Intel joins Wireless Broadband Alliance

Intel has joined the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), an industry group that promotes adoption of worldwide 3G Wi-Fi roaming, reports CRN.

Signs over the last few months have pointed to Intel's increased interest in the mobile market, including the purchase of Infineon Wireless Solutions in August, as well as the appearance last month of a leaked internal e-mail, in which Intel CEO Paul Otellini called the company's investment in mobile technology "a marathon, not a sprint”.

An Intel spokesperson says: "Intel sits on most of the industry bodies that create standards for networking technologies and has for years. This is a continuation of our ongoing networking efforts."

T-Mobile has reignited the debate over the definition of a 4G network following the roll-out of TV ads claiming that it operates "America's largest 4G network”, states Computer World.

Critics of T-Mobile's claim contend that its HSPA+ network shouldn't be considered either next generation or 4G at all.

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) recently stated that all US wireless networks being called 4G today aren't really 4G. The ITU reserves that moniker for networks that achieve speeds of 100 Mbps or about 10 times the performance offered by any carrier, including T-Mobile, today.

Three masters students from the University of Technology, Sydney, will be meeting Cisco's CEO John Chambers after beating teams from other universities in the Asia-Pacific region in the 2010 Cisco NetRiders competition, says ZDnet.

Representing Australia, Stefanus Irawan, Joshua Stennett and Thomas Ujszaszi beat 16 other Asia-Pacific teams in challenges that tested their skills and knowledge of practical and theoretical networking.

Set in a virtual 'meeting room', the contestants undertook a theoretical exam and were given a broken network-topology scenario to test their practical skills.