John Cox

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US gov’t criticizes texting/phoning while driving study

Laws banning cell phone use, including texting, while driving apparently don't result in actually reducing vehicle crashes, according to a new study that was immediately criticized by the U.S. Department of Transportation as "irresponsible."

Cisco Wi-Fi software makes video more reliable over wireless

The company said VideoStream, which will be added to Cisco's code, will improve video performance and reliability on 802.11n wireless networks. Find out all the details

Cell phone cancer warning proposed by Maine

A Maine state legislator wants cell phones in the state to carry labels warning of brain cancer risks due to electromagnetic radiation. And the proposal could come up for debate and vote in early 2010.

Android forecast to take 10 per cent of market

In its predictions for 2010, Forrester Research Inc. (NASDAQ: FORR) anticipates most top tier mobile carriers will offer machine to machine applications and small to mid-sized businesses will buy more software from mobile app stores. The research firm predicts Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android will benefit from the support of firms such as Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM)

RIM investigating e-mail outage

Research in Motion says it's resolved issues that caused telco customers to lose e-mail service for hours early Thursday in the first major BlackBerry outage since February 2008. Now, the question is: What went wrong?

Is Apple testing a new iPhone model?

A software analytics program has picked up usage logs that might indicate the existence of an Apple iPhone 3.1 device. Find out all the details

3Com takes enterprise Wi-Fi products worldwide

3Com is touting what it calls the "Unified Network Access" products, which it says creates a network edge that can intelligently handle both wired and wireless clients

What’s next for Wi-Fi?

With the approval of the IEEE 802.11n wireless standard Wi-Fi will become more robust and more secure

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