marketed as an add-on to your cellphone, which essentially downgrades your landline to being a secondary service. The question really is: Are you ready to ditch your existing traditional landline and are you prepared to deal with the disadvantages of a VoIP service? 

For those of you old timers who used to deal with Coax and Vampire Taps, Dlink’s new Coax Ethernet Adapter Kit will bring back some painful memories.  The DXN-221 bridges existing coaxial cable wired homes with Ethernet networks and can transfer at a top speed of 175 Mbps.  The kit comes with a Coax/Ethernet switch and two Coax/Ethernet adapters that can plug onto the ends of cables or wall outlets.

Comcast wants to put the brake on its top downloaders and is mulling a monthly transfer cap and overage charges.  According to Broadband Reports, the cable Internet company plans on imposing a 250 GB soft cap on transfers and would charge $15 for every 10 GB excess.  Customers would get a free pass on one month’s overage in a 12-month period.

It is an old story, broadband in this country isn’t a fun topic to talk about. Bandwidths available to consumers is trailing the bandwidth available in the top 10 broadband nations around the world, while we are in the leading group when we look at how much you pay for your blazing fast Internet access. At least those who can live in Qwest territory, however, now have the option to upgrade their service without having to mortgage their house.

Connecting your laptop to a Wi-Fi access point is pretty easy, but how do you connect your computer to a myriad of other devices like wireless cameras and printers?  To answer that tough question, Intel has been developing its ‘Cliffside’ technology which basically turns your computer into a software-based access point.

Travelling on an airplane within the U.S. means that you lose Internet connectivity as soon as your plane leaves the gate. Since Boeing’s shutdown of Connexion, travelers have been left without Internet access, but it seems that in-flight Internet is making a comeback as we are approaching the end of the decade.

In an never-ending quest for as much bandwidth as possible, Fujitsu and Pacific Crossing announced that they have upgraded the PC-1 trans-Pacific fiber-optic cable mo more than 1 Tb/s.

Apple’s mobile Wi-Fi base station Airport Express has been upgraded from 802.11g to draft 802.11n, which, according to the manufacturer, boosts the available bandwidth by “up to” 5x.