Articles by Jim Barthold

Since video is increasingly taking to the airwaves – literally – it’s opening a demand for content protection and security over mobile and portable wireless devices. NDS, best known for its digital rights management (DRM) and conditional access (CA) software, is stepping into the fray and will be demonstrating...

The growing ubiquity of Wi-Fi in hotspots and consumer devices is enough to even sway Alvarion, perhaps the staunchest proponent of WiMAX, which has introduced dual- mode products to integrate the QoS of wide area WiMAX network with Wi-Fi’s end user functionality. “Our vision for WiMAX – especially as...

Despite what’s being said by some carriers and vendors, mobile WiMAX seems to be moving at a quickstep pace. The WiMAX Forum will certify the first interoperable mobile broadband fixed wireless products by the end of this year and first products — some of which are being touted as...

While hardly enabling a mobile phone, Fujitsu Microelectronics America’s new Mobile WiMAX System-on-Chip (SoC) is a step in the direction of high bandwidth, large radius mobile broadband devices running in the 2.5 GHz WiMAX spectrum. Fujitsu introduced the chip at the Wireless Communications Association Conference 2006 in Washington, D.C....