iPhone gets two AT&T data plans for international travelers
AT&T is offering two new international data plans for iPhone users, both of which are expensive and receiving mixed reviews. Read more...

Political conventions will be abuzz with wireless data

iPhone 3G owner sues Apple over dropped calls, slow speeds

Palm plans to sell Treo Pro without U.S. operator partner

Wi-Fi wants to be free, but not all businesses agree

Wi-Fi in-flight comes to some American routes

Apple: iPhone update improves 3G; users disagree

Android phone could come in November

White-spaces debate gets Google backing

HP ruggedizes ultraportable laptops

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Olympic tech's winners and losers
While the medal count is final, a few awards should be in order for IT winners and losers at the games.

Opinion: Making sense of 3G speeds
Only rigorous and extensive testing can determine whether the speed of Apple's iPhone 3G is living up to its expectations, says Glenn Fleishman, and in the end, it may be customers' word of mouth and sales trends that provide the definitive answer.

Wi-Fi tweaks for speed freaks
Is your wireless connection painfully slow more than 10 feet from the router? Do you have random dead spots in your home or small office? These easy tips and tricks will help you solve those problems and get the most out of your Wi-Fi network.

Free Wi-Fi: Should retailers offer it to customers?
Businesses such as Starbucks, McDonald's, Borders and Panera Bread offer a range of connectivity prices, services and payment methods, and underlying customer-relationship strategies.

Wi-Fi Warfare
Find unauthorized Wi-Fi access points on your network and secure them ASAP, warns Frank Hayes.

How to configure and deploy the iPhone 3G for business, part 1
Before the iPhone will ever rival the BlackBerry in the workplace, IT admins will have to figure out how to best activate and deploy it to their workers. In a three-part series, Computerworld's Ryan Faas explains how it's done. This is part 1, which focuses on activation and configuration.

Opinion: Mobile applications and the future of IT
Were not yet at the point where applications can move freely between the wired and wireless domains. But there is significant progress to report in moving toward this goal, Craig Mathias says.

How to buy home networking products
Small office and home networks make simple work of printer and file sharing, Internet phone calls and streaming media. But getting the right products can be confusing. We'll show you how to get the most for the money.

Elgan: iPhone, schmiPhone -- I just want better call quality
Cell phones get advanced features like GPS, Wi-Fi and cameras, but they still too often have poor quality speakers, microphones and electronics. It's time for the industry to do something about it, and it's time for us to demand better quality calls.

Google is doing WHAT?
Its motto is "Don't be evil" -- but it looks like anything and everything else imaginable is pretty much fair game -- not to mention some wildly rumored projects that we asked the company to confirm or deny.

Here are 15 devices and add-ons that make the back-to-school computing experience extraordinary. As Facebook-like apps infiltrate the enterprise, they're integrating the workforce in unforeseen ways. If you want to expand the visual capabilities of your laptop, you can add two monitors without spending a lot of time or money. The latest iteration of Asus' groundbreaking mini-notebook adds a faster CPU, a larger display and a better keyboard.

Reviews, analyses, how-tos, visual tours, hot issues and predictions about Microsoft's new OS.

Four years from now, the IT field will be a vastly different place. Will you be ready?

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