Stories by John Cox

High-gain patch antennas boost Wi-Fi capacity for Georgia Tech

To boost its Wi-Fi capacity in packed lecture halls, Georgia Institute of Technology gave up trying to cram in more access points, with conventional omni-directional antennas, and juggle power settings and channel plans. Instead, it turned to new high-gain directional antennas, from Tessco's Ventev division.

New XenMobile version speeds user access, actions

Citrix has added several features to its mobility management software to make it easier for mobile users to authenticate and jump into online meetings, and easier for IT groups to set up large-scale device deployments.

Soti extends MobiControl for multi-vendor mobile deployments

Soti is about to go live with an expanded version of its MobiControl mobility management software. Version 11 offers full support for Samsung KNOX Android security, a user-based licensing option, new self-service features for bring-your-own-device end users, and support for iOS 7, Windows Phone 8.1 and other platforms.

Apple's reveals iPad Air at 16 ounces, iPad mini at $399

Apple Tuesday announced its "biggest step" with its tablet line, but took only about 20 minutes out of its hour-plus presentation to do it: a years-in-the-making slimmed down version of the 9.7-inch iPad, now dubbed iPad Air, and a high-resolution display for the 7.9-inch iPad mini. The biggest shock: a $70 price increase for the smaller tablet, to $399.

iPhone 6 rumour rollup for the week

Nine million new iPhone buyers can't be right. They should have waited until January or June or September 2014 for the big-screened iPhone 6.

Advanced mobile customer apps are target of Kofax software

Business interactions with customers who increasingly rely on mobile devices are especially complex. The new version of Kofax's TotalAgility has been extended to let businesses create and manage so-called "customer facing" mobile apps.

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