InfoWorld Wireless

& lt;!--paging_filter-- & gt; & lt;p & gt;U.S. carriers with EVDO mobile data networks are stepping up their coverage game with femtocells that offer extended coverage for the high-speed network, after long offering units that worked only with the slower CDMA2000-1x system. & lt;/p & gt; & lt;p & gt;Sprint Nextel quietly began offering an EVDO femtocell to selected customers about two weeks ago, and Verizon Wireless confirmed on Monday it will offer one & quot;in the coming months. & quot; & lt;/p & gt;

& lt;!--paging_filter-- & gt; & lt;p & gt;Despite concerns that federal authorities might fine or arrest him, hacker Chris Paget went ahead this weekend with a live demonstration of & lt;a href= & quot;http://www.infoworld.com/t/hacking/defcon-hackers-target-cell-phone-security-742?page=0,0 & quot; target= & quot;_self & quot; & gt;mobile phone interception & lt;/a & gt; at the Defcon & lt;a href= & quot;http://www.infoworld.com/t/hacking/ & quot; target= & quot;_self & quot; & gt;hacking & lt;/a & gt; conference. & lt;/p & gt;

& lt;!--paging_filter-- & gt; & lt;p & gt;Samsung appears to have won the race to be the first device manufacturer to gain approval from the & lt;a href= & quot;http://www.fcc.gov/ & quot; target= & quot;_blank & quot; & gt;Federal Communications Commission & lt;/a & gt; for a phone based on the & lt;a href= & quot;http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/030810-4g-2010.html & quot; target= & quot;_blank & quot; & gt;4G & lt;/a & gt; LTE standard. & lt;/p & gt;

& lt;!--paging_filter-- & gt; & lt;p & gt;T-Mobile USA topped other top U.S. wireless carriers in providing overall customer care during the first half of this year, according to a & lt;a href= & quot;http://businesscenter.jdpower.com/news/pressrelease.aspx?ID=2010144 & quot; target= & quot;_blank & quot; & gt;J.D. Power and Associates report & lt;/a & gt; released Thursday. & lt;/p & gt; & lt;p & gt;The eighth annual U.S. Wireless Customer Care Performance Study is based on a survey of 9,690 wireless customers who had contacted their carrier & #039;s customer service department over the past six months. & lt;/p & gt;

& lt;!--paging_filter-- & gt; & lt;p & gt;Once thought to be & lt;a href= & quot;http://www.productiveorganizer.com/android-productivity/android-phones-with-encrypted-bootloaderunhackable/ & quot; & gt;unhackable & lt;/a & gt;, the & lt;a href= & quot;http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2010/072610-gearhead.html & quot; & gt;Android & lt;/a & gt; phone is anything but, according to researchers presenting at Black Hat 2010. & lt;/p & gt;

& lt;!--paging_filter-- & gt; & lt;p & gt;Just in time for the Independence Day holiday weekend Starbucks is now offering & lt;a href= & quot;http://www.pcworld.com/article/198851/starbucks_to_offer_free_wifi.html & quot; & gt;free, unlimited Wi-Fi access & lt;/a & gt; at nearly 7,000 company-operated locations across the United States. The policy change came into effect Thursday, a little more than two years after Starbucks began offering & lt;a href= & quot;http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/007052.html & quot; & gt;two hours of free Wi-Fi to Starbucks card holders & lt;/a & gt;. & lt;/p & gt;

& lt;!--paging_filter-- & gt; & lt;p & gt;Users of a popular & lt;a href= & quot;http://www.infoworld.com/t/cisco systems & quot; target= & quot;_self & quot; & gt;Cisco Systems & lt;/a & gt; wireless access point may be setting themselves up for trouble if they leave a WPA wireless migration feature enabled, according to researchers at Core Security Technologies. & lt;/p & gt;

& lt;!--paging_filter-- & gt; & lt;p & gt; & lt;a href= & quot;http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9138148/Cisco_update & quot; target= & quot;_blank & quot; & gt;Cisco Systems & lt;/a & gt; and MobileAccess today announced a system designed to improve in-building cellular signals that uses copper cable integrated into corporate LANs and works alongside Cisco Wi-Fi networks. & lt;/p & gt; & lt;p & gt;The MobileAccess VE system enables users to make voice and data calls from dual-mode smartphones or handsets via Wi-Fi or cellular connections, and it costs about half the price of equipping a building with coaxial or fiber-optic cables, Cisco and MobileAccess officials said. & lt;/p & gt;

& lt;!--paging_filter-- & gt; & lt;p & gt;AT & amp;amp;T and Verizon Wireless, the two largest U.S. mobile operators, have joined an organization that ensures roaming among mobile operators & #039; Wi-Fi networks. & lt;/p & gt; & lt;p & gt;The group, called the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), also announced on Monday that South Korean mobile operator KT, Cisco Systems, U.S. cable operator Comcast, and wireless software vendor Devicescape Software have recently joined. & lt;/p & gt;

& lt;!--paging_filter-- & gt; & lt;p & gt;While it doesn & #039;t quite rank up there with dumping hundreds of millions of gallons of crude oil into the ocean & lt;a href= & quot;http://larrykinglive.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/20/as-the-oil-spill-continues-bp-ceo-tony-hayward-goes-yachting/ & quot; target= & quot;_blank & quot; & gt;while your CEO goes yachting & lt;/a & gt;, Google & #039;s huge Wi-Fi spying & quot;oops & quot; may become the search giant & #039;s BP moment. & lt;/p & gt;

& lt;!--paging_filter-- & gt; & lt;p & gt;For all its promise of revolution, the computing industry often lags behind expectations. After all, your netbook is really just a laptop, only smaller and cheaper. The chip that powers your PC today has a direct lineage back to the Pentiums of yesterday. Your latest hard drive might hold 2TB, but it & #039;s still just a hard drive. Where & #039;s the real innovation? & lt;/p & gt; & lt;p & gt;In the labs, of course. & lt;/p & gt;

& lt;!--paging_filter-- & gt; & lt;p & gt;Wi-Fi traffic intercepted by & lt;a href= & quot;http://www.infoworld.com/t/google & quot; target= & quot;_self & quot; & gt;Google & lt;/a & gt; & #039;s Street View cars included passwords and email, according to the French National Commission on Computing and Liberty (CNIL). & lt;/p & gt; & lt;p & gt;CNIL launched an investigation last month into & lt;a href= & quot;http://www.infoworld.com/d/networking/google-admits-wi-fi-spying-023 & quot; target= & quot;_self & quot; & gt;Google & #039;s recording of traffic carried over unencrypted Wi-Fi networks & lt;/a & gt;, and has begun examining the data Google handed over as part of that investigation. & lt;/p & gt;

& lt;!--paging_filter-- & gt; & lt;p & gt;It didn & #039;t take long for mobile management vendors to start scaring businesses about potentially huge overage charges that employees could incur now that AT & amp;amp;T and other carriers have & lt;a href= & quot;http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobilize/why-att-right-about-usage-based-pricing-3g-data-905 & quot; & gt;stopped offering unlimited 3G data plans & lt;/a & gt; to new customers. But chances are that most organizations don & #039;t need to buy a pricey mobile management tool to monitor their 3G usage. & lt;/p & gt;

& lt;!--paging_filter-- & gt; & lt;p & gt;WiMax service provider Clearwire on Thursday introduced its first WiMax/3G modem that works with Mac laptops, as well as its first Wi-Fi hot spots with integrated WiMax or WiMax/3G radios. (Clearwire and majority owner Sprint Nextel both refer to WiMax as 4G, though that label usually refers to the competing LTE technology other carriers plan to deploy later this year.) & lt;/p & gt;

I work in the technology department of a midsize company. The employees mainly use laptops, so wireless is key to us. More than half the people at meetings have their laptops (for better and worse), so maintaining a good signal everywhere in the building is very important.

& lt;!--paging_filter-- & gt; & lt;p & gt;Kaufman Brothers investment analyst Shaw Wu today contended that T-Mobile USA, not Verizon Wireless, will be the next U.S. carrier & lt;a href= & quot;http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/06/10/an-iphone-for-t-mobile/ & quot; target= & quot;_blank & quot; & gt;to sell Apple & #039;s popular iPhone & lt;/a & gt;. & lt;/p & gt; & lt;p & gt;In a research note e-mailed to subscribers on Thursday, Wu said that T-Mobile, like current exclusive carrier AT & amp;amp;T, runs a GSM network. The GSM setworks of the carriers run on different frequency bands. & lt;/p & gt;

& lt;!--paging_filter-- & gt; & lt;div style= & quot;padding: 8px; background: none no-repeat scroll center top #ffffff; position: relative; float: right; width: 165px; height: 199px; & quot; & gt; & lt;img src= & quot;http://www.infoworld.com/sites/infoworld.com/files/media/image/iphone4-videocall.jpg & quot; alt= & quot;The iPhone 4 allows video-calling & quot; width= & quot;165 & quot; height= & quot;199 & quot; align= & quot;right & quot; / & gt; & lt;/div & gt; & lt;p & gt;Apple CEO Steve Jobs & #039; demos of the new iPhone 4 and iOS 4.0 & #039;s capabilities were brought to a halt today by the bloggers, reporters, and developer attendees all being online at the same time, swamping the available spectrum in the packed Moscone West conference hall in S & lt;/p & gt;

& lt;!--paging_filter-- & gt; & lt;p & gt;The WiMax Forum has closed one office in the past several months and lost as many as 100 members, but it is not concerned about the 4G technology losing its footing as many mobile operators commit to using & lt;a href= & quot;http://www.infoworld.com/t/lte & quot; target= & quot;_self & quot; & gt;LTE (Long-Term Evolution) & lt;/a & gt; networks instead. & lt;/p & gt;

& lt;!--paging_filter-- & gt; & lt;p & gt;It & #039;s not that often that I come out in support of AT & amp;amp;T or any cellular carrier, given their predatory business practices and continually honed techniques to trap users into paying more than is appropriate. But AT & amp;amp;T is right to & lt;a href= & quot;http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobilize/att-announces-tethering-details-and-new-plans-iphone-ipad-799 & quot; & gt;charge smartphone users based on bandwidth consumed & lt;/a & gt;, and I hope the other carriers follow suit. & lt;/p & gt;

& lt;!--paging_filter-- & gt; & lt;p & gt;Google & #039;s secret Wi-Fi sniffing has prompted a class-action lawsuit that could force the company to pay up to $10,000 for each time it snatched data from unprotected hotspots, court documents show. & lt;/p & gt; & lt;p & gt;The lawsuit, which was filed by an Oregon woman and a Washington man in a Portland, Ore., federal court on Monday, accused Google of violating federal privacy and data acquisition laws. & lt;/p & gt;