Big names back mobile broadband

Sixteen big-name mobile operators and PC makers have publicly backed the use of HSPA embedded in notebooks, after promising to deliver devices containing the mobile broadband technology, states Networkworld.

A statement released by the GSM Association said backers of the Mobile Broadband Initiative will pre-install always-connected capability in new devices, providing an alternative to WiFi.

Companies backing HSPA in notebooks include Vodafone, Orange, Telefonica Europe, T-Mobile, 3Group, Telecom Italia and TeliaSonera, Dell, Asus, Toshiba and Lenovo, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Ericsson, Gemalto, and ECS.

Wavesat has won the 2008 Frost & Sullivan European mobile broadband wireless access Excellence in Technology award, says Marketwatch.

Frost & Sullivan selected Wavesat for the company's Odyssey 4G architecture and chipset for broadband applications such as mobile WiMax, LTE and XG-PHS.

According to Frost & Sullivan, Wavesat's offering demonstrates innovation as an emerging product and technology with wide-ranging market impact among service providers and product developers.

InfoLogix has gone live with the first north American implementation of a mobile wireless application for the healthcare industry running on SAP NetWeaver Mobile 7.1, at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), reports Marketwatch.

BCM's asset tracking system is using four handheld devices, running a custom application of the latest version of SAP NetWeaver mobile that was designed, developed, and deployed by InfoLogix.

The handheld devices are used to scan and track its inventory of over 10 000 medical, research and scientific devices, located in 55 buildings throughout the Texas medical centre.