| 3Com takes enterprise Wi-Fi products worldwide
Just days after news broke that it would be acquired by HP, 3Com introduced in the U.S. a line of enterprise Wi-Fi gear. The products, from 3Com's China-based unit, H3C, encompass everything from wireless LAN access points to specially designed blades for H3C's high-end data center switches, and an overarching management application. Twitter gets mobile phone users to surf the web
Micro-blogging site Twitter is having a positive effect on the number of consumers using their mobile phone to access the web, says Novarra. Mobile broadband still hopelessly slow, show tests
Most users of mobile broadband in the UK are stuck in a slow lane when it comes to speed, with the majority lucky to see throughput exceed a meagre 1Mbit/s, comparison site Broadband Genie has found. Palm, Sprint pursue lost data from Pre, Pixi
Palm and Sprint are trying to solve problems some users have had moving data from one Palm webOS device to another, a task that has caused some to lose contacts and calendar entries, according to blogs and online user comments. App Store Statistics Are Misleading and Impressive
Apple has established the concept of the app store and continues to define the business model for competitors to follow. Mobile operating system platforms, at least those intended for smartphones, are more or less required to have some form of app store now, but enough is enough with 'there's an app for that'. How many apps do we need, exactly? Apple Enters AT&T vs. Verizon Ad War
In a battle between AT&T and Verizon Wireless that never seems to end, AT&T's partner Apple now appears to be getting into the mix with two retaliatory iPhone TV ad that air Monday night. The ads comes hot on the heels of AT&T's TV ad campaign that aimed to "setting the record straight" around Verizon's "there's a map for that" campaign. EU drops Qualcomm antitrust investigation
The European Commission has closed its antitrust probe of Qualcomm's patent licensing practices after Ericsson and others withdrew their complaints, the regulator said Tuesday. Mobile 4G moving closer
Mobile 4G trials are picking up pace, with operators eager to roll out 4G networks as soon as possible. Intel: Don't look for one device to do it all
Top Intel researchers say development of a single device that performs all personal tasks for business people and consumers is unlikely; instead users can expect more personalized devices that can tell users what they need and when they need it. Malware enlists jailbroken iPhones for botnet
A new worm is targeting jailbroken iPhones and adding them to a mobile botnet, according to a security memo from Intego. November giveaways
Cisco Subnet is giving away free books on VMware vSphere security. Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons and free books on Exchange Server 2010. Google Subnet is giving away free books on Android app development. Entry forms can be found on the main contest page. Trivia answers are revealed on each main Subnet page. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are | 
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